HyperMall: Unlimited Violence
A downloadable CONSUMER PRODUCT
Do you hate your boss? Like, REALLY hate your boss?
"SOME OF THE FUNNIEST RPG WRITING I'VE SEEN. EMBRACE MURDER" - Luke Gearing, ACID DEATH FANTASY
"HyperMall is fucked, unrelenting, hilarious, vivid, freespirited, righteous, and evil. Well worth your time, well worth your money." - Gormengeist, GREED
WHAT AM I BUYING?
A feature complete PDF version of HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE + The Tragic & Inevitable Death Of A Champion Of Industry (Starting Adventure) + all future updates + my undying loyalty. YOU'RE GETTING ALL OF THIS FOR LESS THAN THE FINAL PRODUCT
WHAT'S THAT?
HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE is a mission-based corpo murder TTRPG about assassinating the rich and famous. Enter the consumerist hellscape of THE HYPERMALL where death is cheap and life is cheaper. HM:UV is an unhinged gonzo meatpunk sci-fi dystopia buzzword game for financial geniuses.
You're a CONTRACTOR for SLAUGHTR™ - The Assassination App - and your job is to Murder Your Target Without Dying. You're already in debt. You can't afford unnecessary Resurrections when rent is due, and you absolutely do not have health insurance. GET TO WORK.
Become a mutated killing machine, a psychic murderer, or a cold blooded cyber criminal. Try your best to make ends meet. Die a lot. Kill cops. Get paid.
HM:UV is inspired by Cruelty Squad, Troika!, System Shock, Prey (2017), PbtA, working at a job, cyberpunk fiction, and our contemporary toiletworld where everything is a subscription and no one is free.
WHAT FEATURES DO IT GOT?
- 36 UNIQUE CONTRACTOR BACKGROUNDS
- 36 MUTATIONS
- 36+ PSIONIC POWERS
- 36 RESURRECTION QUIRKS - NO TWO RESURRECTIONS ARE EVER THE SAME
- 160 PAGES OF THE RAWEST SHIT YOU'VE EVER SEEN
- AN INNOVATIVE d6 DICE POOL SYSTEM THAT'S EASY TO LEARN AND EXCITING TO USE. CRITS WHEN YOU ROLL 666.
- 3 TYPES OF COMBAT, JUST FOR YOU: REGULAR, SOCIAL, & FINANCIAL
- EXTREMELY COOL ART BY MYSELF AND BRYTON J. SWAN (@DapperGamelord on Twitter)
- An in-depth CONTRACT GENERATION SYSTEM that allows GMs to come up with unique and complex missions with zero prep.
- 36 ASSASSINATION TARGETS, including CEOs, PSIONIC FREAKS, INFLUENCERS, and DRACULA
- A whole bunch of d66 lists for Contract Generation, such as: LOCATION, SECURITY, COMPLICATIONS, SECRETS, and ASSASSINATION METHODS. All of the above influences how much you get paid and how hard it'll be to get the job done. They're VERY COOL.
- GEAR, GUNS, AND MECHS
- STATS FOR 36 MONSTERS AND GOONS
- 7 PREMADE CONTRACTORS
- ABSOLUTELY NO AI BULLSHIT
"DUDE, THIS IS FUCKED. THIS IS RAW." - EVERYONE
WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT RESURRECTION?
Years ago, the American Consumer's Federation's top scientists determined that the Afterlife is REAL and HORRIBLE. Nothing but EVERLASTING TORTURE awaits the dead in THE DEATH DIMENSION, no matter what.
So they built the RESURRECTION MATRIX to keep us SAFE. When you die in the HyperMall, you are reborn in a fresh new body, assuming you can pay for it. It's great because if you get sick, you can just kill yourself and you'll be cured. No more sick days! Hooray!
THAT'S A PROBLEM. I THOUGHT YOU SAID WE WERE KILLING PEOPLE.
Listen, pal, you're gonna have to figure it out. The Client ain't paying for a Target that ain't dead. Hack the Res Matrix, take 'em somewhere it doesn't reach, open a psychic portal to the Death Dimension, I don't care. Just stop complaining and do your job, or you'll be hearing from HR.
WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM UPDATES?
More and better art, better layout, gameplay tweaks, balance, and patch notes. I have a professional editor(!) working tirelessly to make HM:UV the best game it possibly can be.
