Enter the Gungeon

One of the best bullet hell rougelikes ever made and is really challenging while also being super fun. The art style is great, the soundtrack is killer, the multiple synergies are wildly fun, just a great game all around. In my 40 hours of playing I haven't even been able to beat the game once. Maybe it's a skill issue or maybe it was the developers plan all along so that I'd be forced to play the game more and give more reviews. 8.5/10

Second only to BoI for its addictive gameplay loop.

Honestly my favorite game in the genre. It combines a steep but very fair learning curve, intuitive mechanics, a distinct and fantastic art style, and a wide breadth of content into a package that shows you just how much love they put into this game

Fun variety, far more to the game than you might believe at first. Well designed level generation, good bosses and a super high skill ceiling.
Definitively more of the "Dark souls of Rogue Likes" but honestly its a blast.
Runs keep feeling fresh even after playing a lot and the continuous unlocks and lots of secrets will keep your attention.
Be aware; it is quite a bit of a bullet hell game, but even as someone who never played one before, this was fun.

Extremely well designed, every item and gun feels significant and fun (unlike some roguelikes) so much replayability. Looking forward to the sequel

Fuck this game fuck fucking idiot fuck stupi ass fucking boss ruin my fucking days

I have purchased this game 3 times: for Steam, Switch, and PS5. Worth it every damn time...

9/10 An absolute delight of a game, controls are on point, theming is brilliant, the enemy and weapon design is so fun. The game really knows what it wants you to feel and absolutely succeeds in delivering that right to your doorstep. Excited to see what they do with the sequel

Great gameplay, fun playable characters, NPCs in this game are interesting and most of them are very useful. The mechanic that gives you an extra life for defeating a boss without taking any hits is very cool, it forces the player to be better. Boss fights themselves are great, special shoutout to Resourceful Rat.

I bought this game the same year I opened my steam account, I'm going trought the backlog now and I can't help but feel i world have enjoyed this game more when I bought it, when I had more free time, the games is really good and charming, visually, gameplay wise and musically, but now I can't help but feel that some stuff in the game is wasting my time or at least taking it for granted, I love the game but I don't like being at the mercy of rng and pass the game multiple times to unlock more endings, with no progression between runs other than your luck.
Sorry if I sound to negative, I still loved the game

to me, still the gold standard for two-stick shooters & action roguelikes. Difficult but enough variation between runs to never feel like you aren't getting better. The lack of stat-upgrade meta progression is nice (it's YOU getting better, not your character). Still haven't found a successor that truly lives up to EtG standards!

I've put well over 100 hours on Xbox WITHOUT EVEN BEATING A CHARACTER'S PAST and even before the Farewell To Arms Update... before I even started playing on Steam, since then I've recently picked E.T.G. back up and beat all the main characters pasts and am now onto secret characters, the love the Dodge Roll put into the game shows every SINGLE time I do a run, and load the game up, and never am I disappointed in the game whenever I lose a run, because I know that the mistake are on me, even if the RNG isn't the best in every run that makes it decently far, in my mind.

I WOULD AND FOREVER ALWAYS WILL RECOMMEND THIS FANTASTIC GAME TO ANYONE THAT ENJOYS BULLETHELLS OR ROGUE-LIKES, THIS GAME ALWAYS HAS ME COMING BACK AND I FEEL NOTHING BUT JOYOUS EXCITEMENT WHEN I BOOT IT UP, BABY, TIME TO ENTER THE GUNGEON, ONCE MORE!!!!!

Soul Knight, a free mobile ripoff of this game, is so much better somehow. I love rougelikes but man this is mad boring

I play a lot of roguelikes, so I excepted to like this one. But I just didn't, the combat felt really unforgiving, and maybe I'm just bad, but it wasn't my cup of tea.

