Back in 2020, Łukasz “vanripper” Piskorz released Helltaker, a game that grabbed the internet’s attention and stole my heart (enough that I bought every official Nendoroid to show my support). Although Helltaker did receive an additional free chapter in celebration of its first anniversary, nothing else had come of it apart from a series of official webcomic pages. After a while, I wondered about the future of Helltaker and vanripper’s game dev career when I saw at random that he had released a brand-new free game, Awaria, three years in the making. Naturally, I downloaded it on Steam as fast as possible and, although different from his previous work and about less than an hour long, I enjoyed myself all the way through.
