Game file / ROGUE BY ROGUEGunfire Reborn
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Why this score?
Original text · Simplified Chinese
枪械反馈与英雄、卷轴搭配支撑合作和单人重玩，后期平衡与说明质量限制策略的可读性。
Core gameplay
Weight 25%8.5 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
第一人称枪战与英雄技能配合有持续反馈，首领机制较清楚；完整长局需要较大连续投入。
Builds & strategy
Weight 25%8.0 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
武器词条、卷轴和元素可组合不同输出方式，但强势付费角色与最优搭配压缩后期选择。
Replayability
Weight 20%8.0 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
英雄差异及保留的赛季玩法能改变发展方向；快照也指出季节机制趋同和熟练后固定套路。
Randomness & fairness
Weight 20%7.0 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
可辨认首领招式帮助学习，装备与技能可互补；高难度极端伤害和角色强弱使容错不均。
Polish & usability
Weight 10%6.5 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
快照指出英文描述含糊、提示翻译不一致，以及后续性能和存档问题；这些阻力直接影响理解构筑。
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Rogue by Rogue · AI 资料评测- Version reviewed
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具体构建未知；以所引资料描述的版本为准
Scope and limitations
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基于收录资料与官方页面的主观归纳，未进行试玩。以 Steam 资料为范围，不外推到更新不同步的主机版本；未实测联机或存档故障，也不把 EULA 或美术争议计入玩法分数。
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收录评论与社区资料（2026-10-01 快照）
使用 作者观点摘要 的 Tier list Part 1 (2023) 及 玩家好评与批评 中的机制、交互、重复与易用性反馈；未将外部分数或旧等级用于计算。
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Gunfire Reborn 官方产品说明
2026-10-08 访问。确认 FPS 与随机武器、独立英雄能力、随机关卡和最多四人合作。 官方页面不单独证明平衡或稳定性。
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Community discussion
A colourful first-person roguelite looter-shooter with RPG-style characters, scroll-based builds and 1-4 player co-op, made by Duoyi Games' Gunfire Reborn Studio.
Players love it: Steam shows about 93% positive across roughly 104k reviews (Very Positive), and Steam Spy puts owners at 2-5 million. Praise centres on satisfying gunplay, character and weapon variety, and strong co-op. Critics are more lukewarm: the Metacritic page (Xbox version) has a 75 critic score from 10 reviews and a 7.1 user score from 64 ratings. It launched in early access in May 2020, reached 1.0 in Nov 2021 and later came to consoles and mobile. It is still updated, with seasonal content and paid DLC characters about every six months. Recent Steam negatives focus on DLC power creep, machine-translated text, dead co-op matchmaking, suspected AI-generated art and an EULA change.
What players praise
- Gunplay is fun and satisfying, often compared to Borderlands and Immortal Redneck, with an addictive run loop
- Large roster of characters, each with two skills and an ultimate, that change how a run plays, especially in co-op
- Wide variety of weapons and scrolls allows many build experiments, including lucky-shot and elemental builds
- Bosses are distinct and fluid, each with readable mechanics
- Great character designs, from cool to cute, in a colourful art style
- Co-op networking is smooth, and each player gets their own drops that can be traded
- Seasonal mechanics are all kept available so players avoid FOMO, and support continues years after release
What players criticize
- English localization is widely described as machine-translated, with confusing or wrong descriptions and some text left in Chinese
- DLC characters are much stronger than base ones, making runs on the highest difficulty very easy and creating power creep
- Build variety becomes stale, with each character reduced to a few optimal weapon and skill combos, and seasonal mechanics feel similar
- Online co-op matchmaking is described as dead, so co-op needs friends
- Balance swings in high difficulty, where enemies either die in one hit or barely take damage
- Recent reviews cite undisclosed AI-generated art in official artwork and emotes, which drove a wave of negative reviews
- Some players report worsening performance, crashes and lost save data over time
- New EULA added forced arbitration and deletion of data after 365 days of inactivity, drawing the most-upvoted recent negative reviews even from fans
Distinctive features
- Hades-and-Borderlands-style mix: FPS shooting with hero abilities, scroll (passive) builds and Chinese mythology-inspired anthropomorphic characters
- Scroll system lets players assemble synergies, with each character having a different preferred approach (cat for elements, owl for scrolls, fox for frontal assault)
- Seasons as switchable, permanently available mechanics with a free battle pass rather than limited-time FOMO
- Each co-op player has individual drops, guns and scrolls that can still be exchanged
- Runs are long, skill-based dungeon crawls where player skill and enemy knowledge matter more than level-ups
Divided opinions
- DLC model: some see it as fair funding for a live-service game with no FOMO, others see paid characters as power creep and pay-to-win-feeling
