Hell Clock is simply a Roguelike Action RPG developed by the Brazilian indie workplace Rogue Snail and published by Mad Mushroom. Drawing inspiration from the ARPG greats similar Diablo, Path of Exile, and Grim Dawn portion packaging everything successful a highly replayable roguelike formula, Gell Clock provides a large mediate crushed for radical who privation to acquisition the powerfulness phantasy of an ARPG without having to grind for hundreds of hours each season.
Patch 1.1, the Clockmaker’s Tools, is Hell Clock’s largest update yet. This spot brings crafting to Hell Clock, allowing you to modify the affixes connected your Relics, trade almighty caller Imbuements and corrupt Relics (the eventual hazard and reward).
- Tool of Tinkering randomizes 1 superior oregon secondary affix connected the Relic. Use this to reroll unwanted modifiers.
- Tool of Enhancement upgrades a Common Relic to Magic.
- Tool of Greater Enhancement upgrades a Magic Relic to Rare adding a caller Rare Affix.
- Tool of Locksmithing locks a superior oregon secondary affix, preventing different tools from modifying it
- Imbued Tool of Fury adds an imbued implicit. Fury implicits see bonuses for Melee damage, Fire damage, carnal damage, and Life.
- Imbued Tool of Faith adds an imbued implicit. Faith implicits bolster Lightning damage, Mana, and Spellcasting.
- Imbued Tool of Discipline adds an imbued implicit. Discipline implicits see bonuses to Plague damage, Marksman skills, and Projectiles.
- Items tin lone person 1 imbued implicit astatine a time.
- The Divine Tool randomizes the numerical values of your modifiers with the imaginable to propulsion them beyond their mean maximum.
- A Corrupted Tool unpredictably changes your Relic, it could randomize superior oregon secondary affixes, adhd a almighty corrupted implicit, oregon bash thing astatine all.
In addition, determination has been a implicit equilibrium rework with the extremity of providing smoother progression and greater wide crippled viability. Take a look astatine IGN's station connected the Hell Clock 1.1 Update for much information.
Maxroll Hell Clock Beginner's Guide
Maxroll’s broad Hell Clock Beginner's Guide gets into the details of Hell Clock's halfway systems and mechanics with links to much elaborate guides wherever you tin larn more. Start by exploring the campaign, progressing done each act, and challenging bosses. Next, larn much astir the game's progression and metaprogression systems. These see Skills, Blessings, Gear, Passives, Relics, and Constellations, each of which harvester to marque a assortment of builds. Then larn astir what awaits you successful the endgame with Abyss, Oblivion, and Ascension.
Getting Started successful Hell Clock
After getting started with the Beginner's Guide, proceed your travel with Maxroll’s caller subordinate resources. First up, the Campaign Guide has accusation connected each of the Survival Encounters and Bosses you find erstwhile progressing done Hell Clock's 3 Act story.
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Skills
Skills are the halfway of your physique successful Hell Clock. Some Skills, similar Split Shot, are casual to spam and often enactment arsenic your superior damage. Others, specified arsenic Spectral Knives, person a longer cooldown and often instrumentality a secondary role. As you advancement done the Acts and decision bosses, you tin entree caller skills (via the Skill Book), but you indispensable walk 100 Soul Stones to unlock them. Check retired Maxroll’s Skills Guide to larn much oregon browse each of the game's Skills successful the database.
Blessings
Check retired Maxroll’s Hell Clock Blessing Guide to larn astir the progression (and metaprogression) systems you interact with passim a run. Blessing of Proficiency enhances your skills, Blessing of Foundation gives planetary quality buffs, whereas Blessings of the Future and Legacy springiness you caller Gear oregon Relics.
Gear
You tin find cogwheel wrong your tally oregon acquisition it from the Blessed Corner. The items you person equipped are carried implicit betwixt runs, and you tin lone equip 1 point astatine a clip wrong each slot (you tin store the spares successful your Blessed stash oregon recycle them into Soul Stones). Maxroll’s Gear Guide covers everything you request to cognize astir Blessed Gear successful Hell Clock. Alternatively, you tin besides browse each of them individually:
- Revolvers
- Left Rings
- Right Rings
- Keepsakes
- Accessories
- Caps
- Jackets
- Shoulders
- Bracers
- Pants
- Shoes
Relics
Last but not slightest are Relics. This is the astir impactful metaprogression strategy arsenic Rare Relics connection a batch of power, and Unique Relics wholly alteration skills. Relics successful Hell Clock relation a batch similar cogwheel successful ARPGs similar Path of Exile oregon Diablo, giving you tools to physique astir and marque thing that feels unique. In addition, Relics tin beryllium crafted with the Clockmaker's Tools giving you much power implicit the affixes that you person available. Check retired Maxroll's Relic Guide to larn much astir Relics successful Hell Clock oregon browse the database for a implicit database of Unique Relics.
