Meet Your Maker Review (PS5) | Push Square

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The concept of user-generated content has been around for quite a while at this point. If a game can sustain itself based on the input of its own community, well, that's a win-win, right? Create something so engaging that the audience will make more to keep the good vibe going. Obviously, this doesn't always work out, but when it does, it's awesome, and players always surpass creative expectations. Meet Your Maker is the latest attempt at this — a sci-fi action game that has players building trap-laden Outposts for others to then try and raid for resources.

It's this core loop that holds everything together. After going through tutorials for both raiding levels and building them, you're free to pick through user- and developer-made stages. Your task in each one is to pass through dingy Outposts in the middle of a post-apocalyptic desert in order to find and steal GenMat — a precious material needed to help restore human civilisation. Essentially, you need to get in, find the GenMat, then get out again, and the custodian of each stage will have installed multiple booby traps and guards to prevent your success.

Once you do clear an Outpost, you're rewarded with the GenMat you took as well as a bunch of other resources. It's these materials you'll then use to begin building your own levels, not to mention upgrade your weaponry, traps, and other equipment. The two halves of Meet Your Maker feed into each other perfectly, meaning there's always something you can do that'll help one aspect or the other.

Raiding Outposts, then. By default, you have a bolt gun for ranged attacks, a sword for melee strikes, and a grappling hook to help you get around. All of these will come in handy as you enter a level, but initially there's no