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The Great Rebellion
The Great Rebellion is a cyberpunk 2D sidescrolling run'n'gun roguelite using mouse/twinstick-shooter controls. It features randomly generated levels, multiple difficulty modes (including optional permadeath), a dynamic soundtrack and an upgradeable player character.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-12.
“fun though unballanced shooter its techically right wing but rather shy about anything real preffering sentiment over substance gameplaywise difficulty is highly dependant on rng with some weapons like the rave cannon trivialising even the final boss and others being very meh…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“I played a lot of 2D shooters when was a midget, and playing this game takes me back to those golden ages of 2D shooter games, besides that. pick up gun. inspect gun. brain happy. shoot gun. gun go pew pew. sad head voice goes quiet. shoot enemies. increase thirst to kill more.…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“Overall a very dope classic side-scroller experience in a flashy, retro, and futuristic slide-scrolling roguelike format. Sorry, maybe that was a mouth full of a description. But yeah, this game is very fun and it feels great to get better and better weapons to blow away more…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Rogue-like · Loot · Bullet Hell · Cyberpunk · 2D · Action · Platformer · Dystopian · Rogue-lite · Action RPG · Mythology · Action Roguelike (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German, Japanese * |
| Achievements | 49 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://great-rebellion.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 8 Processor: Intel Core i3 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GTX 660M Storage: 2 GB available space