Chained Beasts is a 1–4 player co-op gladiator roguelike
Featherweight Games released Chained Beasts on . Steam lists it for Windows and macOS, AppID 3569420. Players fight while chained together, and the store page treats the arena, the crowd, and your injuries as part of the run. The studio’s pages add PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Game Pass, and PC Game Pass.
- Studio
- Featherweight Games is both developer and publisher on Steam.
- Party size
- 1–4 players. The store lists single-player, online co-op, and shared or split screen.
- Launch clock
- , from the studio press release.
- Steam reviews
- The captured store page said Very Positive: 95% of 90 user reviews were positive.
- Steam price snapshot
- China-region listing: ¥79.00, shown at 35% off for ¥51.35. Check Steam for your currency.
- Genre line
- Steam’s genre field says Action. The description calls it a co-op gladiator roguelike.
What the store page says you do
Chained Beasts is a 1-4 player co-op gladiator roguelike. Fight chaotic battles chained to your friends. Use your chains or the arena to beat up foes in creative ways and win over the bloodthirsty crowd. Endure physical and mental injuries to defeat fearsome bosses and survive the day.
That is the Steam short description, copied here so the pitch stays in the studio’s words. The longer store text breaks the same idea into five beats:
- Gladiator combat uses weapons and the arena. The page names urns, walls of spikes, pits of snakes, and thrown weapons.
- The chain punishes a split party. Coordinate, and the page says you can trip enemies. Lose track of each other, and it says you can end up tangled on a pillar.
- Bosses show up as fame rises. Victory is described as a step toward Rome, freedom, or revenge. Named fights are collected on the bosses page.
- Wounds stay with you. The page gives a limp, a missing left eye, and hallucinations, then warns that pain potions can leave a worse affliction. Details and screenshot text are on the afflictions page.
- Runs also hand out skills, crowd favor, money, equipment, and new characters. The page says each run takes a different path.
A launch note on the same Steam page tells players to grab up to three friends. The feature essay says “gather four ferocious friends.” Together with the 1–4 player line, that is a party of four: you and three others.
Who it is for
The feature list is aimed at groups. Steam lists online co-op, shared or split screen co-op, shared or split screen, Remote Play Together, and a 4-player local tag written by players. Same-screen co-op has a hardware rule: at least one gamepad.
Steam also lists single-player, so a solo run is part of the store page. A GamesStarter review argues that the chain is at its best with other people, and that solo spacing is the weaker way to play. That argument is summarized on the co-op guide, where it stays marked as a review.
The captured screenshots are top-down arena fights with thick ink outlines. Player tags on the store page include Action Roguelike, Co-op, Hack and Slash, Top-Down, Roguelite, Local Co-Op, and 4 Player Local. Perma Death and Souls-like also appear in that tag list. They are player labels on the captured page, and this guide leaves them as labels.
The developers’ mature-content note says combat leaves visible blood sprays that stay in the environment. The arena screenshots show blood on the ground.
Where it launched
Steam’s own platform row in this capture is Windows and macOS. Linux is absent from that row. The studio game page displays logos for Steam, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Game Pass, and PC Game Pass beside the date 15 October 2026. The 15 September 2026 press release states the same lineup and adds the clock time. Platform notes, the chapter list, and the price snapshot are on the release page. PC specs and languages are on the system requirements page.
Store features on the captured page
- Single-player, online co-op, shared or split screen, and shared or split screen co-op
- Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Remote Play Together, and Family Sharing
- Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud
- Full controller support, with a gamepad marked as preferred, plus DualShock and DualSense support
- English full audio, and interface plus subtitles in eleven further languages
Cross-Platform Multiplayer is a Steam feature flag. The press release names the console and Game Pass versions, and it leaves shared matches between those versions and Steam unstated. Input details are on the controls page.
Read next
- Co-op guide Chain fights, hazards, day and night screens, and the crowd.
- Afflictions Night I injuries, a crowd skill, and the merchant’s prices.
- Bosses Beastmaster Barca, Goliath, and Praefectus.
- Release and price Launch time, platforms, and the yuan snapshot.
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