The Earth has been ravaged by nuclear war and the few humans left scratch across the barren deserts in search of survival. It is a land where law has no meaning and mutated animals scavenge for flesh. It is the post-apocalyptic world of Johnnie and the Demon Queen.

The adventure begins in the deserts surrounding the corrupt and tyrannical Victaria—the head state of the Confederacy that rules the remains of humankind. While the rich flourish in neo-cities high above the nuclear soot, the poor are forced to eek out an existence among a landscape rocked by centuries of war and environmental degradation. With the impoverished banished to these decrepit soot cities, street gangs thrive, and rivalries often end in deadly violence.

Amidst the chaos of a gang war gone wrong, Drake Kicklighter—leader of the infamous Cheaters—has lost his daughter to the most dreaded mutant of all: the Demon Queen. Desperate to hold onto one of the few things left in his life with any meaning, he refuses to accept the fact that his daughter is lost forever. However, no one can penetrate the depths of the Demon Queen’s lair, no one except for Johnnie Bernstein, the most famous mercenary in the Confederation!

Aloft his faithful steed, Bessie, Johnnie agrees to help. Together, he and the Cheaters set out to find the monster’s lair and slay anyone who stands in their way. But things are not always as straightforward as they seem, and as their journey progresses, Johnnie and the Cheaters find themselves drawn into a conflict far grander than they could have ever imagined.