Gun Framework — what to buy next, honestly labeled

• Per-shot damage Decisive

  The whole game is damage accumulation: higher per-shot value multiplies every future hit. The +67 example shows the scale — 67x the starter at the same fire rate.

• Unlock cost High

  Medals are finite early; the cheapest meaningful upgrade is usually the right next buy. Prices are absent from every source, so cost is judged in-game, not quoted here.

• Availability High

  A gun you can buy now beats a theoretically better one you cannot reach yet. Availability depends on your area progress, which is why pushing new areas feeds back into gun power.

• Boss utility Medium

  Stage bosses (V1.2) need sustained damage; steady per-shot value matters more than spikes. GameRant's codes guide explicitly recommends the Sensei Buddy as help “perfect for bosses”.

• Buddy synergy Medium

  Your Buddy fights alongside you, so total damage is gun + buddy. Buddies raise the floor while you upgrade the gun that raises the ceiling.

Read it as an order, not tiers: the starter is your baseline, the crystal-rifle class is where the official art points, and everything between follows the same logic — per-shot damage first, price second. Simulate the +1 → +67 jump yourself.

• Why +1 → +67 is the whole meta

  At 3 shots per second, the starter pistol adds 180 DMG per minute of continuous fire. The +67-class rifle adds 12,060 DMG per minute under identical hands. Nothing else you control — not click speed, not session length — scales your session by 67x; that is why the framework orders by per-shot value first.

• Where codes fit

  WELCOME's 5,000 instant Damage equals about 28 minutes of starter-rate shooting. REBIRTH and RELEASE each grant a free rebirth — a power boost the developer promises will be “HUGE”, with the formula kept secret. Codes buy you the baseline; guns multiply it. The full, dated code list lives on the codes page.

• What would change this ranking

  An official gun list in the description or an in-game armory view converts this framework into a true tier list with named entries, prices and per-shot values, each carrying its checked date. Until then the last row below stays flagged and the page stays a framework.

+1 DMG FPS has no unit roster, but V1.2's Buddy acts like a permanent companion slot: it helps destroy enemies while you shoot, and V1.3's “More Buddies” update expanded the system. The BUDDY code unlocks a Sensei Buddy — GameRant's guide calls it “extra help during fights (perfect for bosses)” — and AA2026 grants 1 Random Buddy. Treat buddies as a free multiplier on whatever gun you carry. Solo strategy stays the same: per-shot damage first.

The framework matches how the game is actually being played at scale: the official APIs showed 13,525,152 visits and a 96.2% like ratio across 125,061 votes at the 2026-10-30 check, and the game's only badge — awarded for destroying your first robot — had crossed 4 million awards. A player base that size trends mid-progression, which is exactly the population the “cheapest meaningful per-shot upgrade” rule serves. Creator coverage agrees on the loop: guides titled “+1 DMG FPS GUIDE! (How To REBIRTH Fast, NOOB To PRO, Tips & Tricks)” and “+1 DMG FPS Guide (Codes, Rebirth & Tips)” both route new players through codes → guns → rebirth, and our guide follows the same order.

Tier lists go wrong in one specific way: someone invents entries to make the table look complete. This page's rules against that are simple and checkable. Every number in the framework table traces to a source named on the row or in its footnote — the two per-shot values come from official game art, inspected directly. Every claim that depends on the missing gun list is marked with a chip instead of smoothed over. And the change log records the checks that found nothing (like 2026-10-30, where the [W3] update touched the title tag and code status but no gun stats) — because “we looked and found nothing new” is information too, with the date attached.

• 2026-10-30 — Re-checked against the live APIs and trackers after the game's 2026-10-29 [W3] update: no new gun data has surfaced (the update changed the title tag and code status, not gun stats). Framework and criteria unchanged; buddy-synergy criterion added with its source.
• 2026-09-16 — Framework created from official art evidence (+1 starter, +67 crystal rifle example). No ranking claims beyond the official examples.
• Next update: when the V1.3+ patch notes or an in-game armory view reveal the full gun list, this table becomes a fully sourced tier list.