Enter the Gungeon

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

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.

Game is really fun, lots of different guns, lots of secrets to find out, alot of content.

A bullet hell where the bullets have guns. It's a glorious, chaotic shootfest with more puns per second than my dad at a BBQ. A roguelike icon for a reason.

This game tries to be funny... and actually succeeds.

the game is boring and slow, enemies are bullet sponges, running, shooting guns and killing is not fun. too much rpg clutter and running between the empty rooms instead of gameplay. mandatory dodgeroll for every character make gameplay for them samey, robs you of the joy of narrowly dodging the bullets, and make bullet patterns less intricate and fun, make movement less precise. permanent unlockables affect the gameplay quite a bit. Too bad this slog of a game influenced the roguelikes so much.

This is a fun game with a lot of replayability, and it is absolutely worth it at 90% off.

Maybe I'm not far enough into the game yet but I feel like this game really fails to deliver on the "stronger each run" concept that rogue-likes are known for. Game plays more like an old fashion arcade game. I've spent the 2.4 hours on record running levels 1-3 a couple dozen times. I don't feel stronger after the 25th run and it's starting to just feel repetitive and somewhat boring.

Some of this might be solved by learning more about the different guns and power ups I find, but the UI for your guns and powerups is so disruptive to the gameplay that I don't particularly feel like pausing my run to try and figure out exactly what the item I just picked up does, especially when I know I'm probably going to die in the next 5 minutes and lose my upgrade or gun anyways. You know the books you can write in minecraft and page through? that's their UI, including the minecraft font. Really unpleasant to sift through or read.

Music is bad and volume controls aren't granular enough. All the volume is too loud on its lowest setting making it hard to hear my friends in discord.

I'm still willing to play more and see where it goes, but I just expected to have a more engaging experience considering the reviews were so positive. It's fun for 15 minutes at a time but any depth the game offers is soured by the unusable UI. I guess if it were on sale for $1-2 it's worth it but I don't recommend it at full price.

I beat the credits boss but I don't have it in me to continue playing to tackle extra challenges.

-This game has a roguelike Steam tag but it's a poor one at that.You progress in the runs by building your weapon and item arsenal: there isn't any other way to improve your character.A lot of weapons are samey, most don't have any synergies with other weapons or passive items.

-Item descriptions don't tell you what they do:forcing you to consult wiki.

-Enemy variety is lacking, they are too bullet spongey.

-The rooms which you traverse and fight enemies in are too big, empty and samey.There are too many of them in each level.

-The game is very stingy with currency,hearts and keys making replaying early levels feel like a chore.And you will be replaying early levels A LOT since this game is very difficult.

-I found the art style ugly and music lame.

Now for the good stuff:
-Weapons sound and feel great to shoot.
-Bosses of each level are fun to fight.
-Difficulty is fair.

Repetitive rooms and enemy encounters, limited and slow way you improve your character each run made this a hollow experience.I would have enjoyed this game if it ditched its roguelike elements and focused on being a boss rush shoot em up game.

Absolute Fungeon

Masterpiece; 10/10.

Fun challenge, great graphics, and enough items/weapons to keep the game feeling fresh and unique every run. All this paired with amazing sound design to make a super fun game worth putting hundreds of hours into

Could be so good but unbelievably frustrating having to use a fucking wiki to find out anything about any item because they couldn't be arsed to put useful tooltips in. I'm all for bullet hells or roguelikes being hard but this one just feels like it's made difficult to intentionally slow the game which just makes progression repetitive and boring as you don't actually gain any useful knowledge just 'oh, guess I didn't get lucky this time'

Kinda cute and fun at first until it got really grindy and boring. It becomes more work than fun very quickly.

It's like pixel dungeon but not as strategic.

If I was 13 years old, I might be willing to grind it out (to git gud). But I'm too old lol.

Okay serious suggestions:
- Less is more for guns. Esp because you can only use 1 at a time!
- Maps are too big. It's actually ok sized, but I prefer it to be smaller given how often you die and repeat, thereby killing same pleb enemies again and again (ugh).
- More passive abilities? Kinda like relics from Slay the Spire.
- Ability to make choices, again like slay the spire. Because right now it's rinse and repeat. I don't have to think at all during game play.

