GunZ: The Duel has returned to Steam as GunZ: The Duel Remastered, more than a decade after its official servers closed. The relaunch matters because the cult third-person shooter is renowned for its unusually demanding, movement-heavy competitive play, which its community kept alive through private servers after 2013.

Its defining feature is “K-Style”, a player-developed approach built around animation-cancelling, dashes, wall-running and sword techniques; the GunZ wiki lists 17 cancellation moves. Although developers once tried to remove it, players objected and the change was reversed, cementing it as the game’s competitive standard; the remaster adds modern quality-of-life features but has drawn early criticism over translation, performance and cuts to original PvE content.