Hera's Revenge

The opportunity

Raising €450K to finish and launch

€500K total to build and bring Hera's Revenge to market, with €50K already invested. It funds development through a full launch on PC, then Nintendo Switch and PlayStation, with go-to-market included.

€450K sought

Of a €500K total that now includes the full go-to-market, not just development. €50K already in from founder and angel.

In development since 2020

Concept art, narrative and a Game Design Document in place, with the core systems already running in engine.

Live on Steam

Public page with 35 wishlists and counting, before the creator campaign has even started.

1.7M creator reach

Three creators on Hera, Zeus and Gaia, plus a 30+ creator network ready to activate at launch.

Full budget, milestones, use of funds and go-to-market plan below.

Sales plan

How we sell, and how many

Premium at €19.99 · net revenue per copy ≈ €11.6 after platform fee, VAT and refunds. Scenarios anchored to genre comparables, not guarantees.

The plan

Wishlist build-up (now to launch)Steam page live · demo at Steam Next Fest · target 10K wishlists at Next Fest, 50K at launch

Creator push30+ creator network from Blend In + the three character creators (1.7M combined audience)

Launch on PC (Steam)premium €19.99 · launch discount 10% · festivals and showcases around release

Consoles + long tailNintendo Switch and PlayStation after PC · seasonal sales · regional pricing · DLC and saga sequels extend the tail

Projected copies · first 12 months

Scenario	Copies	Net revenue
Break-even	43,000	≈ €500K
Base	75,000	≈ €870K
Optimistic	200,000	≈ €2.3M

The minimum scenario is break-even: about 43,000 copies recover the full €500K budget within year one. Genre reference: Hollow Knight 3.5M+, Dead Cells 5M+, Ori 2.8M+ lifetime.

Traction

This project already moves

In development since 2020

A long-running project with full concept art, a complete narrative structure and a Game Design Document already in place.

Live on Steam

Public Steam page with 35 wishlists and counting, before the creator campaign has even started.

Second title shipping

Blend In, launching with 30+ content creators.

Core systems in engine

Transformation combat, the three Hera forms and the companion system are already built in engine and shown in real gameplay footage.

Built to bring players back.

The co-op companion loop gives every run a reason to return with a friend, our strongest lever on retention. And we tell our own story from day one, across Steam, socials and a 1.7M creator audience. Builds are playtested with real players before any marketing spend, so the game earns its audience before it asks for one.

Team

Who is building this

A founder-led studio, with specialists brought in where they matter most.

Fran Puig · Founder, CEO & Lead Developer

Runs Funciona84 (Zaragoza), a 3D/2D studio producing for leading brands, with a verified entrepreneurial track record across 4+ game projects, from programming to level design and production. Built the original Hera's Revenge prototype in 2020 and shipped three titles during the pandemic. Two titles now live on Steam.

3D Artist · Characters & Environments

Specialised 3D artist for game characters and environments, with a production-quality portfolio. Responsible for the 3D visual universe: the characters and every mythological realm, from Olympus to the Underworld and Limbo.

Original composer · Music & sound design

The composer of Hera's main theme joins the project to lead music and sound design through launch.

Technology partners · Proven Unity studios

More Mountains (Corgi Engine, the framework behind titles like Rogue Legacy 2) and Lovatto Studio (10+ years in Unity multiplayer) engaged to build the most complex systems, with technology that has reached millions of players.

Backers & advisors

Early angel investment led by a former Financial Director of Adidas Spain (name available to interested investors), backing the studio from pre-seed.

Not a one person risk.

Code, systems and assets are documented as we build, and our technology partners, More Mountains and Lovatto Studio, can carry the most complex work forward. The studio, the creator network and the backers keep the project moving beyond any single person.

Budget

€500K total · €50K already in

Full budget to build and bring the game to market, development plus go-to-market, through launch. The timeline flexes with when funding closes.

Financing structure

€450K · investment sought

€30K founder capital (invested) €20K angel investors (invested) €450K investment sought

Go-to-market is included in the ask, not an optional add-on.

Use of funds · indicative

18%

Core production · 46%

Marketing · 20%

Pre-production & design · €88K Core production, code, 3D art, animation, narrative · €232K QA & polish · €44K Audio & community · €36K Marketing & go-to-market · €100K

Milestone-based delivery · full budget breakdown available in due diligence.

Milestone	When	Spend	Delivers
Pre-production locked	Q3–Q4 2026	€88K	Final GDD, art direction lock, technical pipeline, core prototypes validated
Production → vertical slice → content complete	Q4 2026–Q2 2027	€232K	Realms, combat systems, 3D characters, narrative integration
Alpha · Beta · Polish	Q2–Q3 2027	€44K	Test cycles, performance, accessibility, voice recording, final audio
Launch	Q4 2027	€36K	PC + Switch + PlayStation launch and release operations
Marketing & go-to-market	launch window	€100K	Creator campaign, wishlist push, Steam festivals, paid UA, PR and physical activation

Indicative and milestone-gated: funds release as each milestone is delivered. Total budget €500K including go-to-market, of which €50K is already invested.

