Madlands press kit

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Madlands: six pixel-art heroes face a crowned boss surrounded by rings of bullets

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Madlands is a free online bullet hell MMO: a shared realm, dungeons with screen-filling boss patterns, and permadeath, played in any browser or on a phone, with no download and no sign-up.

Fact sheet

Genre: Bullet hell MMO, with roguelite permadeath
Price: Free to play. Gems buy cosmetics and storage, never power.
Platforms: Any web browser, on computer, phone or tablet; a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux
Controls: Mouse and keyboard, touch, or a controller
Players: Online, together: drop into a shared realm, form parties, join guilds, trade
Content: 16 classes and 42 dungeons, each with its own boss
Website: playmadlands.com
Contact: contact@playmadlands.com

About the game

You make a hero, pick a class and step into the realm, a round island that rises in rings from the beach to the summit at its peak. The higher you climb, the harder the monsters and the better the loot. Dungeons open across the island; each ends on a boss with its own patterns to learn, from a crab king's waterspouts to a lich who keeps rebuilding the phylactery that keeps him alive.

Death is permanent. A hero who falls is gone, with everything they carried, and goes up on the Legends board. What you've banked in your vault, your fame and your account stay, so every new hero starts a little stronger.

It's built to be fair online. The server decides every hit, so cheating can't buy invincibility, and if your connection drops, the server freezes your hero and makes them untouchable until you're back: no disconnect deaths.

Features

Classes for every playstyle, from a Warrior who grows huge and soaks bullets for the party, to a Sentinel who raises a wall of light and a Gunslinger who fans the hammer.
Bosses designed around one idea each: dodge, read, then strike.
A shared realm with events, parties, guilds, trading and letters between friends.
Permadeath with progress that lasts: vault, fame, unlocks, pets and cosmetics.
Plays instantly in a browser or on a phone, and updates for everyone at once.