GUNS UP!

GUNS UP! is a side-scrolling strategy game about sending squads, building a base, and trying to hold ground while enemy waves keep coming. By our assessment, it works best in short bursts, because the loop is about timing deployments and making do with what reaches the fight. The downside is that the idea stays fairly lean, so it can start to feel repetitive once the set of tools is understood. In practice it is the kind of game that asks for quick decisions rather than long planning sessions, with the usual pressure of defending one lane at a time. Compared with broader real-time strategy games, it is narrower and more arcade-like, and that focus is exactly what gives it its shape.