Tecmo's Deception is a real-time role-playing video game (RPG), resembling the trap-em-up genre of games, such as Night Trap and Double Switch. The primary object of the game is to dispatch intruders through the positioning and activation of traps.[2]
The player takes on the role of an unjustly executed man, who pleads to the forces of darkness to spare his life at the moment of his demise. Satan grants his request, and gives him command over the 'Castle of the Damned'. Many visitors are drawn to the fortress: some for power, some for salvation, and some for something as simple as shelter.