Yes — GUN&DUN is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is GUN&DUN Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates GUN&DUN Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play GUN&DUN on Mac?

Not natively — Steam lists no macOS version of GUN&DUN. Mac players would need a cloud gaming service or a Windows compatibility layer.

Is GUN&DUN multiplayer?

No — Steam lists GUN&DUN as single-player only.

Is GUN&DUN on PC Game Pass?

No — GUN&DUN is not on PC Game Pass right now.

GUN&DUN

Name: GUN&DUN
Brand: Dev Kid
Availability: InStock

Dev Kid · August 9, 2021 · Action, Arcade, Shooter, 2D, Top-Down Shooter

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About GUN&DUN

✦ AI summary

GUN&DUN puts you in control of a sentient gun fending off waves of enemies while uncovering a mysterious conspiracy. Chase high scores across four difficulty levels, unlock cosmetic gun colors, grab power-ups to survive, and discover a hidden boss fight if you're clever enough.

You play as a gun.... no, not a character with a gun, AS a gun.
Lots of different types of enemies will attack you as you play along and as you uncover a huge secret.
With different settings and re-playability, you can change up how the game is played and beat your high score!

Features

Difficulty levels. Choose from four different difficulties ranging from easy to impossible, and see which of those high scores can you beat!
Gun colors. As you play along and get large high scores, you will start to unlock different gun colors that you can show off to your friends whoa aren't as good ad you.
Power-ups. After killing an enemy, there is a chance of it dropping a power-up that you can utilize in order to increase your likelihood of surviving.
Secret fight. If you are clever enough, you can uncover the secret of GUN&DUN and find out who is doing all of this.
6 completely original songs. 6 songs that you can bounce to and enjoy.

GUN&DUN — game info

Platforms: Windows
Steam Deck: Playable
Player modes: Single-player
PC Game Pass: Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players have sharply divided opinions on Gun & Dun. Some critics dismiss it as a low-effort student project with minimal sprite work and blame the Godot engine for poor game quality, while others offer enthusiastic (if hyperbolic) praise calling it exceptional. The game appears to be a straightforward wave-based shooter with simple mechanics, though whether that simplicity is a flaw or feature remains contentious among the playerbase.

Not recommended Apr 17, 2022

Gun & Dun is a 2D minimalist/retro pixel top down wave survival shooter slapped together with the terrible Godot game engine. Gameplay consists of controlling a pistol and shooting at the waves of squares that attack you. Yes, squares, apparently bothering with actual sprites that resemble anything was out of scope for this. I'm guessing this is some kind of student homework project or something. Godot is a very poor quality game engine, arguably even worse than the blight on gaming that is GameMaker Studio, and unsurprisingly results in products that have little to no value as games. Just like you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, you can't make a good game from a completely crap game engine. The lack of capability of the Godot engine can go some way to explain the very lacklustre implementation of this game. While controls can be customised to some extent, the visuals can't. A choice was made to use obsolete/minimalist retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. These flaws push this game far below minimum…

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6 found this helpful

Recommended Aug 12, 2021

GG Dev Kid...GG

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Recommended Oct 15, 2021

What a magnificent game. The best i have ever played in my life. This is a life changing game and this game was so good it impregnated me even though i am male. Every second i played this I shat my pants with glee. 100000000000/10

2 found this helpful

Recommended Mar 25, 2023

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