One life per hero. A family that remembers.

The Hero's Legacy is a hardcore co-op action RPG in pixel art: a loot-driven hack and slash with bullet-hell bosses and permadeath. Play solo, host your friends online, or play with up to 4 players on one couch in local split-screen co-op. Chase uniques and 6-link gear, and build your hero on a huge passive tree. When a hero falls, they stay fallen. Your family keeps its story, its skills, its Family Bank and its Legacy, and the next hero of that class starts stronger.

Play your way

• Fully offline solo: no internet needed.

• Host a world for your friends through Steam, or on your local network.

• Join public worlds, or run your own dedicated server for bigger groups.

• Up to 4 players on one couch, shared or split screen, on top of any of them.

Loot worth dying for

• Loot drops on the ground with labels and beams. A loot filter with presets, colours and sounds hides the junk.

• Rare gear with tiered affixes, uniques, and graded endgame drops: Kindled, Blazing and Radiant.

• Gear sets with build-changing bonuses, from levelling to the endgame.

• Up to 6 linked sockets: slot skill runes and the sigils that change how they work.

• Crafting orbs to reroll, add, remove and lock affixes, and the Twinning Glass: a jackpot orb that makes an exact copy of your best item. Know when to stop.

• Armour, Evasion or Energy Shield: every build picks its defence.

Build anything

• 12 classes at launch. Start with 4, unlock the rest through your heroes' deeds.

• A huge passive tree with keystones that change how you play, like Spark Reflex: your crits cast the skills socketed in the tree. Built for theorycrafters.

• Lodestones: stones you set into the tree for extra stats. Craft them with orbs, or find a Relic that changes the nodes around it.

• Skill runes for every style: ring a temple bell, spin through a pack, raise a legion of bones, walk as a living pyre.

Dodge it together

• Every boss has its own bullet-hell patterns: rings, spirals, aimed volleys and safe gaps you have to find.

• Dragons and huge world bosses roam the high-level lands. Everyone who fights them gets their own loot.

• Heavy hits are telegraphed, and the death screen tells you what killed you.

One life. The family keeps the rest.

• Every hero is hardcore. A fallen hero loses what they carried.

• The town cairn remembers every hero: who they were, what killed them and what they wore.

• Your family's story progress, Family Bank, gold and skills are never lost.

• Each fall grows your class Legacy, and the next hero of that class starts stronger.

The endgame

• Ember Rifts that keep getting harder, with their own bosses and Steam leaderboards for every class.

• A pinnacle fight waiting at the very top.

Between the fights

• A main story and side deeds.

• Woodcutting, mining, fishing, cooking, crafting, herblore and farming: levelled by your family, never lost on death.

• Build your own home, grow crops, cook meals, keep animals and explore dungeons.