Son of a Gun
Crank Goblin · 2024 · Action, Top-Down Shooter, Shoot 'Em Up, Arcade, Shooter
PC
Mostly Positive78% · 79 📉 Recent reviews down 62%
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About Son of a Gun
A retro-inspired twin-stick shooter like they made back in the day. Guns, blood, and gore all in one nostalgia-looking package.
Son of a Gun is an intense action packed top down shooter full of bullets, blood and explosions. Collect and manage your guns and grenades to fight swarming bugs, gigantic robots, slimy monsters and even space ghosts. Select one of 6 characters and upgrade them while progressing through the single player campaign. Overwhelming enemies can be sometimes dealt with by the prototype time-bending device.You are Son of a Gun - an interplanetary mercenary working for the Sons of a Gun organization. You’re called always when firepower matters and something needs to be solved by force. While being on a vacation on a tropical planet you’re just received a phone call from the SOAG Command Center…
You'll have plenty of guns in 7 different classes at your disposal. Grab pistols, shotguns, SMG's, rifles, plasma guns, sniper rifles, or rocket launchers - you're defining your own playstyle. Don't forget about grenades - gear up with your favorite grenade type - cluster, force, explosive, implosive…
You'll fight in the heart of the distant planets with versatile biomes. Each with their own unique environment and challenges - reach a target area, unlock base gates, download data from data-pylons or survive the horde's attack.
Face over 20 different enemy types with swarming bugs, zombie-like creatures, auto-turrets, gigantic robots, horrific degenerations, slimy monsters and even space ghosts.
- Plenty of guns in 7 different classes - pick your shooting style
- Use a time-bending device that will often save your ass
- Play as one of 6 space mercenaries
- Tactically push tactical explosive barrels to gain a tactical advantage
- Use environmental hazards to kill enemies
- Annihilate 8 gigantic bosses with unique mechanics
- Experience full of tropes, sci-fi story :)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Basically a nostalgia bait that's trying to recreate a flash game. There are quite a few of these topdown shooters here on steam and this is probably the weakest one out of the bunch I ever had the pleasure of playing. It has an uninspiring level design and progression system.20 found this helpful
What a waste of time and money. For a game that lets you do two things - walk and shoot - it does them both poorly. Walking has some weird momentum going on. It's not Sonic, I'm not sprinting around the place. Shooting on the other hand has literally nothing. It feels like throwing wet noodles at enemies, they don't have any hit animations, they just die after you shoot them enough. Your character handles the recoil like a champ, absolutely no movement from a shotgun shot. No muzzle flash too, I think every gun might be a laser gun? With a speaker that plays dull gun sounds? This game has absolutely nothing going for it, I regret the time I spent playing it more than the money I spent to buy it.1 found this helpful
Awesome top down shooter, just what I like!1 found this helpful
Hmm cant really recommend it1 found this helpful
Very fun top down shooter. It's not too expensive and therefore entertained me very well so far. What you see in the trailer is pretty much what you get.
Don't know if I've ever described a game as "inoffensive" before, Son of a Gun is a perfectly fine 5/10. It isn't good but it also isn't bad, It's basically one of those flash games you'd play once for 2-3 hours then never think about again. I'm not recommending it cause of that price, in no world is this worth $10, is 100% a game you'd play for free on Newgrounds.
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