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How BAFTA-winning Dispatch was made using Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine helped the superhero game's indie developer create and iterate faster.

Creative Bloq · Apr 20

"What if the gameplay was fun? This blew our f***ing minds": Dispatch devs had a revelation after years of tired Telltale mechanics

"We're so used to, so conditioned to gameplay being the thing you had to do to check the box"

GamesRadar · Apr 3

Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle

Emergency call.

PC Gamer · Mar 12

'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'

What came first? The dispatching minigame or the Z-Team?

PC Gamer · Mar 11

Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'

"We could kind of squint and start to see Dispatch for the first time."

PC Gamer · Mar 11

Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

"If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

PC Gamer · Mar 11

Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say

Developing Dispatch meant ignoring investors and publishers who insisted it was doomed.

PC Gamer · Mar 10

"We were feeling like it was stale": Dispatch is styled like "a premium animated television show" because devs didn’t want players to reject it like Telltale’s Walking Dead

"We'd say, 'hey, you might really like this Walking Dead game or this Wolf Among Us game we're making,' and they would check it out and go 'Ah, it kind of looks like a video game'."

GamesRadar · Jan 29

Dispatch: how a game about a superhero workplace comedy became 2026's first must-play sleeper hit

Aaron Paul, ominous cat mascots and a team of misfit superheroes all combine to make this a must-play

Evening Standard · Jan 22

Dispatch leads say the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team's shout-out at the Golden Joysticks "means so much," and "I've never had a game make me cry so quickly before"

It's always nice when everyone gets along

GamesRadar · Nov 27, 2025