GUG
Martian Lawyers Club · 2025 · Simulation, Sandbox, Turn-Based Tactics, Exploration, Creature Collector
PC
Mostly Negative35% · 48 📈 Making a comeback 43%
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About GUG
GUG is a sandbox simulation roguelike where you generate monsters—”gugs”—by typing any word or phrase. Your choice of words determines how they look, behave and battle. Type “banana flamethrower” and you might get a spiky yellow pyromaniac. Type “emotional support gremlin” and get… Well, who really knows?Every word wields unexpected power, so experiment and see what incredibly broken gugs you can concoct.Each run throws you into a new procedurally generated arena—lava jungles, haunted car parks, algorithmic chaos pits—and challenges you to create a truly unpredictable squad of gugs. You will:
- Adapt to randomised rules, enemy types and objectives
- Tweak your team’s strategy to seize victory or fail gloriously
- Unlock new modifiers, environments and gug abilities
- Ask yourself why your tank explodes when it gets healed
- Mix and match brains, attacks, movement styles and passives across different gugs
- Use procedural logic systems to combine effects in strategic—or utterly unhinged—ways
- Watch unexpected synergies emerge, then break them when your next bright idea goes disastrously wrong
- Encounter gugs made by other players
- Upload and share your best/worst creations
- Join regular challenges and gug hunt bounties
- Break the meta or break the game—we welcome both
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the core concept of AI-generated card deck building but are disappointed by numerous execution issues including broken monster effects that don't work as described, severe balance problems that allow instant-win or invincible creatures, and poor overall polish with laggy performance and a clunky UI. The game feels rushed and abandoned post-launch, with no meaningful updates or developer communication despite promising beta potential, leaving players frustrated that what could have been interesting remains incomplete and unfinished.
The idea for this game is interesting but the gameplay is pretty bad. A lot of the monster effects don't seem to work as written and the basic mechanics for the game are very simple. I didn't go into this game expecting much balance but I was surprised when the game allowed me to make an invincible monster immediately as well as another that upon being placed on the field wins the encounter instantly. I realize the game is $6 so some folks might see a decent value prop but I simply didn't enjoy it. With more polish maybe it will become better.8 found this helpful
trash ai slop, used to be a good idea during beta, but somehow the release is ridiculously bad. Unoptimized and laggy, no meaningful content, bad ui, etc.3 found this helpful
Does not work as intended3 found this helpful
it sounds a lot more interesting than it is3 found this helpful
I really enjoyed the demo and purchased the game upon release. This said, upon launching the game it felt like it was just rebranded and pushed out the door as a full product. I waited for 6 months to see if there would be any improvements or fixes, but as of the time of this review there has been nothing. Sadly since then there really hasn't been any movement forward (patches, releases or communications from the Devs). The game still frequently generates unusable or broken GUGs which makes progression a coin flip. If there had been more communication or had there been some indication that work was being put into the game I probably would have remained interested - but as it stands I wouldn't be able to recommend GUG to anyone. As a tech demo or concept game this was promising. As a full release it falls short.2 found this helpful
Я поставлю этой игре положительную оценку, несмотря на то, что есть масса минусов. Я активно играл в Демо игры, и немного успел поиграть в полную версию. Когда-то (если увижу обновления) - зайду поиграть ещё. Эта игра достаточно увлекательна, чтобы просидеть за ней пару-тройку вечеров, особенно, если получится выловить прикольных ГУГов. Микс карточной игры и дэкбилдера, завязанный на генерации при помощи ИИ. Оно играется и ощущается ровно так как звучит. Но дальше начинаются проблемы. На старте, в демо версии, у меня получались какие-то невероятные ГУГи, то совершенно бесполезные, то люто-имбовые. Сначала повторные генерации (эволюции) одного и того же ГУГа стакали эффекты, потом перестали. В общем. пока шла работа над балансом, становилось немного хуже. На момент релиза я уже и наиграться успел и в игре были изменения, котрые меня не очень радовали. Зато число крашей стало меньше. В общем. Игра как минимум достойна изучения ДЕМО, а там уже каждый решит для себя.1 found this helpful
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