Love retro boomer shooters and need another to add to your list? Mala Petaka has just arrived on Steam and it’s rather colourful. This might be one of the most colourful shooters I’ve seen in a long time.
More about it: “You play as ‘Petaka’, an angry amnesiac that’s on a journey to revive his memory by exploring multiple universes through warp portal technology. His journey won’t be easy because he’ll encounter many one-eyed aliens and annoying drones that’ll attack him.”
Game Highlights:
- 2 modes available: Story Mode & Horde Mode.
- Various weapons available: fists, pistol, shotgun, machine gun, grenade launcher, plasma rifle and more!
- All weapons have alternate fire.
- Kill enemies with Fist Barrage by pressing one key to gain health and armor bonuses!
- 20+ enemy types!
- Useful powerups like Time Freeze, Rampage, God Mode.
- Colourful NES-like cartoony graphics.
- 8bit / Chiptune SFX & BGM by Indonesian Chiptunes veterans like Remedmatika, Shakaboyd, Remori, and more!
- 4 difficulty modes for player to choose: Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard.
- You start at the Hub map that let you choose the level you want to beat first via warp portals.
It’s using GZDoom, so you can probably get it running in a Native local install of GZDoom on Linux systems. Otherwise, you can try it in Proton.

