Nimrods

Nimrods is a bullet heaven roguelite about building an increasingly outlandish gun each run. You choose upgrades that can combine in unexpected ways, such as ricocheting sawblades, an iceberg-summoning flamethrower or a banana gun that calls in artillery.

Build your gun

Choose from 18 guns, then select a gun upgrade each level across seven slots, from Barrel to Charm. Upgrades improve through tiers and branch in two directions: a Splitting Magazine can keep splitting its projectiles or turn them into cutting blades. Reroll or Banish upgrades you do not want as you develop your build.

Keep your weapons

Death ends a run, but your gun can return. Equip a gun from a past run to your drone, which fights alongside you in the next run and levels that weapon up as you did. You can adjust the drone’s movement and target priorities, then venture farther and bring back a stronger gun.

Airdrop Pods

Airdrop Pods crash into the swarm throughout each run. Fight your way to a pod to choose a new gun upgrade. You can unlock and upgrade pods that heal, pay out or have stranger effects, and set the exact order in which they arrive.

Explore the map

Every run takes place on one huge handcrafted map rather than in an arena. Areas include the Chaos Grove and the fungal Violet Forest, where puffballs heal and some mushrooms explode. Bosses grow bigger the deeper you go.

Endless runs

After winning a run, you can continue your build in Endless mode. It has no final wave, and the swarm keeps scaling. You can also climb the weekly kill leaderboard.

Customize your NIMROD

Each NIMROD you deploy is an expendable clone, created from genes you can tweak and equipped with its own ability. Complete Missions to unlock and upgrade more than 20 Genes, buy Field Perks and pursue Medals in the Gundex. Losses are expected, and replacement clones are on order.