Helheim Hassle
Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game that is as much about friendship as it is about body parts. From the same universe (and set on the same Tuesday in fact) as previous hit Manual Samuel, comes this macabre adventure where you play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking who hates the idea of dying and going to Valhalla… who then ends up dying and getting taken to Valhalla. When Bjørn is resurrected to assist with a task for the mysterious Pesto, he sees a way to negotiate his way out. Using Bjørn’s undying corpse with its ability to detach and combine limbs at will, players must solve challenging puzzles and navigate tricky levels in order to retrieve a certain magical item… In return, Pesto will try to grant Bjørn a permanent residence in Helheim – what a hassle!
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
This game was the second part of The Complete Tuesday Trilogy and while it improved a lot of things from the previous game, the main reason for playing this game is to let the third part of the trilogy to fully shine.
Compared to Manual Samuel, this one has a nicer artstyle, better characters, better story and enjoyable voice acting. Well, a lot of people are not going to enjoy this game's humour and will probably find the characters annoying. Caveat Emptor, but I had fun with that part. This time, I found a lot of the jokes actually funny. There's also some really stupid songs with earworm potential.
This is not a traditional point-and-click adventure game, it's more like a combat-free puzzle metroidvania. This is the game's most unique strength and weakness. There are a lot of clever puzzles, a lot of them could be described as "how can this complete human being pass through prison bars - chop yourself to pieces and reassemble on the other side". The detachable and re-combinable body parts do make some unique puzzles.
The negative side is that while it takes something like 8-10 hours to complete this game, at some point I just started to get bored with the puzzles. There's a lot of puzzles where the solution is fairly quick to figure out, but then you have to execute it perfectly from the theory. While the games in this trilogy are mostly casual and not very stressful, some of the puzzles in this game do have some sort of timer mechanism, which means that you might have to retry some of the trickiest parts over and over while struggling with the controls. Thankfully the checkpoints are plentiful, but there's still going to be a few (chase) sections of the game which will cause frustration.
There's a lot of bonus levels and achievements and secrets that are way more challenging than the base game if you're into that, I skipped most of that stuff after failing too many times.
Since I liked the characters and the dialogue so much more here, it's a shame that instead of a more traditional adventure game it's mostly platformer puzzles. If you're like me, the third game of the trilogy will be more to your liking. I'd guess people who are more into puzzle-platforming will get more out of this one. This is a flawed game, but not the worst game, so I'd cautiously recommend it on it's own and definitely as a part of the trilogy.
Steam User 4
6-hr game, has auto-save, 90+ puzzles, 1GB disk size, 95% off
3,700 lines of spoken dialogue performed by 24 professional actors
41 easy achievements, drop 5 out of 11 trading cards, no point shop items
Please add point shop items~
To valhallaaaaaaa!
Play as a pacifist Viking in Helheim, and almost everyone else wants to
fight the giant and die at the battlefield so they can go to Valhalla -_-
Poor kid doesn't want to fight, and his mom told him:
All awesome Vikings go to Valhalla,
but if you're sick, old, or lame, you're doomed to eternity in Helheim!
You do want to get brutally nurdered in battle and go to Valhalla, right?
Okay, hun! I'm gonna go and see if a nice giant wants to SLIT MY THROAT! See you at the battle!
Steam User 0
Took a minute to get used to the play style but once it got going I coudnt stop. 100% the game. Challenging but satisfying
Steam User 0
Unique fun puzzle solving game, aside from a boss battle or two towards the end which was a bit frustrating for me (keyboard skill issue i guess). Bought it when 95% off, which is a total robbery, would definitely reccomend consider buying it if its 40% off or more
Steam User 0
Probably one of the funniest games I've ever played. Love the puzzle mechanics and detaching bodyparts.
Steam User 0
I love you steam for making me discover this game randomly, such a hidden gym. In addition to the neat puzzles, the humor in this game is something else.
Steam User 0
Helheim Hassle is a delightful game overall for a unique story narrative combined with multi-portioned puzzling experiences.
That aside anybody interested in full completionist playthroughs should be ready to handle frustration over some of the side-content.
May all sentient beings involved in the creation of the third level of Super Feet People have perpetually moist socks.