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EMPTY SHELL 2

Also known as EMPTY SHELL 2, empty shell 2, empty-shell-2

Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.

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28 Jun 2026

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Concise Development Diary #6

Hello, everyone! How you doing? It's time for a new concise dev diary on EMPTY SHELL 2 : ) tldr; I'm currently working on the achievements, which are the last major task remaining. A potentially final first version is a…

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21 updates

April 2026
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel?Hey, everyone! How you doing? Yesterday was a big day for the development of EMPTY SHELL 2: ) I can finally say that I've completed one of the last major tasks on the list: the final dynamic spawn of all the game's equi…Announcement3 changesGameplayPerformance29 Apr 2026
Little detail: shell casingsHaving grown up with the first generation of FPS games (Doom and the so called "Doom clones", as every FPS was called back then), I remember how amazed I was as a child when I first saw in Duke Nukem 3D shell casings be…Announcement3 changesFixPerformance14 Apr 2026
March 2026
Concise Development Diary #4Hello, everyone! How are you? I'd like to give you some updates on the development : ) tldr; I'm working on distributing and balancing (a lot of) equipment and (a lot of) enemies throughout the game, and later on I'd li…Announcement1 changeCompatibility24 Mar 2026
February 2026
Concise Development Diary #3Hey, everyone! Has been a while since the last dev diary, so i thought it was time for some updates and i'd like to let you know what i'm working on right now! First of all, i'm happy to share that all the new enemies a…Event5 changesGameplay12 Feb 2026
January 2026
From Weapons to GadgetsHey, everyone! Thanks for all the ideas you shared in the last post :) I've designed already a few weapons based on some of your suggestions... I hope you'll like wandering the facility armed with one of those! I've als…Announcement3 changesGameplay28 Jan 2026
December 2025
Community Weapon IdeasHey, everyone! I'm taking a break from creating locations to go back to working on weapons. I've already added quite a few new ones, but I'd love to know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see in EMPTY SHEL…Announcement1 changeGameplay29 Dec 2025
One-handed weapons animationsHi, everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the holidays : ) I wanted to share a small update about something I added a few days ago. I've added a new set of animations for volunteers when using one-handed weapons (for example…Announcement2 changesGameplay26 Dec 2025
Concise Development Diary #2Hello, everyone! Even if the release is not quite around the corner yet, I'm happy to say that I'm roughly 75% done with the locations for EMPTY SHELL 2 : ) Now, even once I reach 100% of this, there will still be other…Announcement2 changesGameplay03 Dec 2025
November 2025
Dynamic start screen imageHey, everyone! Just a quick update that makes the main menu camera image dynamic, to add a bit of flavour. I was working on this on the full version and i thought it made sense to bring the feature in the demo as well!…Announcement2 changesGameplay30 Nov 2025
Concise Development Diary #1Hello, everyone! I just finished a task I'd been procrastinating on for way too long... mostly because I needed to gather the courage to tackle it, knowing I'd have to go through dozens and dozens of files all at once:…Announcement7 changesBalanceGameplay04 Nov 2025
October 2025
More than mere wooden toys"For New Year’s Eve 1954, some of the scientists in the facility had planned a treasure hunt: they hid several Kokeshi dolls throughout the different areas of the Facility. No one ever had the chance to look for them. I…Announcement2 changesGameplayBalance16 Oct 2025

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