More Maxroll Hell Clock Guides
In summation to the getting started resources, Maxroll has a assortment of guides that supply a deeper dive into the game's mechanics. This includes guides connected the endgame activities, including Abyss & Oblivion and Ascension. Last but not least, larn the nuances of progressing the Blessings of Foundation to get the champion Epic Blessings.
- The Great Bell / Passive Tree Guide
- Constellation Guide
- Relic Crafting Guide
- Unique Relic List and Affinity Guide
- Blessing of Foundation Progression
- Endgame Activities
- World Tier Guide (Abyss, Oblivion, and Void)
- Ascension Guide
Maxroll Hell Clock Builds
Maxroll’s improvement squad has been moving connected a Hell Clock planner wherever you tin theorycraft builds and stock loadouts. This is presently a enactment successful advancement and apt to get updates successful the future.
Planner Features
- First, prime the mode betwixt Campaign, Endgame, and Ascension.
- If you prime Campaign, the Bell Tree transforms into The Old Bell.
- Endgame covers Abyss, Oblivion, and Void, giving you entree to the Oblivion Bell tree.
- Ascension transforms your Bell histrion to the Infernal Bell and allows you to prime Penances successful the Ascension Tree.
- Next, commencement gathering your loadout by selecting Skills. If you privation to acceptable the physique Public later, enactment your superior accomplishment successful the left-most slot to marque it easier for radical to place your build.
- After that, enactment connected filling retired Gear, Relics, and Constellations.
- Both your Constellation and Passive Trees way the bid successful which you allocate nodes.
- When it comes to Relics, you tin prime size, Rare Affix, Imbuement, Corrupted Implicit, and Prefix(es)/Suffix(es).
- Common, Magic, Rare, and Unique Relics are supported.
- Use the fields astatine the apical to set Tier and Rank.
- Use Variants to make step-by-step progression for Gear, Relics, Constellations, and Passive Trees.
Coming Soon
There are a fewer features that haven't rather made it into the planner yet:
- Blessing Recommendations - The quality to urge (or banish) circumstantial blessings for each skill
- Relic Stats adjusting arsenic you alteration a Relic's Rank/Tier
- Displaying Resistances to marque it easier to archer erstwhile you're going to beryllium capped
- Save importing
- And more
Community Builds
Use the Community Builds conception to stock your physique with different Hell Clock players. You tin besides browse for thing caller to play. Use the Skill filter astatine the apical oregon look for builds based connected crippled mode (Campaign, Endgame, Ascension) and tag.Here are a fewer examples of what you tin bash with the planner:
- A Veil of Quills Endgame physique that crushes some Abyss and Oblivion by flooding the surface with projectiles.
- This Physical Split Shot setup uses variants to amusement progression from Act 1 to Act 3.
- You tin proceed your travel with a lategame Split Shot Summoner capable to situation the Void.
- This Bleed Rosary Summoner is simply a theorycrafted build, adapting an existing physique (Rosary Summoner) into thing new.
Planners tin beryllium much casual too, if you're doing an Ascension tally you tin upload a snapshot of your character.
Maxroll Hell Clock Database
Dive into the mechanics with Maxroll’s Hell Clock database. Here are a fewer of the things you tin find:
- Skills, including their scaling arsenic you level them up.
- Unique Relics, including their affinities.
- Gear, larn astir antithetic equippable items and the stats they offer.
- Explore each 3 of the game's accomplishment trees, including The Great Bell (Campaign), The Oblivion Bell (Abyss, Oblivion, & Void), and The Infernal Bell (Ascension).
- Constellations: larn much astir the bonuses offered by Constellations and browse idiosyncratic Constellation nodes.
- Check retired the Clockmaker's Tools to larn much astir crafting successful Hell Clock.
- Last but not least, if you're going to play Ascension, archetypal familiarize yourself with the Penances.
The Battle Continues
Patch 1.1 whitethorn beryllium huge, but it isn’t the extremity of Rogue Snail’s contented improvement plans. Rogue Snail has a elaborate roadmap which includes 2 much large updates. Of course, similar with each roadworthy maps the contented and transportation day are taxable to change. The adjacent large spot is Movement 2.0, which volition let you to usage each of your skills portion moving. This is going to beryllium peculiarly impactful for channeled skills similar Repeaters. In summation the spot volition bring a caller quality animation strategy and each 52 Constellations. The program is to merchandise this successful November 2025.
After that the adjacent large update is the Cursed War, slated for Q1 of 2026. This includes a escaped update with a afloat mentation of the Ascension endgame activity, 12 caller biomes for endgame and improved random dungeon generation. This could see the Endless Nightmares strategy that has been teased successful caller updates.
Along broadside the escaped update is simply a paid expansion, Hell Clock: The Cursed War, wherever Pajeu travels to a caller determination to combat the forces of hell. The enlargement volition adhd a 4th Act to the campaign, caller biomes, caller monsters, caller bosses, Skills, Relics, and a “Cube Crafting System” which sounds suspiciously similar the Kanai’s Cube mechanic from Diablo 3.
Written by IGN Staff with assistance from Tenkiei.