Incline MENACE - sci-fi turn-based tactical RPG from Battle Brothers devs - coming to Early Access on Q3 2025

[rusty_shackleford]

Nobody mentioned the lack of the term "RPG" in the game's description. I wonder if that remains the case when it's formally announced.

battle brothers isn't an rpg either so

more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

it's as much of an rpg as xcom

which is again more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

you're confusing tacticool games with rpg

tacticool games are more rpg than 90% games in this subforum.

nope
there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

 

[Reinhardt]

Nobody mentioned the lack of the term "RPG" in the game's description. I wonder if that remains the case when it's formally announced.

battle brothers isn't an rpg either so

more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

it's as much of an rpg as xcom

which is again more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

you're confusing tacticool games with rpg

tacticool games are more rpg than 90% games in this subforum.

nope
there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

Look back last few pages and see how many rpgs you can find. This subforum is a disgrace.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Nobody mentioned the lack of the term "RPG" in the game's description. I wonder if that remains the case when it's formally announced.

battle brothers isn't an rpg either so

more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

it's as much of an rpg as xcom

which is again more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

you're confusing tacticool games with rpg

tacticool games are more rpg than 90% games in this subforum.

nope
there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

You like games?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Nobody mentioned the lack of the term "RPG" in the game's description. I wonder if that remains the case when it's formally announced.

battle brothers isn't an rpg either so

more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

it's as much of an rpg as xcom

which is again more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

you're confusing tacticool games with rpg

tacticool games are more rpg than 90% games in this subforum.

nope
there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

You like games?

probably far more than most of the people on this site

 

[Reinhardt]

Nobody mentioned the lack of the term "RPG" in the game's description. I wonder if that remains the case when it's formally announced.

battle brothers isn't an rpg either so

more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

it's as much of an rpg as xcom

which is again more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

you're confusing tacticool games with rpg

tacticool games are more rpg than 90% games in this subforum.

nope
there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

You like games?

probably far more than most of the people on this site

what about rpg games?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Exploration is one of the three pillars of RPG mechanics. Although squad-based tactics game have substantial overlap with RPG mechanics, without exploration they can't be RPGs.


On the other hand, "tactics is the new RPG":

Spoiler

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children, Dungeon of Naheulbeuk, and Urtuk

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Exploration is one of the three pillars of RPG mechanics. Although squad-based tactics game have substantial overlap with RPG mechanics, without exploration they can't be RPGs.


On the other hand, "tactics is the new RPG":

Spoiler

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children, Dungeon of Naheulbeuk, and Urtuk

Hang on, would you consider combat to be one of these pillars? Or should it be a chief aspect of the pillar that ought to be rightly called- problem solving?

 

[RNGsus]

I'm ok with the tacticool vs choose your adventure struggle for rpg.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

As someone who prefers exploration above all else, I'm dismayed by CRPGs becoming a struggle between tactics games and CYOA&Cs.

Spoiler

Some of the tactics games are pretty damned good, though.

 

[Grunker]

there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

 

[rusty_shackleford]

there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

how is that ironic?

 

[Nazrim Eldrak]

That is interesting:
Overhype Studios, Hamburg – €1,073,555
They got the money from the German government.

Spoiler

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/365360/discussions/0/3201496916527569718/

Edit:
Awesome, instead of telling me there was already a thread someone just sent my post here.
My criticism is that maybe people following the news could have benefited from within the news thread knowing this thread existed, or does the responsible person really think I'm the only one who didn't know?

 

[agris]

 

[Harthwain]

That is interesting:
Overhype Studios, Hamburg – €1,073,555
They got the money from the German government.

Why is this interesting, exactly?

 

[Visperas]

Nobody mentioned the lack of the term "RPG" in the game's description. I wonder if that remains the case when it's formally announced.

battle brothers isn't an rpg either so

more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

it's as much of an rpg as xcom

which is again more rpg than 90% games in this subforum

you're confusing tacticool games with rpg

tacticool games are more rpg than 90% games in this subforum.

nope
there's a tendency for people on this forum to equate "games I like" with rpg

You like games?

probably far more than most of the people on this site

What a missed opportunity to say "more than 90% of peope on this subforum". I'm disappointed in you, son.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.gamespress.com/en-US/MENACE-turn-based-rpg-announced

August 21, 2023 – Hooded Horse is excited to announce MENACE, the first of two new games to be announced during gamescom 2023. From Overhype Studios, the developers behind popular medieval turn-based tactical RPG Battle Brothers, MENACE is a grounded sci-fi strategy experience that tasks players to restore order in the far reaches of space.

Lead a strike force against numerous threats in this brutal tactical RPG. Players must pick their allegiances and travel from planet to planet, fielding infantry, tanks, and mechs to answer distress calls and engage in intense turn-based battles. Cut off from the core worlds, help isn’t coming but neither is oversight or repercussions.

