Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists

Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a tactical narrative game set in a Byzantine-flavored fantasy world called the Eternal City, where demons lurk beneath the streets and riches await those willing to risk the descent. You assemble four heroes and take on missions in different underworlds, fulfilling contracts from the mysterious Ambassador. Your choices shape each mission’s story and can change your party forever.

Assemble your party

Before a heist, you customize your character and recruit skilled adventurers. Each hero has a profession, unique skills and personality traits, so you need to balance the team for the physical and mental trials ahead. Skills can change as the party succeeds or fails.

Face the underworlds

Each mission sends your party into a distinct hell, with its own palette, demons, guardians, gods and other threats. Contracts change from mission to mission, and planning does not guarantee that a job will go as expected. The anthology includes journeys such as following in Orpheus’s footsteps to rescue a loved one and trying to save the Eternal City from an insect plague.

Make choices and take risks

More than 280 dynamic narrative encounters put your party’s skills to use. Encounters offer multiple paths: you might send a bard to calm bandits or hire a demonologist to communicate with a possessed book, avoiding combat, or take a risk for a greater payoff. Poor outcomes can leave heroes with injuries such as a broken arm, or worse, so you must weigh the potential rewards against the party’s health.

Replayable missions

You can generate a new quest or retry a failed mission, with a different cast of helpers each time. A run takes about an hour, and automatic saving and a synopsis of the story so far let you return to a mission when you have only a few minutes.

An anthology of journeys

Eight writers contribute mythic journeys to the anthology, accompanied by hundreds of hand-painted illustrations. Each underworld has its own threats, and the world and your choices shape how each story unfolds.