Don't Kill the Messenger Demo

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Released Jul 17, 2025by PolyB Games4 user reviews(75% of 4 Steam reviews)

Scavenge your way across the kingdom to deliver a message of impending doom to the king or die trying! Explore, loot, dodge, or even cook if you want. Choices matter and adaptation is necessary.

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About Don't Kill the Messenger Demo

Don't Kill the Messenger is a bullet hell roguelike dungeon crawler where you must traverse a kingdom and deliver a message of pending doom to the king without first dying yourself! 

Hazards, traps, monsters, and more are around every corner and even the king himself may have something to hide.

In This Demo

The Don't Kill the Messenger demo includes the outer farmland region of the kingdom. You'll encounter the first few enemies, many of the various randomized story events, dozens of loot items and curses, and two of the many bosses from the final game.

Features

  • Procedurally generated world maps for a unique path every play-through

  • Procedurally generated levels for unique encounters and experiences

  • Over 150 Unique Gear / Consumables / Curses to discover

  • Dozens of unique enemies with different behaviors and attack patterns

  • Discoverable world lore, side quests, and playable characters

  • Multiple possible story endings based on player activity

The Messenger

Dodging is your primary means of survival, but scavenge for resources and use your surroundings to turn the table on those that hinder your quest.

The Kingdom

Choose your path across the kingdom to best survive and discover the secrets of the world around you. Procedural levels and randomized events make every run unique from the last.

LOOT (and Curses)

Sometimes good things happen, and sometimes bad things happen. Good things can make you feel overpowered until you dive head first into that lake on accident while bad things can feel bad until you realize that deadly magical orbs chasing you are also deadly to monsters.

Game details

Don't Kill the Messenger Demo reviews

75% positive reviews all-time.

System requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 250 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM