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A Fistful of Gun
Developer FarmerGnome
A Fistful of Gun: For a Few Gun More is a 2015 top-down shooter game developed by FarmerGnome and published by Devolver Digital. The game features eleven playable characters with differing weapons, attributes, and control schemes. Players engage in procedurally generated fights, clearing waves of enemies before progressing. Power-ups and handicaps affect the player character's abilities, such as movement and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
187 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Jun 9, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
47
Mixed
88 positive · 99 negative
95% range 40–54%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
305 of 491 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 187 · most liked firstA good bullet hell-like game has to do two things well: 1) good movement mechanics 2) competent hitbox detection This game does neither. So it doesn't really matter how good the artwork is, or any other aspect of the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a good game marred by some weird choices that could have been easily fixed. Bullet hell + robotron + multiple classes, each with interesting mechanics, super meatboy style speed = what could go wrong? Honestly there are lots of places where the game doesn't realize it's potential, but one is really obvious. You die fast, but respawn slow. In particular, treating each life as a "continue" was a bad decision, badly implemented. When you die you are given a choice to either watch the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review Date: Thursday, 18th February 2016 Hours played prior to reviewing: 12.6 Achievement progress: 15/36 | 43% Review Welcome to the Wild West! A Fistful Of Gun is a fast-paced top-down shooter with rogue-like elements separated into 2 main modes: Arcade and Story. There's 11 different characters to choose from, each of them comes with unique controls and their own fighting system. The game has full controller support but for some characters you have to switch to keyboard & mouse,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow my Curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41363546-Fruit-N-Doggie-Reviews/]Fruit N Doggie Reviews, so you can be updated whenever I post a new review. Overall Rating - Seriously Flawed ★★☆☆☆ First Impressions The negative reviews for Fistful of Gun (FG) made me wary, though I wondered what the main problems were. Looking at the trailer suggested it had potential: there's a range of characters to play as, and a Western theme is a good set-up for a twin-stick shooter.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When starting up A Fistful of Gun for the first time I was greeted with retro style pixel graphics combined with the dusty zest of an old Western movie. I grabbed my controller and jumped right in, since there was no tutorial, and promptly died. The game is a top down shooter that is very much like a bullet hell game. Shots are flying every which way as you run around killing bad guys and picking up the gold left behind. Despite being horrible at this sort of game I still found it fun and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like this game is misunderstood by the people who gave them a negative review. Let me tell you why: I´ve seen old Spaghetti Western films because of my dad, always had contact with those movies cause he loved Clint Eastwood as the badass bounty hunter, but his favorite Sergio Leone´s film is "Once Upon a Time in the West" starring Charles Bronson. Anyone that never watched Sergio Leone´s films will not understand the game title or even the concept idea that the developer want to give…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Fistful of Gun demonstrates both the unrestricted and undisciplined extremes of indie development. Eleven different characters, each with their own control scheme? Nine-player co-op? Sleek presentation that blends Western tropes with pixel art? Sounds amazing! Too bad no one even tried to balance any of the characters, items, or upgrades. Too bad everything is a one-hit kill, and the screen is extremely cluttered even in single-player. Too bad the versus mode is poorly designed to the point…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Fistful of Gun is an homage to the western genre. Story: A long time ago, there lived an evil railroad baron Clayton Boon, the most evil man in the land that might have even made the deal with the devil. He's been known for killing anyone that opposed his railroad, but he didn't count on a rag tag group of people he crossed to come for their vengeance. That's about all you get in the story department when it comes to A Fistful of Gun, which is delivered to you on a splash screen at the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I purchased this game to play locally with some friends years ago, we didn't end up playing it for long and quickly moved on to other games. I recently revisited this game again with my brother, and I immediately remembered why we stopped playing it years ago. This game has quite a few flaws: The controls are terrible. You're given a selection of 11 different characters to play as and they all have different control schemes. However, many of these characters are extremely hard to use,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review Written on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 Review A Fistful of Gun is a fast paced rougelike/arcade shooter set in the American Midwest. Rating: 7.5/10 Pros: The mechanics of the game feel excellent for most characters on controller as well as mouse and keyboard Retro pixel art style looks great The western inspired music makes the game feel and flow great The Arcade mode is extremely fun, addictive, and challenging leaving you with the desire to play more. The Online is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent premise for a roguelite twin-stick shooter that blows it by having a dozen different bad control schemes instead of one good one. The lack of any sort of persistent unlock system or progression makes the core gameplay being so dull and frustrating that much worse.