Worst experience in a roguelike game. Don't mind the hours, I'm a completionist

Starting with good things about the game:
1) The game has cool visuals and nice attention to details. The setting is sure unique
2) Two late game bosses. They are fun to fight and learn

That's probably it, now about the rest:
1) The game is the absolute peak of annoyance. It's not hard, it's tedious and annoying.
You can't leave items on the ground.
You can save hearts, but only for a current floor (why even? It's the only item you CAN leave on the ground)
You can't have keys. Like, at all. Half (if not more) of the chest you'll have to destroy since you will not have keys whatsoever. And for some reason even the most dоgshit brown chest require a key.
You can't have money, and even if you manage to collect a decent amount, see the next point
Shops are complete garbage, all the time it only has a useless payday reference item, which you HAVE to steal. And stealing in this game is kinda bad (also you need to have specific items for that). And if there is a normal item, you can easily waste your precious money on something useless or even bad
2) Balance. Absolute none. The game has too much pure rng. Passive item of one of the characters has a 5% to give you a room reward (so never). Tremendous. Same with a lot of other rng items. Room rewards are very rare and random. You'll have to clear a lot of rooms with your basic weapon because ammo boxes simply refuse to spawn. Bosses are unbalanced, some of them are easier than the bosses from previous floors, and some are hideous. Weapons greatly differ in quality and unlike The binding of Isaac you don't have much options to find items
3) Content. As much as I'd like to say this game has a huge variety of weapons, they are, unfortunately, the same. Blue laser, red laser, green laser, homing laser. Bullet guns are also the same, the difference is usually in attack speed, damage and accuracy. There are some unique weapons, but it's a rare sight.
Passive items are meaningless. They do so little, it just does not matter. The bullets now have a 0.001% chance to poison enemies, or set them on fire. Main dps usually comes from high tier weapons
4) Synergies. Similar to passive items, most of them are useless and unintuitive. Sometimes even actively hurting you
5) Overall gameplay. It's just boring. Same rooms every run, the variety of enemies and rooms is depressing. The true ending floor is huge and has NOTHING in it other than tedious room clearing, and the boss here doesn't even give you meta progression currency

Total rating: 3/10

one of the most fun bullet hells i have ever played. game feels fresh even after god knows how many runs, especially after you start unlocking guns and items. the amount of combos with gear is insane and humerus sometimes. also killing everyone's past adds a touch of depth to a game that would have been fine without it.

Стиль имеется, но разнообразие слабое как для такой игры. Забеги мало того, что очень похожи друг на друга, так ещё и полностью зависят от рандома, а не от скилла.

If you like rogue like games and are good at them you may like this. I've played about 4-5 hours so far and haven't been able to get to the point of unlocking the NPCs that give permanent upgrades. So I'm just over and over again playing level 1 and 2...
I want to like this game, but it's a bit on the difficult side...

An extremely good dungeon crawler with lots of guns!!!
A true classic.
It's hard to find any bugs in this game.
This is the funniest one I've discovered:

There is a multiplayer bug that when the hand from Forge grabs a player and the other player is revived at the same moment, that the game becomes unplayable, as the camera splits up between two different rooms.
Somehow I managed to solve this issue by falling down a pit to respawn back at the revived players room.

Absolutely amazing game with so much to do. After 50 hours and a total of more than 50 attempts I just finally beat the fifth floor boss and there is still so much more gameplay waiting for me, including unlocking four new characters, killing all the characters' pasts, and the beating the actual final boss of the game. Anyways, I highly recommend.

The game is fun, but extremely slow progressing for what I'd expect for a $10 purchase. I was not making a ton of progress so I looked online for tips and apparently Gungeon is more of a lifestyle commitment than a game you simply play through. People play the game for a year+ trying to get through everything.

Lots of depth, obscure secrets, hidden objectives that all stack on each other. Many secrets are things that happen 1~5% of the time you do a specific behavior or specific encounter, so you have to do a LOT of runs to get there.

I can see why the game has a following, but unless you're willing to make a large scale time commitment it's not something I'd recommend. Great for streamers that want endless content haha.

It's a very lovely game with welcome diversity. If you like roguelikes and a good challenge, then there's a fair chance that you'll like this game. Personally, I just didn't enjoy myself. Everything just feels... off. Everything moves slower than I expect. I found myself getting frustrated by constant failure, and I didn't feel accomplished when I did succeed. I didn't feel the joy of exploration and learning. I am certainly in the minority; many people find this game extremely satisfying. Even though I didn't enjoy this game, it is worth full price. I can tell it is made with love and care, and you could get a lot of fun out of it. I respect the developers.

as of writing this, I am currently 182.7 hours deep, and trying to get all the achievements (51/54)
I am addicted.
I love this game
I hate that fucking rat
would recommend 👍

Very cool and arcadey game that encourages learning patterns to dodge and exploring to learn more about the game that will help you beat it.