Go-to-market

How the €100K reaches players

Marketing is built into the ask, not left for later. Here is where it goes, phased from now through launch.

1 · Wishlist campaign

Drive Steam wishlists from now to launch through creators and a Steam Next Fest demo. Wishlist velocity at launch is exactly what the Steam algorithm rewards.

2 · Creator-led launch

Activate the three creators on Hera, Zeus and Gaia (1.7M combined) and the 30+ creator network from Blend In to push launch day.

3 · Paid user acquisition

Targeted ads to fans of Hollow Knight, Hades, Dead Cells and Ori, our closest comparables and highest converting audience.

4 · PR & physical activation

A 3D printed Hera mask and in-game items seeded to creators for Instagram momentum, plus press and showcase outreach.

5 · Festivals & showcases

Steam seasonal festivals and industry showcases timed around release for visibility spikes.

6 · Community

Discord, socials and devlogs to keep players engaged before, during and after launch.

Timeline

Funded → launch in 6 quarters

Q3–Q4 2026

Pre-production locked

Final GDD, art direction lock, technical pipeline, core prototypes validated.

Q4 2026–Q2 2027

Production

Full content production: realms, combat systems, 3D characters, narrative integration. Vertical slice → content complete.

Q2–Q3 2027

Alpha · Beta · Polish

Testing cycles, performance, accessibility, voice recording with attached cast, final audio.

Q4 2027

🚀 Launch

PC (Steam) + Nintendo Switch + PlayStation. Premium €19.99. Marketing with creator network.

Core player experience

Four systems, one transformation

Everything the player does feeds the same fantasy: earning godhood, piece by piece.

⚡ Fast-Mobility Combat

Dash-driven encounters combining melee, ranged, magic and aerial movement. Positioning and timing over brute force.

👑 Mortal → Goddess

Divine armor pieces are simultaneously a gameplay unlock, a visual evolution and a canonical signal to the world. Not cosmetic · structural.

🌍 Living Mythology System

Judgments over gods, factions and realms persist across three world-state layers · and carry into future titles of the saga.

🐺 Oracle Companions

A permanent early choice · Lynx or Bonzoi · that shapes guidance, dialogue and which myth the world remembers.

Core mechanic

Mortal by default. Goddess for seconds.

The heart of Hera's Revenge: you play as mortal Hera, and divine power is something you earn, manage and grow.

1 · Hera Mortal

Most of the game is played as the mortal Hera: fast, clever, vulnerable.

2 · Hera God

Transform for a few seconds of divine power. When it ends, a cooldown blocks the next transformation.

Collect the divine set · every piece extends your transformation

Crown

Greaves

Vambraces

Cloak

Dragonscale Vest

Scale Guards

How divine power grows

Transforma few seconds as Hera God, then a cooldown where you cannot transform again

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Collect divine armor piecesevery piece you find extends your god-form time

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Complete the setfull armor grants unlimited transformation: you have truly become a goddess

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Find the Purple Armorunlocks the Ascension form and a superior set of skills

The hidden path · Purple Ascension

The Purple Armor

A hidden divine set, found only by those who uncover every secret.

Hera · Ascension

Wearing it unlocks the Ascension form: a new, far stronger set of skills.

Combat · three forms

One goddess, three ways to fight

Transform mid-combat (Q) and switch arsenal. Each form has its own weapons, magic and identity, with six abilities equipped at a time and more unlocked in the skill book. Sword combos, kick chains, double-jump, dodge and parry underpin all three.

Mortal · the warrior

Agile and tool-dependent. The only form that wields a magic staff, because her power is not yet innate. Weapons: sword, staff, fists.

Fireball · area fire that explodes on impact
Burn · instant damage, no travelling projectile
Ignite Weapon · flames on your blade, extra fire damage per hit
Heal · area healing for you and nearby allies
Slow · ice that slows enemy attacks and reactions
Dodge · evade with brief invulnerability

+ Grenade Rolling, Counter Attack in the skill book

God · the storm goddess

Innate magic, no staff needed. Slow but devastating, built to break groups. Time-limited: 20 seconds of power, 60 to recharge. Weapons: great sword, fists.

Thunder · multiple bolts strike enemies from the sky
Lightning Jump · a bolt you follow, repositioning you on impact
Flash Assault · circle the enemy at speed with chained hits
Shocking Leap · become lightning and travel at great speed
Blinding Flash · a blinding light rises and explodes
Backflip Dodge · evade with invulnerability

+ Shock combos, Focus, Healing Dome, Frozen Path in the book

Ascension · the final form

Unlocked with the Purple Armor. Dark, telekinetic, innate magic. Maximum damage and spectacle, everything hits harder. Weapons: great sword or bare hands.

