Limbus Company
Developer(s)	Project Moon
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, Linux
Release	February 26, 2023
Genre(s)	Management simulation, turn-based role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Limbus Company is an indie strategy role-playing video game for Microsoft Windows and mobile devices using iOS or Android,^[1] developed and published by South Korean studio Project Moon.^[2] It was released worldwide on February 26, 2023. The game is set in the same dystopian, hyper-capitalist world known only as "The City", where all of Project Moon's other works take place, including Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, and multiple webcomics such as Leviathan and The Distortion Detective, but takes place some time after the events of all those stories.^[3]

The game contains gacha elements, making it possible to spend real money to acquire Lunacy (the in-game currency) or tickets used to acquire new Sinner Identities or their respective Extermination of Geometrical Organ (E.G.O) outside of the base units given to the player. Director Kim Ji-hoon claimed during a Q&A session that this was necessary both to fund and explore making new Project Moon games, such as a currently unnamed "3rd-person Action RPG" set in the City, and that a live service game would expand the fanbase and keep them entertained in-between full retail releases.^[1]

When entering a battle stage, the player is able to choose up to 7 out of 12 Sinners (not including Dante) to fight. The player cannot use multiple Identities of the same Sinner, and likewise cannot attach multiple E.G.O of the same power level to the Sinner.

In normal fights, the player can drag their pointer across the circles representing each Sinner's attack, forming a chain of undirectable attacks against enemies. In battles against bosses or Abnormalities, players instead will be directed to pick and choose which Sinner's attack should correspond to which enemy, or a specific body part of the enemy they wish to attack.

The game decides which side's attacks are successful with a series of coin flips, with Sanity Points (SP) determining a character's luck in getting coin heads. A head will add a numbered change to the character's power (typically a boost; a decrease instead for certain Identities and E.G.Os), while a tail leaves the number as is.^[4]

The player can choose to attack using a Sinner's respective E.G.O in place of their normal attack. However, doing so requires spending the Sinner's SP and collected "Sin" resources. If a Sinner's SP is low enough, they may launch a "corroded" E.G.O on their own, which is more powerful but cannot be controlled by the player.

Following its prequel installments, Limbus Company takes place in a dystopian world known as the City, made of twenty-six districts, each unique in technological advancements and culture. The 26 Wings, mega-corporations named after alphabet letters that govern their respective Districts, are led by the Head, known as A Corp. Each District is physically split into a Nest, the urban residence supported by the Corps, and the Backstreets, the poverty-ridden areas overrun by criminal Syndicates and outside of the Corps' protection.

Throughout the City, there are many offices run by Fixers, mercenaries regulated by the government. Each Fixer is assigned a grade based on their skill and experience.

Occasionally, humans overcome with intense emotion will transform into monstrous entities called Distortions. Inversely, those who overcome such emotion may manifest E.G.O., tools or equipment that greatly empower their combat capabilities. Collectively referred to as the Distortion phenomenon, the concept holds great significance to the game's plot.

The plot of the game is split into chapters, or "Cantos", inspired from Dante's Inferno and the 9 circles of Hell. Each Canto is character-driven, with the plot diving into the past of one of the Sinners. As of 2024, 7 Cantos are available in full.

The game opens with an amnesiac, literally-clock-headed person being accosted by strong Fixers. This person is soon saved by Vergilius, a legendary Fixer known as the "Red Gaze," who informs them that they are Dante, the new executive manager of Limbus Company Bus department (LCB). Under their management, a group of 13 employees known as the Sinners, Dante included, are tasked to seek out Golden Boughs, sources of great power, that are scattered across The City in the ruins of the now-destroyed Lobotomy Corporation and its branch offices. As they travel across The City in a bus named Mephistopheles, Dante tries to piece back their identity, while the Sinners are forced to reckon with their own pasts as they seek out the Golden Boughs.^[4]

The Sinners' first stop is District 4, where they must venture into the ruins of a Lobotomy Corp. branch. Once inside, Gregor soon begins to resonate with the Golden Bough, and the Sinners are forced to relive his past and the stigma that stems from his position as an officer in the "Smoke War". As they venture through Gregor's memories, they encounter and fight "Abnormalities", monsters used by Lobotomy Corporation to generate power. The Golden Bough emerges in the heat of battle, only to be seized by a rival group led by Gregor's alleged mother, Hermann, along with several old acquaintances of the Sinners. The LCB leave the facility, dejected that they failed their first mission.