MENACE takes everything beloved about Battle Brothers – the evolving characters, the challenge, the army management, the dynamic sandbox gameplay – and yes, even the existential horror of facing off against an unbeatable enemy – and improves it tenfold. 3D environments allow for larger skirmishes across living battlefields, and the game’s mysterious enemy builds on Battle Brother’s sandbox and offers a powerful foe that has profound consequences on the strategic layer. Together these innovations will shake up the current norms of turn-based tactics games.

Key features of MENACE include:

• Procedurally generated multi-mission operations.
• Large, dynamic battle maps with innovative new mechanics for suppression and cover.
• A wide variety of vehicles for total combined-arms warfare.
• A large (and randomized) selection of characters to talk to, train, and forge together into an elite force aboard the TCRN Impetus, the player’s mobile base of operations.
• Countless equipment options, detailed supply management, and the ability to commandeer vehicles.
• Disparate factions to negotiate and ally with, or destroy, at the player’s option.

Every run of MENACE plays differently from the last, and players will face seemingly insurmountable challenges that take multiple forms across playthroughs, testing strategic and tactical prowess in new ways each time.

The Hooded Horse team will be at our booth in Hall 10.1 / stand E-020 throughout gamescom, so please do drop by to find out more about MENACE and the other games in the portfolio. We’ll have demos, goodie bags, and more new stuff to show!

MENACE will be localized from English into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

MENACE will be coming to early access for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store in 2024. A press kit is available.

Press inquiries: press@hoodedhorse.com

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Full 3d and cinematic trailer. I am not optimistic

 

[Diggfinger]

Looks cool!

Nice X-Com, Starcraft vibes... def some 90s soul here

 

[almondblight]

As someone who prefers exploration above all else, I'm dismayed by CRPGs becoming a struggle between tactics games and CYOA&Cs.

Most RPGs have terrible exploration though. It's pretty good in the Exile series, OK-ish in some of the Ultima's. Most of the time it's just bad though.

Anyway, I really hate generic 3D graphics. I feel like you could show someone screenshots from a dozen games with this style, and they wouldn't be able to tell which was which.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Day 1 purchase motherfuckers

 

[Shaki]

If it's even half as good as Battle Brothers, then it's already enough to become one of the greatest games. I'm extremely hyped for this shit.

 

[ArchAngel]

https://www.gamespress.com/en-US/MENACE-turn-based-rpg-announced

August 21, 2023 – Hooded Horse is excited to announce MENACE, the first of two new games to be announced during gamescom 2023. From Overhype Studios, the developers behind popular medieval turn-based tactical RPG Battle Brothers, MENACE is a grounded sci-fi strategy experience that tasks players to restore order in the far reaches of space.

Lead a strike force against numerous threats in this brutal tactical RPG. Players must pick their allegiances and travel from planet to planet, fielding infantry, tanks, and mechs to answer distress calls and engage in intense turn-based battles. Cut off from the core worlds, help isn’t coming but neither is oversight or repercussions.

MENACE takes everything beloved about Battle Brothers – the evolving characters, the challenge, the army management, the dynamic sandbox gameplay – and yes, even the existential horror of facing off against an unbeatable enemy – and improves it tenfold. 3D environments allow for larger skirmishes across living battlefields, and the game’s mysterious enemy builds on Battle Brother’s sandbox and offers a powerful foe that has profound consequences on the strategic layer. Together these innovations will shake up the current norms of turn-based tactics games.

Key features of MENACE include:

• Procedurally generated multi-mission operations.
• Large, dynamic battle maps with innovative new mechanics for suppression and cover.
• A wide variety of vehicles for total combined-arms warfare.
• A large (and randomized) selection of characters to talk to, train, and forge together into an elite force aboard the TCRN Impetus, the player’s mobile base of operations.
• Countless equipment options, detailed supply management, and the ability to commandeer vehicles.
• Disparate factions to negotiate and ally with, or destroy, at the player’s option.

Every run of MENACE plays differently from the last, and players will face seemingly insurmountable challenges that take multiple forms across playthroughs, testing strategic and tactical prowess in new ways each time.

The Hooded Horse team will be at our booth in Hall 10.1 / stand E-020 throughout gamescom, so please do drop by to find out more about MENACE and the other games in the portfolio. We’ll have demos, goodie bags, and more new stuff to show!

MENACE will be localized from English into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

MENACE will be coming to early access for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store in 2024. A press kit is available.

Press inquiries: press@hoodedhorse.com

First it looked like their take on X-com but after reading a bit more it is BB in space with legs. Still seems interesting, but I would have preferred their take on X-com.

 

[Modron]

but I would have preferred their take on X-com.

Don't we have enough takes on Xcom at this point?

 

[ArchAngel]

but I would have preferred their take on X-com.

Don't we have enough takes on Xcom at this point?

No. At least none that are of same quality as Open Xcom but modern.