7Trials Is a Stylish Roguelite Action Game About a Death God Seeking Full-Time Employment
The game's Buddhist-inspired corporate underworld setting is a shell for pure action, and the studio says it will add post-ending content if players ask for it.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Newcore Games showed 7Trials at BIC2026, where it won an award in the general action category. The roguelite action game casts the player as a contract-worker death god fighting through 49 days to become a full-time employee. The studio says the story is not the focus; action comes first.
Newcore Games, the studio behind The Devil Within: Satgat, brought its new roguelite action game 7Trials to BIC2026, where it took an excellence award in the general action category. The game's key visual and its Buddhist death-themed motifs suggest a story-heavy title, but the studio says the opposite is true.
Players take the role of a contract-worker death god sent to a high school trapped between the real world and the underworld. The goal is to defeat seven bosses over seven chapters, one every seven days, totaling 49 days. The protagonist fights not for a noble cause but to become a full-time employee at the underworld company Yama Solutions.
The studio deliberately kept the story out of the game, saying that implementing character backstories and side stories broke player focus. Action is the priority, and the world building exists only to support it. The game is about 70 to 80 percent complete, with five of seven chapters done, and a 2026 release is planned.
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