Power has rules. Failure has a price.
Live a life. Keep a secret. Pay for what you break. A superhero world that remembers what you did.
Consequences of Failure is an open-world superhero game where you live a whole life: a home, a job, a dog, and a secret if you need one. Powered people share the streets with everyone else, the army shows up when they fight, and anything that breaks stays broken. Real musicians and real businesses are moving in, so the radio, the billboards and the shops belong to real people.
Watch the VAN-BOT run 0:44In development Earlier game capture
People make the world
Music, shops, comedy and comic worlds. Meet the people building Consequences of Failure with us.
In the game Tru Foe: his music and his likeness
Laron · Khadijah Tomorrow (AI artist) · Danielle (R&B singer)
In the game Hey You’re Hired (jobs) · MyFieldTime (contractors) · Directors Palette (AI)
LogNog (logs) · All Star Barber (vendor) · Dee (vendor)
Spots open at launch
Scott · Raige Saphire
Make something of your own? Ask Machine King for a creator invite, then introduce yourself.
A whole world to live in
New streets. Different rules. A story in every country. Choose somewhere and meet the world beyond your doorstep.
Tap a country to explore. Small countries have a dot; you can also choose any country by name.
Choose a country for its people, its rules and its most wanted.
Find a place to begin.
Choose a city on the map or by name.
Discover your next neighbourhood.
A fictional world in development. Some places are still being built. Map outlines: Natural Earth.
Earlier game footage.
Year One · The outbreak
VanBot is a Vaughan Galloway creation. The outbreak is Year One.
Galloway has money, influence and machines. He has no superpowers. One of his creations is loose — and this is where its story begins.
Watch VanBot moveLives beyond the headlines
From finding tonight’s shelter to owning the skyline. Every country holds more than one kind of life. Here are four people to meet.
Destitute · Russia
A warm meal and a safe place to sleep come first.
Working class · China
A shift to finish, rent to cover, and a life beyond work.
Middle class · Canada
A steady job, a home of her own, and plans for tomorrow.
Wealthy · Monaco
A home by the sea, with room to choose what comes next.
Meet four people from our world.
01 The world
Every city has its jobs, its police and an army down the road. Most people have no powers, and you don't need them to matter.
If someone sees you change into your costume, they remember. Break a storefront and it's still broken tomorrow. The news covers what happens, including what you did.
More places to make a life
Places already standing, and the ones coming next. Each built to have a purpose, from a quiet errand to the end of a chase.
02 What you do
SARGE on the range · Earlier game footage
A trained operative, a rifle, and a target. No superpowers needed.
Explore the guns and attachments →Courier shifts today. The city has its own job board.
Change where nobody's looking, or someone will know.
Punch, guard, grab, clinch. Timing wins, not button-mashing.
Walls, forts and storefronts come down and stay down.
Adopt two, train them, take them home after a bad day.
The city learns your name, for better or worse.
Money, influence and hired power
Meet two of America’s biggest oligarchs.
LONGHORN
Galloway Group. A compound out in Texas. FIST on his payroll.
And VanBot — the creation that broke loose.
Follow VanBot’s story →THE DEALER
Sapphire Holdings. DEC-52 at his side.
His power is money, companies and the people he can put to work.
Actions have consequences
A crime seen is a crime someone can report. Wanted stars track the heat. Your country’s laws and the threat you pose decide who comes next.
Patrols respond, look for the suspect and give orders.
Tactical police and federal forces can join the pursuit.
The army and sanctioned powered fighters can be called in where the country allows it.
Cuffs, booking, property held as evidence, and the terms of your release. Escaping custody adds to the heat.
The courthouse is part of the road ahead. A full court hearing is not playable yet.
03 See it in motion
Real scenes from the game. See the action, then explore the equipment behind it.
SARGE on the range · Earlier game footage
At the range
Watch SARGE step into his aim and fire. The gun is only the beginning — choose the separate attachments that fit your kit.
Vehicles
Drive the utility van, stop, press T. VAN-BOT stands up with a blade, walks the block, chops through a parked car and a house wall, then folds back into a van and drives off.
Breakable world
Walls, storefronts, forts and piers are built from pieces that really break. Tear a hole in a raider fort's scrap wall, save, come back later: the hole is still there.
Secret identity
Clock in as a courier in Kampala. A car flips at the crossing: slip away, change where nobody's looking, lift it off the driver, and get back before the depot notices. Change in front of a coworker and she knows. Nobody else does.
War
Tanks, gunships, jets and walkers share the streets with you. Air bases, naval yards and garrisons are on the map, and their walls come down like everything else.
Dogs
Adopt two from the kennel. Rex and Juno walk at heel, stay, keep quiet, come running, and bark at strangers when you tell them to speak. After a bad day, a cuddle at home actually helps.