Updates will be MONTHLY. As mentioned above, HyperMall: Unlimited Violence is FEATURE COMPLETE. You can and should play it in its current state. Updates are only going to make it better and cooler.
STRETCH GOALS
If we meet our funding goals, I'll be able to make DLC, which is already sketched out and partially written. The specifics of what will go into each piece of DLC are subject to change.
As updates roll out and DLCs are completed, the price for HM:UV will undergo minor inflation. If you BUY NOW you'll have access to the base game and DLC for just 15 smackaroos.
$666.69 - DLC1 "HYPERMALL: FREAKSHIT CATALOGUE" WE DID IT
- 36 NEW CCONTRACTOR BACKGROUNDS INCLUDING: "SINGLE MOM WHO WORKS TWO JOBS," "HUMAN ORTOLAN," AND "SPINE WARLOCK"
- +MORE GEAR
$2,000.69 - DLC2 "HYPERMALL: POSTHUMAN BLUES" WE DID IT
- EXPANDED MECH COMBAT RULES
- 36 ALL NEW MECHS
- MECH GEAR
- +MORE
$5,000.00 - DLC3 "HYPERMALL: ORION KILLERS" WE DID IT
- CHOSEN BY COMMUNITY VOTE.
- A CAMPAIGN OF LINKED CONTRACTS ABOUT KILLING A DEMIGOD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM.
- "A beautiful man with eyes of light and a voice that flays flesh has appeared in the HyperMall. Of course somebody wants him dead."
- "When everyone in the HyperMall starts to dream of this stranger and his eyes of light after you put him in the ground, it becomes clear that there's something more going on than just some charismatic weirdo with psychic powers playing God."
- Prophet Margins
- Heaven's Detritus
- Congenital Disease in the Heart of the American Dream
WHY EARLY ACCESS?
A dark spirit is forcing me to make HM:UV as amazing and perfect as possible and I can only do that with your support. You, as a consumer, pay less and get your hands on it RIGHT NOW + all updates. I, as the lowly game designer, get to pay rent and, depending on funding, commission artists. A potential physical release will depend on a future crowdfunding campaign.
IS THIS GAME KID FRIENDLY?
No lol
WHAT ELSE DO I GOTTA KNOW?
The contents, project length, layout, art, and mechanics are subject to change as time goes on and the project evolves. Please let me know in the comments below if you notice typos (impossible, I am infallible) or have feedback (extremely appreciated).
Purchase
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INFINITE BENEVOLENCE OF CAPITAL
IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER LIKE ME AND CASH IS TIGHT, TAKE ONE OF THESE.
EACH SALE ADDS ANOTHER COPY FOR FREELOADING ECONOMIC PARASITES WHOEVER WANTS IT.
YOU GET ALL THE SHIT YOU'D NORMALLY GET.
IF YOU TAKE A COPY, PLEASE RATE AND COMMENT. IT PLEASES THE ALGORITHM.
Development log
- APRIL UPDATE 1.315 days ago
- HyperMall: Unlimited Violence Online Contractor Sheet18 days ago
- APRIL FOOL25 days ago
- DLC 3 VOTE VOTE VOTE49 days ago
- POSTHUMAN BLUES REAL54 days ago
- MARCH UPDATE 1.257 days ago
- COME PLAY HMUV W/ ME AT BREAKOUT CON59 days ago
- WE BEAT LANCER (NOT CLICKBAIT)62 days ago
Comments
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okay upon further thought i have one bad thing to say about this game: it feels kinda man centric. there are a few classes that have hate women as a passion but no hates men, ya know? I get wanting to avoid being misogynistic, but there are as many women that are weird about capitalism as there men. I saw the freak shit catalog is going to have a mom contract killing as a side gig class, so that's nice, hope there's more like that.
otherwise, great game, no notes
It's something I'm aware of and actively working on
DUDE, THIS IS FUCKED. THIS IS RAW.
EVERYONE SAYS THIS, CONTRACTOR
Random question: what would happen if the HyperMall and Alpha Complex came into contact with one another?
they would kiss
Really? I figured they'd immediately go to war while accusing one another of being Communist.
kill everyone now
all six billion of them, even
You should commission someone to make a D66 die and sell it
This is a repost of my 5 star review
"This is one of those few games, like GREED, like Troika in the sense that it just causes an outpouring of creativity for everyone at the table. The writing is immaculate to deliver a unified tone of the gross, the unfettered and the deeply inhuman,
If you want a good time, buy this game and buy it again."
