History VideoGame / MeetYourMaker

Meet Your Maker is an FPS post-apocalypse dungeon crawler[=/=]dungeon builder developed and published by Behaviour Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, [=PlayStation 4=], [=PlayStation 5=], Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in April 2023.

* AutoRevive: The Phoenix Pod is a once-per-run consumable that will create a molecular reconstruction of you if you die. However, it can't clone spent ammo for some strange reason, and will be destroyed by the security systems once you steal the [=GenMat=] vial. [[note]]There are ''many'' side-effects, but nothing that will hinder your combat performance, and your Sanctuary can just clone you a fresh new body.[[/note]]

* CloneDegeneration: The ''point'' of the Chimera Wars. While cloning has been mastered, the clones are not fully immune to the Corrugenic Virus and will experience genetic damage over time, and the [=GenMat=] required to fix the damage or create new clones is a 'very' limited resource.

* DeflectorShields: The Arc Barrier will make you ''immune'' to all damage from all sources at all angles. The only drawback is that it only lasts 1.5 seconds (2 seconds if you use a timed block) and requires another 8.5 seconds to recharge.[[note]]Lore states that the precursors to the Arc Barriers were meant to create safe cities that would be protected from literally everything outside, but they could never get the damn things to work long-term continuously. However, the whole wasteland knows the value of a futuristic kinetic barrier.[[/note]]

* FantasticFirearms: The Volt Lancer is a gauss bolt rifle and the Falconic Plasmabow is a semi-automatic plasma-strung bolt pistol. Most of the world's gunpowder and gunpower ingredients have gone dry, and any explosion that doesn't use fantastic methods runs the risk of destroying the fragile [=GenMat=], leading to an arms race of weird.

* SchizoTech: Most of the world's guns have been replaced with bolt shooters like gauss rifles and crossbows, most explosives use electrical flux rather than chemical ignition, and many of the traps look like they belong in a Film/MadMax movie while also using futuristic technology. Justified by the apocalypse destroying all industry but not erasing supercomputers; all that processing power is geared towards creating technology whose sole purpose is the collection and preservation of chemically-volatile [=GenMat=].
* SpiderSense: The Custodians' Fortralis suits are focused on detecting danger, giving you a heads-up as to the direction of a trap or enemy that's about to fire.

In 2032, civilization crumbles to the Corrugenic Virus Pandemic, as the DNA of the life it infects is mutated beyond repair. Over centuries, the survivors coalesce into the dubious Salvation Council, a collection of clone Sanctuaries, and roaming tribes of techno-barbarians. Technology veers sideways into madness as the raw processing power of every surviving supercomputer is tasked towards pure brutal survival, resulting in a hellish LowCultureHighTech age, where cyborg slaves and sadistic traps litter the wasteland, while complex miraculous nanotechnology is only used for the purpose of harvesting and hoarding genetic materials (commonly referred to as [=GenMat=]), by slaughtering people for their tissue samples, and exhuming mass graves to pump their genetic materials into test subjects.

You awaken to [[TitleDrop Meet Your Maker]], a HumanoidAbomination called the Chimera, clinging to the hope of consuming enough [=GenMat=] to evolve into a species that is both immune to the effects of the Corrugenic Virus and able to survive the horrors of the wasteland, let alone their life support pod. You are not alone; thousands of other Custodians serve thousands of Chimera in thousands of Sanctuaries, and you're all competing for [=GenMat=]. Your duties are twofold: raid the deathtrap-infested Outposts overseeing the harvest of the corpse-rich mass graves known as Burial Sites to steal the concentrated [=GenMat=] stored in their cores, and build your own deathtrap-infested Outposts to farm [=GenMat=] from both the area and the invading raiders who will die in droves trying to steal from you.

* AcidPool: You have Corrosive ''Cubes''; toxic waste products are repurposed by suspending them in midair via plasma as traps. While they're cost effective and deadly to the undexterous, their core weakness is that a prepared player can dash through them (which can hurt if you used one as the only thing standing between your [=GenMat=] and an open window. Unless you use an expensive solidifying mod.

* DeflectorShields: The Arc Barrier will make you ''immune'' to all damage from all sources at all angles. The only drawback is that it only lasts 1.5 seconds (2 seconds if you use a timed block) and requires another 8.5 seconds to recharge.

** Forsaken Tombs in particular are side objectives which raiders can find to gather parts and synthite. Many of them are armed to the teeth with traps to ruin greedy raiders.

* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Some traps have the ability to home in on their target. Don't expect to hide behind a Corrosive Cube

In 2027, civilization crumbles to the Corrugenic Virus Pandemic, as the DNA of the life it infects is mutated beyond repair. Over centuries, the survivors coalesce into the dubious Salvation Council and roaming tribes of techno-barbarians. Technology veers sideways into madness as the raw processing power of every surviving supercomputer is tasked towards pure brutal survival, resulting in a hell-lit age where cyborg slaves and sadistic traps are the norm, while complex miraculous nanotechnology is only used for the purpose of harvesting and hoarding genetic materials (commonly referred to as [=GenMat=]) - by slaughtering people for their tissue samples and exhuming mass graves to pump their genetic materials into test subjects.

You awaken to [[TitleDrop Meet Your Maker]], a HumanoidAbomination called the Chimera, clinging to the hope of evolving into the first of a sapient species that is immune to the effects of the Corrugenic Virus and able to survive the horrors of the wasteland. You are not alone; thousands of other Custodians serve thousands of Chimera in thousands of Sanctuaries, and you're all competing for [=GenMat=]. Your duties are twofold: raid the deathtrap-infested Outposts overseeing the harvest of the corpse-rich mass graves known as Burial Sites to steal the concentrated [=GenMat=] stored in their cores, and build your own deathtrap-infested Outposts to farm [=GenMat=] from both the area and the invading raiders who will die in droves trying to steal from you.

