The Pit is the place where the game’s heroes get a fresh start in life!  It’s basically what you and I know more commonly as an arena. Pit People's story starts off right as the giant bear from space shattered the planet…

Through the chaos, Horatio, Pipistrella, Yosef, Sofia, and Gluten have found each other. They’ve formed a team to conquer each untimely obstacle.

After two closed betas in September and October, The Behemot continued development on Pit People with tons of feedback from the gaming community. It was the first time the devs had a closed beta for two platforms in the same year!

Now, they’re going for their next milestone, which is having their first game ever in Xbox One Game Preview AND Steam Early Access starting January 13, 2017.

After implementing our changes post-beta, holding onto the game in its current state just feels weird. The core gameplay is complete and we’ll be adding content until the full version is released. We feel that Pit People is at a point where we’ll confidently say there’s more than enough fun, content, variety, value and play-time to keep someone happy. We won’t sell something unless it meets these standards, so it definitely seems like it is time!  This will also be a good opportunity to monitor the balance in the game and continue getting feedback from the gaming community as we finish up!

The Pit People Early Access experience will include a sizeable chunk of the Story mission, plus access to several world maps (yes, there are more than one!), quests, Unfair Challenge against the AI, and Versus mode. The game can be experienced as a single player or two-player cooperative mode. Additionally, versus can be played with up to 4 people in 2v2. All multiplayer modes can be played locally or online!

We’ll be continuing development throughout Early Access which means things like more quests, collectible items, story missions, world maps and other polish will be worked on--Except this time you can be right there with us!

As a thank you to those who support our first ever early access release and in appreciation for playing the game early during its development stages, there will be a $5 discount off the full release price! Pit People will be a low $15 during Early Access on both platforms!! Once the game has made its full release, the price point will be $20. Of course, if you purchase it during Early Access the game will unlock all the features once the full release comes out and you keep all of your save data.

The Xbox One version and Steam version are separate purchases and cross-platform between the two are not supported.

Master the destiny of a full cast of tragically unique heroes as you plot a course across an apocalyptic wonderland!

Dogged at every step by a mysterious and power-hungry narrator (Will Stamper, "BattleBlock Theater"), you'll need to rally your troops and steel your wits if you hope to survive a hostile world filled with sinister robots, deadly vampires and brutally adorable cupcake people!

Pit People is a strategic game of positioning with single player story mode, two player co-op story mode, and up to four players for 2v2 in the Arena.