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Northwood Gameworks · Published by Northwood Gameworks · Official site ↗
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Action roguelike horde shooter. Bullet heaven vs bullet hell. Enter The Astral to slay demons by the thousands, loot and craft powerful guns and items, use the power of runes to get strong enough to defeat the Astral Kings.
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Embark on a bullet hell adventure where you'll face thousands of demons in The Gun is Good. Craft powerful weapons and use runes to challenge the Astral Kings in this intense action game from Northwood Gameworks.
About this game
An action roguelike top-down shooter. Bullet heaven vs bullet hell, man against demon hordes. Loot countless powerful guns to annihilate your foes by the thousands, and use the power of runes to get even stronger. Trapped in an infinite spanning astral plane filled with innumerable hordes of murderous demons stalking your every move - things clearly aren't looking great. But, at least The Gun is Good. Traverse strange dimensions, battle increasingly powerful and numerous foes in ever changing environments to try to find a way back home.
The demons are many, but The Gun is Good. Use your arsenal of powerful (to extremely powerful) guns to obliterate anything that stands in your path. Be it demon or solid wall. The demons hold runes - the currency of the astral.
Traverse maps of strange dimensions with different layouts and properties every time you play. Choose a safer path with lesser rewards or test your skills for greater boons. Enter both dangerous and safe areas to finally reach and challenge mighty demon lords.
Loot or purchase dozens of different guns with wildly varying properties, strengths, and weaknesses. Further enhanced with dozens of modifications that changes their power and abilities. The combinations are astronomical.
Discover different items that can be used to further help you on your journeys.
Runes have many different uses, use them to power up your character with dozens of different rune powers. Purchase items, guns and ammo. Find ways to craft modifications onto your guns to increase their power even further.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 4 core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 540
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Recommended
- OS *: Windows 7/10/11
- Processor: 4 core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 540
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update
Demo UpdateA new update! This post encompasses all the changes from 55-1 to 62-3, plenty of additions and changes but this post be so granular. Anyway, here's the changelog:Two new map types to encounterSix new enemies to slay Elemental effects have been reworked; a gun with an elemental effect will apply its effect with a certain strength (before it was always the same strength), for example a gun with high ice effect will first slow enemies down a lot and if they get enough ice applied to them they will trigger a shatter and explode. Burning enemies can set the ground on fire - further spreading it.One new elemental effect, Lightning. Play to find out how it works!A new item type, Trinkets. These give certain passive benefits, you can now both have an active item (relics) and a trinket on. Currently there are 8 different trinkets.Two new relics.One new Logan specific rune power (more to come!)Five new guns.Some guns have new secondary effects, e.g. Grenade Launcher can shoot its entire magazine with secondary fire. Fireball Launcher's projectiles' sets the ground on fire.Last level of act 1, and the demo, has been reworked. WIth an all new Astral King waiting for you at the end.UI waypoint marker towards bosses.Small numerical ammo counter for guns.A chest will now drop after every map completion, they can also drop more different things now.Resistance and armor calculations have been revised. Armor has been streamlined a bit to not be as convoluted; every point of armor will block 1 damage, every point of armor penetration a gun has will remove 1 armor.Gun crafting mods can now be rerolled.All guns have received some rebalancing. Too much to list.All reroll behaviours improved - rerolling something now should never give you a mod that you had when pressing the button.All loottables have been reworked.An all new gamepad specific info UI.Laser type guns have been reworked.Physics and collision improvements, like demon corpses can go flying.Tweaks and improvements t...Read full article on Community Announcements (Northwood)Community & EventsOfficial
Endless Replayability Fest DEMO
Come check out a snippet of the game in progress at Steam's Endless Replayability Fest with a free demo of the game's first act, available on the game's store page. https://i.ibb.co/LSR1Zpm/replayability-Shot-Small.jpgRead full article on Community Announcements (pub.northwood)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Gun is Good is announced!
I am very excited to announce my very first Steam game! Please check out the announcement trailer and wishlist the game if you like what you see, if not - tell me about it!Read full article on Community Announcements (pub.northwood)
