Never Akimbo is a fast-paced pixel art action game where one weapon is all you need. Fight through relentless enemy waves, clear handcrafted levels, and transform your gun with wild attachments that radically change how it behaves. One gun. Infinite builds. No dual-wielding excuses.

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About This Game

One Gun. Endless Possibilities. One Cruel Game.

Never Akimbo is a top-down pixel art action game fueled by the chaos and replayability of modern arena shooters — and overseen by something far worse than bad odds.

You have been captured by the Gamemaster: a grinning, jester-like tyrant who sees you not as a hero, but as a toy. For his amusement, he has built a tower — a vertical playground of violence — and demands you climb it floor by floor. Each level is a new joke. Each enemy, a punchline. Your suffering? The entertainment.

There is only one rule.

You get one gun.

And he wants to see how far you can take it.

You Don’t Carry Two Guns.

You Become the Gun.

Your weapon evolves as you ascend the tower. Every floor offers new upgrades, twisted experiments, and dangerous improvements that permanently reshape how your gun behaves.

Modular Weapon Customization

Build your weapon piece by piece, swapping components on the fly to adapt — or to impress your captor.

  • Barrel – bend bullet behavior: piercing rounds, wild spreads, explosions, or unstable experimental madness

  • Stock – adjust recoil, fire rate, mobility, and control

  • Scope – improve accuracy, extend range, alter targeting, or inject strange effects

  • Magazine – modify ammo capacity, reload logic, burst patterns, or trigger bonuses when reloading

Every attachment matters. Every combination creates a new playstyle — from surgical precision tools to uncontrollable bullet-spewing abominations. The Gamemaster loves both.

Fast. Brutal. Unforgiving.

  • Tight, responsive controls built for relentless movement

  • Aggressive enemy AI that punishes hesitation and bad builds

  • Short, intense floors designed for mastery and replayability

There is no safety. No rest. No sympathy.

Only the next floor.

Pixel Art With Bite

  • Clean, expressive pixel art that stays readable under pressure

  • Chunky, satisfying effects that make every hit feel earned

  • A gritty, arcade-inspired atmosphere — like a deadly game show that forgot the rules

And the Gamemaster is always watching.

Built for Experimentation (and Suffering)

Never Akimbo rewards curiosity. Some builds are brilliant. Some are ridiculous. Some feel like terrible ideas.

The best part?
They work.

Break the rules.
Break the gun.
Break the enemies.

Climb the tower. Entertain the Gamemaster.

Just don’t bring a second weapon.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains frequent depictions of non-realistic, arcade-style violence. Players use firearms to defeat enemy characters in fast-paced combat. Violence is presented in a stylized, top-down pixel art form with no graphic gore or realistic injury detail.
The game does not contain depictions of sexual acts, sexual assault, drug or alcohol abuse, self-harm, or other explicit mature themes.

System Requirements

Windows
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Dual-core CPU @ 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000 / equivalent)
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Yes
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10 / 11
    • Processor: Quad-core CPU @ 2.5 GHz
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics or better (Intel UHD / AMD Vega / NVIDIA GT 1030)
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Sound Card: any
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or equivalent
    • Processor: Dual-core CPU @ 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics with OpenGL 3.3 support (Intel HD 4000 / AMD equivalent)
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Yes
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or newer
    • Processor: Quad-core CPU @ 2.5 GHz
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics or better with Vulkan or OpenGL 4.x support (Intel UHD / AMD Vega / NVIDIA GT 1030)
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Yes
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