Meet Your Maker

Introduction

Meet Your Maker casts players as both level designer and raider: build a trap-filled outpost for others to attempt, then venture into outposts built by the wider community to steal resources and push your own creations further. Developed and published by Behaviour Interactive, the studio behind Dead by Daylight, it released 4 April 2023 for NZ$28.99. Over three years on, it holds 3,449 Steam reviews sitting at a lifetime Mostly Positive, roughly 71.4%, with recent sentiment running notably softer at 52% across its most recent 100 English reviews. This review reads a substantial share of both the negative and positive samples, and finds a genuinely inventive concept undone, in the near-unanimous view of its own players, by one specific, correctable design decision the developer never fully addressed.

A concept reviewers agree is genuinely original

Start with what draws real, consistent credit across this review's sample: the core idea of asynchronous builder-versus-raider design is genuinely distinctive, and the underlying execution supports it well. Movement and traversal, including a grappling hook used to navigate both building and raiding, are described as smooth and responsive, with the technical foundation praised even by reviewers who go on to criticise how the community used it. A replay system letting creators watch recordings of other players attempting their outposts draws specific, enthusiastic praise, with several reviewers describing genuinely funny, rewarding moments watching a carefully designed trap sequence play out as intended.

A reward structure nearly everyone identifies as the actual problem

Set against that credit, this review's sample shows an unusually rare thing: near-total agreement, across positive and negative reviews alike, on exactly what's wrong. The game rewards players only for landing kills against raiders, not for designing levels that are fun, fair or creative — and because creators aren't required to complete their own outposts before publishing them, reviewers describe the community's output flooding with "killbox" levels: rooms stacked with traps and guards designed purely to rack up kills rather than present an interesting challenge. This isn't a scattered complaint confined to the negative sample — it appears inside one of this review's highest-voted positive reviews too, whose author recommends the game while specifically naming the missing self-completion requirement as the fix that should have shipped. That level of agreement between a game's fans and its critics on a single, specific, fixable design decision is rare, and it's the clearest finding in this review's entire read of the sample.

A population that press coverage has already called dead once

Recent sentiment running well below the lifetime figure lines up with a documented decline: press coverage from mid-2024 described Meet Your Maker as an effectively dead multiplayer game, noting a temporary revival driven by a popular streamer picking it up alongside a new demo release. Behaviour Interactive did support the game with real, sustained content — named "Expeditions" seasons ran from launch through at least early 2025 — but the developer's public update history shows nothing substantial since August 2025, roughly a year before this review. That's a real, verifiable data point for anyone weighing whether to join a still-active community today.

Final Verdict

Meet Your Maker had a genuinely original idea and the technical foundation to support it — smooth movement, a well-built raiding loop, and a replay system that delivers real delight when a level works as intended. What sank it, in the near-unanimous view of this review's own sample, was a reward structure that paid only for kills rather than for good design, combined with the absence of a simple safeguard — requiring creators to beat their own levels — that could have prevented the flood of unfun content that followed. Behaviour Interactive supported the game meaningfully for about two years before support appears to have quietly stopped. For players curious about the concept, it's worth trying at its current price; just go in aware that a large share of what the community actually built is exactly the kind of level nearly everyone who played it warns against.