A player controls Ash, who jumps around platforms on a series of seven levels separated by doors and attempts to kill 100 individually named monsters.

Wrath of the Dead Rabbit has several zones with different visual styles, including "haunted caves, science labs, casinos and spaceships full of talking animals".

[5] The player navigates these zones by traveling on a large buzz-saw-like circular blade that can cut through the environment, can fire a variety of projectile weapons, and is equipped with a jet pack.

[7][8][9][10] Critics praised the game's visuals, with Lawrence Sonntag of Inside Gaming Daily writing that "every level is bizarre but expertly colored, vibrant, and filled with high-resolution assets", and that the monsters are "what you might find in a second grader's notebook – doodles of ridiculous monsters, only brought to life with impressive talent and animated in HD".

[2] Tom Bramwell of Eurogamer wrote that the PlayStation 3 version was "absolutely gorgeous, a delicious feast of tasty animation drowning in buttery detail.

[4] Gamezebo gave the PC version all five stars, saying, "No matter your stance on outfitting rabbits with guns, you have to admit that Ash’s murderous adventure through the depths of Hell will only encourage other, impressionable young bunnies to do the same.

may wear its warm immaturity on its sleeve, but its jokes are strong, its protagonist and antagonists likeable and its rhythms satisfying.

"[25] EGMNow gave the same console version a similar score of eight out of ten, saying that it "sits somewhere between a hardcore classic and a shameless parody, and luckily, I happen to be a fan of both.

"[27] GameZone similarly gave the PlayStation 3 version eight out of ten, saying, "Though it's lacking in replayability without any sort of multiplayer or worthwhile hell-ish content, Hell Yeah!