With an official release date confirmed at The Game Awards 2022,Meet Your Makerlooks poised to be a new fan-favorite for sadisticSuper Mario Makerplayers who enjoy creating near-impossible, hard-to-beat gauntlets. WhenBehaviour InteractiveannouncedMeet Your Maker, it introduced audiences to a game that blended together a survivalist base-building format with the fun of PvP raids, all decked out in a gritty dieselpunk style. Since it gives players the freedom to build and fortify their own outposts in-game, the best defensive strategy will undoubtedly require players to be the cruelest.
Comparisons to the family-friendly fun ofSuper Marioseem bizarre, butSuper Mario Makerhelped adjust the scope of level designs through player-made content. Giving players creative freedom for level designs lead to a range of different personalities inevitably shining through, such as those who create “auto levels” that can be beaten without moving or others who recreate entire games like aSuper Mario Maker 2version ofDuckHunt. Among these styles are players who enjoy creating challenging levels to see people suffer when trying to beat them, which could be the exact crowdMeet Your Makeris targeting.
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Meet Your Maker’s Difficulty
Though several games exist that allow people to build their own bases and defend it from others, such asRustorArk: Survival Evolvedand its upcoming sequel, it is not usually the sole focus of these experiences.Meet Your Makerplaces its base-building and strategy defense as a central tenet of its gameplay, allowing players to challenge themselves by raiding others' outposts. Not only can players build their outposts however they’d like, they can simultaneously attempt to attack other outposts and earn rewards for successfully doing either.
Meet Your Maker’sformat hinges on prioritizing player ingenuity andFromSoft levels of difficulty. As players can be killed in one hit, raids often consist of multiple attempts that require trial and error, adapting to traps and enemies while gathering rewards such as building blocks or genetic material. Outposts need to be rigorously defended, using strategically placed and modified traps, guards, or block types. to do well in the game, players will need to quickly overcome these challenges in spite of frustrating setbacks from failed raids.
Meet Your Maker Meets Super Mario Maker
As mentioned,Meet Your Makeris a far cry from the likes ofSuper Mario Maker, but parallels are there.Meet Your Maker’sone-hit knockout format can be equated to player-made levels inSuper Mario Makerthat don’t providepower-ups like mushrooms or fire flowersas a buffer, forcing Mario to complete the level taking no damage. The range of blocks, enemies, and more in bothSuper Mario Makergames can lead to level designs become intensely strategic, exploiting things like P switches or Yoshi jumps, and this reflects the same level of strategy thatMeet Your Makermight necessitate.
Beyond these parallels, the core ethos of players thatMeet Your Makeris appealing to can be seen among the sameSuper Mario Makerplayers who design levels that are intentionally difficult, some that can take upwards ofeight hours to beat inSuper Mario Maker 2. While these were typically just a subsection ofSuper Mario Makeralongside both traditional and non-traditional level layouts,Meet Your Makeris proposing to take this approach from niche to necessary. By channeling the cruelest level designs fromSuper Mario Maker,players could thrive inMeet Your Maker’spost-apocalyptic PvP world.
Meet Your Makeris set to release on Jul 03, 2025, for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
