Son of a Gun

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A retro-inspired twin-stick shooter like they made back in the day. Guns, blood, and gore all in one nostalgia-looking package.

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Engine:
Unity
Release date:
22 October 2024
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All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (76)

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Description

A retro-inspired twin-stick shooter like they made back in the day. Guns, blood, and gore all in one nostalgia-looking package.

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 :)

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7 or newer
Processor:
2 GHz Processor
Memory:
2 GB RAM
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
2 GB available space

recommended*

OS *:
Windows 7 or newer
Processor:
3.2 GHz Processor
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
2 GB available space

User reviews

DeadPixelRefund
Not recommended | 19 Dec 2024
10.4h played

This is a pure twin stick game that consists of 8 worlds, 10 levels each, ending with a boss fight. Each level takes 1-5 minutes and they are horribly unbalanced where some can be completed in seconds via sprinting and

Helpful: 13
Heniek spod monopolowego
Recommended | 10 Nov 2024
5.3h played

Son of a Gun: an otherwise decent game overshadowed by a greedy publisher. The game is far too expensive for what it is. Son of a Gun is a twin-stick shooter with decent, albeit somewhat slow gameplay. It doesn’t have

Helpful: 13
Cohaven
Not recommended | 23 Dec 2024
25 min played

The first few levels make a poor impression. The gameplay is very simple, and first few weapons and upgrades are not interesting. The game also feels unpolished: - Enemies getting stuck on vegetation - No cross-hair

Helpful: 16
kubicle
Recommended | 09 Nov 2025
21.1h played

It is fun. New mechanics/monsters/environments are introduced from time to time, so I did not get bored one minute (after 3 hours). Music is good, sounds could be a bit more immersive. Also: dev, please add controller

Helpful: 4
xxadonisxx
Recommended | 13 Sept 2025
11.3h played

Son of a Gun, developed by Crank Goblin and published by Untold Tales and Gamersky Games, is a fast-paced twin-stick shooter that embraces chaos, absurdity, and nostalgia in equal measure. From the moment the game

Helpful: 1
The Real Anarhian
Recommended | 23 Oct 2024
2.0h played

What you see is what you get, literally. If you ever wanted to go back to playing old browser shooters that maybe did not had the depth today's games have, but were just pure fun, you have one right here. Plenty of

Helpful: 5