The bus is driven to District 10, where another Golden Bough is reportedly being offered as a prize in a casino operated by J Corp. The Sinners manage to fight their way past multiple local Syndicates to the top of the casino, where Rodion unexpectedly reunites with her old comrade Sonya, the co-founder of the Yurodiviye, a syndicate that aims to eradicate oppression and exploitation in the City. As the company moves through the casino basement, the Golden Bough starts to resonate with Rodion, revealing her past as a peasant in the Backstreets and her futile attempt to change the system by killing the local tax collector, only to result in the deaths of her entire neighborhood from retribution of the Middle Finger, a major syndicate. The Sinners leave District 10 with their first Golden Bough in tow; Sonya is revealed to be alluding with Hermann as she aims to attain the Golden Boughs after the Sinners are done collecting them.

The bus heads to District 11 to track down another Golden Bough. Don Quixote's antics cause much trouble to the LCB in the District immigration checkpoint, evoking Vergillius' wrath. The Sinners then arrive at Calw, Sinclair's hometown, only to find it under siege by a religious, anti-prosthetics inquisition from N Corp, known as Nagel und Hammer. Within the dungeon, the Golden Bough resonates with Sinclair, telling his past with Kromer and Demian, two of his former classmates, as well as how his misplaced trust in Kromer and discovery of an abandoned L Corp. branch beneath his house led to the murder of his family.

Kromer, now leader of Nagel und Hammer, confronts the team inside the basement of Sinclair's former mansion, with the Golden Bough in her possession; she mutates into a Distortion-like entity and kills the entirety of the LCB sans Dante and Sinclair. Out of the blue, the duo is saved by Demian, presented as a cryptic and omnipotent individual unaffected by the City's law, who kills Kromer for good. The LCB is rescued by the Limbus Company's After Team and celebrates their second Golden Bough acquired.

After barely surviving their battle with Kromer, Limbus Company continues to another part of District 11, where they are asked to resolve a Distortion involving the owner of a chicken restaurant. The man, "Papa Bongy," has turned into a chicken-like monster and is attaching sentient raw chickens to the heads of various people. Lured by the promise of free chicken for life upon resolution, the Sinners quickly organize a cooking competition amongst themselves, hoping to make a chicken dish that will pacify Papa Bongy.

The Sinners enter the K Corp. offices and meet with the Branch Manager, Dongrang, an old colleague of Yi Sang from the former League of Nine Littérateurs. Terrorist group "Technology Liberation Alliance" led by Dongbaek, another member of the League, hijacks the building and forces K Corp. security to fight the Sinners. Dongbaek stabs Yi Sang with the Golden Bough before manifesting E.G.O. and losing to the Sinners, dying at the hands of Dongrang who reveals himself as the League's traitor, causing its downfall.

As the Golden Bough resonates with Yi Sang, the Sinners are forced to perform a recreation of the League of Nine Littérateurs' decline and dissolution while also learning of Yi Sang's creation of the Mirror and K Corp.'s Singularity. Ridden from the guilt of betraying the League, Dongrang distorts but soon manifests E.G.O. himself, seeking to kill Yi Sang and rid Dongrang's involvement with the old League. Yi Sang, finally moving on from the past, ends his old friend's life. The Sinners have their memories of K Corp.'s Singularity erased and retrieve their third Golden Bough.

The end scene features Demian's brief return; Dante's clock head inches closer to midnight or the first time.

