Hegemony Credits come from bosses and are used between runs to unlock new guns and items in The Breach (the starting area).Shells (also known as coins or casings) are earned by killing regular enemies and are used during a run.Enter the Gungeon has two different currencies (neither of them can be bought with real money): Shells and Hegemony Credits.When a Mimic is killed it drops whatever loot it has, but the difficulty of the fight increases depending on the chest’s rarity. Shoot a chest once with your starting weapon to see if it is a Mimic.Junk can be can be sold to the Sell Creep, but it also has some other uses.A destroyed chest has a chance to drop an item, and the most common is Junk. Aside from fuses, chests can also be destroyed by shooting them.The contents of these chests will be random. Sometimes special rooms with extra chests will spawn.Every floor has a guaranteed two chests – one will contain a gun, and one will contain a weapon.If you have a weapon or item that leaves water or poison on the floor, this will extinguish the fuse.Some chests will have a fuse that will destroy it if you do not open it with a key in time.The rarity is, from worst to best: brown, blue, green, red, black and rainbow.A chest’s colour determines its rarity the overall quality of the loot inside.If you did pick up a key before finding the shop, there is still a chance for one to spawn there, but it is not reliable.If you have not picked up a key before finding the shop, one will always be available to buy.This will allow you to make a better decision on their use and give you enough time to buy keys if needed. Do not use any keys until you’ve explored every room in a level.Unlike guns and items, keys are not stolen off of the floor by the Resourceful Rat, so don’t worry about picking them up immediately.The last few sections of this story contain spoilers about end game and hidden content.ĮDIT: This guide was written before the release of Advanced Gungeons & Draguns and does not contain any details about that expansion and its changes to the game. While we don’t suggest watching a 136-part series on the game like we did, we do recommend that you do a bit of homework. We do recommend you try playing a few times blind so you can become familiar with some of the terms used here.Īt this point we’ve put 200 hours into the game and it’s the first title that we’ve 100% in a long time, but a lot of what we learnt came from watching other people play on YouTube. With the launch of the game on the Nintendo Switch today, we’ve written this up as both an explanation of those mechanics as well as a general list of tips. One of the biggest complaints levelled against Enter the Gungeon concern its shrouded mechanics which are never explained to the player, with some being so obscure they can still be missed after long playtimes.