Meet ‘Meet Your Maker,’ gaming’s newest ‘Schrodinger’s success’

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In the current gaming market, it’s impossible not to step on yet-another new contender hoping to revolutionize gaming and achieve Fortnite levels of cultural saturation. Success has been hard to come by — even the most unique ideas, such as a wrestling battle royale or dodgeball team shooter, shutter after a year (or oftentimes less) on the market. Being a free-to-play game that relies on constant micro-transactions, consistently growing player counts, and endless updates to keep the game fresh and fun — it’s really no surprise that few games find success. 

Developer Behaviour Interactive achieved the rarified status of developing a popular live service game with their asynchronous survival horror game, Dead by Deadlight. Having partnered with nearly a dozen horror franchises — Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Scream, Resident Evil, and even Stranger Things — the predator-vs-prey gameplay loop has intoxicated players ever since it launched in 2016. Behaviour Interactive is ready to try again, but the odds are much less certain with their new venture, Meet Your Maker. 

You’d be forgiven for not knowing anything about the game; beyond its day and date release announcement within this month’s free PS Plus offerings, very little noise has been made about it by anyone. Rather than a ready-made multiplayer venture like its predecessor, Meet Your Maker tasks players with raiding other player’s bases to get parts to then upgrade their own bases. The gameplay is split between these two modes: the first, an FPS dungeon-crawler where you must avoid traps and enemies while scavenging for items; the second, a base-builder that allows for creative kills, confusing level design, and trap placement devious enough to kill anyone stupid