Hellbound

Hellbound: Reign of El Diablo is a kinetic visual novel and dark-comedy crime story set in the neon nightlife of Baratrum City in 2005. You follow Zyne, a demon mob boss who has retired from his reign in Hell but is drawn back into crime after forming the Otherworlders, a gang made up of his new apprentice and the city’s cheapest hires.

Zyne and the Otherworlders

The gang treats crime as a thrill, unaware of the guilt attached to Zyne’s name and the consequences in his shadow. As Baratrum City closes in, the Otherworlders must face what it means to follow a legend built on blood. Zyne must choose whether to become a monster again or be the father his apprentice needs; his last chance at redemption could cost him the only family he has left.

Choices and relationships

You recruit and manage the Otherworlders, a reckless, out-of-place gang bound by dirty money and bad decisions. Choices arise both during and outside heists, and you explore complicated relationships, including doomed romance.

The city and story

The game presents a stylized, 2000s-inspired neon crime city and more than 100 hand-illustrated scenes. Its linear narrative takes about four hours and is accompanied by a synthwave soundtrack. Demons, stoners and organized crime shape this story of a mob boss trying to do one last good thing.