MASUKU

Release Full game: TBC later this year · Demo (Daily Challenge): Steam

Price Full game: TBC · Demo: free on Steam

MASUKU is an abstract puzzle game for up to 4 players where you place masks with holes in them on a grid to score points, with ever-changing scoring conditions. The full game will release later in the year. For now we are releasing a demo containing the daily challenge.

Steam pitch: An abstract strategy game for 1–4 players. Place, rotate, and flip cards to reveal colours and symbols that match shifting scoring goals — smart positioning and a bit of luck decide who reaches 50 points first.

Daily challenge (demo)

Come back every day to compete for the top spot on the leaderboard. Get 50 points in the fewest turns. The challenge is the same for everyone that day and you can retry as many times as you want, to try to optimise your strategy now you know what cards will be coming in future turns.

Accessibility

Light and dark modes
Text to speech via Lowtek Games’ Dislectek plugin
Customisable colours for colour-blind players

Features (full game — planned)

Daily challenge with deterministic seed and leaderboards
Solo: randomly generated challenge mode
2–4 player VS: local head-to-head, turns, first to 50 wins
VS CPU
White out: place cards to remove all but one square from the board

History

The game started out life as a Global Game Jam entry 2026. The theme was “mask” and was initially prototyped with paper cut-out cards. The idea was to mask out the colours and shapes to score points with a changing rule set, a bit like the card game Fluxx. When designing, Ally decided to play a version inside of Adobe Illustrator and thought it could work as a digital game, so pivoted during the jam to build in Unity.

The name MASUKU is from the Japanese word for mask.