Enter the Gungeon

Thanks to many many updates you can play this game for 100h and still discover new things.

Enter the Gungeon (EtG) is a quirky little gem of a game that convinces with tight gameplay and a funky humour while it infuriates and gets you addicted in the same breath with its with merciless difficulty. EtG is a rouge-like dungeon crawler with twin stick shooting mechanics and a bullet-hell component that will require you to master your dodge roll as fast as you can. Or you won't live long. Scrap that, you won't live long anyways if you don't soon find a great gun to beat the increasingly harder, randomized dungeon floors and their respective bosses. In EtG you choose one of four gungoneers, troubled souls trying to retrieve from the gungeon the gun that can kill their past. On your way down you'll encounter a miscellany of weird opponents. There are cute but armed bullets, ghosts with Tommie guns and bouncing grenades. Not to speak of the fun and challenging boss battles with for example the Bullet King or the Ammoconda (yes, gun-related puns!). You'll also encounter NPCs that are equally if not even more weird. They'll sell items, give challenges or hints to hidden secrets. This humour obviously extends to the guns themselves and whereas there are some real world inspired ones as well as movie and game references, others are completely outrageous inventions such as the fish shooting barrels gun or the bundle of wands that turns enemies into chickens. What is truly amazing though is the progression system which gives a real sense of achievement despite your many failures. You'll continuously unlock new weapons, stores and even hidden characters along the way. All this is wrapped in a colourful and delightful pixel art style with some great and nuanced background music as well as bad-ass effects for some of the more extreme weaponry. I've put tons of hours into this game and, to my embarrassment, have not beaten it yet. However, the humour which had me laugh out loud many times is what softens my frustration and keeps me coming back. I love this game.

I really enjoyed the art style and the tight controls but was always put off by a lack of feeling any progression due to limited item & weapon drops. Anyways, that one complaint has gone away after some updates because I can't stop playing it now! Every run I go on now seems to have something new; there's a lot of content. Mini-games, challenges, weird character interactions, new weapons that are very creative and items that can synergize with other weapons and items you may already have! Deaths seem fair and are due to your error, not some obtuse game mechanic or other bs. If you like games similar to The Binding of Isaac or Nuclear Throne then this is the game for you!

Excellent game, a lot of attention to detail, nice overall style. I wish the developer a lot of good luck and fortune, but may they never grow too large!

Seriously, though. This game for years still gets massive FREE updates. The game takes actual skill rather than luck (somewhat) and most of all it's actually extremely fun to play. I mean there are so many guns and enemies/bosses packed into this game. Also let's not forget that this game has an ending for many characters that you can play as. The only possible downside I see to this game is that I feel they made this game much easier over the years. I remember having a really hard time getting anywhere now I can breeze through most stages... but maybe I just got really good at the game? Seriously, though. Do yourself a favor and get this. Even at full price this game is one of the only titles I think is actually worth it.