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Muck is a free-to-play multiplayer sandbox survival-roguelike video game developed and published by Norwegian indie developer Daniel Sooman, known online as Dani (who also developed Crab Game). The game was released onto Steam for Microsoft Windows on June 5, 2021. It released for macOS and Linux by July 9, 2021 after being tested through Itch.io.

Gameplay
Muck is a survival-roguelike game, with modes for singleplayer and multiplayer. In singleplayer, the player character is spawned on an island, and must attempt to stay alive as long as possible against the enemy mobs by utilizing the available resources. Once the player dies or is killed, all progress is lost. The player can craft tools shelters, weapons, and armor to help defend against mobs. They can also gather food and come across chests containing a variety of power-ups. In multiplayer, the game can be played co-op or PvP.

In the third update, an ending goal was added to the game, in which a player must find a map of a shipwreck. After reaching and repairing the ship, the players face a final boss called, "Bob the Dragon."

Third-party mods have been developed for the game.

Development
After being told through a YouTube comment that he couldn't make a multiplayer survival game, Daniel Sooman (also known as Dani) started work on it in the Unity game engine. In addition to the code he wrote, Dani also used code from others (whom he credited) to create some of the gameplay elements, such as procedural generation.

Reception
The game has received positive reviews from critics and players.

Jack Pooley of WhatCulture said, "For a game that could so easily have been a charmless, slung-together 'anti-game' in the name of humour, that it actually functions at all is insanely impressive. Bravo." Jamie Latour of TheGamer described it as, "a pretty impressive effort," and, "a fully functioning game with decent mechanics." Alec Padua of WhatIfGaming.com gave it a seven out of ten rating, saying, "[It] gives a unique twist to survival," and called the roguelike gameplay element, "a great addition." Jonathan Bolding of PC Gamer said, "It's free and it's not awful! Don't know how much more of an endorsement I can give."

On Steam, it garnered positive reactions from players   and fans of Dani.