The Underground King

DRIVE

• Driver Types: Based on classic RPG archtypes, we reflavored their background and personality to belong in our world. Hobo (Fighter), Urchins (Rogue), Biker (Paladin), etc. Each driver comes with a unique name, backstory, body type, stats, and a random skill.
  
• Driver Skills: Each driver comes with their own activatable ability. These are physic-based actions that will help you surpass obstacles, damage enemies, navigate the track, etc.
  
• Vehicle Types: Vehicles have from 1 up to 4 seats for drivers and proportional bonuses depending on the seat count. Like the drivers, each car comes with a unique identity, random paint job, and random stats.
  
• Team Management: You are able to assemble multiple teams composed of one vehicle and at least one driver. You can match and sort different combinations to surpass specific challenges (such as building a team to survive a meteor shower).

DEFEAT

• Race Tracks: Procedurally generated terrain designed to challenge you in unique ways. Here are some examples:
  
  • The Countryside: (Currently implemented) Race in a dangerous obstacle course against other enemy teams.
    
  • Freefall: (In development) All teams fall from a plane. Whoever hits the ground first, wins!
    
  • Manhunt: (In development) Somebody is hunting the contestants. Be the last survivor or become the hunter, to claim the prize.
    
  • Tug-o-war: (In development) One chain, two opposing cars. Pull your weight or get dragged down.
    
  • Others: We have more types planned, thematic to classic adventure tropes, such as tomb raiding, fighting armies of orcs, slay the dragon, etc.
  
  
• Boss Tracks: (In development) Occasionally, you can challenge a Boss in a more difficult version of a normal race track. They might drop unique Boss Set items, which when completed, will grant you special effects and high stats.
  
• Obstacles & Weather: Obstacles are designed to hinder you but you can also use them to damage / slow your enemies. The weather influences your speed and acceleration and some spawn dangers (such as lightning bolts, meteor showers, etc.).
  
• Team vehicles are physical objects that move throughout the level. They can collide with each other, activate traps, break obstacles into pieces, etc.
  
• Domino effects can occur, adding to the chaotic fun that is physics-based gameplay! That goes double for EXPLOSIONS!

LOOT

• Text Adventures (Happenings): Adventures scattered throughout the island for your drivers to explore. Rewards await for those who seek them!
  
• Shop Opportunities: Wandering merchants will offer to buy or sell things from you. Some will ask for specific item types while others for are only interested in quality.
  
• Loot & Rarities: We have the roguelike procedurally generated loot, which can drop in a variety of rarities.
  
• Traits: Items, drivers and vehicles come with their own set of traits. These either add bonus stats or simple percent-based effects (such as "5% chance for double-damage). We have added a few already and aim to add a whole lot more during Early Access.

REPEAT

• World Laws: 30+ unique effects that change the game mechanics in a fun & rewarding way.
  
• New Week: Each week, the island changes, with different Weather, Happenings, Shops, and Racing Tracks. A new World Law will take effect and influence your experience. This stacks with any permanent laws you accumulated from previous sessions (if any).
  
• Win a game: Survive for 30 in-game days. For each playthrough survived, you unlock a permanent World Law that will influence your next plays. World Laws are stackable, so you can have multiple at once (if you can keep up a winning streak that is).
  
• Lose a game: By reaching 0 Coin or 0 Fame, you will choose 1 driver, lose a previous World Law and receive a new one, for your next playthrough. Hey ho!