HELLION

HELLION asks for patience, because it is the sort of survival game that makes oxygen, pressure, and ship systems matter more than quick wins. By our assessment, its appeal is the hard sci-fi setup: drifting in space, managing resources, and trying to keep a craft alive rather than simply shooting through a level. The trade-off is that the pace can be punishing and the interface-heavy routine may feel more like maintenance than adventure. In play, that means long stretches of checking status, planning ahead, and coping with small failures before they become big ones. It sits closer to a survival simulation than to an action game, and the ceiling is set by how much repetition a player will tolerate.