About
The Underground King is a RACING ROGUE-LITE set on a mysterious island where racing is the bread-and-butter of life. Lead your carefully handcrafted teams in chaotic racing events for glory and fortune. Drive, Defeat, Loot, Repeat!Features:
- 12 Bosses, each unlocking a unique vehicle & driver class, city area, and mission type.
- Text adventures: 100+ events where you and a chosen driver explore the city and its mysteries. Sometimes you will find LOOT, but most of the time, TROUBLE!
- World Laws: Over 50 effects that change the game’s mechanics in various ways. One permanent per the entire playthrough and another that changes each in-game week.
- Vehicles: What’s a racing game without cars, right? You start with a basic class and unlock more of them as you defeat different bosses.
- Drivers: The cars don’t drive themselves. You need at least 1 driver in a vehicle to do a race or a city event. Equip them with "swag" to boost their stats and personalize how they look!
- Items: They come in two forms: for drivers and for cars. Each driver has 5 equipment slots while the cars have 4. Equipping an item will boost stats and reflect the change visually.
- The Underground King is a classic adventure RPG disguised as a racing game.
- Your drivers are the adventurers and the vehicle they drive represents their equipment.
- We are diversifying what racing levels are to simulate different "dungeons". Examples:
- Countryside: Race in difficult terrain to cross the finish line first.
- Freefall: All participants fall from a plane. Whoever hits the ground first, wins!
- Manhunt: Somebody is hunting the contestants. Be the last survivor to claim the prize.
- Tug-o-war: One chain, two opposing cars. Pull your weight or get dragged down.
- Countryside: Race in difficult terrain to cross the finish line first.
- Racing levels (dungeons) will have thematic to classic adventure tropes, such as tomb raiding, fighting armies of orcs, slay the dragon, etc.
- On the off-chance you lose a game (by reaching 0 Coins or 0 Fame), you will choose 1 driver, 1 vehicle and 1 World Law for your next playthrough. If you WIN you get to pick 2!
- We use procedural generation to keep things fun and fresh:
- Drivers: Each driver comes with a unique name, backstory, body type, stats, and a random skill.
- Vehicles: Like with drivers, each car comes with a unique identity, random paint job, and random stats.
- Racing levels: Each day, the city generates new racing levels. Story progression, weather, map events, world laws and a certain degree of randomness will shape and mold the racing track and enemies.
- Drivers: Each driver comes with a unique name, backstory, body type, stats, and a random skill.
- Vehicles are physical objects that move throughout the level. They can collide with each other, activate traps, break obstacles into pieces, etc.
- Domino effects often occur, adding to the chaotic fun that is physics-based gameplay! That goes double for EXPLOSIONS!
- Some skills generate projectiles that have physical effects, or modify the race track in some way (like an oil slick).
- Example: Someone in the crowd throws garbage at your car, but the aim is bad. So instead, they hit a trap nearby that triggers a spike wall, which blows up a barrel and destroys your car. The burning wreck is hurled through the air, passing the finish line. Hey, look! You won!
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