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Raygun Gadabout

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54%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
79% User Score Based on 19 reviews

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About Raygun Gadabout

Raygun Gadabout is a single player open world hack and slash game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Quantum Duck Studio Ltd. and was released on August 19, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

"Befriend helpful aliens, battle space pirates, solve puzzles, and equip new abilities as you seek to liberate the galaxy from the clutches of the Space Gopher Empire. Grab your raygun and board your ship. You are the RAYGUN GADABOUT!"

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79%Audience ScoreBased on 19 reviews
graphics7 positive mentions
stability5 negative mentions
  • Beautiful, charming, and cartoonish art style with impressive visuals and animations.
  • Fun and engaging gameplay with tight controls, responsive movement, and enjoyable combat mechanics including a unique shield system.
  • Well-designed world with varied levels, interesting bosses, and rewarding exploration and upgrade systems.
  • The game suffers from various bugs, glitches, and occasional softlocks that impact the overall experience.
  • Some level design issues including empty or generic rooms, unclear progression, and occasional frustrating platforming segments.
  • Audio and sound design inconsistencies, such as lackluster sound effects and occasional overwhelming or off-balanced music volumes.

  • graphics

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    54% positive mentions, 38% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The graphics are widely praised for their charming, cartoony art style with distinct, vibrant colors that remain clear even during hectic gameplay. Many users find the visuals visually appealing and nostalgic, highlighting the retro-futuristic and playful aesthetic as a standout feature. Overall, the engaging and well-designed artwork significantly enhances the game's appeal.

    • “The graphic style is very cartoony with distinct colors, making it easy on the eyes even when things become a bit hectic on the screen.”
    • “The graphics are beautiful, fun, and just plain enjoyable.”
    • “Art style and overall presentation is just phenomenal.”
    • “I get what the devs are going for with the spunky aesthetic and playful tone, but much like the dated references to The Fifth Element, this is too far behind the times to be worth playing now.”

  • music

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    78% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 22% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally enjoyable and catchy, enhancing the bright and colorful atmosphere, though some users find it occasionally repetitive or wish for more impactful sound effects and unique boss tracks. Overall, it provides a pleasant and upbeat auditory experience, with room for richer sound design.

    • “It's bright and colorful, the music is great.”
    • “Accompanied by a catchy soundtrack, it's an overall pleasant experience.”
    • “The pacing is right, the music is mostly great and the sound effects are nice as well.”
    • “There’s no unique boss music either.”
    • “I'd really like some more sound design to this game... squishy sounds for enemies dying, big sounds for things that go thump... the game just sounds a bit like a musical score right now with a repeated ray gun blasting away.”

  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay shows promise with engaging mechanics and a mix of ranged and melee combat, appealing to fans of classic metroidvania titles with charming visuals. However, it suffers from glitches, inconsistent hitboxes, stiff movement, and unfinished or clunky features that detract from the overall experience. Despite these issues, some players find it fun and hope for improvements or a sequel.

    • “The game has potential and good mechanics; it reminds me of Earthworm Jim and other old Sega games, and I really want to see a sequel.”
    • “Gameplay leans more towards ranged combat rather than melee, although you do get a melee weapon early in the game.”
    • “If you're looking for a metroidvania with charming cartoon-styled graphics and engaging but fair gameplay, I would recommend that you give Raygun Gadabout a try.”
    • “Combat and platforming are a glitchy mess with animations that snap into position, inconsistent hitboxes, checkpoints that trigger on the wrong side of gaps, stiff movement, and a tacked-on parry mechanic that fills the screen with visual clutter.”
    • “Gameplay is leaning more towards ranged combat rather than melee, although you do get a melee weapon early in the game.”
    • “Unfinished mechanics.”

  • stability

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game is generally stable but includes occasional glitches, minor bugs, and occasional softlocks, with some instances of getting stuck on level geometry. Despite these issues, players report few significant complaints.

    • “[*] softlock, glitches.”
    • “I did get stuck a few times on the level geometry and had a few glitches here and there.”
    • “Some minor bugs and glitches can be expected.”

  • story

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The story features an interesting structure of traveling between planets, but lacks clear context and compelling narrative cohesion, leaving players confused and disengaged from the plot and character interactions.

    • “The structure of the game with flying between planets (levels) is a fun idea.”
    • “However, without engaging combat or a compelling story and character interactions holding it together, I am putting this one down.”
    • “The structure of the game with flying between planets (levels) is a fun idea, but in execution I found myself locating items without having encountered the part of the story that would have given context to why I just fought someone for them.”
    • “I'm going to admit, I'm not entirely sure what's going on with the story.”

  • humor

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is consistently praised for enhancing the overall experience, adding a lighthearted and entertaining touch that complements its vibrant art and action-packed gameplay.

    • “The humor brightens the whole experience.”
    • “The enemy design is great, controls responsive, art beautiful and humorous, and it's fun.”
    • “A refreshing and humorous action-packed platformer.”
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10h Average play time
10-10h Spent by most gamers
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Raygun Gadabout is a open world hack and slash game with science fiction theme. Common tags for Raygun Gadabout include indie, exploration, metroidvania, cute, combat and others.

Raygun Gadabout is available on PC, Windows and Linux.

On average players spend around 10 hours playing Raygun Gadabout.

Raygun Gadabout was released on August 19, 2025.

Raygun Gadabout was developed by Quantum Duck Studio Ltd..

Raygun Gadabout has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Raygun Gadabout for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.

Raygun Gadabout is a single player game.

Similar games include BioGun, Islets, Possessor(s), Cookie Cutter, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder and others.