I guess you could say... it's the dark souls of roguelites

That last joke is going to send me straight back to 2017.

It also has some gamechanging modifiers you can enable that don't tend to disable unlocks/achievements that can make the runs more fun and fresh.

It ain't exactly 100s of hours replayable like Binding of Isaac is IMO, but what's in this game is amazing stuff if you like bullet hells, roguelites, shmups, fun challenges and/or LOVE absurdist humor and references.

If none of that has you sold on the game yet...

There's a gun that is a bullet that shoots guns that shoots outs more bullets.

P.S. After playing a bunch of Nuclear Throne, playing this game felt too slow, but I'm happy I came back to this game because I forgot how exciting it can be to win a run in this game.

Having enjoyed other roguelikes like Hades, Dead Cells or Gunfire Reborn, it was only a matter of time before I gave Enter the Gungeon a try. As expected, it ended up being a lot of fun, probably even my new favorite roguelike by a small margin. The game is easy to pick up, and dodging enemy projectiles while shooting back is satisfying from the start. With most bullets moving slowly, it often feels kinda like a bullet hell game, but it always feels fair—you get annoyed when you take a hit but are motivated to improve. Meta-progression between runs is limited to unlocking new items, characters, and NPCs, with no permanent upgrades to make future runs easier. Progress mostly comes from mastering dodging and learning enemy patterns.

The game’s charm also shouldn’t be understated. Everything is themed around guns: enemies are animated bullet shells, most bosses are goofy gun-themed creatures, and even money and health are bullet casings. The game is also packed with references to other media, to the point where almost everything feels like a reference, whether you recognize it or not.

Compared to other roguelikes, Enter the Gungeon has fewer decision-making moments. Success mainly depends on luck, skill, and using the tools you find well, rather than making critical choices about your build. One thing that did frustrate me a bit was how much not getting hit at all in a boss fight rewards you. It mostly just made good runs even better. While taking a hit on an early boss felt really demotivating and often led me to reset the run. Leading to replaying the first floor repeatedly instead of enjoying the full game. To be fair, that was partly due to my own stubbornness.

Enter the Gungeon is a must play for any roguelike fan who somehow hasn’t tried it yet. It’s also a pretty solid introductory title for newcomers to the genre, although if you've never played a roguelike before, I would still recommend starting with Hades first.

Cool game, even better in coop
Pros:
- HUGE amount of content. You can play for 50 hours and then stumble onto something you haven't seen before
- Gameplay is smooth and fun
- Many different enemy types and bosses
- A LOT of weapons and items, and a lot of them are something unique, not just pistol/shotgun (there's a weapon that shoots fucking meat steaks which triggers a giant tiger to run into the room and tear people apart)

Cons:
- There's a lot of things that are close to if not impossible to figure out without google/wiki (that might be not a con for someone)
- In coop second player is locked to one particular character (only the host can choose a character), though it's not really a big deal
- Some weapons are complete fucking garbage and you can play a run with multiple good weapons or a run with weapons suitable only to shoot yourself in a foot
- Ammo is very random. Sometimes you get ammo as a reward 5 rooms in a row when you don't even have a weapon, and sometimes you clear 3 floors and find 1 single pack of ammo. Some weapons have A LOT of ammo and 0 fire rate which basicly means they're almost infinite ammo, but some weapons delete all the ammo in one room and if you don't get something "durable" you could easily run into a situation where you have 10 weapons but are forced to use base pistol which really sucks

Overall the game is awesome and you can grab it almost for free on sale, but even for the full price it's very well worth it. Don't get turned away by the character selection for player two (if you're looking for coop), it's not that big of a deal

I don't really understand all the hype. It's alright but to me it feels very lacking in terms of roguelike elements.