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a hard-pass/10. It's a bullet hell where you have 1 life. The controls are unintitive and poorly explained. Supposed to work with a controller but didn't read mine. What was shoot for one character on keyboard and mouse wasn't for another character, and changing controls is tough bc the menu and ui is so terrible. It's impossible to beat first Act of story, unless you wanna keep replaying it forever. Also story doesn't even make sense, you just run around this interconnected map of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a bullet hell type of shooter in which you have one hit point. Pros: - fun graphics - randomised campaign mode which is also fun - many characters - good music - character advancement through perks Cons: - some of those characters are barely playable - try playing as a sniper, archer or this bomber man. It'll be hard - repetitive - boring after few hours - no point in playing this game single player, it's more fun in multi After all this game is technically good, but lacks in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the game is just appealing in looks and had an awesome trailer... as a big fan of retro arcade shooters I couldnt find any sense of fun in this game. Honestly I was so hyped to play this, but when I actualy did... I just couldnt bear to keep playing it. I forced myself thinking I will get more used to it in time but that just didnt happen. I regret buying two copies that are now just gonna rot in my and my friends steam library.... Be sure to check out my steam curator and subscribe…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried to like this but I just can't get passed the crappy control setups for the characters. Plus the difficulty spike is just a pain in the ass. Get shot once and restart the area. Get shot at by 50 bullets and try to dodge those when more come from the other direction and your character is slow as crap.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This looked like it was going to be a fun little game, but I am completely underwhelmed. On a foundational level, A Fistful of Gun actually is a good game. All of the nuts and bolts that go into a solid shmup are present, but the developer decided that a classic formula should be needlessly complicated. There are a ton of characters to choose from, but there's something horribly wrong with all of them: Their movement is slow, their range of attack sucks, or their unique control scheme ranges…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Fistful of Gun is a game that I recommend because: - is a method to banish boredom - it has trading cards - it is indie - it has action - it has co-op mode Enjoy!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →an arcade game with full 11 player coop and versus (mayhem) local and online!!! ,with the difficulty of old school arcade games , with a spaghetti western theme and 11 different antiheroes with different weapons and abilities do you want to ask for more ? ok then it has a story too: A Fistful of Gun is about railroad baron Clayton Boon, who has signed a contract with the devil to obtain wealth and might, because of which he is building a doomed track to the depths of hell, connecting it to…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Fistful of Gun is a great game. It is a challenging and unforgiving game, I think that's where most of these negative reviews come from. Some characters are easier to play than others, that is true. But the aim, movement, and mechanics stuff I think is posted by naive people who don't understand what the game is supposed to be - and ultimately want the game to be something else.. something they've played before. But you have to go back to 1985 to find a game that compares to A Fistful of Gun.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has the very strange, but also cool, idea of assigning a different control method to every character. Unfortunately, the energy seems to have gone into trying to make this whole idea as quirky as possible and very little seems to have gone into making it, you know...fun. My one recurring thought when playing this game and I'm scrambling to try and remember how this specific character reloads or whatever is "WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WEIRD" I would actually be into that if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A top-down twin stick shooter built for co-op with a wacky old west setting, a kickin' soundtrack and an interesting roster of characters for rootin', tootin' n' shootin', A Fistful of Gun sadly falls short of the lofty heights of many free flash games that came before it. AFOG's greatest ambition is to be as charming as that old suite of Adult Swim free games but it fails in the most painful way a video game can: The gameplay feels terrible. I don't think much more needs to be said. I like a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn't find the blasting fun advertised on the store page.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Fistful of Gun is a coop top-down shooter with bullet-hell elements and a western theme, which kind of shoots way off target in many regards. The art design is convoluted, effects are spectacularly screen overflowing in a way that nothing is perceptible anymore and the gameplay is kind of meh. To be honest even more than meh as hitbox detection and controls are bordering on being abysmal. I'd rather play Westerado, "12 is better than 6" or Hard West than to spend any more time with A Fistful…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game difficulty is balanced around co-op. Co-op scene is dead. More frustrating than fun. Second boss softlocks (if you miraculously make it that far).