It may not be completely fair to make an oversimplified comparison amongst a vast sea of roguelikes, however Enter the Gungeon is, in my opinion, the best one.
For starters, it serves as an excellent entry point to anyone new to the genre by proposing you an easy-to-learn hard-to-master gameplay with a lot of guns, items, cool mechanics like synergies between the two, little interactions with interior of the rooms and secrets.
Bosses are some of the most cleverly designed and fun to fight against I've experienced; the playable characters, be it standard or unlockable ones, are all unique enough to feel excited retrying runs on each of them.
Little quests, which when solved add NPCs to the hub area and change the look of it, are also a nice touch to the progression throughout multiple runs.
Dodge Roll have accomplished something truly great with ETG and I can recommend it to any newcomer or a veteran of the genre.

Enter the Gungeon is a fantastic rogue-like. When you begin playing, the game feels very chaotic and unpredictable. It feels extremely challenging at first. As you play the game, however, you get better at it, to the point where you can predict enemy attack patterns well enough to complete bosses and levels without taking damage. If you are new to the game, it may seem like you won't get there, but you absolutely will and doing so will give you an enormous sense of accomplishment. In addition, the game features a vast array of different weapons and items, many of which are highly creative and unique. Some even feature really cool hidden synergies. The Gungeon also features many secrets as well as many extremely rare occurrences that will continue to surprise you even after dozens of hours of playing.

Pretty much the best bullet hell roguelike. With the absurdly low prices it reaches nowadays, no reason not to try it if you're even remotely interested

Its good enough that I really wish it was better, but I always find it falling short. There are some truly awful guns in the rotation, limited ways to limit rng, a stupid animation whenever you need to check what an item is, nowhere near enough visible stats on the guns, and the list just goes on.

It's a steal at its current 90% sale.
Everyone should play it.
Easy to play, plenty of secrets. Im holding out hope for Enter the Gungeon 2

I've been playing Gungeon for almost a decade, and let me tell you:

It's the best game.

It's my favorite game.

Buy it. Play it. You will absolutely be glad you did.

The game has great replayability even if you already beat it for first time, You still gotta do the other ending until you finally reach the true ending.

Also that rat is annoying :(

It gets hard as sh*t but boy is it addictive, the vibes are legit with this game, I now understand why people love it

Idk, a part of it is me I'll admit, I enjoy reogue-lites more, the progression in those motivate me more to keep going and does indeed affect my enjoyment more. As in this, and rogue-likes in general, it feels very dependent on RNG if you are going to enjoy this run or no, which is very frustrating. Get a good gun and you'll have fun, you don't get a good gun, you don't have fun.

Rooms are very samey and not very rewarding, it doesn't feel like you are achieving something, it rarely gives you a key, a heart. And as for those keys, there are SO many chests, and you barely get keys for them! I think the girl with the dog is the best and I got some good stuff with her first run, but later nothing, also, that kind of should be for all characters! Worst is when the game gives you a locked chest as a reward!! What am I supposed to do with that if I have no keys??!!

You buy, what I think is the guns and items so you can get them in the game, from a trader with currency that is REALLY grindy to get. You get 2 from some bosses (I think it depends on times you have killed them before or what level they are on) but generally lowest item is 4.

Even though the combat (some guns) and movement are fun, not enough for me unfortunately.

Success heavily depends on good drops and knowing how your character and movement tech works. Sometimes it's just not your day. Sometimes you'll be stuck on the first chamber for 7 runs in a row. Either that, or I just suck. If you've played other roguelikes, you'll understand this. If that's not your cup of tea, I can't exactly recommend it.

Enter The Gungeon is difficult, but rewarding once you break past your roadblocks.

No brainer at $1.49 on sale.

The game play is addictive and fun - the controls are snappy and there are several moves to be aware of. Of course I can never remember them, so I run around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to stay alive. If you can remember them you'll play this game far better than me, and probably enjoy it more than I do, and I already enjoy it quite a lot!

Also... I finally saw a message in the game that said "aim with your right stick", which turns the game into a twin-stick shooter and makes it so much easier to play!

I am bad at bullet hells, but got this game and kept trying it at the behest of friends.

I'm well aware it's a skill issue on my part, but it's not my thing, which is a pity, because I could see the amount of work put into the game, and really wanted to like it...

Well, c'est la vie.

-Fun game with Great replayability
-A lot of unlockable and secrets to explore
-No nasty bugs and BS death
-Can choose how hard you want the game to be
-About 200 hrs of gameplay

Countless of hours spend across multiple platforms and still fun and engaging as the first time i played it. Nothing is stopping you to try it one more time till the early hours of the day.