- Difficulty: early runs feel unfair and punishing, yet experienced players find builds trivial on the hardest difficulty
- Comparison to Roboquest, Deadzone Rogue and Abyssus: some say gunplay is weaker but content is larger, others feel its builds are shallower
- Update cadence and nerfs: fans praise ongoing support while others call updates thin and dislike character nerfs
Repetition and friction
- Runs can feel repetitive in the short term, and veterans say restarting becomes a chore once builds feel samey
- Waiting for co-op matches, or never finding one
- Getting key scrolls matters for some builds, so a run can be lost to luck of drops
- Reading unclear tooltips and untranslated text to understand mechanics
- Meta-progression is quickly maxed, leaving little to chase between updates
- Dodge feels awkward and the game can feel laggy even solo for some players
Hoped-for improvements
- Add more bosses per stage and new stage areas, since current boss variety is limited
- Make updates meatier, because long-term players say a year of patches can be seen in a few hours and maxing meta progression is quick
- Improve English localization and tooltips so item and scroll interactions are clear
- Rebalance DLC versus base characters and give hard difficulties a real challenge ceiling
- Fix matchmaking or add a lobby or social hub for co-op players
- Offer a clearer dodge (short distance and unclear i-frames) and possible third-person or mod support, both requested by players
Early access started May 22, 2020, with 1.0 on Nov 2021 (Steam lists Nov 17, 2021). It had passed 2 million copies by Nov 2021 per Wikipedia, and third-party estimates (Steam Spy 2-5M owners, steam-revenue-calculator about $65.7M gross and about $19.4M net, Boxleiter-method estimates) suggest a large hit. It reached mobile in May 2022, Xbox and PC Game Pass in Oct 2022 and PlayStation in June 2023. Metacritic's 75 and 7.1 come from the console-era page with few ratings. Wikipedia lists the PS and Switch releases, while Metacritic also lists Switch. The Metacritic critic score is based on only 10 reviews. OpenCritic could not be retrieved (web search budget was exhausted and guessed URLs were wrong), so it is left null. Recent Steam reviews (2025-2026) show a mix of long-time fans praising seasons and continued support, and negative reviews over alleged undisclosed AI art, a new EULA with forced arbitration and inactive-data deletion, DLC power creep and nerfs, plus a report that the game pinged a domain the developers no longer control. Steam community threads also mention crashes and data loss. Steam lists Windows only, despite other platforms.
Community sources
- Top helpful positive and negative English Steam reviews (local file) ↗
- Steam app data: 93.1% positive, ~103.7k reviews, Steam Spy owners 2-5M, revenue estimate ↗
- Steam store page (review summary, price, genres, tags) ↗
- Metacritic critic score 75 (10 reviews), user 7.1 (64 ratings), critic snippets ↗
- Metacritic user review themes: co-op fun, translation, crashes, repetition ↗
- Development, release timeline, 2M copies by Nov 2021, The Games Machine 8.5 ↗
- Steam community thread themes: balance, crashes, translation, matchmaking, data loss ↗
- Estimated gross and net revenue (Boxleiter method) ↗
Archived creator commentary 1
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Tier list Part 1 (2023)
Gunfire Reborn is a first-person shooter roguelike with multiple characters, weapons, passives and abilities, and it keeps receiving updates. He loves it and calls it packed with content, enjoying it in both single player and multiplayer, though he rates it as a single-player game. He nearly gave it S tier but, after comparing it with other games on the board, settled on high A. He recommends it to shooter fans and advises playing the Steam version over the stale console ones.
What the creator praises
- Huge amount of content: characters, weapons, passives, abilities, bosses, enemies and game modes
- Passive system is enormous, with passives found two to three times per floor so the player constantly feels powerful
- Many unique builds and ways to play
- Constantly updated with new characters and strong developer support
- Also an excellent multiplayer experience with friends
- Short floors (often under five minutes) keep the pace brisk
Issues raised by the creator
- Runs are very long, up to about an hour and a half for a full run to the final boss
- Death means a full restart, so it demands real commitment
- Non-Steam versions (Xbox/Microsoft) are not updated and are badly outdated
Design observations
- One of the first first-person roguelikes on his board
- Frequent passive drops per floor keep the power fantasy going despite long runs