Meteor · summon meteors that explode on impact
Raining Dark · homing dark projectiles that chase enemies
Telekinetic Slam · rip up debris and smash it onto the enemy
Summon Fury · a fireball orb that hurls projectiles nonstop
Drain · drain the energy of nearby enemies
Teleport Dodge · blink away, invulnerable through it

+ Bind, Magnet, Sticky Grenade, aerial slams in the book

Companions · the Oracles

Choose who walks with you

At the start, you choose a guide. It doesn't change the story, it changes how you play and what you notice. The world is the same; your experience of it is not. This is a choice of lens, not of sides, and the only decision in the game you can never fully undo.

Bonzoi · the one who holds

Kind and protective. He doesn't make you deadlier, he makes you last. You survive what you shouldn't and explore without fear of running dry.

Heal · heals and shields you in the worst moments.
Lift · if Hera falls, he brings her back.
Fetch · gathers what he finds and brings it to you.

Lynx · the one who sees

Tactical and sharp. You see enemies before they see you, and you catch the secrets, traps and paths you would otherwise walk straight past. You play with your head, one step ahead.

Alert · marks nearby enemies and keeps tracking them through walls for a few seconds. The marker colour tells you how dangerous each one is.
Scout · once the close ones are marked, it goes ahead on its own to warn you of what's coming.
Track · finds and points out whatever is hidden in the area.

Both levitate, so they follow you wherever you jump.

The choice

You can switch Oracle if you find the other mid-level, and from there you choose each screen. But the game remembers who you spent the most time with. At the end, your Oracle becomes a real animal; the other fades into myth. No menu decides it, who you walked with does.

Co-op · 2 players

Better with a friend

Bring a second player and they become the Oracle at your side, marking enemies, healing you, reviving you and fetching what you need. Solo, you have to choose, and one Oracle is lost to myth. In co-op, neither fades.

Solitude forces the choice. Company is what lets you lose nothing.

The story

A mortal rises to rewrite the gods

Hera, Queen of Olympus, begins as a mortal and ascends to godhood to rescue Zeus, captured by Hades. Every judgment she makes reshapes the myth, and the pantheon reacts to it. "Super Mario meets Castlevania, with the narrative depth of The Legend of Zelda."

Zeus · the fallen king

His disappearance fractures the divine order and forces Hera to rise from mortal to goddess and decide what the pantheon becomes.

Hades · judgment

Backed by his Underworld forces, he embodies punishment and inevitability, and he holds Zeus.

Gaia · primordial order

She and her soldiers resist divine intervention, an ancient force that does not bow to Olympus.

Poseidon · the seas

He and his armies rule the sea realms and react dynamically to Hera's decisions.

Charon · the gatekeeper

He controls passage between realms, between life, death and limbo.

Not static antagonists

Their roles, hostility and presence shift depending on how Hera resolves conflicts and which myths she lets survive.

Interactive 3D · live in your browser

The gods, in real time

Actual in-game character models. Drag to rotate · scroll to zoom · right-click and drag (two fingers on mobile) to move around.

Hera · MortalOlympus

Hera · GoddessOlympus

Hera · AscensionOlympus

ZeusHeaven

GaiaEarth Realm

Emerald SentinelEarth Realm

PoseidonSea Realm

Frostbound KnightSea Realm

CharonLimbo

Death KnightLimbo

HadesUnderworld

Emberbound WarlordUnderworld

Gameplay loop

The gameplay loop, from seconds to hours

What you do every second (move, fight, collect) earns what changes everything (judgments, divine armor, the fate of each realm).

Micro · seconds–minutes

Moment-to-moment play

Move & dashfluid traversal, aerial control

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Fightmelee · ranged · magic, adapt per enemy

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Collect & upgraderesources, artifacts, ability charges

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Unlock the routenew path opens · harder, richer

⟲ back to movement · stronger, faster

Macro · per realm, hours

Campaign-level play

Explore a realmOlympus · Sea · Underworld · Limbo · Heaven

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Judge gods & factionskey decisions with permanent consequences

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Earn a divine armor piecenew powers change combat, traversal, puzzles

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World-state shiftsfactions, portals, routes and lore react

⟲ the canon persists · into this game, and the next

Unique selling points

Others touch parts of it. None implement the full concept.

Mythology setting + choice impact + mechanical transformation + cross-game canon, in one systemic framework.

Game	Mythology	Choice impact	Gameplay transformation	Canon persists across games
Hades	Strong	Narrative flavor	Limited	✕
God of War	Strong	Fixed story	Character growth only	✕
Mass Effect	Sci-fi	Strong	Mostly narrative	Partial
Undertale	Abstract	Meta-narrative	Minimal	✕
NieR: Automata	Thematic	Ending-based	Structural	✕
Hera's Revenge	Core system	World-defining	Mechanical + visual	✔ Yes