Gunhouse is a great combination of a tower defense game with puzzle gameplay. The time limit you have each time you can combine blocks to create weapons will always keep you puzzling as fast as you can. In the beginning, it can be really hard to hold out against the waves of enemies, but as you get better and learn to make some easy combinations, the game gets a lot easier and a lot more fun. The twelve different types of weapons add a lot of diversity to the game, which makes it interesting to try different loadouts to see which weapons you like best.
Gunhouse
Necrosoft Games · Nov 19, 2016
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Load your guns! Rain death from above! Protect your valuable orphans! Defeat giant, improbable bosses! Gunhouse is part puzzle, part active tower defense, as you make big combos to launch a hail of bullets and special attacks at the enemies who want to consume your delicious orphan friends!
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- Gunhouse never lacks in spectacle, but it won’t take long before you recognise that the gameplay loop that it looks to hook you on is a shallow one. This collision of genres can still entertain, but it needed a few more ideas that remixed its own concept to keep the player’s interest from waning too quickly. It’s good in short bursts, but lacking in depth.
- 7.0Even if it sounds cliché, Gunhouse really is a game of two halves. On the one hand you have an immensely attractive looking title with a wonderfully unique art style, some amazing music and over the top characters. After a few rounds though, it feels like they are trying to mask what is underneath - a simple and sometimes frustrating sliding block puzzle game.
- Gunhouse is a very “pick up and play” kind of game. It’s easy to get the hang of, the levels are fast-paced, and it’s touting plenty of sights and sounds that are both wacky and wonderful. It may get a bit repetitive here and there but, based on my experience with it anyway, the fact that you can pretty much pick it up and put it down as you see fit stops it from getting entirely stale. It’s good for what it is — a relatively simple puzzle game with a few tower defense mechanics thrown in — and, in my opinion, that’s all it really needs to be.
- Gunhouse is a smartly designed game with some of the best style I’ve seen in a game in a long time. A limited amount of content holds it back from being incredible, though. With its existence on mobile (and at a much lower price), it’s hard to specifically recommend the Switch version. No matter the platform, though, you should check out Gunhouse. It’s a brilliant take on the tower defense genre and the awesome music is still in my head.
- 8.0Gunhouse might not be for everyone, but that's part of what makes it special. It's proudly uncompromising, and delightfully absurd. For me, that makes it a winner, but I'd totally understand if you disagreed.
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