Squirrel with a Gun
Released Aug 2024
Squirrel, meet gun. As the neighborhood’s most obnoxious rodent, develop a knack (and a love?) for crime and mayhem in pursuit of golden acorns in this nutty sandbox shooter and puzzle platformer. Fight tooth, claw, and gun to escape a secret underground facility and defeat the Agents.
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Evaluation
Squirrel with a Gun launched on August 29, 2024, with the developer explicitly announcing a post-launch roadmap of seven free content updates. Since then, Dee Dee Creations LLC has delivered on that commitment with a consistent stream of major updates:
- **October 2024**: Photo Mode feature patch added a free-roaming camera and collectible filters.
- **December 17, 2024**: The Ratatoskr Update added a new boss fight, a super platforming challenge, and multiple new outfits.
- **April 15, 2025**: The Gravity Gun Update added a new weapon, 5 new golden acorns, new bunkers, and a new fur skin.
- **June 5, 2025**: Pride Month DLC added a new neighborhood area, 8 new garments, a rainbow car, a new vehicle, and new challenges.
- **November 18, 2025**: The game launched on Nintendo Switch 2.
- **December 4, 2025**: The Varmint Update added animal transformation skins, sentient Trash Monster enemies, 4 new bunkers, 10 new golden acorns, and New Game Plus mode.
All seven updates originally listed in the pre-launch roadmap have now shipped. The major updates arrived roughly every 2–5 months across 2024 and 2025, establishing a clear and sustained pattern of post-launch support. As of October 1, 2026 — approximately 10 months since the last major update on December 4, 2025 — we are beyond the typical gap between releases. However, the developer has made no statement indicating that content development has concluded. The developer has historically delivered updates without pre-announcing the next one until close to release, so the current silence alone is not definitive. That said, at 10 months since the last major release, we are meaningfully past the longest prior gap in this game's history, which warrants some caution. There is no announced future content visible at this time.
Evidence
Varmint Update shipped with animal transformation skins, Trash Monster enemies, 4 new bunkers, 10 new golden acorns, and New Game Plus — the most recent major content release, approximately 6 months after the prior major update.
Pride Month DLC shipped with a new neighborhood area, garments, vehicle, and challenges — ~2 months after the Gravity Gun Update.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Maximum Entertainment
Achievements
20
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
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Last evaluated Oct 1, 2026
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