A burning pitchfork in a metro station full of soldiers in gas masks

⚠ Civil defence alert · 1986

MUKA – a Czech boomer shooter set in 1986

A Czech boomer shooter. Pitchfork in hand, reactor four on fire, and the state says nothing happened.

▶ Wishlist on Steam soon Play the free demo

Windows · macOS · Linux · Coming 2026

About the game

Officially,
nothing happened.

26 April 1986. Jakub, a Czech turbine technician, arrives at Chernobyl with a crate of beer from Plzeň as a gift. The test is postponed. The night shift gets bored. Somebody brings vodka.

At 01:23 reactor four explodes. Moscow says nothing happened – and quietly starts looking for a saboteur. A foreigner who got the plant crew drunk is perfect. Jakub wakes up with a hangover, a pitchfork and the whole zone hunting him.

“MOSCOW: THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL.”

Key features

A pitchfork raised against soldiers on a rainy square

Key features

Start with a pitchfork

You wake up with a hangover and a pitchfork. The arsenal grows as you go: vz. 52 pistol, grenades, a canister of petrol. What isn't in the map, you don't have.

Soldiers waiting between the pillars of a metro station

Key features

Gas masks & mutants

Soldiers, liquidators, dogs, rats and spiders, all changed by the glittering fallout. They hide behind pillars and they shout before they shoot.

A civil defence shelter covered in blood after a fight

Key features

Blood that flows

Chunky crimson splatters that run, pool and dry. Step in it and you leave tracks – or slip. Every fight leaves the room looking like a crime scene.

Dynamite in hand on the square in front of the culture house

Key features

Smash the propaganda

Portraits, banners, loudspeakers playing marches. Everything breaks, and every level keeps count of what you smashed.

A muzzle flash lighting up a tiled metro corridor

Key features

Beer heals

A bottle of beer from Plzeň patches you up. It does nothing for the radiation. Jakub drinks it anyway.

A dark brick cellar with a door half hidden in the wall

Key features

Secrets in the walls

Hidden rooms, cracked walls only an explosion opens, and an atomic bomb in the corner of a platform. Look twice before you leave.

Trailer

Liked what you saw? The Steam page opens in a few days.

▶ Wishlist on Steam soon

Boss

Do not wake
the Domovnice

Every Czech block of flats has one. There is a button in the middle of the square. Somebody always presses it.

Overtime & minigames

  • Shift 1 of the endless mode starting in a metro hall

    Overtime

    Endless mode

    Endless shifts of enemies, a new schedule every day and a leaderboard.

  • Bumper cars in a dark fairground hall

    Dodgem derby

    Minigame

    Bumper cars against drunk soldiers. No guns. Last car standing wins.

  • Playing the piano in a canteen while notes scroll past

    Piano recital

    Minigame

    Play Kalinka for the troops. Miss a note and they start shooting.

  • Riding a bike down a forest track between pines

    The wooded slope

    Minigame

    Downhill on a bike while pines fall around you. How far can you get?

Crime scene photos

Join the shift

Steam

Wishlist

The Steam page opens in a few days. Wishlists are how Steam decides which games to show to more players – follow us and we'll tell you the moment it's live.

▶ Wishlist on Steam soon

itch.io

Free demo

Can't wait? The first levels are playable right now, pitchfork included.

Play the demo

Social

Community

MUKA is still growing. Follow the development, share your runs and tell us what to break next.