THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME IN THE WORLD - HyperMall: Unlimited Violence

WHAT IS HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE?

HyperMall: Unlimited Violence is a NEW mission-based meatpunk assassination tabletop role-playing game for 2-6 players from Rat Bastard Games now in Early Access on itch.io.

HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE ANSWERS SEVERAL AGE OLD QUESTIONS:

• What if you could make a Tech CEO piss his pants just by saying mean things?
• What if you could kill your boss so hard his bones exploded?
• What if Wal-Mart figured out a way to eliminate Death as a concept, forcing its workers to forever resurrect, forever serve capital, forever worship the boots on their neck?

Using the all-new d6 dice pool Rat System, players take on the role of desperate and deranged gig workers forced to kill for Slaughtr™ - The Assassination App. Some are mutants, some are powerful Psionics, and others are just freaks with guns.

Each time they die, and they die a lot, their souls are captured by the Resurrection Matrix and shunted into fresh bodies (for a fee, of course). This process is never perfect, and Contractors accumulate quirks and slight (or not-so-slight) changes to their physiology as they get mercilessly gunned down again and again by the genetically engineered mall cops and illegal cyborgs employed by the rich and famous. All this and they can just barely pay rent.

The PDF, which is feature complete, has everything you need to run a chaotic one shot or a long running campaign, including but not limited to:

• d66 Contractor Backgrounds - be who you were always meant to be
• d66 Mutations manifested by vaping unregulated mutagen
• d66 Psionic Powers unlocked by getting holes drilled into your cranium by shady street docs (just like real life)
• Rules for Financial Warfare - hit 'em where it hurts!
• d66 Assassination Targets & an in-depth system for Contract Generation so GMs can create unique missions on the fly with zero prep
• Art by me, JD Clément (@RatBastardGames) & Bryton J. Swan (@DapperGamelord)
• The Rat System, a very easy to learn d6 dice pool system that plays a little like "good Shadowrun"

HyperMall: Unlimited Violence draws inspiration from Consumer Softproduct's hit immersive FPS Cruelty Squad, roguelikes, Troika!, and the fact that Everything Just Keeps Getting Worse.

Rat Bastard Games is a solo game dev studio dedicated to making games that are weird for a reason. It's not enough to look bizarre, we must be bizarre with purpose. Sometimes that purpose is to laugh. Sometimes it's to fantasize about being able to afford rent.

STRETCH GOALS AND EARLY ACCESS

HyperMall: Unlimited Violence is in Early Access not because it isn't finished, but because we (royal we) want it to be as unhinged and vile as possible. Updated layout, more art, more gore, and more raucous action. We smashed through our first funding goal in 3 days, unlocking DLC 1: HyperMall: FreakShit Catalogue, an upcoming supplement featuring d66 NEW Contractor Backgrounds. DLC 2, HyperMall: Posthuman Blues, will focus on expanded HyperMall: Unlimited Violence's existing mech combat rules and will add d66 new mechs to the game.

If you buy now, you get access to HyperMall: Unlimited Violence (150~ pages of meaty, sweaty, delicious game), all DLC, and all future updates for $15.00. That's a pretty good deal and I would know.

PHYSICAL RELEASE

We're planning a physical release funded through Kickstarter (Q3 2024, keep your eyes open) published by Hammer City Games (@HammerCityGames), so get your digital copy now. Fall into debt. Die and come back. Accept that you're nothing more than a meat machine hallucinating consciousness and become the ultimate gig economy assassin.