No Mercy follows the story of four main characters, Elliot, Ray, Belle and Orion, as they work to clean up the forest and restore balance. Use their different weapons and powers to crush anything that stands in your way, and explore the surrounding levels for hidden secrets. Filled with vibrant art and interlocking character arcs, No Mercy draws both you and the characters deep into the heart of the forest that surrounds you.
Your only hope is in each other, but everyone has something valuable to lose. In a story of love, faith and a fourth wall-breaking bird named Kevin, you must work together to save the forest, your friends, or at least your own lives.
No Mercy is a battle built around the lives of strangers who find themselves in the forest as an ancient darkness, the Corruptor, breaks free. It plays like Castle Crashers with the discoverable narrative of games like Journey, Braid and The Stanley Parable. We are working on a Steam release for PC and Mac, with Act I releasing in the summer of 2017, Act II in the fourth quarter of 2017, and Act III in March 2018. We want to release the game as one, complete story, so if we exceed our funding goal, it will allow us to work full time on No Mercy and accelerate our development timelines to release the game more quickly!
No Mercy Features
Bloodshed: Slash and slash your way through the slugs, spirits, and corrupted golems that are destroying the forest. We named the game No Mercy for a reason. We expect you to bring your A-game or mash buttons in the forest to defeat the corruption. Once you beat the game the first time, levels will unlock, and you will be able to play as any character you like, fighting to your heart's desire.
Multiplayer: Relatively self-explanatory, but No Mercy has multiplayer! Play alone or with a friend (or with hundreds of your closest friends on Twitch... we won't complain). Check out the demo for the best couch co-op time!
Art: Every great battle is memorialized in a stunning painting. Get lost in the ever-changing, colorful art of No Mercy: paintings that pay tribute to your quest to save the forest. The gestural strokes, expressive colors, and 2D backgrounds are designed for a visually expressive experience.
Hidden Story: While destroying every enemy, don't forget to look at the vast forest around you. Eons of time have passed through those branches, and terrible secrets about the forest, the corruption, and even your friends may be hidden among them. We never want the story to interrupt the flow of gameplay, so it's integrated into the surrounding levels in the form of hidden areas, context clues, and dialogue instead of long cutscenes.
Characters: Play alternately between four playable characters in levels, to gradually learn more about their wants, needs, and (sometimes tragic) backstories. Each character has a unique fighting style that can be combined to add new challenges and depth to levels.
Accessibility: MVG is working with The Able Gamers charity to ensure our game is accessible to people with disabilities. Our goal is to create a game that respectfully represents the disabled community, as two of our main characters, Elliot and Orion, live with a disability. Accessibility and representation are important beyond measure, so we're working to make sure we get it right.
Nature thrives on balance: the ebb and flow of the tides, life and death, day and night, order and chaos. The Shrine Keepers are tasked with maintaining this balance and tending the veil between what we know and what we don't. The forest they protect has always known corruption, which flows through the trees like veins, but its true chaos was sealed away long ago. That is, until a golem breaks through and releases the corruption into the world. As it breaks out from behind the broken seal, the world has to deal with an ancient, all-encompassing chaos that has been building up for hundreds of years.
