The developer studio Behaviour Interactive is mainly known for their horror hit Dead by Daylight. The success now allows the studio to take on new titles, and one of them is “Meet Your Maker” – a brutal version of Mario Maker with a touch of Doom. MeinMMO introduces you to the title.
What is Meet Your Maker? The developers describe the new title as a “building and adventure game.” However, that sounds far too harmless for what you will be served there.
Because Meet Your Maker is brutal, merciless, and a certain part of the game consists of watching others die. Deaths that you caused yourself.
The game offers you two gameplay situations: Either you build a deadly “outpost” with the extensive level design tools, or you try to traverse the created outposts from a first-person perspective. Both work in co-op mode as well.
MeinMMO shows you details about both gameplay situations. We embed the reveal trailer here:
For a chance to participate in the next test, register at meetyourmakergame.com. However, the next test will only run on PC.
“It never gets boring watching others die”
How does building work? As the creator of an outpost, you are responsible for protecting genetic material from the raiders.
Similar to Mario Maker on the Nintendo Switch, you have extensive level design tools to ensure death, destruction, and despair for the intruders.
Instead of a colorful and nice look like in Mario, you find yourself in a dark Doom setting. You can deploy “guards” that could come straight out of hell.
These “guards” are already an important element in increasing the death probability of the raiders. You can assign your guards individual patrolling routes and combine them with your traps.
Traps are the second important component in building your outpost raider-proof. Explosions, spikes, fire traps – you get plenty of tools to ensure the death of your opponents.
After completing your outpost, you take the death labyrinth online and receive rewards for all raiders who found their untimely end in your construction.
You can also watch replays of the raids that went through your outpost to make optimizations. The developers see a lot of potential here and write in the announcement: “It never gets boring watching others die”.
Meet Your Maker also introduces a season system and regularly brings new components for builders and leaderboards to crown the deadliest outposts.
No outpost is the same, bringing replay value
How does raiding work? On the other gameplay side are the raiders, who try to overcome the deadly labyrinths. You start missions from your sanctuary and must steal the genetic material from the outposts.
With this material, you are to ensure that the last bit of life on earth is preserved.
For this, you create custom loadouts with different weapons and perks. If you can’t handle an outpost, you can readjust and repeat it with the experiences from the first run. As long as you succeed in the outpost or the frustration overwhelms you.
The replay value on this gameplay side should arise from the different outposts. Each outpost in the game is supposed to be user-generated, and none should be the same as another.
Every time it creates a new experience and a confrontation with the individual approaches of the outpost builders.
When introducing a new game, we are particularly interested in your opinion. Leave us a comment with your thoughts on the topic.
It is definitely an exciting idea to combine the foundation of Mario Maker with a brutal shooter approach. But also a big risk to rely so heavily on community content.
If you are always looking for good co-op games, you can find some recommendations here: 9 great games for Nintendo Switch that you can play together.