I would mark this review as neutral if I could.

lowkey dont like this game as a roguelike, its a good game just not a good roguelike, all weapons are pretty much the same you got machine guns, high high damage one bullet weapons for single target, and shotguns for close range funny. Each run kinda plays the exact same, no run variety like there is with the binding of issac, hades, or risk of rain. I get that its meant to be more skill based but this is just boring. There are no items or characters that drastically alter the way you play the game like you do with other roguelikes. Its all kind of just point and click the enemy and dodge bullets. Nothing wrong with that, i love touhou and JSAB and bullet hell games overall, just its not good for a roguelike game to do all that. You could say that theres different guns that effect your gameplay differently with like shotguns and stuff but by the end of the game you will have all different sorts of guns, at least one of each type. Overall though its a good game, it plays well, its pretty fun to avoid bullets and stuff. Its just that it does not have that roguelike magic to it that other roguelikes do.

There's bullet-hell in the genre sense, and there's bullet-hell in the sense that you are in hell and being shot with bullets. This game is both. Pretty fun though.

This game is absolutely stellar!
I've put hundreds of hours into this game on PS4 and PS5 and couldn't help but re-buy this game on pc. after years of playing this game it amazes me that you will still find things you've never found before and have new, unique experiences each time you play. As an added bonus there are hundreds of various game references which make the game even more enjoyable in my opinion. Late game offers so many challenges with various difficulties which makes the game even more fun once played more in depth. 10/10!!!

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

73 hours in
several pasts killed
200+ runs.
dozens of guns and items unlocked,
half of the achivements

still a lot to do !

if you start playing probably wont stop untill its too late, but don't mind me I'm just a positive review

People say it's difficult game, I say skill issue.

though I may only have 14 hours on steam at the time of this review, I dumped a couple hundred on xbox over the last few years. and saying that I'll keep this simple.

BUY. THIS. GAME.

it is by far one of the most challenging and enjoyable games I've played. there so many little items and guns in the game that even now I'm still learning about. it has so much to it but it's not overwhelming.
easiest 9/10 I've ever given.

Excellent game! replayable like isaac and very addictive. Never saw a game so good about guns. Loved it.

Enter the gungeon is such a sleeper game. So much content and reaaaly enjoyable gameplay. Interesting bosses, many game modes to try, well integrated comedy. If you are on the fence, get it.

It was kinda boring at first but when you start actually understanding it it becomes a fun game, it might be hard but that what makes it fun in my opinion

Incredible game. The best bullet hell game I have played. Every run is radically different from the last. I DO NOT recommend getting all achievements for this game though, it is an absolute CHORE.

Enter the Gungeon is, and will likely forever be, my favorite roguelike game ever (unless Enter the Gungeon 2 manages to top it.) It is mad fun, mad replayable, mad goofy, has a killer soundtrack, and pays respects to the greats of gaming culture that preceded it. This game has a charm to it that will forever influence the way I see arcade-y gaming as a whole.

Probably my fave game in the rogue-like/lite genre. Maybe one of the best games period. very very re-playable. very very hard but so fun to play and improve - this is probably because of the great game loop, challenging but interesting boss mix, and the tighter than f*** controls. 10/10

Challenging but fun game with great replay value.

My favourite game, and has been that way for years now. The story, post-endgame content as well as an infinite amount of pure bullet hell fun to be had. GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT

I've played this game a few times over the years, but I've never fully gotten into it until recently. The game play and progression is great and there's always stuff to unlock. Very good game, it will take a long time for me to get bored of it.

Is good gaem. Lots of grinding/practice (at least for me), but it's a great game to grind!

i don't know how much time it will take to finish this game , play this game if you want to enjoy playing games rather than running your mind to finish them as soon as you get your hands on them .

I do definitely recommend this game, but I am either not skilled enough or not patient enough to get far in this game?
I did try and play it a few times, but at some point simply stopped playing, because I gave up. I just couldn't get through it.

I has a lot of content, many enemies, lots of weapons, lots to unlock, just how your typical roguelike works! I probably just suck at dodging in this game or something, I don't know.

You don't have to like bullet hell games to be able to pick this up! But you should at least like the roguelike genre imo.