THANK YOU, CITIZEN. YOU WILL BE SPARED.
If i were to write down every time this book make me laugh id find the itch.io comment limit
YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR DAILY JOY QUOTA. PLEASE REPORT TO HUMAN RESOURCES FOR REEDUCATION.
I NOW UNDERSTAND TRUE [love], 10/10.*
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I MISSED OUT ON A FREE COPY BUT I'LL BUY ONE WHEN I GET PAID
I HAVE ACQUIRED A FREE COPY I AM READY TO TORMENT MY
FRIENDSCOLLEAGUESTHEY WILL UNDERSTAND PAIN
I ACQUIRED A FREE COPY BUT NOW I AM GIVING YOU MONEY IN PREPARATION FOR EXPOSING MY PLAYERS TO THEIR FIRST TARGET: A BASEBALL PLAYER WHOSE CHAOS GRAND SLAM THREATENS THE NEW FUNKCHUNKOPOP™ GIGAFACTORY
HE MUST BE DEFEATED, CITIZEN. OUR SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND IT.
I purchased this CONSUMER PRODUCT to offset the ravenous parasites and keep the manufacturer in business. I have distributed fifteen copies laced with hyperillegal stimulants to endangered species and as such have voided the warranty. I love capitalism, glory to the dollar value.
FUCK THEM ENDANGERED SPECIES
This absolute banger of a game was missing an online character sheet, so I made one, with Contract tracker so your players know where and how they lost money, and "automated" hit locations because discord bots hate d66s
I'M BLOWN AWAY, THIS IS STELLAR WORK.
HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE is type 3 fun. Bad things will happen to your character. You will not be able to explain any of it to your mother without making her question your life choices. Spending debt is weird and sad and genuinely makes me want to hit things until they die (positive), and if that sentence doesn't make any sense to you, please play the game I promise you just need context.
THIS IS VERY KIND EVERYONE SHOULD CHECK OUT SHOUTING CROW'S GAMES THEY ARE VERY GOOD
PRAISE BE TO THE CONSUMER!
HALLOWED IS ITS MAW
This game watered my crops, shot the corpos on my tail, gave me multiple physical and neurological mutations(probably positive), and I haven't even read it yet. Bitchin game!
THANK YOU. GET BACK TO WORK.
Oh right I should drop this bitchass here
*EXTREMELY CORRECT BUZZER NOISE*
Based
I regret buying this. 10/10 would give my money again
(i love it )
BUYER PROTECTIONS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR YOUR SAFETY. NO REFUNDS.
I HAD TO SELL A KIDNEY TO BUY THIS (I claimed a community copy thank you so much I love you sir you deserve the world best of lucks with everything)
HUNTER-KILLER BIODRONES HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO YOUR LOCATION, PLEASE ASSUME THE POSITION
Thanks for you're product.
Who should I email or otherwise smesssage if I were to make some piece of media talking about how emotionally invested I am in this game I downloaded 3 minutes ago?
you can find me on twitter @ratbastardgames
I really do need to make a proper business email
gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme. if you read this you have to buy it, even if you already have a copy, even if you have no money, even if you're late to your dog's warehouse logistics management certification graduation. buying as soon as i have the dough and as soon as i get my hustle on, but not being able to buy it for lack of expendable money means i'm already playing!
community (free) copies go up pretty regularly!
I'll be keeping my eye out for sure! Not that I'm gonna hold out for free stuff, you deserve the moolah. I'm here after watching the dragonkid vid, probably like many people here and I need to get my grimy paws on this asap, even if I don't get to run it
Hey there. Odd question soz, but is there anywhere I can see the options that weren't voted on for the third dlc. I might like to at some point homebrew something based on the unselected choices
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cHXr8g4-Oz4nnuLkYm1au7GHJYzZCnfuo30bOZ2tgd4/edi...
Here you go! If you use em for something, let me know!
It's looking like the sheet is only saying 'responses are closed' soz
try it now. It'll probably let you vote lol
Fuck capitalism and fuck your sale. Im buying this full price IDIOT.
