Squirrel With a Gun Review (PC): A Game That Will Make You Go Nuts

Squirrel with a Gun sounds like a weird concept made to amuse you for an hour before you inevitably put the game down and forget all about it. Surprisingly, this game is far nuttier than I imagined and kept my interest for hours at a time. Of course, the game is not without its faults but they are admittedly fewer than expected considering the game can be equated to something like Goat Simulator. 

Bad Fur Day

Squirrel with a Gun is a sandbox game full of goofiness that puts you in the shoes (or furry toes) of your average neighborhood squirrel who just so happens to find itself wielding dangerous firearms. While I was expecting the game to lack any sort of depth and be something I’d get bored with quickly, I found myself loving how the game stuffed its cheeks with various gags and small jokes. Exploring the neighborhood was exciting and something that genuinely felt fun and engaging and not something that put me into hibernation.

The game gives you various puzzles to solve that can get a bit complex but nothing that the average teen couldn’t solve within a few minutes. Most of it relies on your ability to scan the environment and less on thinking outside the box. Fun platforming, boss fights, and high-octane fuzzy gunfire kept me amused for a while but the game admittedly got tiresome after that few hours each time I played.

Gearing up for winter

While there is a large part of me that loves Squirrel with a Gun for what it is and wishes there were more puzzles and gunfire to keep me entertained, I noticed the game was lacking in a few areas. One of my main complaints is the lack of multiplayer in the game. This is one of the main reasons why games like Goat Simulator can grab my attention for much longer – you can enjoy it with your friends and complete various challenges together or simply mess around. Squirrel with a Gun lacks any multiplayer features that could help it stand out a bit more and add more replayability. Being able to run around with multiple squirrels causing mayhem could be the hook to extend my attention further into the game.

Unfortunately, Squirrel with a Gun has essentially no replayability at all. I could see myself jumping back into it to run through its incredibly short story but not for some time. Once you get the credits to roll, there is no reason to jump back into the game unless you want to get every achievement it has to offer.

To cap it all off and put the last nut away for winter, Squirrel with a Gun is full of issues. I had to restart the entire game multiple times because the boss fight against Father kept glitching out. Multiple times I would get thrown from poles, the game would start stuttering, or I’d glitch through something. The multiple restarts from crashes and the game’s poor stability at times definitely soured my experience.

Final Verdict

Squirrel with a Gun is a blast and harkens back to the days of old sandbox games that can keep you busy for hours thanks to its stupidity and silly gags. With that being said, there aren’t enough nuts in the game to keep me entertained outside of a few hours. While the gunplay is fun and puzzles are interactive, there is a lot missing from the game that could give players a reason to come back. Adding multiplayer and something that gives the game replayability will definitely help.

Squirrel with a Gun was reviewed on PC with a code provided by the team. It will also be available on PlayStation and Xbox in the near future.

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