Vindictus (Korean: 마비노기 영웅전, Mabinogi Heroes) is a free-to-play action-oriented massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by devCAT, an internal studio of Korean free-to-play game publisher Nexon. Vindictus is a prequel to the popular MMORPG Mabinogi and is known as Mabinogi Heroes outside of North America.
Vindictus uses the Source engine to allow players to interact extensively with the environment. Environmental objects can be destroyed or picked up and wielded as weapons. Combat is described as "kind of brutal, like a bullfight," and will require a lot of teamwork
The time period of Vindictus is set several hundred years before the era of Mabinogi. In this war-torn world, the people cling to the belief that if they can destroy the "Fomors", (monstrous humanoids), they will be brought by their black-winged goddess Morrighan into the land of Erinn. As a result, the land has suffered under endless war for hundreds of years and many people are beginning to give up hope that the legend of Erinn is real