HellFelt — Beta Playtest

HellFelt is a dark, roguelike casino oddity: risk your chips at the Hellfelt Blackjack tables, collect cursed artifacts, and race to meet your savings target each stage while surviving strange events and escalating choices. This is a beta playtest build — your feedback will directly shape the game.

Features

• Hell-themed blackjack with artifact-driven modifiers and mutation mechanics.
• Strategic stage-based progression: deposit chips to meet a savings target across rounds.
• Artifacts and golden cards that alter luck, payouts, and game flow.
• Dramatic death sequence with visual and audio cues.
• Lightweight, browser-playable HTML5 build (itch.io ready).

How to Play

• Deal, Hit, Stand using on-screen buttons (mouse/touch).
• Place your bet in the Bet box before dealing.
• Deposit chips at the ATM to meet stage savings targets.
• Artifacts are found/purchased during runs — they permanently affect luck/payouts for the run.
• Fullscreen and audio work best after the first user interaction (browsers block autoplay).

Controls (basic):

Recommended browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox (desktop recommended for best performance).

Beta Notes & Feedback

This is an early beta. Please report bugs, crashes, balance issues, and UX problems using the feedback form or itch comments:

• Feedback & bug reports: [LINK_TO_FEEDBACK_FORM]
• Itch page comments are monitored for quick notes.

Include in reports:

• Browser + version, OS, short reproduction steps, screenshots, and any console errors (if possible). Mention the approximate build time (see below).

Known Issues (selection)

• Some large bundles may cause slower first-load times on mobile — recommended desktop for playtests.
• Ongoing balancing: artifact luck effects and payout tuning will change over beta iterations.
• If audio doesn’t play, click anywhere in the game window to grant audio permission.

(If you encounter anything not listed, please report it.)

Build Info

• Build file: HellFelt-beta.zip
• Built: 2026-05-14 (beta playtest)
• Embeddable HTML5 build — upload the zip to itch.io and mark as “Playable in browser.”

Changelog (high-level)

• Fixed: Blackjack detection and blackjack payout (3:2).
• Fixed: Early-completion awards no longer trigger on the final required deposit round.
• Tuned: Default mutation/luck rates reduced so artifacts now drive mutation chances.
• Added: Alarm audio during death/flicker sequence.
• In progress: Five-card 21 edge-case checks and extended QA.

Privacy & Telemetry

No external data is collected by default in this build. If telemetry is added in future betas it will be opt-in and documented.

Credits

Developed by HellFelt Team.

THANK YOU FOR PLAYTESTING HellFelt!