Focus Entertainment and Uppercut Games have announced Magicians: The Devil’s Deal, a narrative-driven first-person action game where stage magic becomes real and lethal. The game launches in 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store, and it will also be available through Game Pass.

Magicians: The Devil’s Deal looks like a Victorian stage show whose smoke, mirrors, gilded curtains, and cheap miracles have collapsed straight into Hell. Published by Focus Entertainment and developed by Uppercut Games, the game is being presented as a narrative-driven first-person action title where magic is not spectacle, not performance, and not a clever fraud under the spotlight. It is raw survival power. Players take on the role of Jacob Menteuro, a fallen illusionist bound by a pact with The Devil and cast into the infernal world below.

Jacob is not just another damned soul trapped in Theatreland. He was once a celebrated stage magician whose talent bordered on the supernatural, but now he is stuck in a twisted domain where performance is power and deception is survival. Theatreland is ruled by the rivals who betrayed him, known as the Masters, leaving Jacob with a fairly ugly job ahead of him: hunt them down, steal their powers, uncover the truth behind their treachery, and somehow escape a world that seems designed to keep dragging him deeper.

The Trick Is No Longer a Showpiece, but an Execution

One of the central promises of Magicians: The Devil’s Deal is that every ability changes how the player fights, adapts, and survives. Stage magic is not simply a theme layered over standard shooting mechanics. Cards become razor-sharp projectiles, chains ensnare enemies, and gravity itself bends to Jacob’s will. That makes the game sound less like a conventional shooter and more like an action game where every combat tool has grown out of a corrupted magic trick.

Each Realm of Theatreland is ruled by a powerful Master and filled with relentless fanatics and nightmarish performers. According to the description, combat is not built around blindly charging forward, but around observation, adaptation, and mastery. Jacob has to turn spectacle into dominance and fully embrace the role of the ultimate trickster, not to entertain an audience, but to survive long enough to take revenge.

Revenge, Betrayal, and a Hellish Victorian London

The story begins with betrayal. Jacob was abandoned by his peers, is pursued by his mentor, and is compelled by The Devil himself through a pact that offers no clean escape. Revenge may look like a way out at first, but Focus Entertainment’s description suggests Theatreland is not that generous. In a world ruled by hubris and temptation, every step toward vengeance only pulls Jacob further into darkness.

Theatreland itself is described as an infernal reflection of Victorian London buried in the depths of Hell. Its realms are not just scenery, but stages erupting with the distorted powers of their Masters, where nothing is ever exactly what it seems. Every scene tells a story shaped by performance and deception, which means the world lies to the player in the same way a magician lies to the audience.

Magicians: The Devil’s Deal launches in 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, with the PC version coming through Steam and the Microsoft Store. It will also be available on Game Pass, giving Uppercut Games’ new project a wide potential audience from day one. If the studio can properly fuse first-person action, theatrical illusion, and infernal revenge, Jacob Menteuro’s story could become more than another dark fantasy pitch. It could be a sharp, strange, and distinctive magical vendetta.

Source: Gematsu