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As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
Showgunners is a turn-based tactics, turn-based combat and turn-based strategy game
developed by Artificer
and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Released on May 02nd 2023 is available only on Windows.
It has received 1,570 reviews of which 1,474 were positive and 96 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.51€ on K4G.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 4 GB / Radeon RX 570 4 GB
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XCOM but a Gameshow Showgunners combines the turn-based combat of the recent XCOM games with light exploration and RPG elements. In combat, you move around a grid with 2 action points per character. Most turns, you will use 1 point for movement and 1 to shoot your weapon or use a skill. Out of combat, you will explore the environments solving puzzles and navigating your way to the next combat arena. What makes Showgunners unique is the gameshow elements and the amusing humor. Combat is at its best when the gameshow gimmicks add unique flavor to the encounters, and the game's pace is, for the most part, fun and frantic. The main story unfolds in a series of episodes of the gameshow. Your main character is a "challenger" named Scarlet trying to work her way to the finale to kill the man who murdered her family. There's a bit more to it than that, but the story isn't deep or exceptional. There is some character development told via holotapes and conversations with your party members, and it's on par with the rest of the game's content. Overall, while I enjoyed Showgunners, the game has 3 significant shortcomings. First, the ending sequence feels like a slog, especially if you play the DLC (which is just a series of lengthy combat arenas). In those late-game missions, you get to use all 6 party members at once, but the game sends a ludicrous number of enemies at you to balance things out. The result is that the combat arenas take 2-3 times longer to complete (even if you dominate) than they do elsewhere in the game. The second shortcoming is that the exploration portion of the game often feels half-baked. Sometimes, it feels reasonably well-done and definitely adds to the gameshow atmosphere, but too often, it just feels like padding -- a distraction from the main draw of the game. Third, the character skills trees, weapon upgrades, etc., feel too minimal. There are a lot of weapons to unlock and/or buy, but few of them result in meaningful changes to your strategy. Characters have a few skills they can learn, but most of the skill points are just spent on stats (e.g., increased melee damage, increased movement). This feels like a real waste. The max level is 20, but it could have been 8 if the stats were just automatically applied as characters leveled up. I can still recommend Showgunners to fans of the genre, but be aware that this is a very linear game: there are no branching paths in the story or the character progression. So, unless you miss some of the optional areas, there's no reason for a second playthrough. 20 hours of fun is about the max that you'll be able to extract from this title, so I'd recommend getting it on sale. Overall: 6.8 / 10
Honestly, having "just" a linear campaign to tackle is perfectly fine. Not everything needs to be a grand campaign in the spirit of XCOM or an open-ended experience like Cyber Knights: Flashpoint. Good stuff in here. Showgunners isn't necessarily out of this world, but in my book it's a respectable title.
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Showgunners is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
No, Showgunners is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Showgunners received 1,474 positive votes out of a total of 1,570 achieving a rating of 8.91.
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Showgunners was developed by Artificer and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Yes, Showgunners is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Showgunners is not playable on MacOS.
No, Showgunners is not playable on Linux.
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No, Showgunners does not support VR.
Showgunners is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 4 DLCs available for Showgunners. Explore additional content available for Showgunners on Steam.
No, Showgunners does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Showgunners does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Showgunners is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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