Gameplay here is incredibly tight, and there was nary a single moment throughout that we felt the game wasn’t responsive to our commands. That’s incredibly important considering well-timed attacks are key to your survival, but the true secret behind Gungeon’s ridiculously addictive nature comes down to repetition, funnily enough.

To unlock new guns and abilities, you’ll have to continuously journey back into the “gungeon”.

Thankfully, each dungeon is randomly generated, enemies become ever-more difficult, bosses are seemingly endless, there are hundreds of guns to unlock, and a whole host of side quests posed by folks you rescue. That keeps the game feeling fresh and exciting, with plenty to unearth even after you log in dozens of hours in its simplistic but challenging world.

Gungeon is completely old-school, with no multiplayer options but a couch-friendly co-operative option – and that’s largely one of the reasons we love it. Overly complicated storyline, needless online play, genre mashing and massive-budget “innovations” are starting to see the gaming world slip slightly.

Enter the Gungeon is exactly the kind of thing to keep us entertained on those long, lonely nights when the Sevens hooligans are tearing up our fine city. It was perfect timing, really.