hiumod — a companion for Hell Is Us
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A live minimap, a quest tracker and story guide, every vault and puzzle answer, and
collectible checklists for Hell Is Us on PC — plus a few single-player cheats.
It runs beside the game and reads its memory. No game files are modified.
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Changelog
Read about it in your language:
한국어 ·
日本語 ·
简体中文 ·
Deutsch ·
Français ·
Español ·
Italiano ·
Polski ·
Português (Brasil) ·
Русский ·
Türkçe
Unofficial fan-made tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Rogue Factor or
Nacon. Requires a legitimately purchased copy of the game; this repository contains
no game code, text or assets. Steam achievements are not blocked. Cheats can
corrupt your save, so back it up first. Provided as is, with no warranty.
See NOTICE.
Quick start
- Download
hiumod-<version>.zip from Releases
and unzip it anywhere. It only ever writes to <game folder>\Mods\.
- Run
hiumod.exe. It starts the game through Steam if needed, attaches once you
are in, and closes when the game does. Play windowed or borderless.
- Press ` (left of 1) for the panel. The first time you
control the hero, it reads the game's maps and text by itself (about two minutes).
That needs the .NET 8 runtime;
if it's missing, the panel offers to install it — through winget, or without
administrator rights into the game's
Mods folder if winget can't.
Status: attaches to Steam build 24045435, where doctor passes every check.
Twelve cheats are verified in play; the three not yet tried say unverified in the
panel until someone confirms them (see CHEATS.md).
What it does
Hell Is Us has no map, no compass and no quest markers by design. hiumod puts them
back for the nights you want them — and every answer starts hidden.
| |
|---|
| Minimap and big map | Walls and floors from the level's geometry, shaded terrain and contours, floors above and below faded, your trail, 26 kinds of icons and 24 kinds of pins you place yourself |
| Compass and guide | Works the next goal out from what your save knows and what each place still holds, then routes there along the game's own navmesh, with distance and height |
| Quest tracker | Main quests, good deeds, mysteries and timeloops by their real names; what the followed quest still needs; good deeds you can still miss, and before when |
| Vaults and puzzles | Every dial, keypad and item placement, and the six Vaults of Forbidden Knowledge drawn as the game's own symbols — each behind Show answer |
| Collect | Collectibles per region, enemy groups left for the every-Hollow achievement, NPCs with more to tell, Steam achievements with progress |
| Saves | Each game save copied to Mods\backups (the last 20) |
| Cheats | Health, stamina, Lymbic energy, speed, time scale, frail enemies, no fall damage, consumables, weapon XP, saved positions — off until switched on, put back when switched off |
| Filming | The hero walked along the guide's route, your points, a recording of your own walk or a tour of the world, or the camera flown alone as a drone — directed shot by shot, the hero kept out of the frame and put back after |
Every overlay hides while a game menu is open.
Keys
| Key | |
|---|
| ` | show or hide the panel |
| Ctrl + ` | open or close the console (for checking things) |
| F2 | minimap → big map → off |
| F3 | compass |
| F4 | guide to the next goal |
| F5 | place or remove a pin |
| F8 | start or stop a take (filming) |
| Ctrl + F8 | add or remove a filming point where you stand |
| Ctrl + Shift + F8 | start or stop recording your own way |
The function keys can be changed on the panel's Map page. The game's own F1 (HUD) and
F7 (photo mode) and Steam's F12 (screenshot) are left to them: the panel does
not offer them.
Languages
The mod speaks the game's language. It follows the game's own text setting in all
twelve languages the game ships — English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese,
German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Turkish —
and takes the names of places, people and items from the game's translations on your
machine. Each language had a native-speaker pass against the game's own terms.
Command line
hiumod doctor # checks everything, writes nothing — load a save first
hiumod doctor survey # the guide's data from your game files (the panel does this itself)
hiumod hold god stamina speed=1200 # until Ctrl+C, then puts things back
hiumod restore # if a hold or a take was killed rather than stopped
hiumod rescue # the hero out of the ground after a take that ended badly
hiumod help # every command
The same commands work in the panel's console.
How it finds its way in
The tool stores no offsets. Each time it attaches:
- It scans the game image's writable data for the engine's name pool and for
GEngine. Each must turn up exactly once.
- It reads the engine's own reflection to learn the path to the player:
GameInstance → LocalPlayers[0] → PlayerController → Pawn, then the pawn's
AbilitySystemComponent → SpawnedAttributes.
- It finds each attribute by the game's own name, such as
EnduranceCap or
LymbicEnergy.
So a Steam patch only breaks something when it renames something, and doctor says
which name went missing.
Safety rules the code keeps
- The hero gate. Nothing is written unless the controlled pawn is the hero, a
CharlieCharacterHero. Loading screens, menus and cinematics close the gate; held
cheats pause while it is closed rather than being dropped.
- Every write lands on an attribute or nowhere. An attribute must be declared
16 bytes (an
FGameplayAttributeData) and start with the vtable all attributes
share, inside the game image.
- Originals go to disk first.
originals.txt is written before anything is
overwritten. Switching off, closing the panel or running restore puts them back.
Building
cargo test # unit and integration tests, no game needed
cargo build --release
powershell tools/package.ps1 # dist\hiumod-<version>.zip: the exe, the survey tool, the documents
python tools/site/build.py # the website in docs/ (GitHub Pages: main /docs)
The survey tool (tools/survey, C# with CUE4Parse) needs the .NET 8 SDK to build.
Releasing. Rename the newest CHANGELOG.md heading from Unreleased — X.Y.Z to
X.Y.Z, set the same version in Cargo.toml, then
git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin vX.Y.Z. release.yml
checks that the three agree, builds the zip on Windows, checks that nothing from the
game is in it, and publishes it with the verified Steam build, install steps, the
changelog section and a SHA-256.
Documentation
| Document | What it settles |
|---|
| CHANGELOG.md | what each release changed, and the game build it was verified on |
| .spec/PLAN.md | what this is, the phases, and what each one attaches to |
| .spec/ANCHORS.md | how the tool finds its way in, and what a game update can break |
| .spec/CHEATS.md | the cheats, what each writes, and what "verified" means |
| .spec/ | handoff documents in Korean: status, procedures, structure, decisions, research, the website |
FAQ
Is there a map in Hell Is Us? No. By design the game has no map, compass or
quest markers. hiumod adds an optional minimap overlay and a quest tracker on PC.
Can I get banned? Hell Is Us is single-player with no anti-cheat and no online
play, and hiumod changes no game files. As with any third-party tool, use it at your
own discretion.
The game updated and something broke. Run hiumod doctor; it names anything that
moved. Run doctor survey again for the guide's data, and open an issue with the
doctor output if it stays broken.
License
Code under the MIT license; bundled third-party material in
THIRD-PARTY.md. Hell Is Us is a trademark of its owners.
