Chained Beasts

Chained Beasts is available on steam right now!

The gates are open, the crowd is roaring, and there are an army of beasts waiting to fight their way to freedom alongside you. Chained Beasts is officially out on Steam!

Coming from the demo? Or is it your arena debut?

For experienced brawlers, the full game is packed with new content beyond what you saw in the demo, including:

• New beasts / arenas

• New afflictions / weapons

• New modes / progression features

If you’re booting the game up for the first time, heres what to expect:

• Fight alone or with up to 4 friends online with online cross play, or play at home with couch co-op.

• Survive 9 gruelling battles across 3 acts with terrifying bosses before facing the final encounter.

• Prove the resolve of your crew across 10 increasingly horrible difficulty levels.

• Suffer over 70 debilitating afflictions as you struggle for freedom.

• Learn more than 70 different skills and purchase 40+ items.

• Unlock 8 different beasts as well as Beast variants with different stats/abilities and cosmetics.

• Plenty more to come after 1.0! (Check out our roadmap here for more info).

12 years in the making

"This launch is an extra special one. Chained Beasts was the first ever game we set out to make as a team at Featherweight 12 years ago, before we had the resources, team or skills to actually pull it off. Originally it started as a 48-hour game jam project called Enterchained, inspired by the chained-up scene in the movie Gladiator. We liked the game jam concept so much that we started building an expanded project around it. Back then, we didn’t have the resources, the team or the skills to pull it off, so six months in, we had to put it aside."

"Many years later, when we picked the concept back up, we decided to lean even harder into the chaos and comedy that the chain and injuries system introduces when playing with a group of 4 in co-op. Not to forget the goal of keeping the combat as brutal and punishing as the gladiatorial setting demands, which gives the feeling of a hardcore party game. The end result is what we’ve been referring to as a hardcore party game and all of the elements have come together better than we could have imagined."

— Tim Kaldor, Co-Director, Featherweight Games

35% off for launch: grab your friends and jump in

Chained Beasts is 35% off for launch, so now's the perfect time to round up your crew and get in there!

We've also lined up some bundles with some of our pals if you want to expand your collection further:

• Cult of the Lamb x Chained Beasts

• LORT x Chained Beasts

• Gang Beasts x Chained Beasts

• More exciting bundles arriving very soon!

Join the fray

Come hang out with us and the community on Discord: share replays of your best runs, your funniest affliction moments, and find chain-mates to dive into our cross-platform co-op with!

We’d also welcome you to tell us about your experience with the game, including balance feedback, bug reports or even just a quick note to let us know you’re having a hoot!

And if you're enjoying the carnage, please \leave a Steam review\. It makes a massive difference for a small studio like ours, and is one of the best ways we can bring ever more combatants to the fight.

Valē for now

"Our beta and demo players over the last few years played a huge part in shaping the game as it is today. Watching them play helped us identify where the magic was, and their feedback helped us remove or streamline some brutally unpleasant afflictions and polish up some of our more confusing coop interactions. Finally, to our incredible development and art team: thank you. We're honoured to have had you with us for the journey."

— Dylan Bevis, Co-Director, Featherweight Games

See you in the arena with your weapon of choice in hand!

— The Featherweight Games crew

People have been asking; “what is the plan once Chained Beasts launches?”

Well, here's a handy roadmap of the next few months to fill you in!

1. First there's launch on the 15th, after which we'll be sleepily celebrating.

2. In December we have a 1.1. planned with a brand new arena (and boss), a new weapon and new enemies to match.

3. After that we'd like to add a PVP mode in Q1 2027 so you can fight against your friends. We’d also like to introduce a handful of new skills and afflictions to keep the campaign fresh.

4. Once PVP is out in the wild, we’ll be keeping an eye on what our players are most interested in being added to the game. Aside from that, it would make sense for us to look at introducing additional acts, new skills and afflictions, more beasts, beast variants and beast cosmetics so you can get the most out of the campaign’s replay value.

Before we go, now that we’re so close to launch, don’t forget to Wishlist the game to join the fray of the 200k beasts that are waiting to enter the arena! Also, do let your friends know that Chained Beasts will be out in the wild in just 3 days time. That way you’ll have your quartet of combatants ready to go on launch day.

We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but one thing that makes all the difference in the world to indie developers like us is a swift and honest review of your experience with Chained Beasts after launch. Nothing sends a stronger signal to the omnipresent Steam algorithm, which then helps us reach more folks that might like to satisfy their blood lust in the arena alongside you.

With that, we’re going to get our heads down so we’re ready to hit the big green button this Thursday!

See you on the other side.

— The Featherweight Games crew

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