Gunlocked

Gunlocked

released on Apr 29, 2022

Gunlocked

released on Apr 29, 2022

A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!


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Fun idea, weak execution. For a survivor-like the combinations and resulting chaos aren't quite as satisfying to pull off and see and the variety in enemy and background design is severly lacking. As a bullet hell it is not precise or complex enough while being audiovisually too confusing to read, so the wrong kind of difficult. Still recommended to just give it a try, since there is quite a bit of content in terms of challenges and achievements to go through for the price and maybe it grabs you more than it did me.

Not sure what counts as beating the game, but I did get through all non-endless areas on Easy so... beaten on 1/23/23 I guess? pretty fun game, wish it had more areas or bosses, but I'm not a huge roguelike guy to begin with so I can't fault there being not much content despite the fact that, in theory, I could play this game for a few more weeks just unlocking things and getting achievements.

Overall, it has a good difficulty curve, final area was a bit bonkers but there's just so much to unpack with how the mechanics work for a game that I quite frankly had my time with, had the goal of completing it, and now I'm done so I'd rather not dig deeper into it.

Bullet hell mechanics are cool, there are some fun weapons and upgrades, just... not too bad, not too great. Middle of the road roguelike, not as good as, say, Nuclear Throne or Isaac but if you want something to scratch that shmup itch and still have the roguelike experience, give this a go. You might be a bit dissapointed at the lack of fresh content unless you really end up liking the game, but for what it is most players will have a good time.

BEATEN

Took me a bit to get into as the difficulty and pacing feels a little off, but after I got into it it was quite fun.

vertical scrolling does some interesting stuff, and this game has some wacky weapons and silly mechanics to play around with. i really look forward to seeing it develop more in early access, but had a great time with the stuff that exists today.

Vampire Survivors but a Shmup. Hey, I like BOTH of those things!