Balance Due

Balance Due is an action game about venturing from Base Camp into a dangerous fantasy wilderness to fight creatures, gather loot and return with enough gold to meet a daily quota. You can play alone or in online co-op, where players divide responsibilities, explore different routes and help fallen allies back into the fight. Each expedition means weighing the chance of finding more rewards against the risk of losing what you have collected on the journey home.

Explore the wilderness

The world has distinct regions with different monsters, resources, hidden rewards and environmental challenges. You search for treasure, mine ores, tackle platforming courses and activate ancient portals that make later expeditions faster and safer. The farther you travel, the more opportunities you find, but the return trip becomes more dangerous.

You fight a wide variety of creatures with melee combat, learning their attack patterns, avoiding strikes and choosing when to retaliate. Defeated enemies can drop valuable loot, but you must bring it back to Base Camp to keep it. As night falls, stronger threats emerge and visibility decreases, making a safe return harder.

Manage the Due

Every day, the Mage demands payment. Gold submitted during the day raises the Due, while gold submitted at night lowers it. Missing the daily quota brings a penalty twice as severe, and a bad night can undo the party’s progress. You need to track the time, plan your route and decide when to head back.

Your choices also push the balance in different directions and lead to different conclusions. You can pursue order, embrace chaos or discover another possibility between them.

Prepare at Base Camp

Between expeditions, you can sell recovered loot for gold, shop for weapons and improve your equipment at the blacksmith. Upgrades can increase attack power, maximum health, movement speed and health regeneration, letting you shape a build to suit your play. Equipment costs resources that could otherwise go toward the quota, so spending is part of the balance you must manage.

Game features

• Single-player and online co-op
• A repeating cycle of combat, exploration and extraction
• Day and night conditions that affect danger and strategy
• Daily quotas with different consequences depending on when you pay
• Multiple regions with distinct enemies and rewards
• Weapons with several independent upgrade paths
• Loot trading, mining, treasure chests and platforming challenges
• Ancient portals that open faster routes through the world
• Multiple endings determined by the balance you create
• Steam achievements, including hidden challenges