MEANCE devs talk about its turn-based brutality, inspirations, and more

Overhype Studios have been teasing their newest game, MENACE, since 2023. Best known as the developers of 2D turned-based RPG Blood Brothers, MENACE switches up the setting to sci-fi. At Gamescom we sat down with the devs to talk about all things MENACE.

0:00 – Introduction 00:34 – The influence of Battle Brothers 01:34 – The sci-fi setting 02:29 – Inspirations 03:55 – Named characters 04:56 – Death is permanent 05:40 – Going into missions 06:42 – Narrative structure 08:01 – Love of the genre 09:21 – Tabletop inspiration 10:44 – Target audience 11:30 – The XCOM question

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