Hob has been released on Steam.

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Discover your role as the sole protagonist on a strange and beautiful world torn apart by competing life forms. Others have tried and failed. Now, it's your chance: make it home.

The following Gameumentary video tells the story of Runic Games - the creators of Torchlight 1 & 2 and HOB:

The Story of Runic Games | A Gameumentary Short Doc

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For the past few months, we've been working hard on this video, from our initial pre-production meetings last year, to our principal photography out in Seattle this past March, to the editing and tweaking that we've done just this past week--we've put everything we have into this short-doc.

Our goal is to continue doing these docs with different developers around the globe, showcasing their stories and their passions for making the video games that you play. Hopefully, with your help, we'll be able to do that.

Developer Runic Games, maker of the Torchlight games, has been quietly working away on their next game called Hob.

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A lone hero awakens on a broken planet, the last hope of a missing civilization overrun by a brutal and infectious enemy. Only you can stop the growth of this rogue life, defend the gentle sprites that look to you as their champion, and bring the ruins to life again. Hob: Explore. Fix. Save. Awake

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Features

WORDLESS NARRATIVE: Presented without text or dialogue, Hob's story is revealed as you explore the planet and interact with the strange lifeforms that inhabit it.

TRANSFORM THE WORLD by solving puzzles and repairing the planet. The landscape will change before your eyes, opening new areas to uncover and explore.

GRAPPLE, PUNCH, and WARP through the world! Use your mechanical glove-arm abilities for traversal as well as combat.

ADVENTURE in an open world, explore ruins, befriend sprites, and battle the rogue creatures that threaten their extinction.