NOT A HERO Crime-fighting for a rabbit mayor

The core loop is cover-based shooting compressed into a side-scrolling pixel world. You slide, roll and dive behind furniture and walls, pop out to fire, then get low again before the return fire arrives. The slide does double duty: it is your cover button and your takedown, knocking enemies to the ground so you can finish them off at close range. Reloads are manual, so a badly timed empty magazine is on you. It sounds simple, and it is, which is exactly why the game gets away with being this demanding: three buttons and a stick, and the whole fight lives in when you use them.

Steve starts alone with a handgun, and as BunnyLord's approval rating climbs, more dubious hires join the campaign. Nine playable characters in total, each with a distinct way of committing crimes: Cletus blasts gangsters through doors with a shotgun, Kimmy slices across the screen with a katana dash, Ronald settles matters with a hammer. Levels tend to favour specific people, and the time-based challenges are close to impossible without switching, so the roster is not decoration. You will pick the right tool for the job, then probably still get shot by an elderly gunman.