June 8, 2025 - Hooded Horse is excited to share that Chronocle’s fantasy roguelite autobattler, He is Coming, will release into Steam Early Access on July 17, 2025! The news comes via a brand-new gameplay trailer that debuted during IGN Live.
Explore a procedurally generated fantasy world, collect magical artifacts, and prepare for the arrival of The Big Bad™ in this RPG autobattler where players set out with nothing more than a pointy stick and a death wish.
By day, heroes can freely explore the land in search of loot and safe havens, choosing to fight monsters or go around them. Things get more dangerous at night, with reduced vision, and the monsters will actively hunt the hero if spotted to try and run them down. Every three days, players will have to fight a boss and eventually… HE will come.
Highlights of the game include:
- Over 350 items to find and wield to create powerful combos.
- Over 30 powerful boss monsters who will hunt down the hero every three days.
- One Demon King who is coming (eventually).
- Asynchronous multiplayer – either die a hero, or live to become a villain in Kingmaker mode, where player builds get uploaded to the cloud to become enemies in other people’s runs.
- Two biomes to explore, loot, and fight in.
- Plenty of unlocks and achievements that form the meta-layer, offering players new strategies and starting conditions across future runs.
This is only the beginning, the developers plan to introduce even more items, monsters, biomes, and other content during the early access period.
The game will be localized from English into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
He is Coming will release on PC via Steam Early Access on July 17, 2025.
A press kit is available.
Press inquiries: press@hoodedhorse.com
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About Chronocle™
Chronocle is an indie game studio based in Linköping, Sweden comprised of a small but dedicated team with a passion for creating unique and engaging gaming experiences. The studio strives to make games that focus on fun, creativity, and pushing the limits of design and gameplay.
You can find out more via the official website, as well as Discord.