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Uragun is a top-down roguelite arena shooter where you play as an abandoned mech suit seeking its pilot and fighting off artificial intelligence throughout its journey. Using 4 different weapons and a whole bunch of modifiers and variations, Uragun has a decent bit of content for you to try on the many runs you’ll end up doing.

Upon starting the game, you are placed into a tutorial where you are taught how to do basic things such as dash to destroy terrain and traverse over large gaps. This tutorial also introduces the main story by requiring you to find a weapon to fend off AI robots that have the mostly successful goal of taking over the world. Through dialogue, you learn that the machine you play as seeks its pilot and fights the enemies because it increases its chances of reuniting with the one it cares about.

As mentioned previously, there are 4 weapons. The first two, the minigun and the rocket launcher, are unlocked very quickly upon starting a playthrough. They pair pretty well together, and can allow you to emerge victorious in most situations if you use the right mods. Later on, you unlock the shotgun and plasma disc launcher. I personally don’t like the shotgun in most situations, but used the plasma disc more than the others. It fires slowly, but does a lot of damage to single targets and crowds alike. Paired with the minigun for constant damage, it works quite well when put to the task of defeating bosses and getting far in the game. All of the weapons have their uses, though, and can get the job done in parity with each other.

When beginning a run, you must choose a level out of two options that will decide what the future levels you can play will be, as well as what upgrades you will get. The actual level layout is not revealed to you, however most of them have 2 rewards that you can see before entering. These rewards can consist of an increase in max health and healing, earning currency used for permanent upgrades, temporary cash that is lost when dying, weapon mods, or weapons. All standard levels have two different types of these rewards, but there are a few other variants of areas to visit. Around halfway through each biome, there is a corrupted mech that you have to fight that gives you one usual reward and a special attack that you can choose to add to your arsenal in exchange for one of the other ones. Also, there is a shop that every biome has at least one of. Here, you can use your temporary credits to buy things to support yourself during the current run. Finally, there is a boss at the end of each biome that gives you three rewards, one of them just being a simple heal.

The actual gameplay of Uragun is fairly simple. As stated earlier, it’s a top-down arena shooter, which means that as you go through the levels themselves, you get locked in certain areas where enemies will spawn. These “rooms” aren’t typically very difficult, and one probably wouldn’t single-handedly die to one room. However, it’s still optimal to pay good attention, since lost health isn’t very easy to get back. Usually, clearing a room contributes to whatever the end goal of the level is, whether it’d be giving you a component to open a door or contributing to the spawning of a miniboss. There are a bunch of other miscellaneous tasks that are placed throughout some levels as well. Two times per normal level, doing one of these tasks will grant access to one of the assigned rewards.

While Uragun is fun, it’s far from perfect when it comes to overlooks and bugs. In dialogue, there are several typos/grammatical errors that I encountered such as a simple misspelling or misplaced punctuation. In a few levels, there are a few elements that have no collisions with the player, making for some janky-looking scenes and situations. The last notable thing I found was that one of the levels contains a tutorial text box that lingers between runs.

The music that plays in-game is actually pretty good, but I noticed there aren’t very many unique songs. It’s also pretty graphically pleasing other than the visual bugs here and there, as well. The controls aren’t bad, but I did end up adjusting them during my playthrough.

Morally, there are very few issues with Uragun. All language used is okay for all audiences, and the violence is between machines exclusively. This means that there is no blood nor gruesome implications, and enemies explode when “killed.”

I liked playing Uragun, and think that it’s a fitting game for anyone who likes top-down action-packed shooters. It has a very simple gameplay loop, but there isn’t much wrong with it. Paired with it’s family-friendliness, it’s a very nice and chill game to play.