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A physics-driven vigilante sandbox where you spawn NPCs, test weapons and melee attacks, and explore combat scenarios.
Released 17 Feb 2022
Spawn NPC Scenarios
Test Wound Reactions
Fight Enemy Waves
Endorphin Vice is a physics-based sandbox game for exploring realistic gore and wound reactions. Customize your environment with tactically designed objects and gear. Play as a vigilante, using military tactics and tools to create and test various scenarios and effects.
Developed by Endorphin Studios · Published by Endorphin Studios
You play as a vigilante in a combat sandbox, setting up encounters with NPCs across maps and mission-based scenarios. The focus is on experimenting with how different weapons and actions affect each encounter.
Use firearms with simulated projectile travel and penetration, or fight at close range with punches and thrown weapons. The game also includes enemy waves, close-quarters scenarios, and vehicles for larger-scale encounters.
Characters react physically to impacts, and wounds vary with the hit and weapon. You can also take damage and use medical items to manage bleeding and other trauma effects.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its ragdoll physics, gore and wound effects, and the fun of experimenting with weapons and NPC encounters. Some also like the weapon selection and combat sandbox. However, reviews repeatedly describe the experience as buggy, technically rough, and short on varied activities.
Endorphin Vice runs one of the most advanced ragdoll systems in any sandbox game. Bodies react. Every character is built with precise, anatomically distributed weight, so physics behave exactly as they should under impact, gravity, and force.
Enemies collapse, stumble, grab at walls, and hit the ground differently every single time depending on the caliber, velocity, and angle of the hit. Critical impacts to the head or neck can trigger brain aneurysms, sending targets into a ragdoll coma. Cardiac arrest from extreme stress forces a full ragdoll collapse. Even the player ragdolls and can recover.
Every shot generates procedural mesh flesh deformation in real time. The wound reacts to exactly where you hit, what caliber you used, and how fast the round was traveling. The body bleeds out dynamically, staining walls, floors, and the surrounding environment with spreading blood pools that grow over time. New blood splatter tech interacts with surfaces and geometry realistically.
Dismemberment logic reflects the actual physics of the impact. High-caliber rounds penetrate and can take multiple enemies in a single shot. Gore System 2.0 fixed all legacy clipping issues and pushed the brutality further than ever before, including a dedicated chainsaw with its own execution animations and a fully overhauled machete suite.
Every punch carries real physical weight. Hit enemies until they bleed from the nose. Drop them with a knockout. Then walk up to a downed, ragdolled enemy and finish it with a head stomp.
Throw knives and axes with ultra-realistic physics. Weight, rotation, velocity, and impact are all fully simulated. Get close enough and the character automatically stabs downward, pinning the weapon into the target. No scripted hits. Physics only.
Agony System: visual shock post-impact, permanent blur below 25% HP
Cardiac Arrest: exceed 240 BPM from stress, bleeding, or drug abuse and your heart fibrillates. Instant clinical death.
Brain Aneurysm / Coma: critical head impacts trigger neurological overload and ragdoll coma states
Tourniquet: stops arterial bleeding instantly, but spikes your BPM
Adrenaline Syringe: ignore pain and sprint with a shattered pelvis. Spam it and die of a drug-induced heart attack.
Mannitol (Cranial Auto-Injector): the only way to pull yourself out of a coma
TACTICAL AI
Civilians react. If you start throwing hands in the streets, some will swing right back. The AI has been entirely rebuilt: enemies hear gunshots, footsteps, and impacts. They investigate last known positions, search dynamically, flank, and hunt. Police units follow strict behavioral logic. Civilians flee to the safest available position. NPCs who get shot will try to grab your barrel before they go down.
Every bullet is a physical projectile. Real gravity drop, wind deviation, material-based penetration, and true travel time. A real-time ballistic HUD displays live calculation data. High-caliber rounds punch through cover and chain into multiple targets.
Infinite Procedural CQB Mode: millions of RNG room combinations, zero pre-baked layouts, random day/night generation. No memorization. Pure reaction.
Brutal Wave-Based Horde System: dynamic, fully optimized enemy waves that hunt you down
Physics Helicopter: real lift, drag, torque, inertia, and crash behavior
100% Physics Vehicles: weight distribution, tire friction, suspension, destructible wheels with air loss
Physics Doors: breakable, kickable, breachable, lockable. No animations. Pure physics.
Kamikaze and Bomber Drones: strategic air assets
Woods Sandbox Map: vast open environment for large-scale tactical scenarios
Surface-Based Sliding: physics-driven slide affected by angle, friction, and speed. Shoot while sliding.
Procedural weapon sway with breathing micro-motions and weight shift
Realistic aiming hand tremors that intensify after damage or sprinting
Dynamic shoulder switching and corner peeking
Weapon wall-clip prevention: the barrel cannot pass through surfaces
Momentum-based directional dodging system
Procedural back-lean on sloped surfaces
Dynamic crosshair that turns red on hit
Endorphin Vice uses an intentionally stylized, low-mid-poly art direction. Every GPU cycle saved on rendering goes directly into the physics simulation. A built-in Hardware Inspector checks your CPU, RAM, and VRAM before launch and gives you a green/yellow/red readout so you know exactly what to expect.
Recent optimizations delivered a 33% reduction in per-frame character cost and a raw +20 to 60 FPS boost on most hardware. Real-time memory usage has been reduced by 62%. Loading times are up to 2.5x faster.
100+ customization options including hats, glasses, shirts, pants, tactical gear, helmets, and more. The game expands continuously. One developer. Every bug reported gets fixed fast.
Join the Discord for constant updates and direct bug reporting.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 7 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