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Single or multiplayer this is seriously good ol' fun with your buddies, retro feel, top down, twin stick bullet hell bonanza of a game! Farmer Gnome genuinely impressed me with this title. Each charachter offers a unique twist on gameplay with their own arsenal of firepower at their disposal which not only offers a offers you a level of replayability within the single player campaign, but also extends that replayability to arcade / multiplayer. In the hours i've played, no one game has ever…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Robotron 2049 in the wild west, with bells and whistles galore. I love it!! PROS: -Intuitive & arcadey. -Graphics A+ -Fantastic variety of character playstyles, I LOVE how I can play with either joystick, keyboard only, mouse only, or keyboard + mouse. -Love dat music. -Really puts the MULTI in multiplayer, but also is fun solo. -It's difficult, but rewards practice. -Dialogue is charming! -Live action trailer A++ CONS: -Occasionally the visual chaos is too much and I get disoriented,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very typical Devolver-published title. Which means: great presentation (art and music are the bee's knees), decent idea (different control schemes for all characters), and the gameplay that is severely lacking in way too many aspects.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another game that is ♥♥♥♥. Control wise it's a mess, not to mention the hitbox! This game tried to be an updated version of Gunsmoke, the 1985 arcade game made by Capcom but it fails miserably. Even the NES version of Gunsmoke has responsive controls and hitbox, and we're talking about a game that was made 38 years ago. The pixel art could also be better. Overall, a lazy game. I bought for cheap in a pack of a bunch of ♥♥♥♥ games I won't ever play. Wanna be a cowboy? Go play the original…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reminds me of a Westerado, the adult swim game, but way more confusing and it seems more odd then enjoyable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've noticed a lot of hate towards this game recently, I don't understand it myself, this game is a fun cooperative fast paced sort of roguelike twinstick shooter... That is a lot to say but I don't know how else to explain it. It's a tough game, sure, but that just means you need to take your time with it, don't just rush and expect to win, unlike many recent reviews seem to think. I'm going to guess they got the game from the Devolver Bundle, so they aren't going to give it much of a glance…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What can i say, picked this little gem up not long back and having a complete ball with it. Can't quiet put my finger on it, but i just keep coming back for more. It's actually a FUN game to play + some inventive idea's with the multiple control methods with the different characters. Plenty of different game modes to keep you occupied for ages. Highly recommended Still !!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is chaotic fun, but extremely fair. Most indie games are really hard just to be hard. In this game, when you die you really are to blame for it yourself. Play this during your lunch break and get completely hyped up! I only played single player and that was a lot of fun. I saw you could also do multiplayer, but I haven't tried that. Pros Great action! I like the graphics, but it may not be everyone's taste. The sound and music are both simple, but much better than would be expected…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty mediocre experience. I liked that all the 11 characters feel different and have distinct play-styles and control schemes; the graphics are old school and charming; the soundtrack is pretty decent, but the game is unforgiving at times; RNG can really ♥♥♥♥ your runs, and sometimes you just lose all your lives on one screen as you get swarmed relentlessly by enemies, and it only takes one shot to get killed. Coupled with some stiff controls and some shoddy hitboxes it's really more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a 2D top down retro pixel twin stick style shmup with a western theme with a limited story mode and an emphasis on action combat. A very large number of things have gone very wrong for this game to land on Steam. Hideous retro pixel graphics, but stylised, so they don't even look like games in the 1990s... so the developers weren't opting for recreation, they instead just wanted to take the worst of the 1990s and make their game look worse than that. Great success, the graphics are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hardcore shoot 'em up game (it depends the guy you pick), Couch vs/coop 1-9 players !! Western Alcoolhic hallucinations Bears & & Chickens attack replayable, ...not too much :) 1 good song, others are awfull BUT...... we can't play with 2 xbox one controller, only the first is recognized..... so we need use a third party software to remap keys....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →These controls are F*** UP! and it is so easy to get hit by a bullet. Not fun at all just feels like a chore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bizarre bullet hell with terrible and overly large hitboxes. There's a reason most bullet hells make your hitbox tiny. If you're looking for a pixelly shooting game, try Westerado instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wonky controls and a terrible terrible interface. I wanted to skip the apparently unskippable intro movie at the start of story mode, so i pressed Escape. Which takes you back to the main menu. Wow.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underrated shmp. Unique controls for each character creates a challenge.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Music is Great Cons: Everything Else
