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86%35886% positive reviews, Very Positive across 358 reviews·Shoot 'Em Up · Twin Stick Shooter
—Never Akimbo is a fast-paced pixel art action game where one weapon is all you need. Fight through relentless enemy waves, clear handcrafted levels, and transform your gun with wild attachments that radically change how it behaves. One gun. Infinite builds. No dual-wielding excuses.
Never Akimbo
SteamNever Akimbo is a top-down pixel art action game fueled by the chaos and replayability of modern arena shooters — and overseen by something far worse than bad odds.

You have been captured by the Gamemaster: a grinning, jester-like tyrant who sees you not as a hero, but as a toy. For his amusement, he has built a tower — a vertical playground of violence — and demands you climb it floor by floor. Each level is a new joke. Each enemy, a punchline. Your suffering? The entertainment.
There is only one rule.
You get one gun.
And he wants to see how far you can take it.
Your weapon evolves as you ascend the tower. Every floor offers new upgrades, twisted experiments, and dangerous improvements that permanently reshape how your gun behaves.
Build your weapon piece by piece, swapping components on the fly to adapt — or to impress your captor.

Every attachment matters. Every combination creates a new playstyle — from surgical precision tools to uncontrollable bullet-spewing abominations. The Gamemaster loves both.
There is no safety. No rest. No sympathy.
Only the next floor.
And the Gamemaster is always watching.
Never Akimbo rewards curiosity. Some builds are brilliant. Some are ridiculous. Some feel like terrible ideas.
The best part? They work.
Break the rules. Break the gun. Break the enemies.
Climb the tower. Entertain the Gamemaster.
Just don’t bring a second weapon.
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