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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