Feature: TMNT: Splintered Fate Dev Talks Crafting A Radical Roguelike And How Hades "Opened Our Eyes"

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TMNT fans were eating well back in 2023. Shredder's Revenge landed a totally tubular DLC, Mutant Mayhem was one of the franchise's best films in decades, and completely out of the blue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate popped out of its shell on Apple Arcade.

This roguelike from developer Super Evil Megacorp took the combat-first focus of the Turtles video games that we all knew so well and shaped it into a gameplay loop that the franchise had rarely touched. It bore all the hallmarks of Hades with its difficulty curve, approach to action, and progression system, but with the heroes in a half-shell standing in the place of Supergiant's Greek gods.

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