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't played much of the game but already I have so many problems with it, which is sad because I wanted to like this game. I acutally had to stop playing because there were so many things that bothered me, specifically the horse chase levels. I have compiled a list of pros and cons below. Pros: - plenty of cool characters with lots of variety - different play styles - western theme - cool art style (if your in to pixely art styles like me) - really good ideas present that could become…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like guns? How about multiple guns? Say... a fistful? Good! This game will really put the "hell" in bullet hell. With each character having distinctly different playstyles, varied enemy types, and bosses to punish you if can manage to beat their lackeys.... there's really no shortage of content. Beat the main story? Why not try multiplayer? If you enjoy frantic, bullet hell style gameplay or just love the wild west aesthetic, pick it up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And here I am thinking this type of games are not exactly my thing. Boy, was I wrong. This game is just great -it is fast, challenging, rewarding and most of all - plain fun. I recoment it to everyone!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review Written on Monday, April 19th, 2016 Review If your in the mood for an arcade style shooter that is remenisant of games like astroids and 1941: counter-attack, then this could be very well the game for you. With a fun goofy story mode and more enemies to kill than you can dream of. I dont have too many hours logged on file with this game as of yet as the single player replayability is only fun so far as you go to unlock new characters, which unless your the dedicated kind of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like the art style, story line but this is not my type of game normally. My skill level for these kinds os shooters is not very good, so I die.... a lot.... I'm giving it a thumbs up for those who like, fast paced, twin-stick type shooters. If that's not your thing; I'd avoid it. I am a sucker for Westerns and will enjoy this at least long enough to grab all the trading cards...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OK, so A Fistful of Gun is one of these games that has an OK premise to it, but just doesn't feel good to play. I've spent an hour testing out every playable character and not a single one of them felt right. They all felt bad to play as, so I'm going to say there are better twin-stick games to buy than this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like bullet hell games but not this one,feels like someone that does not like me has set my key bindings.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like playing this game as intended is an experience that nobody has ever actually achieved.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are only 3 acts in the story and using Abel I beat the entire game in half an hour. Online mode is dead so there's no point in spending any more time with this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has the promise of a fun twin stick roguelike utterly destroyed by the controls which are just terrible. To make matters worse there are loads of characters each with different equally terrible controls. Could not even be bothered to idle for the cards!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+ nice arcade close up shooter + different characters with different gameplay + seems to be more fun with friends, have to try it with local mates at next party - couldn't find anyone online on public game to join - maybe the price is a little too high
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a DECENT game, if you really wanna buy it, wait for a sale. But yeah it's quite fun for a bit.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think you're supposed to play this game with friends. I don't have any of those so I played it by myself. Big mistake. Srsly tho, I think this game could be fun and chaotic if you had some people to play it with. I couldn't find a multiplayer match, and wasn't about to go searching for someone to play it with on a forum or anything so I stuck with single player. I couldn't beat the first level of the story mode. I tried. I tried different characters, slightly different strategies, no luck.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game with a friend of mine and we had a great time. Some characters control a bit weird but once you play it a bit it really isn't too bad. This game has a surprising amount of content. To beat the story mode took quite a while and on top of that there is other modes, a nice cast of playable characters, and a lot of challenging achievements. Overall I really enjoyed this game and would highly recommend it if you have a friend or two to play it with.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Western styled shooter - Arcade and story mode - Many characters with unique shooting mechanics - Made with multiplayer in mind - VERY challenging to the verge of frustration I played the game with a friend of mine and the arcade mode was very unforgiving. At the start you will blow up on the first 3 bullets shot on the map. It gets a bit easier once you learn to predict the bullets and see the important stuff among all the hassle on the screen. But as soon as you think you are doing better,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like twin stick shooters, and I like silly games with a good sense of humor. I don't like Fistful of Gun. For the same price you could buy Nuclear Throne or Binding of Isaac remaster, or honestly a ton of other, better, twin stick shooters. It's just flat and unsatisfying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good fun party game for when frineds are over. Reminiscent of older shooting games in a good way. Also had technical issues, and the dev reached out to me directly on steam and fixed the problem. You can't beat that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I still have a bit of trouble with frames, but now that I have had help from Mr. paulbbg! I can recommend this game for fun factor wise! frames still need a bit of work but that is mainly my own end not the games!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think I can freely call it a retro arcade game. I looks verry nice with the pixel graphics, feels good but is really hard. If U die to often, then try other character, because they have completely different gamplay styles. I played a lot with xbox360 controller, but some gunslinger control schames give me more chances to survive with the mouse precise aiming. It's not a game for casual players or easy 100% achievement hunters. I recommend it more for hardcore players.
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