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Shooting Hurts

Shooting Hurts

A brand new AI, a weapon that turns its health into projectiles, and a gauntlet of tests designed to test their limits. How will you make every shot count when shooting hurts?

Released Sep 18, 2018 Developer Jakob Vidal Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Free to PlayActionIndieShooterFirst-Person
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

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92.5%positive268 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“good”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Latest official news

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Apr 11, 2025
My next game, Kill the Twister, is available now!

Greetings, sim dwellers... Been a while :] It's been a crazy six (6!), going on seven (7!!!) years since Shooting Hurts was first released, but I'm pleased to say that I've finally got another new gam

Sep 18, 2021
Three Years of Shooting Hurts!

Hello again everyone! As of today, it has been three whole years since Shooting Hurts was first released! Since I always get real nostalgic during moments like these, I decided to make a fun little Tw

Sep 18, 2019
Happy Birthday Shooting Hurts!

Today is the one-year anniversary of Shooting Hurts! I just wanted to take a sec to thank everyone who’s given my little game a try! Seeing your reactions though reviews, posts and videos has been a f

Oct 22, 2018
Options Update Patch

It seems I forgot to disable a few debugging features when I pushed the latest update. They should all be properly disabled now, and the game should be fully playable again!

Oct 18, 2018
Options Update!

Hi everyone, me again! Today's a special day: it's been exactly one month since Shooting Hurts was first released on Steam, and to celebrate, I wanted to add in a small update that finally adds in an

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Facts & details

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GenresAction, Free To Play, Indie
Player tagsFree to Play · Action · Indie · Shooter · First-Person · FPS · Short (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements10
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: SSE2 instruction set support. Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities Storage: 76 MB available space Sound Card: Direct X compatible sound card