Killmaster Games

Killmaster Games was an independent video game development team focused on Killmaster, an unreleased party fighting game built in Unreal Engine. Its development combined platform-fighter mechanics with free movement through three-dimensional arenas. The project was presented as a free-to-play game for Windows, Mac and Linux, with console versions also planned.

A hybrid fighting game

The team described its concept as combining influences from Super Smash Bros. and Mortal Kombat. Its central feature was a Full 3D mode, allowing players to move freely around an arena rather than remaining on a two-dimensional combat plane. An optional traditional 2.5D mode used an overlapping control scheme intended to make both approaches accessible.

The proposed game supported up to eight players through local couch multiplayer and online matchmaking. Combat incorporated both health-bar depletion and stage knockouts, alongside environmental hazards and interactive items. Players could customize pre-match Power-Up skill trees, while individual fighters had character-specific ultimate moves and fatal finishing moves. Public pre-alpha demonstrations showed how these systems worked together in arena combat.

Development and crowdfunding

By March 2019, the team reported that it had spent approximately three years developing the project. It shared gameplay and sought feedback through developer communities and public videos, presenting an early version rather than a completed commercial release.

A planned Kickstarter campaign was intended to fund sound effects, an original soundtrack, character animation, arena artwork and dedicated server infrastructure. The announced development schedule targeted a closed alpha in October 2019 and a beta in April 2020; these were proposed milestones rather than documented releases.

The crowdfunding launch was postponed to April 3, 2019, but did not materialize. Public development activity subsequently stopped, and the project remained an unreleased pre-alpha prototype. The studio's social accounts became dormant, and its former official website later displayed a parked hosting page.