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Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%2024

$24.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago · Lowest we’ve seen since Oct 20, 2026: $9.99

The verdict

A single-player roguelite extraction shooter with deep, wacky gun modding, cooking and great style. Skip it if you dislike grinding, repetitive levels, or devs nerfing powerful builds.

Great for

Players who love tinkering with absurd gun builds, looting, hoarding and cooking at their own pace

Main risk

Repetitive levels and grind, plus balance patches that nerf builds you invested in

What players love

Wild gun variety and modding

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“you can make everything from a lighter that fires 50 cal rounds to a shotgun that shoot rocks”
Steam review · 17 h played ↗

“Want to take a good gun and make it worthless? You can do that. Want to turn a bad gun into a weapon of mass destruction? You can do that too.”
Steam review · 47.7 h played ↗

“You can customize weapons however you want, to the point of absurdity.”
Steam review · translated · 39 h played ↗

Addictive loot and extraction loop

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“this game is digital Crack. play at your own risk.”
Steam review · 20.1 h played ↗

“What an addictive and abusive gameplay loop.”
Steam review · 42.8 h played ↗

Great art style and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“It's very catchy (in a good way) electronic music with very good production and some cool compositions.”
Steam review · 17.9 h played ↗

“The visuals don't impress in screenshots, but in person they look very pleasant, though not for everyone.”
Steam review · translated · 3.7 h played ↗

Satisfying, tight gunplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“This game has very tight gunplay and oozes charm.”
Steam review · 33 h played ↗

“very satisfying and buttery smooth gameplay”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

Frequent updates and lots of content

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews

“they fit years worse of free content in the last year alone”
Steam review · 150.5 h played ↗

“Every time there is something new here.”
Steam review · translated · 96.4 h played ↗

Flexible difficulty and risk

Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews

“Extremely fair roguelike that you can take the roguelike part out of if you so desire”
Steam review · 57.8 h played ↗

“depending on the difficulty you can choose how much stuff you lose when you die which is great”
Steam review · 76.8 h played ↗

What players complain about

Repetitive levels and gameplay loop

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“The customization is fun, but man every level and enemy feels the same.”
Steam review · 12.6 h played ↗

“The game is linear runs through monotonous guts-like corridors.”
Steam review · translated · 11.8 h played ↗

“it's just kinda sad that the only real gameloop is walk backwards while you shoot at mobs”
Steam review · 46.2 h played ↗

Grindy progression and punishing death

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“A frustratingly dull grinding simulator.”
Steam review · 38.2 h played ↗

“If you like grinding, buy it; Otherwise stay away.”
Steam review · 284.1 h played ↗

Most oils, scrolls and mods are useless

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“More than 80% of scrolls that induce major change to weapon is just bad and makes weapons worse than empty upgrade slot.”
Steam review · 99.1 h played ↗

“you are actively punished for modifying your guns or trying to make interesting combos”
Steam review · 50.2 h played ↗

Nerfs ruin fun builds

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Devs decided to, in a single patch, ruin their game by unilaterally nerfing to hell and back every single thing players liked and used, in a SINGLEPLAYER game.”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗

“They are patching the fun out of the game.”
Steam review · 172.9 h played ↗

“90% of weapon upgrades (scrolls and oils) simply ruins gameplay”
Steam review · 30.4 h played ↗

Annoying enemies and cheap deaths

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“What's the point of top guns that have no impact because of enemy invulnerability frames?”
Steam review · translated · 6.2 h played ↗

“having to deal with a hoard of frogs with the ability to just spam there stupid no damage shield has made me drop it”
Steam review · 19.6 h played ↗

Long levels with no save or quit

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“the levels take hours to complete if you dont speed run them and you cant save or leave”
Steam review · 6 h played ↗

“The game is good, but this is a negative review until you add leaving a run with a save.”
Steam review · translated · 6.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 10 64-bit

Processor2.4 GHZ Dual Core Processor

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGTX 970 or equivalent

Storage2 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10 64-bit

Processor2.4 GHZ Quad Core Processor

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsGTX 1080 or equivalent

Storage4 GB available space

OSWindows 10 64-bit

Processor2.4 GHZ Dual Core Processor

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGTX 970 or equivalent

Storage2 GB available space

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