Limbus Company enters the Backstreets of District 21, where they park at the Molar Boatworks workshop to modify Mephistopheles to make it capable of sailing across The Great Lake of the District. The Sinners try to enjoy an impromptu summer vacation, but are pressed into collecting scrap metal from giant Trash Crabs to help out the workshop. Meanwhile, Ishmael gets increasingly angry with her colleagues, claiming that none of them are ready to brave the seas like her.

Mephistopheles is finally ready to sail across U Corp.'s territory, a giant sea known as The Great Lake, beset by Whales, Mermaids, and other monsters. Ishmael is focused on finding and taking revenge on Captain Ahab, her former Captain of the Pequod who led the crew to their death over her obsession: to hunt the Pallid Whale. The Sinners' path takes them through a port to rescue the Limbus Company Before Team, to an abandoned L Corp. branch and their encounter with Rim, an ex-member of the League of Nine Littérateurs, and to a catastrophic beatdown from the Middle Finger. They are barely saved by the Indigo Elder who then literally takes them into the belly of the Pallid Whale, where Captain Ahab and the Pequod's crew have somehow survived.

With the Golden Bough lying within the Pallid Whale's heart, Ahab and the Sinners strike a deal to attack the organ, satisfying both Ishmael and Ahab's obsession. Dante's power, originating from the Golden Bough, reveals Ishmael's past as a sailor for the Pequod; Ahab sacrifices her party to ensure her route to the heart. Absorbing her remaining crewmates with a newly manifested E.G.O., Ahab battles but loses to the Sinners. Ishmael delivers the final hit not to Ahab, but to the Pallid Whale's heart, absolving both of their obsessions, having found a new purpose beyond revenge. With help from the Indigo Elder, the LCB quickly exits the whale's dying carcass.

A post-credit scene shows that the now-broken Ahab survived the whale's collapse and is recruited by Hermann.

Don Quixote convinces Dante and Heathcliff to enter a door within the Backrooms that leads to a toy factory, hoping to find a present for Heathcliff and the mythical "Red Sack" Fixer for Don. However, Dante soon discovers that the factory is located somewhere in the Outskirts outside The City, staffed entirely by gnomes, and is making toys for non-human creatures out of human body parts. When Don and Heathcliff are knocked out, the rest of the Sinners rush in to rescue them and return to the bus before the portal closes.

The Sinners finally arrive in District 20, but take a route through the Backstreets, where they suddenly find themselves in the middle of a gang war between the Blade Lineage and the Kurokumo Clan. After rescuing a wounded Blade Lineage fighter named Aeng-du, the Company suddenly tasks the Sinners with investigating a Distortion in the area. Aeng-du and the Sinners fight their way to the top of an office building, where they discover the Distortion's source is Aeng-du's mentor, Bamboo-hatted Kim.

Heathcliff leads the Sinners into the Wuthering Heights mansion where he was raised, partly due to reports that a Golden Bough resides somewhere inside, and partly responding to Cathy's invitation, only to discover they are attending her funeral. The Sinners are quickly dragged into a conflict between Heathcliff, the Dead Rabbits gang hired by Cathy's brother Hindley Earnshaw, and the waitstaff contracted to the current master of Wuthering Heights, Linton Edgar, lead by Nelly. Venturing into the mansion's basement, the Sinners discover Cathy's body being used in an experiment by ex-Ring members led by one of Yi Sang's former colleagues, who use their version of the Mirror to imprint identities from other worlds onto supposedly disappeared District 20 residents.

