Meet Your Maker Is A Game About Building Deadly Trap-Filled Bases And Trying To Kill People With Them

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There's a good reason for that ominous title: this game is full of death. In a grim vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth, a gross, oversized fetus in a jar—an entity known as the Chimera—is the last hope for humanity. Feed this thing a precious resource called genetic material and you help it evolve, which for reasons I've yet to grasp will save the human race from an untimely demise. But the story doesn't matter all that much, because Meet Your Maker is really a game about building structures full of deadly traps and weird monsters, then watching other players try to get through them without dying horribly. There's certainly something intriguing about the bleak, grimdark narrative underpinning everything, but it's these danger-filled, player-made bases that I'm really interested in.

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Using an intuitive building system that's kinda like Minecraft meets Doom's SnapMap editor, it's the job of a builder to protect a priceless container of genetic material from raiders. Choosing from a large selection of building blocks, traps, enemies, decorations, and other bits 'n' bobs, you piece together a structure designed specifically to stop people getting inside. These can be as elaborate or simple as you like, but the trickier you make them, the more difficult the game will deem them—likely luring in more players. No one wants to breeze through a base, grab the genetic material, and skip out unscathed. Meet Your Maker encourages you to be a total bastard, hiding traps in blind spots and editing the patrol routes of your AI guards to make a raider's life as difficult as possible.

As a raider you have to survive the player-created gauntlets