The foolish, maddeningly powerful and compelling Enter The Gungeon by Dodge Roll Games is the brand new giveaway on the Epic Games Store, and a straightforward choose for followers of horrible puns. Take the Binding Of Isaac (or any roguelike-like motion dungeon crawler), clear up the blood, and stuff it with bullets to dodge and videogame firearm goofs. Descend into the six chambers of the Gungeon to battle the Beholster, the Dragun, the Mine Flayer and a military of Gundead, who’re bullets, with weapons, that shoot bullets. Grab the gun pun fun here earlier than June 20th and preserve it perpetually.
While Epic’s big sale — an odd affair slashing a flat £10/$10 off most games — ends in the present day, Epic have introduced that their weekly giveaway schedule will proceed till the top of the 12 months. That’s one other twenty-nine freebies (together with Enter The Gungeon) to snap up, should you keep in mind to log in weekly. The giveaways have usually been wonderful, too, and Enter The Gungeon is not any totally different. Well reviewed at launch, it just lately bought one final expand-o-patch, cutely named A Farewell To Arms, which added one final spherical of characters, bosses, weapons and flooring to discover.
If there’s something improper with Enter The Gungeon, it’s that, much like Isaac in its later years, it’s overloaded. While builders Dodge Roll have made some effort to easy out issue spikes by making ammo drops extra widespread, you possibly can nonetheless find yourself with a set of weapons that places the ‘arse’ in ‘arsenal’. And but, it nonetheless stays thrilling to roll the cube and see what bizarre weaponry you find yourself with. As nicely as well-known (and renamed) weapons like Destiny’s Gjallarhorn, or Gears Of War’s Hammer Of Dawn, there’s tons from different indie games, just like the Polar Star from Cave Story.
Enter The Gungeon is free here on the Epic Games Store till June 20th, at which level it’ll get replaced by the Firefly-inspired Rebel Galaxy.
