Gunbrella

Gunbrella

Fair · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
5.3h
Value
$2.83/hr
Reviews
85% positive
It needs 63% off ($5.53) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
10.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.83
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
1,055 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
81
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GT 640 / Radeon HD 7750, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.

Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement30% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.83/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length5.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 435 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was March 2026. 24 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats One Gun Guy ($4.99, scores 16).

Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 435 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to September 2026.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

57% start to 30% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's not terrible, but if you asked me if I would have advised my younger self to buy it now that I have played it through, the answer would be a soft "no". First and foremost, don't use a controller to play this game. Technically it works fine, but the levels and bosses were clearly designed for keyboard and mouse, using a controller made it more difficult than intended I think. (I still played through with a...
jaypeg3Not recommendedafter 7.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
The art and design of everything is amazing, and the movement is fun. Now that we're done with the pros, lets get to the cons: - The story is fine at the beginning, but there's a sudden time skip, and then it sends you to a new map, which then inexplicably collapses. It feels like they wanted to do more, but suddenly decided to cut 1/2 the game. - You're given 7 types of ammo, 1 is the normal ammo, 1 is special for...
ChaoticNot recommendedafter 5.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
Not the longest game, but I enjoyed my experience thru it. The movement tech is quite fun and you can go woosh. The story is not necessarily the most interesting, but some of the characters and moments were funny which I enjoyed. I *think* the boss fights could've been a bit more challenging.
SagaRecommendedafter 4.7hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Gunbrella scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1580180/gunbrella
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+4
Critics
81
Players
85
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,055 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developerdoinksoft
PublisherDevolver Digital
GenreAction
Released2023
Achievements18