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Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a rogue-lite crime action game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!

Maniac is a singleplayer, simulation and action roguelike game developed by Transhuman Design and published by Skystone Games.
Released on March 28th 2024 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Greek, Romanian, Turkish and Hebrew.

It has received 1,544 reviews of which 1,420 were positive and 124 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Maniac into these genres:

Singleplayer Simulation Action Roguelike Top-Down Shooter Bullet Hell Top-Down Rogue-like Action Sandbox Arcade Open World Twin Stick Shooter 3D Dark Humor Gun Customization Score Attack Character Customization Driving Funny RPG

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+)
  • Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: High Sierra 10.13+
  • Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or higher
  • Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

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Dec. 2025
It is a simple game and I'm almost 60 so it reminds me of the simple games in the 80's that were allot of time in my youth.
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Aug. 2025
🤡 💀💣 MANIAC 💣💀🤡 ⭐ 8/10 — “This game made me question morality, physics, and why there’s a flamethrower in a baby stroller.” I booted up MANIAC expecting some light fun. Five minutes later, I’m shirtless, screaming at my monitor, riding a shopping cart into a gas station while juggling Molotovs and somehow being chased by a priest, a clown, and a guy with a toilet seat on his head. Plot? Yes. The plot is: “What happens if we give you weapons, a city, and no consequences?” Every run is pure chaos. Tried to heal, accidentally deployed a tactical nuke. You start off weak and stupid. Then you upgrade to powerful and still stupid — just with a chainsaw now. The game rewards you for being the worst version of yourself. It’s therapy, but with explosions. NPCs? All have one brain cell and it’s on fire. Cops will chase you through walls, cars will run you over while apologizing, and civilians explode just by looking at you funny. Final thoughts: If GTA had a baby with Hotline Miami, and that baby was raised by a blender full of energy drinks and bad decisions — that’s MANIAC. This game isn’t just unhinged. It never had hinges to begin with. ✅ Recommended For fans of chaos, absurd comedy, and wondering “What the hell just happened and why am I on fire?”
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June 2025
Maniac is basically a much more light-hearted version of Hatred. That being said, it does everything that game does but better. You play as a homocidal maniac and the only goal is to cause as much mayhem as possible in a highly destructible sandbox city; eventually surviving long enough to set off a nuclear explosion. The forces that work together to stop your reign of terror starts small and eventually escalates to DEFCON1; starting with street cops and SWAT teams and working up to the military and even aliens. You'll be hounded and chased down by police cars, armored vehicles, tanks, APCs, attack helicopters, fighter jets, stealth bombers, and UFOs. You can hijack vehicles or run and gun on foot; picking up upgrades and weapons as you go while dodging the cars trying to ram you and the authorities trying to gun you down. Maniac is highly replayable though because of the rouge-lite nature of the game and the meta progression that you engage with every time you die or complete a level. With the money you collect during your runs you can upgrade the various stats and starting kit across several different characters, allowing your runs to last longer and adding a bit of strategy to how you spec your characters. The sheer pandemonium, explosions, and ragdoll physics at any given moment during the higher wanted levels is crazy. There will be a constant bevy of cars chaotically swerving around a plethora of viscerally colorful explosions while a hail of bullets fly from all directions. Stealth bombers will level the area while Apache choppers launch barrages of homing missiles, and what's really remarkable about this game is how well optimized it is! All these hundreds of explosions and moving assets all at once and not one CTD or game breaking bug. If I was to criticize anything about this game it would be the consistency of the hit-detection for bullets. If this was addressed in a future update I think this game would be so much better for it. Despite the aforementioned drawback, I still love this game and definitely recommend it for the full price or on sale. Amazing for Steam Deck.
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June 2025
This game feels like something you'd play on Newgrounds 20 years ago, the GonzoSSM-esque art style really creates that feel. It's glorious. Surprisingly detailed with a lot of entertaining voice lines, But new content is scarce past beating the game as the first character, since new characters don't do much aside from giving you access to other weapon earlier than you would in your run. Every run is nearly identical and the loop is very repetitive, but it's the good kind of repetitive imo. Mindless fun time killer more akin to a mobile game, not something you wanna play for more than an hour at a time. It could really make do with updates and more content, but it's cheap at 50% off. Buy it!
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March 2025
A mindlessly violent game about going postal, with the end goal of nuking the city. Not much more too it. Maniac is fast food gaming. Not much nutrition, easy to consume. Achievement Hunters: Super super grindy, not recommended unless you have a lot of hours and not much brain cells. Although there is an Editor mode that can shortcut you to 100% much quicker than playing the actual game. For example Destroying 100000 cars (which is perhaps the final) achievement is an epic grind of around 40 hours (in game without the Editor. ) So Editor is recommended, just not as fun.
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Maniac is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Maniac is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Maniac received 1,420 positive votes out of a total of 1,544 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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Maniac was developed by Transhuman Design and published by Skystone Games.

Maniac is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Maniac is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Maniac is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Maniac is a single-player game.

Maniac does not currently offer any DLC.

Maniac is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Maniac does not support Steam Remote Play.

Maniac is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Maniac
4.99€ Buy Now
Rating
8.7
1,420
124
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Developer
Transhuman Design
Publisher
Skystone Games
Release 28 Mar 2024
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