Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a surreal tactical RPG journey into mythical underworlds from Six Ages' devs

If I went to hell, I can't ideate the archetypal happening connected my caput would beryllium trying to propulsion disconnected a slope occupation with a unit of chap damned souls. However, successful freshly announced tactical RPG Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, that's the benignant happening you'll beryllium doing, with plentifulness of prime and effect if things spell pear-shaped.

Thousand Hells is the latest chill happening from Six Ages and King of Dragon Pass devs A Sharp. While they're moving with Kitfox Games arsenic steadfast again, there's plentifulness of antithetic worldly going on, including a determination distant from satellite of Glorantha arsenic a setting. That's successful favour of phantasy pastures new, inspired by myths of the past proto-Indo-European, Norse, and Mesopotamian varieties. Oh, and a dash of Hieronymus Bosch's beauteous paintings.

"I’d similar to propulsion procedural storytelling successful a caller direction, some successful however the quests are generated and with the communicative crippled that lets you usage your team’s traits to resoluteness situations by making communicative choices, not conscionable dice rolls," A Sharp laminitis David Dunham said of the game. "And it’s amusive to spot the strategy that Robin Laws and I designed enactment to usage by different writers."

Thousand Hells revolves astir 4 heroes making the toasty jaunt to hell, each of these folks being "procedurally generated with fears, desires and personalities". Once there, your occupation is to propulsion unneurotic a squad with antithetic skills and a acceptable of temperaments that won't effect successful blowups midway done the "trials of the underworlds" you'll beryllium trying to overcome. There's a "mysterious ambassador" you're contracted to bash it each for, which doesn't dependable ominous whatsoever.

The stakes, if it wasn't clear, are high. "Use the strengths of your enactment successful implicit 200 unsocial dynamic communicative encounters," reads the game's blurb. "Skills volition alteration depending connected your team’s successes and failures. Avoid combat by sending your bard to calm the nerves of bandits. Hire a demonologist to pass with a possessed book. Take the hazard and reap the rewards, different you’ll extremity up with a breached arm, oregon worse."

Sounds similar a crippled that mightiness beryllium my cupful of tea, provided I tin inactive clasp said cupful of beverage aft I've had these things my hands are attached to violently wrenched retired of spot and enactment successful casts. In each seriousness, immoderate crippled that has 4 antithetic types of mastermind and creation arsenic surreally majestic arsenic this is good worthy a look.

If you privation to swot up connected A Sharp's erstwhile work, here's our Sin's reappraisal of Six Ages. Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists doesn't person a merchandise day yet, and you tin wishlist it connected Steam here.