{"id":276697,"date":"2026-06-20T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/guncrypt-is-halfbrick-studios-first-pc-game-that-also-works-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:05:10","slug":"guncrypt-is-halfbrick-studios-first-pc-game-that-also-works-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/guncrypt-is-halfbrick-studios-first-pc-game-that-also-works-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio&#8217;s First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/news\/guncrypt-demo-review\/\">Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio&#8217;s First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/news\/guncrypt-demo-review\/\">https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/news\/guncrypt-demo-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 02:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"itsfoss.com\">itsfoss.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Halfbrick Studios reached out to us recently, and they were hyped to show off their newest project, Guncrypt, a dungeon crawler built around loading bullets in the right order instead of chasing better gear.<\/p>\n<p>If that name sounds familiar to you, they are the ones behind a string of popular mobile games like Jetpack Joyride, Fruit Ninja, and Dan the Man.<\/p>\n<p>In-game, the weapons system has three guns with over 60 bullet types and 80 relic types that can be combined to change the gameplay according to your playstyle.<\/p>\n<p>Load a Corrosive Shot right before a Heavy Shot, and it lands completely differently than loading the Heavy Shot first. Fuse two bullets together for a new combined effect, or rearrange your whole magazine between rooms if your current setup isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1202800383?app_id=122963\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Guncrypt Demo Gameplay\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First few minutes of gameplay after finishing the tutorial.<\/p>\n<p>Tarot cards add passive bonuses to your starting loadout between runs, and the Curse Level pushes things further across five tiers once a run stops feeling threatening. All of this plays out across <strong>four procedurally generated floors<\/strong>, each with its own enemies, hazards, and a boss waiting at the end.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-demo-plays-nice\">The demo plays nice<\/h2>\n<p>Some lore info before we dive in.<\/p>\n<p>I got <strong>the demo version of Guncrypt<\/strong> up on my Nobara Linux setup, and the game ran without downloading any additional files. So this was simply Steam Play leveraging Proton to get the game running on this non-native config.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the opening cutscene sets the stage. The town of Guncrypt used to be a quiet, well-off town, until an evil wizard showed up, cursed it, and stole everyone&#8217;s souls, leaving the townsfolk busy bickering among themselves to actually act (sounds like current events \u2620\ufe0f).<\/p>\n<p>Resulting in the job being handed to the player instead. \u2694\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/guncrypt-demo-tutorial.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"screenshot that shows a dungeon with the player busy shooting at a stationary target\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/06\/guncrypt-demo-tutorial.png 600w, https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1000\/2026\/06\/guncrypt-demo-tutorial.png 1000w, https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1600\/2026\/06\/guncrypt-demo-tutorial.png 1600w, https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/guncrypt-demo-tutorial.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 720px) 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then came the tutorial, and it was a curveball since I&#8217;m used to WASD movement. There&#8217;s none of that here; instead, I had to hold down left-click and drag to move my gunslinger around while shooting at whatever was in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/news\/guncrypt-demo-review\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio&#8217;s First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/news\/guncrypt-demo-review\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/guncrypt-demo-banner.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-276697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276700,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276697\/revisions\/276700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}