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Son of a Gun
A retro-inspired, action packed, twin-stick shooter full of bullets, blood and explosions. Collect and manage your guns to exterminate jungle zombies, swarming bugs, heavy robots, slimy monsters and even space ghosts.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Son of a Gun is a top down shooter game with satisfying gunplay and plenty of chaotic action. If you grew up playing classic flash games or 90s top-down shooters like Alien Breed, you will feel right at home here. Each run lets you collect new weapons and creating some fun build…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Awesome top down shooter, just what I like!”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Basically a nostalgia bait that's trying to recreate a flash game. There are quite a few of these topdown shooters here on steam and this is probably the weakest one out of the bunch I ever had the pleasure of playing. It has an uninspiring level design and progression system.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | Action · Top-Down Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up · Arcade · Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter · 2D · Cartoony · Hand-drawn · Top-Down · Aliens · Destruction (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Ukrainian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 19 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: 2 GHz Processor Memory: 2 GB RAM DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space