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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3406 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 13, 2026

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MENACE came out in Early Access on Steam, and I've been enjoying the hell out of it. Sure, it's got rough edges and needs some balance tweaks, but the devs are absolutely cooking.

That includes a banger OST. Just listen to this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xt55wnTWt60

Hoorah Major. Every time I hear it play, I absolutely lock the fuck in. It's going in my gym playlist, I don't even know what genre this is, but I want more. Inject it into my veins with a fire-heated needle.

Didn't we have that thread last week?

Anyways, I ran out of content in MENACE, and I worry about replayability. I worry because I fear that my next playthrough would look an awful lot like my first. After all, I would end up recruiting the exact same characters. Some difference might be injected by me not having acccess to the exact same gear, but that feels relatively minor. It feels predictable. This has been my worry since they announced their intention to have fixed characters, and having played it now, I see no reason to think otherwise.

It's Early access with placeholder scenarios and setting.

The engine seems solid, if they make it somehow less aggravatingly drawn out by say, enabling formation moving or simultaneous turns, it has great potential.

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