It is decades after the outbreak of the Civil War, and conflict still rages over what is left of what was once America. The invention of powerful new steampunk weaponry kept the war going, and much of the country is now a desolate wasteland known as Damnation. The inventor of the new weapons has named himself Lord Prescott, and rules over the land as an absolute and evil dictator. You play as Hamilton Rourke, an outlaw, and it is up to you and a small band of rebels to stop Prescott at any cost and end the war once and for all.