Beset

Beset is a team-based battle game built around choosing four abilities from a pool of 75. You use them to attack, defend and control the battlefield, with each ability costing mana, stock or your own health. Some impose lasting trade-offs, such as reducing your maximum health, and 21 status effects make your loadout part of the fight.

Abilities and loadouts

You can hurl fireballs, raise the dead, build turrets, open portals and parry blades back at their owners. Each player has four ability slots, so you must choose which options to bring into a match.

Game modes

Beset has five modes:

• Deathmatch: your team shares 50 lives.
• King of the Hill: hold the zone; the count freezes while even one enemy is inside.
• Capture the Flag: the first team to three captures wins, and carrying the flag into deep water drops it.
• Free-for-All: fight without teams or bases; the first player to 15 kills wins.
• Greed: collect and bank gold nuggets, buy abilities during the match and raid the enemy chest. The further behind you are, the bigger the bite.

Battlefields

The game has 12 hand-built maps, each playable in every mode. Their settings include lava fields divided by safe ground, a ghost ship with its hull serving as a base, a moat that freezes only at certain tides, and a forest maze whose routes shift as the trees move. The maps are authored rather than generated.

Ranked play

Ranked play is optional and permanent. It has six tiers, from Bronze to Master, alongside a rating system.