Ever since the release of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and the MacGruber movie, people have been crazy about defusing bombs. Nobody wants to blow up, and everybody wants to be a hero, after all. As of today, there's a new bomb defusal game in town: BOMBANANA! from Lefto Studio and TARK.
In BOMBANANA!, three online players must team up to defuse a bomb before everyone bites the big banana (boom!). Thankfully, the game has a server browser, so players can find open games when they don't have a trio of friends lined up. The game's claim to fame is that each of the three monkeys is missing one key ability. Blind Monkey can't see colors or read screens, Mute Monkey can read but can't speak, and Deaf Monkey can see but can't hear a thing. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor would be proud!
Features:
- 3-Player Co-op - No more, no less. Exactly three monkeys required
- 3 Game Modes -
- Campaign - 30 handcrafted levels with increasing difficulty
- Endless - Procedurally generated, wave-based levels that keep getting harder
- Custom - Players create their own challenge by adjusting bomb difficulty, the timer, module types, environmental hazards, and how many mistakes are allowed
- Asymmetric Roles - Every player sees, hears, and acts differently
- Fun interactions - Point, wave, gesture or flail wildly. Your options are only limited by your imagination and each player's Emote wheel
- Slapping - Obviously an essential feature
- New Environments: We all know the trusty minivan, but what about a plane? What other environments can you defuse bombs in?
- Environmental Hazards: Navigate events like power outages, obstructions and loud interruptions
- Voice Chat - Some of you can talk, some of you can’t. You’ll figure it out
- Puzzle Modules - Each bomb has different modules and different rules, all of which are guaranteed to induce different kinds of panic
- Level System - Defuse the bomb to unlock new levels. The better you get, the harder they are
- Color Blind Mode - Just because the monkey is blind, doesn’t mean he can’t defuse a bomb! Colors used across objects and the UI have been adapted to support two different types of color blindness.
Multiplayer-only games are a bit risky since players can't fly solo, but this one sounds really fun to play with a group. I mean, if I could hear, that's how it would sound. Somebody get me a banana!
BOMBANANA! costs $7.99 on Steam. To celebrate its launch, the game is on sale for $4.95 through September 9. Mobile and Roblox versions will follow at a later date. Buy the Steam game before the price blows up, guys!