Maku
whelp · 2026 · Bullet Hell, Survival, Survival Horror, Action, Anime
PC
Mostly Positive74% · 34
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About Maku
Survive the swarm!
Maku is a bullet hell survival experience where anyone can pick up and play. Delve into various worlds to fight your way through thousands of monsters and grow in power!
Maku is a bullet hell survival experience where anyone can pick up and play. Delve into various worlds to fight your way through thousands of monsters and grow in power!
Inverted Bullet Hell
Intuitive movement-focused controls allow you to focus on dodging and weaving through your enemies while you fire your weapons at the swarm. Coordinate your positioning to align with your firing patterns and timing to maximize your damage.Power-Up!
Obtain new weapons and upgrades to create powerful builds and experiment with diverse synergies in order to defeat the world boss before time runs out. Collect coins along the way to unlock permanent upgrades and improve your future runs. Defeat bosses and complete challenges to unlock characters for your roster and progress to new worlds with increasing difficulty.Increasingly Difficult Challenges!
Complete levels and challenges to unlock the skill-testing challenge modes, Hardcore and Demon mode. Alter your experience with the Endless and Turbo modes. See how long you can survive and farm permanent upgrades in Endless mode. Shorten run times and test your reflexes with Turbo mode.Maku is a solo project that does not use any AI assets.DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 0 of 1 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
$2.99
to own everything
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's nostalgic pixel art, engaging music, and solid gameplay mechanics that capture the appeal of the survivor-like genre with unique bullet-hell elements and good character variety. However, some note that despite its low price and potential, the game feels unpolished for a 1.0 release with occasional bugs that can disrupt gameplay, and a few feel the experience is just adequate rather than standout.
i die for games like this so ofc i had to get it! the art and music is super nostalgic and the game is surprisingly pretty difficult! im excited to see where this goes3 found this helpful
Got it today for 68 cents, it should've rightfully been 69 cents, but oh well missed opportunities. However, if I had paid the asking price of $2.99 I found it to be highly worth it. Easy to get into with a few minor bugs here and there nothing a restart doesn't fix. Remember it's only 68 cents, even at 2.99 you can forgive the shortfalls, I know I would. I will be playing this more. It has lots of potential, lots of mobs, but you feel you're accomplishing things on the first run.2 found this helpful
Weeb vampire survivors2 found this helpful
FANTASTIC twin stick survivor bullet-hell game. Fuses bullet-hell and reverse bullet-hell for a unique challenge. Played well on Steam Deck. Bosses and enemies progress well per level. The game has multiple challenge modes and super cute retro themed pixel art too.1 found this helpful
Super fun and lots of characters to unlock!
I WOULD GIVE IT A MAYBE IF I COULD! Eehhhhhhh it's okay. I love the genre so I enjoyed the game but it's buggy and this is supposed to be a 1.0 release? Yeah idk about that. It needs more time in the oven. It's decent, I'd say 5/10 but the $0.68 prices kicks it up to a 6/10.
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