From Press Release:
October 9, 2026 – Hooded Horse is excited to announce that a new game has joined its portfolio of world-class strategic and tactical games. BELTFED, from Hello World Studios, is a roguelike factory-defense game of rapid, brutal runs and epic-scale carnage. The official announcement trailer has already captured the imagination of millions, propelling the game to nearly 200,000 wishlists in under two weeks.
In BELTFED, players take on the role of a rogue AI with one directive: automate death. Shred, burn, and vaporize swarms of ravenous bugs by deploying and expanding a base that’s part factory, part war machine, and completely lethal. Lay belts, wire up smelters and assemblers, and balance the power grid to turn raw materials into pure firepower. Deploy from world to world, expanding and exterminating until victory is secured, or the factory succumbs to overwhelming numbers.
As the base’s central intelligence and item storage, the Nexus must be defended at all costs. If it’s compromised, the factory collapses, and the run ends… but the mission continues. Every deployment feeds permanent progression: new weapons, new buildings, new upgrade cards, and unique Nexus cores. This ever-expanding arsenal ensures every deployment is deadlier than the last. Customize loadouts before each run to tune the machine to any playstyle, and perfect the art of war at an industrial scale.
“We played BELTFED, and it’s incredibly fun,” says Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender. “The trailer rocks and has got people excited, but the game itself is going to knock their socks off.”
“I’m a lifelong strategy fan, and Hooded Horse has published some of my favorite games over the years,” says Hello World Studios Lead Designer Toby Atkinson. “They know the genre inside out, so having them as BELTFED’s publisher is as good as it gets for us.”
The game will be localized from English into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
BELTFED is coming to PC in 2027.
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About Hooded Horse™
Hooded Horse is a publisher of deep strategic and tactical games, including Manor Lords, Against the Storm, MENACE, Old World, Norland, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, and 9 Kings. With people and partners around the world, our goal is to empower and support developers in doing what they do best: creating world-class experiences for their audiences.You can find out more about us on our Steam publisher page or website, as well as our social channels: Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube, and Discord.
About Hello World Studios™
Hello World Studios is a two-person indie games team founded by brothers Toby and Troy Atkinson from south-west England. Pairing Toby’s background in game development with Troy’s software engineering experience, they build the kinds of games they’d play themselves: deep systems, ambitious scale and beautiful chaos.
Follow BELTFED’s development and chat with the devs on the official Discord server.
