Enter the Gungeon

I am happy to say, enter the gungeon is one of my top 3 favourite games. If you wanna beginner's roguelike, I recommend this game. The difficulty ramps up as you learn more and more about this game from fighting the first five floor bosses to beating the true final boss and even going through secret floors with ease.
What I love about EtG is how extensive the selection of guns and items is. Thanks to the three free updates, lots of customization opens up for you. What the RnG gods deal, you make do and that's what I enjoy about it. The combinations, synergies, and using your knowledge you've built overtime opens up new possibilities to slay your foes and bosses quicker and quicker.
The characters are all great. I'm biased and love the pilot because of lock pick (I love gambling) but a more beginner friendly character is the marine. If you want a bit more room utility, the hunter has her dog and if you like aggressive play styles, the convict works well. Even the 4 secret characters you can later unlock also offer unique play styles.
Roguelikes offer so much replayability so you don't have to worry. I have encountered people that "buy it, play it for a few hours and then never touch it until a year or so later" because they don't understand the true essence of roguelikes. A roguelike demands you die over and over again so you learn. With gungeon specifically, it isn't so brutal because the challenge is like a nice gradient slope; as you get better and better, the game opens up challenges that offer more difficulty but based on your current level. For reference, it took me over 100 runs just to beat the the fifth floor boss so don't think you suck. Games like these demand you to learn.
The art style has a pixel 2D/3D look and it is very cool and cute. The guns and items that references other media and real life add a nice touch. Fun easter eggs if you will. The music is superb with each floor having its own track and the intro song being such a banger.
Overall, solid 10/10 for me. I easily suck in over 600 hours so yes, you can get addicted. Gun go pew pew pew

OBS: this game made me verge on INSANITY again
- DIFFICULTY
🔲 A 90-year-old lady would complete
🔲 Easy
🔲 Normal
✅ Difficult
🔲 It depends on the difficulty you choose
🔲 Dark Souls
- GRAPH
🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 It doesn't matter in this game
🔲 Good (special)
🔲 Beautiful
✅ Artwork
- MUSIC
🔲 Bad
🔲 Nothing special
🔲 Good
✅ Great soundtrack
- HISTORY
🔲 Depends on
🔲 It's there for anyone who wants it
🔲 Well written
✅ An epic saga
- PRICE
🔲 For free
🔲 Far below
✅ Perfect
🔲 It could be cheaper
🔲 Very expensive
🔲 Go throw your money away
(has absurd discounts frequently)
- REQUIREMENTS
✅ You can run on your dad's potato notebook
🔲 More or less
🔲 PC Gamer
🔲 NASA Computer
- DURATION
🔲 You have a soda and it's over
🔲 Short
🔲 Normal (between 8~12h)
✅ Long
🔲 There is no predetermined duration
🔲 When you're 800 years old it's over
(it has "many endings" and several little secrets)
-FUN
🔲 I prefer to see puddle of water dry
🔲 Hard to like
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 It will entertain you
✅ You'll never forget how much fun this game has had you
🔲 The trip of a lifetime
(there are easter eggs from other games)
- REPLAY FACTOR
🔲 One-time experience
🔲 Just for the achievements
🔲 If you wait a few months/years (or mods) Note: It depends on whether you get bored easily...
🔲 Definitely
✅ Endlessly
-BUGS
✅ I've never seen any
🔲 Minor bugs
🔲 It can get annoying
🔲 ARK: Survival Evolved
🔲 It even looks like a lighted lamp full of insects
- IS IT WORTH BUYING?
🔲 No
✅ Maybe (depends on whether you like this type of game)
🔲 Absolutely
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This game is really really hard for me to give a proper review on because it all 100% boils down to being skill issue on my part. This game is very hard and very unforgiving. The gameplay itself is very fun, but I personally, am not having fun with it because I am extremely bad and die to the first boss all the time. Like, I cannot stress enough, it is a skill issue for sure. I suck at this game and it makes it not fun for me, however, the game as a whole is fun.

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

I only 100% games I absolutely love. Enter the Gungeon is one of those games. Honestly, not that hard for a roguelike bullethell (speaking as somebody who has sunk nearly 1000 hours into games like Isaac), but immensely fun. I almost feel like this has a better pin on the fun/accessible balance level than games like Isaac (which, again, I have sunk nearly 1000 hours into).
I am not saying the game is easy, but getting a viable run going seems like less of a crap shoot, or at least something that can be discerned pretty early into a run.
I love moving in this game. I love shooting in this game. I love having fun with this game. You will almost certainly need to look up guides to 100% the game because finding some secrets requires either a lot of persistence or a lot of help. However, having fun is something anyone can do without much help (again, speaking as somebody who put almost 1000 hours into Isaac).
TLDR: If you like Binding of Isaac, buy this game. If you like this game, play Binding of Isaac. If you don't like either, then we can't be friends.