You have been reported to the Sale Enforcement Authority. Please comply.
I declare! This Consumer Product™ is choice! I simply must put in the media-troph for the young ones to nibble!
*EXTREMELY LOUD BUZZER NOISE*
I am not entirely sure how I got here but boy am I here. In further news I have decided to subject my friends to this.
HAVE A GOOD TIME, CITIZEN
I absolutely love this but could we please have a version with bookmarks
That's on the horizon. I agree, it's really annoying to navigate as is.
Also planning to add an index of relevant tables at the end of the book. We'll see how that goes, but definitely getting bookmarks.
brilliant and fun (and peak Cruelty Squad or whatever that aesthetic could be called) and I utterly adore the art, true creative vomit I love it
it's clearly so thoughtfully done, great work dude
THANK YOU, CITIZEN. YOU WILL RECEIVE A 10 MINUTE HEAD START.
Absolutely cannot wait to run this, looks sick as hell!
THANK YOU, CITIZEN. YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS HAVE BEEN LOGGED AND YOU HAVE BEEN DOCKED FIFTEEN (15) MINUTES PAY FOR TIME THEFT. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
このゲームはとてもいいです！がんばってね
Thank you!
Game looks great, I just wish it cost more.
You're absolutely right. I should put it on negative sale.
Took a good read through of this upon purchasing, and to be honest this is as close as it gets to being the TTRPG equivalent of a Machine Girl album in the best way possible - down to the chaotic visuals and the raw energy within the prose (I would recommend blasting their music while reading it)
Also great to know that I'm not the only one who loves the concept of critting on triple 6's!
11/10 would absolutely go insane playing this
THANK YOU, CITIZEN. YOUR KIND WORDS HAVE ENTITLED YOU TO 10% OFF ON SELECT MENU ITEMS AT PARTICIPATING FAST FOOD RETAILERS. SOME CONDITIONS APPLY.
Listen, if the players don't all kill themselves after playing this game you're doing it wrong. The whole point is for them to kill themselves. To confirm the meritocracy the blood has to look like it's on their hands. Or you could get impatient and enact fascism to kill them and yourself. Doesn't matter much either way. The lolcows are all out of milk and there's nothing left but emptiness.
THANK YOU, CITIZEN. YOU GET IT.
Ran a game with 5
playersindependent contractors to kill a baseball star, the creative freedom this game allows in figuring out how to permanently kill your targets leads to players finding the absolute funniest ways they can accomplish their goal. Amazing work so far, and I'm loving the improvements to the rules you've been working on! Hoping you can dethrone Lancer once more!With your help, Citizen, we will reclaim the Mandate of Heaven and enact The Plan.
Thank you so much. Your stream was awesome!
I have a couple questions, is it fine if I share the PDF with friends for playing the game, and do you have plans for a physical edition when it’s more developed?
Oh yeah, you can totally share it with your friends. I have no problem with that. I hope you have fun!
We do have plans for a kickstarter for a physical edition, starting sometime Summer 2024. I'll be posting more info about it soon!
I HATE BEING POOR
citizen have you considered simply hustling
Just read through most of it, this game is beautiful and so well detailed, the text is both haunting, funny and full of personality. The classes made me laugh, the mechanics made me think and the setting made me shiver, beautiful.
Thank you, that's really kind
THANK YOU KINDLY FOR THE FOLLOW
Thanks aside, I was howling reading this, some of the funniest and most bitter writing I've read in a while. Not super sure how it runs, but as an an inspirational text for your next cyberpunk corpo-horror game, it's gorgeous.
ANY chance of 3rd Party licensing?
if by 3rd party licensing you mean writing stuff compatible with HM:UV, yeah absolutely go for it.
I'm going to be releasing an SRD for the "Rat System" which is what HyperMall uses soon
If you like the RPG world-building of Paranoia, but also enjoy smoking BathSalts, this is The Product™ for you.
THANK YOU, CIVILIAN
E N J O Y
It's good buy it
THANK YOU, CITIZEN
great to see you on the front page
i must defeat lancer in the marketplace of ideas
fucking hah. here comes a chunk of my tax return
my most powerful soldier, thank you
Hypermall hitting budgets? It's more likely than you think! Congratulations, couldn't have happened to a better game.
THANK YOU OFFICER