The King's Bargain

Hell sent the bill. Bring friends.

The King's Bargain is an online co-op action RPG for 1–4 players.

Thirty years ago, King Aldric traded his wife's soul to the devil for a woman who had already turned him down seventeen times. It went about as well as you'd expect. Now the contract has matured, Hell's collections department is at the gate, and thanks to a typo in the fine print, every one of you is the King. Every one of you owes the full amount.

Pick a weapon, sign a few questionable clauses and smash your way through Hell's middle management.

Up to four Kings. One very bad decision.

• Online co-op for 1–4 players. Invite friends through Steam. Bosses scale with the size of your party.

• Downed, not dead. Fall in battle and your friends have 30 seconds to drag you back up.

• Solo? Bring your other self. In single player you lead two heroes and switch between them at any time while the AI plays the other one.

Choose a path. Forge your weapon. Break everything.

Swords, axes, hammers, bows, crossbows, wands and a support scepter for the King who would rather heal. Your build decides how they hit.

• A passive tree with 100+ nodes and a branch for every weapon. Commit to the hammer and the ground starts to shake.

• Skill books give you two active skills at a time, plus a dash. Mix elements to trigger combo reactions.

• Blacksmith and crafting. Refine the weapon you love instead of throwing it away.

Every boon has a price.

Barry from HR, Hell's most reluctant compliance auditor, arrives with an offer: three contract clauses, pick one, sign in blood. Faster attacks, bigger crits, lifesteal, glass-cannon damage, each with a catch in the fine print. Dozens of boons and curses stack into builds that get stranger the deeper you go. You can always refuse. Barry will be disappointed. He is used to it.

Raid dungeons together.

Step through a portal into a dungeon assembled differently every time. A sign over each door tells you what is behind it: a fight, treasure, a travelling merchant, a cursed altar or a shrine. A boss waits at the end, and every run earns a grade from S to D.

Hell's middle managers

Five department heads of Mephistar's Infernal Revenue Service each hold one staple of your contract. Mortis, Chief Collections, holds the seal. Read the telegraphs, get out of the red and tear the staples out one by one.

• Pyrrhos, Past-Due Accounts: "Your interest has interest, Majesty."

• Sariel, Cold Calling: "Your call is very important to us. That is why it will never end."

• Mortis, Chief Collections: "I don't send letters, Majesty. I am the letter."

Thornak, Vorlag and Kael'thur are just as committed to customer service.

Loot, pets and paperwork

• Loot from Common to Mythic, with a loot filter so you only see what matters.

• Tame a wild beast or hatch an egg. Name your pet, level it up, and it fights at your side and boosts your stats.

• Elite enemies, world events and a contract board full of bounties for when the main story can wait.