It goes without saying that, where the vast library of indies is concerned, Enter The Gungeon is easily a contender for one of the best out there on the Steam store in terms of what it sets out to accomplish as a deep and challenging roguelite with a unique flavor of 'bullet hell' to stand out from the crowd that has very much saturated the market and demand for these types of games.
Though any game that is simply 'good' at what it does would be wholly underselling the sheer creativity and attention to detail put into crafting this game's world, it's many colourful characters and, above all else, the insane amount of guns and gun-like items on offer for the player to have fun with! Seeing as each run will start you off with just your starting pistol as well as any other small perks that each of the four playable 'gungeoneers' (plus several other secret characters that can be unlocked through specific means) have, which helps to encourage those to experiment with which ones align with their own playstyle.
However, to get right into what Enter The Gungeon is all about, you are tasked with exploring five increasingly challenging chambers (with a special 'sixth chamber' for those who want to truly push themselves and go beyond the 'vanilla' experience) as you go through about roughly twenty or so rooms in each chamber, with every room either being filled with random enemies that are hellbent on bringing you down, a store vendor that lets you make use of this game's currency in the form of 'shells' or a treasure chest that varies in size and elegance depending on it's quality that requires a key to unlock alongside the typical 'boss room' where the chamber's big bad lays in wait for you to take on.
Bearing in mind, this isn't even touching upon the many other little special rooms that one may encounter along the way that aren't a part of the standard chamber layout, whether this be one of a dozen or so shrines that the player can pray for various benefits (usually with a 'caveat' in the form of a loss of a heart/gun or some challenge to overcome first) or different minigames that the player can choose to participate in via payment of shells for potential awards, sometimes being absolute trash if they play terribly or being a genuinely super powerful item or gun if they perfect it!
One thing to address in particular that some may have a serious gripe with is how Enter The Gungeon starts off especially harsh to new players, not just in the sense that it's a challenging roguelite where you need to learn the many enemies and how to adapt to each of their patterns (especially when combined with other foes with complex attack patterns!) but also adapting to runs where you have great items but stuck with the starting pistol or a superb gun but having no luck with any decent items.
This problem is especially apparent when you first begin the game as most of what is unlocked at the start is not that great compared to 85-90% of the items you'll be unlocking later when you have enough 'Hegemony Credits' earned by killing bosses to spend on items that can be bought outside at the Breach to have them potentially spawn in the chambers below. Noting that the Breach itself will be quite sparse at first until you start picking up Cell Keys from bosses (or, on the rare chance, a powerful enemy) to unlock specific cells in the chambers during certain runs where you can free these NPCs for use either on the Breach to buy more items and unlock certain challenge modes or those who remain below in the chambers who offer their own items, albeit often with a twist of the sorts!
Seeing as there is a lot on offer as far as traditional roguelites go, Enter The Gungeon will prove to be a fun game for those who can stick at it, even if it is one that seems overwhelming to start off with. Since I will admit to having tried this fun indie back in 2021 on the PlayStation 4, having to give a good 12-13 shots JUST to reach the Fifth chamber and another several more before eventually getting my first 'run' completed. (Sadly I didn't get too much further in, no 'Sixth Chamber' unlocked nor did I try out most of the challenge modes) Meanwhile it only took me three runs to get to the Fifth chamber and cleared my first full run the very next attempt when making my return to the Gungeon here on PC!
This is to say that, once you've learnt how to play Enter The Gungeon, it comes back to you quite easily and, with some patience and willingness to learn, anyone can become decent at this roguelite once they know what to expect as this bullet hell roguelite doesn't give you any power-ups or little perks to help you start off better at the very beginning of each run. Rather, by playing each run and unlocking more unique and potent weapons/items, you not only become better by learning to dodge bullets better and become more adapt to the many firearms and abilities that items offer out there but improve by the selection of said guns and items becoming better the more you unlock as you progress further down the Gungeon.
Though it won't be for everyone, there is something quite satisfying about completing a run of the Gungeon, whether it be by just barely getting by and pulling through to the end in a struggle to defeat the big boss at the end of the Fifth chamber or a purely glorious playthrough where you get all manners of great items that synergize together (another fun mechanic where certain weapons/items become stronger when in your inventory together) and you nail each boss perfectly as a result, ending up with having a solid shot at the true 'end-game' via some of the secret bosses in their own areas inbetween the chambers or the dreaded Sixth Chamber itself if you have that already unlocked!
Honestly, given the sheer coverage of this game, it wouldn't surprise me if my review does not change many minds of those who have either played it for themselves or have already heard of this impressive indie by Dodge Roll. (Indeed, naming their studio after a most critical gameplay mechanic in their big hit game is quite something, albeit the success is well-deserved on their part!) But for what it's worth, Enter The Gungeon still holds up surprisingly well here in 2025 and, despite it being nearly six whole years since the final update, I can confidently say that this is one indie that any respectable Steam gamer that cherishes their indies should at least have a look at to see if they have what it takes to beat the Gungeon and, more importantly, to kill their past!
TLDR Version:
• A fascinating roguelite that fully makes use of various 'bullet hell' mechanics in it's challenging gameplay (+)
• Lovingly crafted world where anything and everything has some relation to guns, ammo or explosive set in our real life or the fiction of many other games' universes (+)
• Five chambers consisting of increasingly difficult randomly-generated rooms, with a Sixth chamber and multiple secret areas to unlock for those eager for the extra challenge (+)
• Over five hundred different guns and items, each one unique and offering something new to the player for each run through the Gungeon (+)
• Multiple different game modes that can be unlocked on top of special rooms in the Gungeon that offer optional events or minigames for players to take on and potentially be rewarded well for skilled effort (+)
• The 'bullet hell' roguelite can be overwhelming for those not used to either genre and may prove too much for some casual gamers (-)
• Starting off Enter The Gungeon can be quite slow and possibly frustrating, given the poor selection of mostly subpar or gimmicky weapons/items at the start where nothing else is unlocked (-)
• No perks or stats to improve for a better start to each run in future attempts, which will likely put off those wanting an extra aid as they progress (-)

Genuinely the best Roguelike ever made, sure there are rivals but nothing plays like Gungeon, progresses like Gungeon, or hooks you and gives you a reason to stay like Gungeon. Worst part about the game was playing it as my first Roguelike, nothing else competes. Got 100% completion after 200 hours and it was fun every second, fantastic modding scene too. Do yourself a favor, play this game. You'll have yourself wanting to kill your past so you could've played it sooner. 10/10.