Maraka
David Kaleta · 2025 · Action Roguelike, Physics, Top-Down, Roguelite, Fast-Paced
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Mostly Positive70% · 27
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About Maraka
Maraka is an action-packed horde survival roguelite game featuring physics based combat. Delve into a procedurally generated cave system on an alien planet. Harness the power of magnets and the environment to wield as your weapon: defeat opponents by physically manipulating objects and the enemy itself.
The gameplay is focused on action-packed exploration and collection of resources within a complex system of caves on an alien planet called Maraka. You undertake missions, unlock new skills, explore new areas.
This new game comes from the developers of Urtuk: The Desolation.
Features
- environment as your weapon
- magnetic gun to pull, push, propel and activate special physical effects
- fully destructible environment
- procedural generation of huge cave complex
- "extraction shooter": undertake missions to collect resources and craft new items
- handmade graphics
What's the story?
You've been dispatched on a rescue mission to an uncharted, distant planet. While attempting to land, your spaceship's systems encounter disruptions, leading to a crash within an expansive network of caverns deep beneath the planet's surface. Your objective now is to uncover the fate of the previous expedition and find a way to escape this nightmarish location!
How to play?
You move your astro with WASD keys, and use mouse buttons for bashing (melee weapon/utility) and firing magnets. The magnets and magnetic forces are the highlights of the game - cleverly reposition objects, items and creatures in order to defeat them. There are many environmental hazards dangerous to creatures only, but NOT to you! Use them wisely!
There are many types of physical objects involved in gameplay, like big rolling spiked boulders, exploding mines, throwing lances, deadly metal shards and so on.. All of those are free to use. The walls within cave are fully destructible. Remember, bashing (LMB) is the least effective way to defeat an enemy. Just push/throw them into the spikes or onto a devouring plant. Or use combos with different status effects (stun, slow, electrolit,..) to apply extra damaging effects.
Community
For active communication with the developers and the most up to date information, please join our Discord or the Steam Forum of Maraka.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A really neat mechanic without much of a game attached. One run feels much like another, there's no real goal you're working towards, and the difficulty does not meaningfully progress past a few levels deep. Early resource grinding and picking the permanent passive upgrades at every opportunity can snowball you to the point where death is implausible; most of my playtime is in a single run that got very safe and very samey and only ended because of a crash.7 found this helpful
This game is fun as heck once you get the hang of it, I'm new to mouse and keyboard and wanted a game to help me improve without being too much for my skill level and this game fit that bill perfectly😎1 found this helpful
First it crashed a few times right after start, then it somehow worked after I clicked a button before it managed to crash within the 2seconds after launching, and then it turned out it's not exactly prepared to work in my native resolution which is 1920x1200. Parts of the intro screen and some mission-end screens didn't fit on my monitor. There was a post on the steam forum regarding the same crash I had, with logs and all, and that post doesn't yet have a dev reply, since a year ago. So... yeah. The concept of the game is ok, I liked the monsters design. Mechanics seem to be quite innovative, you're not just shooting stuff. A little bit more of technical polish would help.1 found this helpful
Maraka, developed by David Kaleta and Lukas Svrcek and published by David Kaleta, is an ambitious physics-based roguelike that attempts to merge environmental manipulation with tense, skill-driven combat. It is set on an alien planet where survival depends not on brute strength or conventional weaponry, but on the creative use of magnetism. You play as a lone explorer stranded deep beneath the surface, navigating through a labyrinth of caves filled with strange structures, hostile lifeforms, and the lingering wreckage of failed expeditions. Rather than presenting a linear story, Maraka frames its narrative as a gradual discovery, revealing fragments of a past catastrophe while emphasizing the player’s isolation and resilience in a hostile environment. What makes Maraka immediately stand out is its focus on physics-driven gameplay. The central mechanic revolves around a magnetic device that allows the player to attract, repel, and manipulate objects in the environment. Rocks, debris, and even enemies become tools in your arsenal, transforming every encounter into a sandbox of potential strategies. The magnetic system is versatile—you can pull enemies toward hazards, fling objects t…1 found this helpful
Totally recommend it, one of the coolest rougelikes I have played in recent memory, I really dig the comic style grapic and the sounds. Also have to mention the class system which is a really welcome idea in a game like this
I didn't find the loop particularly engaging. But I gave you my money regardless to support development of Urtuk 2. You are welcome
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