With the time spend on this game, you wish you had a gun that could kill the past to get your hours back!... Only to play even more /inhales EEEEEEEEEEEENTER THE GUNGEON, ENTER THE GUNGEON!

My Honest Review:

The game is very "Luck Based." That's what makes it fun. It's a very fun game to play when you're bored. The game is VERY easy to learn and does not take up much space. The one question is: Is it worth $15. In my opinion, yes. The lore is amazing too!

A 10/10 game. Absolutely recommend.

This game is basically everything you could ever want from a dungeon crawler. It has literally hundreds upon hundreds of guns, items, and enemies to discover, not to mention the countless amount of secret floors, bosses, guns, enemies, etc.

This game is quite literally the dream for someone who loves dungeon crawlers. You have ZERO reason to not buy this game if you are looking for a dungeon crawler.

With that being said, the game is insanely difficult, and definitely requires practice, but it's worth the time and patience. It's infuriating at times, but very, very fun, and absolutely worth your money.

Its ok, not a huge fan of rougelikes where you only dungeon run, but if you like that this is the best one

Bought this for local coop (Steam Couch Co-Op Fest) but the implementation is very poor. Despite selecting KBM for P1 it will force to default (Controller for P1) anyways. Also P2 is fixed to one character only; you cannot play anything other than the cultist character. Interacting with tutorial guard also does nothing when in coop

maybe the most fun rougelike i've played so far. it can be hard at first, especially if you forget about some of the controls. But you can get the hang of it after a few runs

there is a bit of luck to it i think though on the first floor, in regards to getting the right stuff. But aside from that it feels pretty fair

Was never able to ace Winchester's game, then when I finally got the hang of it, dude never spawned -10/10

Top 5 roguelikes. Great progression, lots of content, nice soundtrack, feels very polished, no bugs, great balancing and lots of build variety.

Enter the Gungeon is a good bullet hell, and it's a very good roguelike. If you want a difficult yet addicting experience that keeps you coming back for more, this is the game. I found that it has a very steep learning curve, but once you get through that curve you'll do great.

Summary:
Enter the Gungeon is my favorite roguelike of all time (and I have played most). I finished it on switch and I enjoyed it even more double-dipping on PC, where I finally completed the true ending. If you aren't a fan of rogue likes or incredibly demanding, difficult games I am unsure if I can change your mind. But, if you enjoy the genre or difficult games in general you will find fun and snappy gameplay, huge variety, and addictive replayability

Pros:
-Fun responsive gameplay. Every loss feels fair and you learn with each run
-Nice pixel graphics that are still readable when a lot is going on the screen
-Huge variety, each run is different whether it's guns, items, bosses, enemies etc
-Tons of secrets to uncover
-Fun unlockable characters that significantly change gameplay
-Many references to other IPs
-Great on deck
-Solid music and strong sound effects
-Fun to run through in co-op

Cons:
-May be too hard for some. Has a steep learning curve
-Level variety isn't amazing, most are variations of dungeons
-Certain floor bosses are much more difficult than others, and can negatively influence a run (Ammoconda on floor 2)
-Progression is somewhat slow, especially if you aren't good
-Enemies on later floors start to feel like bullet sponges and aren't as fun to fight, especially in bullet hell

If you're into roguelikes or bullet hell typo games this game uses both genres, it's difficult coz you may think some mechanics are essential like dodge rolling but in fact that's just a save for specific situations.

What I really like about this is the constant evolving of your playstyle bc the further you go the more you need to learn new mechanics but just by yourself, the game doesn't tell you anything which is great bc you learn from your mistakes something that I really like when playing games like this.

This game is a masterpiece. It is quite possibly one of the hardest games ive ever played. I started playing this game back in 2021 and have played it on and off before finally beating it just now. No other game upon completing it has made me want to leave a review like this game. If you have the time and the patience, it is more than worth it. This game has made me rage like no other and I have alt F4'd after so many fucking deaths. But at the end of the day its worth it all.

this is one of if not my favorite game. you may feel like you may never fully complete it but i just say that you could keep going forever. the synergies and combos are (mostly) well balanced and thought out. anyways this is a critically underrated game that i love.

extremly hard but its easy and it forces you to be good at games

The core gameplay of this game has promise but after multiple attempts to get back into finishing this, I can't quite enjoy it. There's a lack of depth to the roguelike elements and it leaves you feeling annoyingly underwhelmed and constantly limited by the tools given to you.

It's not my type of roguelike, but it could probably be yours.