Pocketpair Publishing and developer WizMUD Games have unveiled Vision Quench, a surreal co-op dark fantasy looter shooter that drops players into the grimy underbelly of a consumer goods conglomerate’s “mega dungeon.” The game is currently in development for Windows PC and is targeting a 2026 release.
Vision Quench leans hard into weird, unsettling fantasy with a modern corporate nightmare twist. You’ll squad up online with up to four players and descend into a shifting labyrinth where ancient evils and contemporary horrors share the same hallways. The goal sounds simple on paper: survive long enough to climb your way to the top and claim what’s waiting there. In practice, the tower is built to mess with you.
At the center of the story is the Green Tower, where the last trace of a vanished bargain still lingers. Somewhere at the top sits the Sweepstakes Code, described as both a promise and a curse. You and three companions, brought together by what the game calls “the distant memory of a memory,” must push upward through surreal architecture, hidden designs, metaphysical phenomena, and all sorts of foul creatures determined to stop you.
Looting and power-building are baked into the climb, but Vision Quench frames it through a twisted “collect, consume, consecrate” loop. You’ll scavenge cursed commodities left behind in the waste, then decide what to do with them: perform rituals beneath a sickly green haze, or consume them to satisfy a thirst for special abilities. The tone is deliberately disorienting, like being trapped in an aspartame-soaked “nicemare” where the mission objective keeps slipping out of reach—until you remind yourself why you’re there: the code.
Every run aims to feel different. Each “vision quest” shifts compared to the last, with halls that change as you progress. Weapons and supplies matter, but they won’t carry you alone. You’ll also need to rely on an orb that can expose truths hidden beneath the surface—revealing what’s under tiles, helping decode riddles scrawled on bleeding walls, and even enabling reality-bending traversal like slipping beyond a psychic geofence. Meanwhile, an ominous presence known as the Entity watches for mistakes. It’s a shadowy creature that takes on different forms, and it will try to sever you from your quest if you don’t follow its rules.
Inventory management is also built around teamwork. One player can carry a shared backpack that keeps the group moving while collecting loot, with items quickly tossed in and out on the fly. Naturally, that makes the backpack carrier a priority target—and a priority to protect, whether for noble reasons or simply because nobody wants to lose the haul.
Status effects add another layer of co-op chaos. Players can become ill and spread it to others, forcing the group to pay attention to everyone’s condition even when everything feels dreamlike and unstable. Support is hands-on and throwable: you can toss bandages and fizzy drinks to help teammates, but the same mechanic can turn dangerous fast if someone starts hurling fireworks or cinderblocks at the wrong time.
Death doesn’t fully remove you from the action, either. If you go down, you become a Freakopop—a plastic toy version of yourself that living players can pick up and throw around. Even in that form, you can still contribute using “Freako Vision,” helping the team from the other side of the fight.
To round it out, Vision Quench promises a wide range of customization options meant to let players build the exact kind of bizarre adventurer this world demands, with choices ranging from wizard hats and chain gauntlets to more modern fashion touches.
With its co-op looter shooter structure, shifting dungeon design, ritual-driven power-ups, and a heavy dose of surreal corporate horror, Vision Quench is shaping up to be one of the more unusual dark fantasy co-op games on the horizon. If it lands as planned in 2026, it could be a standout for players looking for a squad-based action experience that’s equal parts creepy, comedic, and aggressively strange.
