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Hardpoint

Wake in a cell in Castle Varn and shoot your way out, floor by floor: keycards, secret walls and a tally at the end of every floor.

  • Windows PC
  • Microsoft Store
  • Keyboard & mouse
  • Gamepad
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First-person view across a moonlit cobblestone courtyard under a purple dusk sky: burning braziers and barrels, bare trees and armed guards, the scattergun in hand.
What you do

How it plays

  1. Fight through the great hall, the moonlit courtyard, the armoury and the tech wing.
  2. Find keycards and push the walls: every floor hides secrets that count on the tally.
  3. Take the lift up with your weapons, armour and score, and beat your best time on each floor.
Screenshots

In the game

  • First-person view across a moonlit cobblestone courtyard under a purple dusk sky: burning braziers and barrels, bare trees and armed guards, the scattergun in hand. Storm the courtyard of Castle Varn
  • A torch-lit stone hall with heavy pillars and red banners, two guards advancing under a hanging lamp, pistol raised. Fight through the great hall
  • A riveted steel corridor with stone pillars, glowing green terminals and bright ceiling lights, guards and a hovering drone ahead, rotary cannon in hand. Break into the hidden tech wing
  • A wood-panelled room lit by a single hanging lamp, a crate in the corner and a heavy brute with a red visor stepping out of the shadows. Lamplit rooms, and a guard who heard you coming
  • The Floor 2 core room: steel walls lined with green-screened consoles, a red-eyed drone hovering between stone pillars and a guard to the right. Reach the core room on Floor 2
  • A green-uniformed guard with glowing goggles up close in the teal-lit core room, a drone and consoles behind him, the scattergun raised. Close quarters in the machine rooms
  • The wooden barracks on Floor 2: guards between stacked crates under a hanging lamp, with the floor intro line across the top of the screen. Somebody heard the lift
  • The end-of-floor tally for Castle Varn, Floor 1: kills, secrets, treasure, time against par and score, with NEW BEST tags. Beat par and chase every secret
Will it run?

System requirements

Hardpoint system requirements
MinimumRecommendedBest
Operating systemWindows 10 or 11, 64-bitWindows 10 or 11, 64-bitWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Processor64-bit dual-core64-bit quad-core64-bit quad-core
Memory (RAM)4 GB8 GB8 GB
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (2 GB) classNVIDIA GTX 1660 / RTX 3050 (6 GB) classAny card from the recommended class up
Graphics APIVulkan or DirectX 12Vulkan or DirectX 12Vulkan or DirectX 12
Storage500 MB available space500 MB available space500 MB available space
Plays atLow preset, 1600×900, 60 fpsHigh preset, 1920×1080, 60 fpsHigh preset at 1440p or 4K

Hardpoint is built to hold 60 fps at 1600×900 on Low on a GeForce GT 1030 (checked with the game's own frame-pacing test). Recommended is our estimate; we will confirm it before release. Memory: about 0.6 GB in use at High.

Graphics presets

Low
Renders at 80% scale (sharpened back up), FXAA, no lamp shadows, 1K moonlight shadows.
Medium
90% scale, the 3 nearest lamps cast shadows, 2K moonlight shadows.
High
Full resolution, MSAA 2x, 6 lamp shadows, ambient occlusion.

The game starts on Low, which holds 60 fps on an entry-level card; F2 or Options changes it, and your choice is kept. Lamps never shine through walls on any preset.

Controls

ActionKeyboard & mouseGamepad
Move, strafeWASD (arrows turn)Left stick
LookMouseRight stick
FireLeft click / CtrlRight trigger
Use, open doors, find secretsE / Space / right clickA
Weapons1 2 3, wheel, QLB / RB
RunShiftLeft trigger
AutomapTabBack
Pause menuEscStart

Keyboard and mouse or an Xbox-style gamepad. Options: mouse sensitivity, invert look, field of view, music and graphics.

Compete

Leaderboards

Level times and challenge scores from linked PCs, under a name you choose. Boards are opt-in.

Hardpoint leaderboards