A retro-inspired, action packed, twin-stick shooter full of bullets, blood and explosions. Collect and manage your guns to exterminate jungle zombies, swarming bugs, heavy robots, slimy monsters and even space ghosts.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Sep 9 → 0/day in the week after.
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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 :)
Sums Steam only; GOG, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $2.99−70% | 143reviews | 73% | — | $19K |
| $2.99−70% | 10ratings | 80% | — | not modelled | |
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picking up different guns with various stats to consider was interesting but that was about it. the movement and aiming have some kind of kinetic physics delay so rather than snappy feeling action you get kind of a sluggish dragging sensation the entire time. then theres the sin of the options menu. there is no resolution selection, just the window scaling to your current monitor resolution. you can alt enter to enable a windowed mode but no option for that in the game. you can turn shadows on or off, turn the music or sound up or down and select your language. I would say that's all you need but you can't change your controls at all which seems problematic and seemingly beyond the developer to implement. the inclusion of a toggle for shadows feels bizarre as like a performance option, it might be referring to the heavy fog of war as featured in their other game Mooch but I never disabled it so who knows. death only comes closer and I suggest you play the hundreds of free games in this genre before attempting to play this one for 10 dollars. I don't even think I would put a dollar towards it, theres nothing to really write home about, no leaderboards despite there being plenty of stats upon level completion. your character has a dialogue bubble that appears when they say stuff but also when you try to pickup health when you are already full it uses the same dialogue bubble but maxes it out and obscures a quarter of the screen to display 2 small words Health Full or something like that. is my character saying Health Full? or you just wanted to cram gameplay relevant information into this area you've deemed appropriate for all text but also displayed as something the character is saying. the game is 2.49 gb installed when it feels like it should be no more than 800mb and plenty of games do farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr more at well under 500mb let alone a few hundred. I would say son of a gun packs little to no punch for its weight
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 30 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English*, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Ukrainian*languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Get Brotato instead. It's too bad as I like janky old games but this is some very ugly mechanics (the variety is ok after awhile) and erratic pacing with a good dose of failed pathing and glitchy AI.
no ultrawide support. no options to change resolution in game. no real reason to inconvenience myself in order to play. thank god i paid less than $5 for this
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.
Son of a Gun is a top down shooter game with satisfying gunplay and plenty of chaotic action. If you grew up playing classic flash games or 90s top-down shooters like Alien Breed, you will feel right at home here. Each run lets you collect new weapons and creating some fun build combinations as you fight through waves of enemies. Unfortunately, the game lacks variety. Enemy types, environments, and objectives become repetitive after a few runs, and progression feels fairly shallow. While the core gameplay is enjoyable, there isn't enough content or build diversity to keep things interesting for long. 7/10 If you are looking for a simple, fun game to play in between larger titles, it is well worth grabbing, especially if you can catch it on a sale.
Game difficulty begins at extremely easy (enemies get stuck behind map objects) then suddenly becomes extremely difficult (overpowered and outgunned at first boss fight). Worth the dollar I paid for it in a game bundle but no more than that.
Das Spiel geht garnicht, steuerung schamming, das schießen fühlt sich an als würde ich mit ner zwille schießen, das artwork ist als hätte ich es selbst gezeichnet, also total mies^^ ... und der preis für ein solches sechstklassiges game ist mit 10€ echt mies, glücklicherweise bekam ich den key geschenkt, weil er übrig war bei nem bekannten. eine klare ablehnung, keine empfehlung meinerseits. ich glaub ich habe keine 10 minuten aushalten können.
Basit ama kendini oynatıyor. Emek harcanmış değil yani aşırı kötü yapım ama bir şekilde oynuyorsunuz .
Its ok. Nothing special, but definitely not offensive in it's existence. I think the enemy pathfinding could be better; often enemies will go in straight line of sight to the player and get caught on walls. The boss fights are interesting. The guns are ok, though I think the stat variation isn't well established enough to warrant using anything other than your best weapon. I'd give a solid 6/7
Hmm cant really recommend it
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