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Gladiators, prepare for your first battle! The Chained Beasts demo will be available on Steam on November 12, 3pm PDT.

This demo includes the tutorial and five brutal battles in the Carthage arena, and culminates in a showdown with the first boss who charges into battle on a Rhino mount!

Visit the demo page here:

Be sure to wishlist Chained Beasts on Steam to be notified when the demo launches!

The Chained Beasts demo can be played with 1-4 players, so start putting your crew together. To find other gladiators to brave the arena with online, join the Featherweight Games Discord here: https://discord.gg/3qKKQ52P4W

Each day from now until the November 12 demo release date, we're giving away 5 Chained Beasts t-shirts to lucky community members!

All you need to do to enter the giveaway is join the Featherweight Games Discord and react to this announcement[discord.com] with a ✅. Each day we'll be posting new announcements to react to, giving you multiple chances to win, with a total of 35 t-shirts being given away!

Winners will be contacted directly via Discord to organise size and shipping details. Good luck, gladiators!

The Chained Beasts public playtest has come to a close. As the roar of the crowd dies down, we want to thank each and every gladiator for taking the time to participate in the Chained Beasts public playtest on Steam. We had just under 10,000 gladiators stepping into the arena throughout the one week playtest, which is far more than we imagined seeing!

We want to thank everyone who took the time to leave us feedback through our survey, Discord, and the playtest Steam discussion forum. We are taking that feedback into account and wanted to give you a sneak peek at just two of the many changes we are working on, and what's next for Chained Beasts. That news in brief:

Previously, every player started with a shield, and you can use them to block indefinitely - as long as you had enough stamina. Blocking a hit slightly reduced your stamina, and continuing to hold your shield up reduced the rate at which your stamina recharged.

We have changed this so that now, you do not start with a shield, and shields are instead items you pick up. There is no longer any stamina cost to blocking, and each attack you block will briefly stun the enemy that hit your shield. However, each hit your shield takes will reduce its durability, until eventually, the shield will break. You can pick up a replacement shield from any enemy you kill in the arena who carries one.

We made this change as we would like shields to feel overall less punishing to use from a stamina perspective, but still act as a resource you need to manage. You will need to be mindful of your shield’s durability during combat, but the extra bonus that comes from briefly stunning an enemy by blocking their attack allows you an opportunity to follow up with your own attack that previously didn’t exist. And to make combat feel a little more fluid, you will now be able to cancel out of attacks by blocking, instead of needing to wait for the entire attack animation to finish.

Something else we’ve changed is the way the Trainer levels you up in between battles. In the playtest, the trainer would automatically level you up each time you visited him, and give you the choice between a few different perks.

This will still be the case on the lowest Pleb difficulty. But beyond that, it won’t be so easy you’ll need to break a sweat! Above that difficulty, visiting the Trainer means you will actually need to decide how much you are going to train, in pursuit of that level up. You do this by opting to do a randomly decided number of reps - between one and three each time you opt in. Each rep you do will gradually fill up the experience bar - as will any reps from other players, too! You are all working together to fill up that bar, and when it is full, all of you will level up.

However, each rep you do will also increase the amount of pain you are experiencing individually. If you do too many reps, you will receive a new injury - like a broken toe that hampers your movement, or a dislocated shoulder that affects how well you throw, or a punctured lung that makes you run out of breath.

Just like a real workout, you’ll want to push yourself to do as many reps as you can, without going too far into injury territory. But don’t slack off, or no-one will level up! Perhaps you’re all so close to levelling up, and one player decides to take one for the team and injure themselves by doing the last reps needed to ensure everyone gets to pick a new perk. Much like drinking potions from the Healer, we want decisions in Chained Beasts to always have pros and cons that you need to weigh up, and this is just one new avenue for us to achieve that goal.

We are thrilled to announce that Chained Beasts will be playable at South By Southwest Sydney, on Friday October 17, and Saturday October 18. If you’re nearby, come and get your hands on Chained Beasts and the many other quality indie games we’ll be exhibiting alongside. Plus, Chained Beasts will be played live on-stage by local content creators on Saturday October 18!

Didn’t check out the Chained Beasts playtest in time? Check out this great playthrough from YouTuber GohJoe to see what you missed out on:

But despair not! We are thrilled to announce that there will be another opportunity for you to get your hands on the game before release, as a Chained Beasts demo will be available this November, complete with an extra new difficulty level to unlock and challenge yourself with.

Gladiators, the time has come for all who seek glory to take their first steps into the arena! The Chained Beasts Public Playtest is now live, and can be accessed be pressing the Join Playtest button on the Chained Beasts Steam Store page.

Chained Beasts is a co-op gladiator roguelike for 1-4 players, combining brutal combat with teamwork and slapstick moments. Can you gather your friends, crush your enemies, win the crowd and gain your freedom?

This playtest will see you battling for survival in the Carthage Arena. You’ll need to survive 5 brutal battles in an extended version of the full game’s Act I and beat the first boss who rides in on a rhino!

We are interested in hearing any and all feedback, as this will be the first time Chained Beasts will be shown to outside players. 

• Tell us what parts of the game you find fun. 

• Let us know if anything was hard to understand. 

• What don’t you like? 

• What would you like to see more of?

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Gladiators, be the first to find fame and glory in the arena! Featherweight Games is inviting you to join the upcoming Chained Beasts closed playtest!

This playtest will allow you to experience the tutorial and the first 3 days of combat. You will be able to play this in singleplayer, same-screen co-op, or online co-op through Steam.

Sign up to the Feathweight Newsletter:
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Join the Featherweight Discord to share feedback:
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You will be notified via the address you signed up with when the Chained Beasts closed playtest is live.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3569420/Chained_Beasts/

We are interested in hearing any and all feedback, as this will be the first time Chained Beasts will be shown to outside players. 

• Tell us what parts of the game you find fun. 

• Let us know if anything was hard to understand. 

• What don’t you like? 

• What would you like to see more of?

All feedback can be shared by joining the Featherweight Discord[discord.com].