The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles need no introduction — unless you’ve been living under a turtle shell, you know who they are. The heroes in a half shell are cultural icons, and they’ve been making waves in video games for decades — from beloved arcade classics like Turtles In Time to the modern masterpiece of Shredder’s Revenge. The turtles can reach across generations, but they’re about to go somewhere they’ve never gone before — a strategy game. But perhaps even more surprisingly, they’ll also be completely without their mentor and biggest villain.
“If this game was a $5 million investment over three years, I don’t think we’d be killing off Splinter and Shadow,” Strange Scaffold founder and game director Xalavier Nelson Jr. tells Inverse, “Making a turn-based game, which is not a market space TMNT has been ‘validated’ in before. We buy back the ability to be as interesting as possible by working at this more efficient scale.”
