Last Round · Press kit
Drop into the Cylinder, a brass-ringed pit under a cursed saloon, and survive round after round of living candles, shotgun slugs and powder kegs. Clear a round and the skeleton Dealer lays three cards on the felt.
Take one. Build a hand. Six shots in the chamber, and the sixth one hits harder.
58 seconds · 1920×1080, 30 fps · captured frame by frame from the game running in the browser, shown at 4× with nearest-neighbour scaling. Every sound is the game’s own · trailer.mp4 (15 MB)
Last Round is a twin-stick survival shooter where every perk is a playing card. Survive round after round in the Cylinder, a brass-ringed pit under a cursed saloon. Every round you clear, the skeleton Dealer lays three cards on the felt, and the cards you keep also score as a poker hand.
Somewhere under a saloon that shouldn’t exist there’s a pit called the Cylinder: a stone floor, a brass ring, and six holes that never stop spitting out trouble. The Drifter drops in with a six-shooter and nothing to lose.
Every round is a gunfight. Candles with a grudge lob fire, slugs fire the shotgun shells they live in, poker chips skitter and shoot, buzzards snipe from above, and powder kegs charge in and blow. Roll through the bullets, flip a card table for cover, and when there’s nowhere left to stand, call their Bluff and wipe the screen clean.
The sixth shot in the chamber is the Last Round, and it hits hardest. Reloading is a gamble too: click in the gold and the gun refills at once, miss and you only load half.
Clear a round and the Dealer lays three cards on the felt. Every perk is a playing card. Its suit is your build (Lead, Grit, Fortune or Hex) and its rank is its power, and the cards you keep score as a poker hand: a pair, a straight, a flush that unlocks its suit’s capstone. Brass cards bring new guns: a double-barrelled Scattergun, a Winchester, a drum-fed Rattler, a Sunset Flare.
Every sixth round is a Showdown with Old Six, a revolver cylinder in a sheriff’s hat. Win, and the High Stakes deal brings Aces and Jokers. Lose, and the Cylinder Gazette prints your obituary.
Loops shown at 2×. Each has a 1× GIF (also in the press kit zip) and a 2× GIF.
Native 480×270, and 1920×1080 at 4× with nearest-neighbour scaling. Click a screenshot for the 4× version.
Survival shooters live or die on the upgrade you pick between fights. The loop in Last Round is deliberately short, so the depth had to come from that pick. A deck of cards gave it three layers that each read on their own: what the card does, the build its suit belongs to, and the poker hand its rank helps you make.
The gunplay borrows its grammar from Enter the Gungeon: a dodge roll you can trust, a screen-clearing blank (here, the Bluff), tables you can flip, and a hit that wipes every bullet on screen so you get a breath. The Last Round and the gamble of the timed reload are Last Round’s own.
The game renders at 480×270 and scales by whole numbers only. Every sprite, from the Drifter’s four-way run cycle to the Dealer shuffling his deck, is drawn in Aseprite from Lua scripts, against a locked 52-colour palette of stone, brass, felt and blood.
The score is a spaghetti-western set: a whistle and a twangy guitar over a galloping rhythm for the fights, a honky-tonk piano for the Deal, and brass stabs and toms for the Showdown. There are no audio files. Every note and every sound effect is synthesised and rendered in the browser while the game loads.
Scale pixel art by whole numbers only (2×, 3×, 4×) with nearest-neighbour sampling.
