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91%25291% positive reviews, Very Positive across 252 reviews·Shoot 'Em Up · Side Scroller
—Get ready to push your skills to the limit against an endless sea of bullets and evil robots in Astral Gunners. Choose from five different gunners to master in this horizontal shooter. With the ability to dodge, reflect, delete, and convert bullets you are more powerful than you might believe.

Play as five different Gunners each with unique ways to break bullets, obliterate enemies and collect medallions in style. Each character comes equipped with two offensive shots, one defensive ability to dodge and break bullets, and a special ability to deal massive damage and increase your score!

Push your luck with intense scoring mechanics that make you decide between increasing your chances of survival or getting those extra points you need to climb to the top of the online leaderboards.

Choose your own route as you shoot your way through the six main stages, discovering additional secret levels and assist characters along your way. With each stage, fight fearsome boss battles that push you to improve your shooting skills.

Utilize the advanced training tools of Astral Gunners to replay challenging sections on loop until you master them. Set any of the game variables to whatever you want to laser in on specific scenarios.

With over 20 unlockable System Hacks, you can customize the game to feel exactly how you want. Equip barriers, fight alongside options that follow you, slow bullets down, break unbreakable bullets, stack assist characters, and that's not even half of it.

Complete over 70 achievements each with a unique unlockable to acquire System Hacks that make your Gunners even stronger, Character Skins that let you save the universe in style, Botstiary Entries that tell you the lore behind Astral Gunners, and more!

Discover the unique combos of abilities by bringing a friend along. Protect each other from danger with defensive abilities, and team up to take down bosses even quicker!

Classic head banging heavy metal soundtrack written by Sami Sati of Oak Pantheon, featuring guest guitar solos from members of Amiensus, Phase Meridian, Atomic Lights and others. Mixed and mastered with the same care as a professional studio release.
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