Perform Public Beheadings in Horror RPG The Executioner
I’m a proud left-wing liberal through and through, although I still support the death penalty because some people are just such absolute scum that the world would simply be better off without them. Although I’d pass the sentence if I was on the jury, I definitely wouldn’t want to be the guy who pulls the lever or wields the axe or administers the injection. And I wouldn’t envy the person that does.
The upcoming game The Executioner puts you in the shoes of guy whose business is literally death. You play as the Royal Executioner of a country that performs so many public executions that even Saudi Arabi would blush.
In addition to chopping off heads during public executions, you’ll also be tasked with torturing confessions out the accused parties. You’ll have your own torture chamber and there’ll be some incredibly brutal tools and techniques at your disposal. Developer Lesser Evil Games describe The Executioner in its Kickstarter campaign describes it as being “An RPG horror that puts you in the shoes of a man who tortures people for a living and has to fight to preserve his own waning sanity”, so this looks like a game that will seriously screw with your mind.
The Executioner — a Horror RPG about a monster in every man
Tempt your inner demons in this psychological horror RPG where you play as the Royal executioner on his endeavor to stay sane.
You’re the executioner, and there’s a criminal strapped to the chair in front of you. What do you do? Torture till you get a confession or risk angering your employer? Do you satisfy the crowd’s thirst for cruelty or grant a merciful death to the man you’re not even sure is guilty?
We at Lesser Evil Games are creating The Executioner to put such choices in front of the player. Starting with Ludum Dare 37 where we launched a bare-bones version of the game we’ve been hard at work turning it into what it was meant to be:
An RPG horror that puts you in the shoes of a man who tortures people for a living and has to fight to preserve his own waning sanity.
The Story
You are the new Royal Executioner. Your father, who you’ve succeeded on this post, was beheaded for treason by the mercy of His Majesty the King. He was a lucky man. Normally he would’ve been hanged, quartered and drawn.
Now it’s your job to get confessions from criminals and execute them in front of a crowd craving a bloody spectacle.
People see you as an agent of Death which makes you feared and despised in equal measure. Your own perception however due to a peculiar mutation is both very clear and bizarre — you can not only tell lies from the truth, but sense things normal people can’t.
It’s a useful but dangerous gift — people have been burned at the stake for smaller things.
And if that wasn’t enough the world around you is ripping at the seams. The King occupies the throne yet the borders are besieged by rival armies. Young science emerges out of medieval ignorance yet doctors still buy bodies supplied by the gallows (and you) to study their anatomy. And somewhere on the fringes of the city sacrifices are still being made to appease ancient gods.
If you listen closely there’s whispers all over the city: revolution is almost upon us.
Thу world is changing. Will it drag you with it, helpless and screaming? Will you break under the pressure of your grim duty? Or will you become an avatar of that great change yourself?
That’s up to you really.
Unless you share your father’s fate. Or go mad. Or kill yourself. Or get devoured by an angry mob because the quartering you performed didn’t have enough zest.
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