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HYPERGUN

NVYVE® Studios · 2018-08-23

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Fight through waves of alien interlopers and save the world as Dewey Owens in HYPERGUN, a fast-paced roguelite shooter centering around a procedural weapon of questionable effectiveness. Enter the simulation. Build the HYPERGUN!

62%
positive of 74 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

"The year is 2038, and a highly advanced alien race has occupied planet Earth. Humanity is at its breaking point, and the fate of the human race now depends on the top-secret HYPERGUN program: a highly advanced simulation that is designed to create the ultimate weapon to combat the alien oppressors by combining weapon components across countless simulations. The intern at DevTech Labs, Dewey Owens, has managed to sneak into the facility over the weekend (even at the end of the world, we still need weekends!). Is he trying to prove himself to Roger, the hard-nosed CEO, or is he up to something(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (19 reviews).
  • · Top 48% of 23,092 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 74 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120182026Week of 2018-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

FPSIndieActionArcadeCyberpunkRogue-likeRogue-liteFirst-PersonShoot 'Em UpArena Shooter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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