This is a game I believe everyone should at least experience once!

i wish there is a middle between like and dislike button but here we are. Is this a good game ? yes obviously , this game have great bosses,great combat, soundtrack, graphic ,etc,... But i think this game still got some aspect to improve.The selling points of this game is the vast amount of guns ,but 90% of them is ass. Most of my runs, I have up to 8+ guns but only use like 3 of them. I wish i can trade those useless guns with the shopkeeper for a potential helpful item.There is no point to have a shitty gun sitting in the inventory just to the boss not dropping another gun. Hope they not making the same mistake in ETG 2

An absolute masterpiece of an rogue like.
tldr at the end.

You might be like me and just think, yeah this game is probably just like binding of isaac but with guns.
But you're so so wrong. I might even go as far as to say enter the gungeon is even better than isaac.

So, what makes enter the gungeon so gud you may ask !? And worry not i got the answers !!
First off its the HUGE HUGE variety of guns and items. From a teapot, to a cactus, to a water gun
to an unfinished gun, to a pillow, to a jk47 (yes) to a gun so cool it wears a cap and rides a skateboard and says WACK or NOICE everytime you reload and much much more.
Some of them are just really hilarious and seriously cool

Then second !! This game has so much charm to it, from the enemy design, to the jokes, to the details, you will simply love it believe me.
Also there are so so sooooo many unlockables and secrets, with some beeing so rare in % you might never see them in your 100h
Thats what i personally find really really and miss in most modern games. Like who doesnt flip out if you get the rare 1.3% door boss fight or an even more rare rainbow or glitch chest or some really really rare synergy
Yes this game has synergies just like isaac

And third and my personal fav. why i absolutely fell in love with this game
As someone who loves references to movies and other games.....THIS GAME IS SO PACKED WITH THEM
I just really fu***ng love it
From movie references, metal gear jokes, memes, other game references, enter the gungeon has it.
You can feel the devs put alot of passion and love and sillyness into it

Like there even is a hecking metal gear rex rat boss followed by a punch out minigame, like come on isnt that damn cool !?!? And there even is a whole boss that is a reference to the mgs1 helicopter fight with liquid !!!!


BUT !!!!
Enter the gungeon might not be for everyone as the difficulty is actually quite high especially at the first few runs. You cant buy permanent upgrades like +health +attack and so on but you can buy better items that might appear in future runs and make your time easier
Enter the gungeon forces you to git gud, learn enemy patterns, boss patterns, watch out for traps
Even for me as a touhou pro this game is hard

Also because i forgot earlier, the bullet hell patterns (danmaku) in this game are really high quality, this is some touhou level stuff, certainly hard but not unfair !!! very creative too

TLDR, do you love a HUGE variety of guns, do you like rogue like, do you like high difficulty bullet hell, many secrets/unlockables, DO YOU LOVE REFERENCES !?!?!
Then stop reading it now and buy enter the gungeon goddamnit

This review has been written with the lower case r gun B U L L E T

Die, retry, repeat. Addictive bullet-hell fun. Sequel ETA: 2026. (good luck waiting!).

Between what little I've played, and the many hours I've watched, this is without a doubt one of the best roguelikes ever made. The artstyle and character designs are all super unique and charming. The gameplay is fun and addictive. The only reason I've played so little as of writing this review is that I absolutely suck at the game.

I sucked so much that I used cheats just to be able to get past floor 3 and see a full run for myself (and got a bunch of hard acheivements along the way), and then never touched the game again out of guilt lmao. But I plan to go back and give it a legit try again

First try to unluck gunslinger: I watch a great tutorial video where the guide says I DONT need to beat the game later as gunslinger to unlock him. I quit the run. All my progress down the drain

Second try: This time I new to also beat the run with gunslinger. I beat the Lich as paradox. I have a decent run as gunslinger so I try to beat rat king. Then I die to a OPTIONAL BOSS.

Third try: First floor as gunslinger I get AKEY-47. I was set for life. Then I think to myself. I have 5 hearts and 2 shields. WHAT CAN GO WRONG. I go to rat king and get hit by every single one of his attacks. I die.

Fourth try: I learned my lesson not to go to rat king. ON MY FIRST FLOOR AS GUNSLINGER I GET GOLDEN JUNK OMFG. THEN I PROCEED TO HAVE A RUN OF MY LIFE. Only for me to forget to take the bullet that kills the past.

I hate myself so much and I want to cry.