Make no mistake: Your job is to literally walk straight into deathtraps, again and again. You will die, again and again. Your rivals will die, again and again. But practice makes perfect - or at least passable. Maybe you can forget the world ending, have fun as a post-apocalypse supervillain, and ''make your enemies meet their makers''.

* AcidPool: You have acid ''cubes''. Toxic waste products are reused by suspending them in midair via plasma as traps. While they're cost effective and deadly to the undexterous, their core weakness is that a prepared player can dash through them (which can hurt if you used one as the only thing standing between your [=GenMat=] and an open window. Unless you use an expensive solidifying mod.

* DeathCourse: A classic strategy is to place a slew of traps and guards in a hallway or large area. This can get even worse if you use trap mods to hide the course until the [=GenMat=] is stolen while placing it right next to the [=GenMat=] core, forcing the raider to either think fast or run faster before the traps start activating all at once.

* DungeonMaintenance: Nanotechnology and flash-cloning ensures your traps and guards will be restocked automatically. However, the ''purpose'' of your Outposts is to farm [=GenMat=], meaning you need to Reset or Promote the area once the farmable [=GenMat=] is exhausted. Promoting an outpost will increase its item cap, meaning you can improve upon your designs.

* SpikesOfDoom: Your basic trap is a retracting spike wall that shoots out after detecting an enemy.

* {{Trapdoor}}: One type of 'non-lethal' trap is the holocube, a block that looks like bedrock until you get close or shoot it, self-destructing entirely. You can use this to trick a raider into walking on what they think is solid bedrock and then fall into whatever you have prepared. For extra paranoia, you can mod it so that it doesn't reveal itself until you've stolen the [=GenMat=]; even if you shoot it and step on it on the way in, it won't reveal itself or let anything pass through it until you're trying to escape.
* {{Unobtainium}}: [=GenMat=] is everything to the Sanctuaries. The Corrugenic Virus is slowly breaking down everything biological everywhere on the planet, so new samples of human DNA are required to repair the damage, while also improving the stats of the team. The Sanctuaries' hope is that enough [=GenMat=] consumption will one day create a being who is immune to the Corrugenic Virus. With the population of humanity at the brink and most mass graves exhumed, the Sanctuaries have turned to competing against each other for the scraps.

Meet Your Maker is an FPS post-apocalypse dungeon crawler / dungeon builder developed and published by Behaviour Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, [=PlayStation 4=], [=PlayStation 5=], Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in April 2023.

* {{Unobtainium}}: Synthite, a super-polymer which can be quickly constructed or reconstructed into any material, to the point that it can even be used to create a flawed ''clone'' of a mutant from a device the size of a ''fist''. Sadly, it was created centuries too late; as the world depends primarily on genetic material to survive, synthite is wasted by the thousands of units for the sole purpose of gathering flimsy DNA.

In 2027, civilization crumbles to the Corrugenic Virus Pandemic, as the DNA of the life it infects is mutated beyond repair. Over centuries, the survivors coalesce into the dubious Salvation Council and roaming tribes of techno-barbarians. Technology veers sideways into madness as the raw processing power of every surviving supercomputer is tasked towards pure violent survival, resulting in a hell-lit age where cyborg slaves and sadistic traps are the norm, while complex miraculous nanotechnology serves the purpose of hoarding [=GenMat=] - that is, slaughtering people for their tissue samples and exhuming mass graves to pump their genetic materials into their test subjects.

You awaken to [[TitleDrop Meet Your Maker]], a HumanoidAbomination called the Chimera, clinging to the hope of evolving into the first of a sapient species that is immune to the effects of the Corrugenic Virus and able to survive the horrors of the wasteland. You are not alone; thousands of other Custodians serve thousands of Chimera in thousands of Sanctuaries, and you're all competing for [=GenMat=]. Your duties are twofold: raid the deathtrap-infested Outposts of the corpse-rich Burial Sites to steal the concentrated [=GenMat=] stored in their core, and build your own deathtrap-infested Outposts to farm [=GenMat=] from both the area and the invading raiders.

** As a Custodian, you are cloned every time you die. In general, your life takes less to clone than the concentrated [=GenMat=] you're trying to steal, so getting yourself killed on a mission a few times is an acceptable risk.

** Your sub-clones are flash-cloned cyborg attack slaves, designed to be both cost-effective and generally mindless.
* GodzillaThreshold: Humanity is nearly extinct, and there's not enough uncorrupted genetic material to maintain all the Sanctuaries. The Sanctuaries resorted to increasingly vile experiments to save humanity, then turned on one another to hoard the last remaining scraps in hopes that the strongest would develop the cure.
* SchizoTech: Most of the world's guns have been replaced with bolt shooters like gauss rifles and crossbows, most explosives use electrical flux rather than chemical ignition, and many of the traps look like they belong in a Film/MadMax movie while also using futuristic technology. Justified by the apocalypse destroying all industry but not erasing supercomputers, all of which is geared towards the collection and preservation of chemically-volatile [=GenMat=].

* Trapdoor: One type of 'non-lethal' trap is the holocube, a block that looks like bedrock until you get close or shoot it, self-destructing entirely. You can use this to trick a raider into walking on what they think is solid bedrock and then fall into whatever you have prepared. For extra paranoia, you can mod it so that it doesn't reveal itself until you've stolen the [=GenMat=]; even if you shoot it and step on it on the way in, it won't reveal itself or let anything pass through it until you're trying to escape.