The Leader of the Dead Rabbits unmasks himself to be the Erlking, an alternate counterpart of Heathcliff. Having seen the unresolved sorrow between Heathcliff and Cathy of every Mirror World, the Erlking seeks to kill all Heathcliffs to have ever existed, and whose hatred for his alternate selves manifests as the Wild Hunt, an army of undead versions of important persons in his past. The LCB's Heathcliff distorts, overwhelmed by guilt and anger, but is brought back afterward. Aided by Vergilius against the never-ending waves of enemies, the Sinners make it to the rooftop, where they fight Nelly, revealed to be an accomplice of the Erlking and Hermann, and defeat the Erlking and a version of Catherine who succumbed to a similar madness. Cathy's spirit manifests through Dante's powers and enjoys a final heartfelt conversation with LCB Heathcliff, after which she clears herself from all alternate worlds to erase all Heathcliffs' suffering, leaving Heathcliff and Dante the only people in any world to remember she existed. Nelly claims the Golden Bough for herself, leaving the Sinners empty-handed.

Following the chaos at Wuthering Heights, the Sinners remain camped out in T Corp's Nest, wherein they are notified of an enormous 'Time Tax' they have accrued by T Corp. Collectors. While the rest of the Sinners sit in jail, Dante, Hong Lu, Ryōshū, and Rodion are tasked with tracking down the Distortion known as the 'Time Ripper', notorious for being able to 'kill' their victims' time, in order to have the debt waived. During the investigation, they encounter the District 20 branch of the Yurodiviye, and later confront the Time Ripper at the top of a malfunctioning clock tower.

The Sinners learn that they are to board a WARP Train to their destination of P. Corp while also eliminating a potential threat on the train. Faust reveals to Dante that her access to Gesellschaft, her source of knowledge from other versions of her, has been disconnected, leaving them to figure out the Distortion's identity without help. The threat is eventually revealed to be a Sixth Kindred Bloodfiend (a vampire-like species of Anomalies) named Cassetti; with both parties exhausted from combat, Faust suggests peaceful negotiation when Don Quixote suddenly interrupts, only to be bitten by Cassetti. Faust's Gesellschaft returns; Don Quixote is revealed to be a far older and more powerful Second Kindred Bloodfiend who immediately kills Cassetti for the "sin of filial impiety" before falling unconscious. The Sinners return to the WARP Train through Mephistopheles' Backdoor.

The Sinners make their way to P. Corp, where they take an open contract for a phenomenon named "La Manchaland", an amusement park appearing intermittently that has been making citizens of District 16 disappear. During the meeting for the raid, where the Sinners learn that they will be up against Bloodfiends and Bloodbags, they meet multiple other groups of Fixers, including Hong Lu's sister Jia Xichun. The group also receive information on Bloodfiends from Moses and Ezra, a duo from Distortion Detective who now work for Limbus Company. When La Manchaland makes its appearance, the Sinners are quick to move on their feet, quickly clearing out hordes of Bloodfiends and Bloodbags to move onto the center of the park and collect the Golden Bough reportedly stored there. Along the way, they meet an enigmatic Bloodfiend named Sansón who force the Sinners to re-enact Don Quixote's numerous adventures in the past. This culminates when Sansón manages to force Don Quixote into taking her running boots off and regain her memories in full, revealing her identity as a Bloodfiend to the Sinners, and that her true name is Sancho. She initially turns on the Sinners, seeking to protect her sire, the true Don Quixote, but is convinced to remain true to the idealism of her amnesiac persona by Sinclair despite the angered Outis' objections, and rejoins the group under her alias. She helps in euthanizing the original Don Quixote, revealed to have been speared by the Golden Bough and forced to supply blood to the Bloodfiends, causing the park to dissolve. It is then revealed Sansón is an ally of Demain and his purpose was to ensure Sancho regained her memories and that the Sinners would retrieve La Machaland's Bough after the failed mission in Wuthering Heights.

The main party of Limbus Company is composed of 13 "Sinners," along with Vergilius their guide and Charon their driver, brought together under some form of contract with the titular Limbus Company. Dante is considered one of these Sinners, though they do not actively participate in combat.

According to its official website, it reached 180,000 total pre-registrations before releasing.^{[5][non-primary source needed]}

• Official website