Menace is the next turn-based tactical RPG from the makers of Battle Brothers

Overhype Studios moves from medieval fantasy to science fiction

Marco Wutz | Aug 21, 2023

Menace is the next turn-based tactical RPG from the makers of Battle Brothers /

It’s gamescom week and you know what that means: There will be lots of announcements and updates as publishers and developers present their latest work to the public and the press. The makers of superb medieval mercenary simulator Battle Brothers – basically Mount & Blade with challenging turn-based combat – started things off on Monday by announcing Menace, their next project.

Menace is a turn-based tactical RPG in a sci-fi setting that sees players answer distress calls as they travel from planet to planet, rolling in to save the day with infantry, mechs, and tanks. Out on the galactic frontier, far away from the core worlds, no other help will arrive – but there is also no oversight or accountability.

Overhype Studios, which is based in Hamburg, Germany, built Menace based on all the popular elements from Battle Brothers – things like the army management, evolving characters, the sandbox gameplay, and the high degree of challenge – and expanded the game from there. Battlefields and armies will be larger than before and shown in 3D graphics, while the mysterious foe invading these outer regions of space will pose a threat to the player on the strategical as well as the tactical layer.

Both suppression and cover mechanics are present in the battles, which feature combined-arms warfare with infantry and vehicles working together. Just like Battle Brothers, Menace is going for lots of replayability value by having procedurally-generated missions and giving players tons of options when it comes to their playstyles, equipment, and allies.

Menace will come to PC via Early Access on Steam and Epic Games Store in 2024 and is one of two games publisher Hooded Horse, known for its strategy game portfolio, is announcing around gamescom 2023.

Published Aug 21, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg