Everywhere is the work of Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by formerGrand Theft Autoproducer Leslie Menzies.

That gives it some pedigree, but I still have a lot of doubts.

Fortnite’s creative tools have found an audience because Fortnite itself already had a huge and engaged playerbase.

A purple-haired woman in a Dreamworks Animation circa 2007 style looks at the camera.

Roblox, through its relative visual simplicity, manages to resist comparisons to more polished, blockbuster games.

Everything I’ve seen of Everywhere seems to lack creative spark.

What about a shooter, but one that’s– You get the idea.

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The cause of the tradeoff is different, but it reminds me of MMOs from the mid-2000s.

Tabula Rasa?APB?

Perhaps I’m too cynical.

All it takes is someone with a striking idea to build something original with it.

If that’s you, you cansign up for the beta on the Everywhere site.