Ascendants
Ascendants take to the air and throw lightning and heat rays. You can play one. You don't have to.
Weapons
Take the RG-2 railgun from the armory, hold to charge, let go. The shot goes straight through a wooden wall and into whatever is behind it.
Travel
Climb the airstairs, find seat 2A, and watch the takeoff out the window. The crew is on board. So are you.
Billboards and radio
Walk past a billboard for a real job board, a real storyboard app and a real artist's new single. Get in a car and turn on the radio.
04 Who it's for
No paid power. No loot boxes. Every paid spot in the world is labelled.
Make something? Bring it with you.
Music on the radio. Laughter from a club. Your shop around the corner. A comic universe crossing into ours. Find your way in.
Your stage. A whole new crowd.
Find your place →MusiciansYour song. Their car radio.
Find your place →Vendors & shopsA real business. A new neighbourhood.
Find your place →Comic book creatorsThe Crossing starts with your character.
Find your place →06 Watch
Four channels: trailers, the devlog, the news from inside the game, and the music. KMK 9 is the news station on THE SIGNAL network.
Now on CH 2 / Devlog
It drives down the street, stands up and swings a blade. Captured in the game.
THE SIGNAL network
The field crew has a reporter, a camera operator and a van. Their camera captures events in the world; the newsroom keeps an archive of the footage.
Country rules shape what KMK 9 can broadcast. The station belongs to THE SIGNAL, the world’s network for news, radio, TV and advertising.
Explore the countries behind the headlines →The actual models from the game. Choose the scope, sight or silencer that suits you.
Compact rifle · 5.56x45mm
Rare rail weapon · rail
Pump shotgun · 12 gauge
Pistol · 9x19mm
Game models shown separately, not gameplay. Sizes are adjusted to show each model clearly.
Explore the armoryDiscover the many faces of power. Find the rank, range and available moves for each power.
Biological · Superhuman
Spit a gob of acid that eats through armour plates and locks, and keeps burning for 5 s.
Cosmic · Superhuman
Project a cone of energy: spread it wide, focus it into a longer jet, fire three bursts, or leave a damaging patch.
Elemental · Exceptional
Tap for a small cold blast, hold for a bigger one, split it into three, or leave it as a proximity mine.
Force · Superhuman
Summon a hard-force turret as one heavy unit, a short-lived swarm, a defensive line, or a battery that detonates when dismissed.
Psionic · Superhuman
See the rank and power family of everyone in sight as a coloured aura.
Tech · Superhuman
Many small drones that do not last long.
The powered and the ordinary
Hundreds of powers. A world full of people who have none. The difference changes every fight.
Find your powers
From an ordinary person to a force that can crack a world.
An ordinary person
Soldier, cop, athlete: training and gear
The best a human body can be
Past human: the experiment worked
Holes a brick wall, shrugs off bullets
Splits rock; top of the street-level world
Craters rock
Breaks a hill
Levels a mountain
Cracks a world
Your origin changes what you are — and what it takes to recover.
No powers. Everything they can do, they learned.
Something was done to a human body, and it took.
The power is equipment. Take it off and they are a person.
Changed at the root. The body itself is different.
The power did not come from anywhere a scan can find.
A machine, whatever else it also is.
Two things sharing one body.
Not from here, and not built like anything that is.
Nobody has established what they are. Including them.
Strength, speed and the body itself.
Fire, frost, earth and storms.
Shields, blasts and solid constructs.
The mind, senses and unseen influence.
Gravity, space and forces beyond Earth.
Built, carried and engineered.
07 Coming later
A companion site is on the way: your character, the news and the map, from any browser. None of it is live yet. This is what we're building toward.
Create, edit and view your character outside the game. Same character in the game or out of it.
The world's own news. When something big happens in the world, The Signal covers it.
The whole map in your browser: cities, bases and who holds what. Look before you drop in.
Open jobs, contracts and missions, posted from inside the world. Pick one before you log in.
A slice of the game that runs right in the browser. No install.
Your hometown. Your characters.
The first wave has room for 25 beta testers, plus founders and launch partners. When it’s full, join the waiting list.
Get an invite code from Machine King.
Sign up and describe your characters. You type their names so we spell them right.
After you sign up, Machine King calls you to talk your characters through. We never call first: you submit your signup and descriptions before the call.
Your characters start in your hometown’s city, anywhere in the world.
These are the three big groups above civilians. They describe your character’s kind, separate from the ten ranks on the Lefevre scale, where Demigod is rank 7.
Beta testers get 2 characters. Founders and launch partners get 3.
Join the betaSign-up isn’t open yet. Ask Machine King for your invite code.
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There's no store page yet. When it opens, it'll be right here, and beta testers hear first.
