Video games have long featured animals as main characters, and a recent example is the cat-centric Stray. But an upcoming game, due out on Steam, literally starring a squirrel with a gun who is capable of committing crimes and terrorizing humans, is turning heads.
The first gameplay of “Squirrel with a Gun” in some videos posted on Twitter, and the game seems to be exactly what its name suggests, ‘a squirrel with a gun’.
Squirrel with a Gun it’s a strange game indie which now has a page on Steam. The Steam page describes the game as: “It’s not easy, but it’s fun, being a squirrel with a gun. Squirrel with a Gun is a sandbox game that focuses on exploration and gunplay.”
In addition to robbing humans, players can also help citizens as the gun-wielding squirrel and receive gifts, such as a cake. The game will also have a diversion mechanic to take on the “Agents”, who will presumably be the main antagonists of the game. Players will also be able to use the recoil of their firearms to launch their friendly and deadly squirrel into the air.
In the 23-second video posted on Twitter by Dan Entremont, the creator of Squirrel with a Gun, the player character’s lovable squirrel is not so lovable when he holds a human at gunpoint and commits a robbery. The video also shows how adorable the human NPCs think the squirrel is, as one of them tries to take a picture of the squirrel before it grabs a gun and makes the human run for his life, so the squirrel chases man.
The video ends with the squirrel running around with a mobile phone, stolen from the man he just held up at gunpoint. Although the video is short, it tells the audience everything they need to know about this game: it is a game with a squirrel that has a gun, which adds to the growing list of games focused on animals in recent years and that are still to come. get.
Squirrel With a Gun doesn’t have a release date yet, but you can already add it to your wishlist on Steam.