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Press release:
Giebelstadt, Germany / Brighton, UK May 27th, 2021
Item 42 and HandyGames today announced with great joy and pride that they are working on a hellish four-player first-person co-op shooter PC game called “PERISH” (the game is coming to Steam sometime in the future).

Carve a gold-soaked path into the underworld up to Elysium and defeat the denizens of the realms of hell with cold steel. Spew molten golden bolts from the rotating barrels of your otherwordly pieces of handheld artillery. Gather the golden Danake and satisfy the demands of the Priests of Purgatory to earn your redemption!

All this is accompanied by an appropriately brutal Death-Metal soundtrack explicitly written for this game by the devs themselves!

Come and take it!

“PERISH” is a hellish four-player first-person Co-Op shooter with endless battles in order to ascend to the heavens. Face eternal doom and slay hordes of demonic creatures on the black sands of Purgatory and sell their gold-stained corpses to exsiccated priests in exchange for increasingly powerful melee and firearms. Overwhelm abominable bosses and use the spoils of war to gain entrance to Elysium, a place reserved for mortals related to the gods and heroes. Gold and Death are waiting.

The revenant creatures at the gates of hell are consumed by the same lust for gold that motivates your own craving. Succumb to these dark souls and lose all of your precious wealth. Start over! Death is Sisyphean!
Muster up to three friends and reap the tides of hellish hordes together. Deploy co-op-specific gear and gadgetry to support, defend and revive each other on the perilous path towards eternal oblivion.

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

– Caesar, Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Features:

1-4 player online co-op campaign sprawling across dilapidated temples, volcanic foundries, and ancient shipwrecks
A series of magnificent boss-fights against rare and unheard-of colossal deities from ancient Greek mythology
More than 10 handcrafted and ornate javelins, swords, bows, and guns each with its own unique and upgradeable offensive capabilities
Gratuitous, brutal, gold-soaked ranged and melee combat against enemies with distinctive battle behaviors
Morbid gladiators: enemies in PERISH are unforgiving, and as you travel further through Purgatory you will meet a slew of enemies inspired by Ancient Greek, Roman, and Christian mythologies
Post-launch support: free updates to the PERISH universe, with strange new enemies and even crazier weapons to play with

About Item 42:

Item 42 is headed by Regan and Bret Ware, two brothers from Brighton, UK striving to make unusual and inspiring gameworlds. The two also create top-tier enterprise real-time and VR content for clients as diverse as ISG to Spotify and Jaguar Land Rover.

About HandyGames:

HandyGames™ is part of the THQ Nordic and Embracer Group family and operates as an international publisher for mid-sized projects and developers for a worldwide audience.

The focus lies on creating and publishing games for current gen consoles like PlayStation®4, the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X or Nintendo Switch™ as well as games for Steam and many other PC gaming distribution channels. HandyGames™ produces titles for new innovative gaming platforms, for example VR (Virtual Reality) on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR, but also offers games of all kind of genres for Android smartphones and tablets, Apple iPhones, iPads and many other mobile and smart devices.

As a games company and that is truly passionate about gaming, we always strive for gameplay innovation. We received the German Developer Award as “Best German Game Studio” in 2015 and produced and published award-winning games of virtually every video gaming genre imaginable for a diverse range of audiences and gameplay styles. One example is “Townsmen VR” which was awarded with the German Games Award 2018 in the category “Best Game Design”.