Разработчик: Mode4
Описание
A Bomberman-inspired Spaghetti Western action game with rogue-like elements.
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Wear the poncho of the Bombslinger, a former ruthless bandit turned rancher, as he sets out on a journey to avenge the brutal murder of his wife.
Bomb your way through hordes of enemies, defeat your former posse and get to the final showdown with its leader, the Gunslinger.
Bombslinger Features
- Explosive Bomberman-inspired single and multi-player gameplay
- Procedurally generated levels and tons of items make each play unique
- 4-player battle mode and AI bots for classic local multiplayer action
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Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, dutch, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows7 or later
- Processor: 1.2Ghz+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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This roguelike, western take on the Bomberman formula developed by Mode4 and published by plug in digital is perhaps the go to option for Bomberman action. This cheap gaming review shows how:
-The game has nice visuals reminiscent of early attempts at 3D complete with edgy sprites overlain - if you can get into that retro take (But it does have some grating elements like the farm zone's gray dirt and some grungy polygons)
-Decent to good western music that's strangely upbeat for this revenge story and is maybe a bit familiar when you strip away the western theming
-Innovative and unique in that it injects roguelike elements into the Bomberman formula to create a new game (Well at least it's not a twin stick shooter) with procedurally generated (Within limits) arenas and items (Not that many of them - on a good run you may see most of the non-starting items)
-The roguelike elements are light though (You unlock starting item options and nothing else) but maybe that works to produce a nice arcadey outlier in the genre and maybe this fits with what Bomberman is (Won't keep you busy for long but you won't pull your hair out as much over it)
-Good Bomberman combat if it is similar to what it has always been (How much can you really change it) but you now have health and they did add new bomb types, weapons and enemy behaviors to shake things up and you earn more xp when blowing up multiple enemies at once (So you level up more and get more upgrades) so skill is rewarded (If some of these additions may disturb the Bomberman purist but some of these require regenerating spirit energy use so that may prevent you from completely relying on them)
-Although constantly choosing the increase flame length upgrade can feel more dangerous here because you keep it for the entire run and not just a match so you may burn yourself
-Has samescreen versus for up to 4 players and steam input and remote play together does work
-Doesn't have much story (If the ending can be lovely in a morose way)
Practical concerns:
-OK value for money (R3.59 / $0.34 / £0.25 per hour for me)
-Small download as it takes up 266.62 Mb on the hard drive
-Easy to run (Works on the Warhorse)
-Has local versus mode for old school Bomberman action
At its heart, this is a Bomberman-style game combining gritty Western storytelling and modern roguelike gameplay. Our protagonist Bombslinger is an ex-bandit who left his evil gang to get married. The problem is he took a lot of the gang's cash when he split and presumably used that to build the house that gets burned at the start. With nothing left, he sets out for revenge on all his old pals and meets a few oddities along the way.
Having long ago played Gameboy Bomberman quite a lot, the controls felt comfortable. Classic powersups like obstacle jumping and bomb kicking work as they always did (if you can find them) while getting more Bombs and Firepower comes from a new levelup system that has you choosing a stat to increase from three random options. Defeating enemies grants XP to levelup, and there's a nice XP bonus when you defeat multiple enemies at once, which works on chickens too by the way.
Bombslinger gains stat increases when he levels, finds stuff in the field (and he finds more keys and better stuff with a high Luck stat) or purchases stuff at shops using gold – of course there's a Gold Finding stat which increases those pickups, and a powerup which lowers the cost at shops. The Health stat is probably the most important as you can easily win the game with only health boosts and full recoveries. The other stats are Speed (which I preferred at 2 of 5) along with stats to increase a spirit gauge or make spirit recharge faster.
You'll want plenty of spirit because there's a decent number of weapons and tools you can use in addition to your bombs, like the excellent bear trap or very large bombs, and even some high-skill abilities such as arc-thrown weapons or hiding as an object. Other powers are free to use, from sometimes avoiding certain damage types to an overpowered dodge roll, or changing the way regular bombs work. Neat one-time consumables include the highly random snake oil and health-for-spirit injectors.
As in many roguelike games, you'll start each run with some starting perks and unlock more through gameplay. Eventually you can start with builds that will help with gaining other achievement perks, so get what you can and remember to abuse the Restart option in the pause menu if a run isn't going well. For example, getting 5000 gold may seem impossible, but there's a way.
Beyond the Adventure mode in the front menu, there's also a Battle mode for Remote Play or when you have others over, though you'll want competitive gamers who really like Bomberman because the mode is less a party and more a desperate fight. Take care though if you play against the tough CPU opponents as there's no way to pause or quit a fight after you die and two evenly matched CPUs can take a long time to kill each other.
Overall, the core gameplay elements are solid and this mashup of ideas works. Almost every boss battle is great, with some patience for the annoying gold-stealing guy and how the final boss is a joke once you realize his weakness. There's an excellent batch of visually-distinct regular enemies to explode, each with different abilities and exploit methods to discover, like the wolves which have trouble at corners when trying to escape.
A small complaint would be not getting XP when enemies accidentally kill each other. What if I engineered that to happen or they did so outside my control? Would it really make the game any worse if I got that XP? Also, I wish utility powers didn't take the same equipment slot as useful weapons.
Mostly I wanted a bit more control over the random elements; the cost of re-rolling a shop's inventory is high, the chests which cost money to open are a gamble, and field drops can be rare. All of this makes achievements to collect specific things more about luck (and playing the game a lot) instead of skill. If I could sell unwanted keys and things, that might make everything flow better, as well as being able to swap starting perks between zones.
In the story, it's not great that a lady gets fridged to start off this quest for vengeance, plus the game reminds you of that each time you start. Burning down the house would have been enough. But when the whole gang is dead and you're choosing the ending, there is something fitting about mercy.
A good idea, but the controls are clunky, and it's frustrating in adventure mode.
Also, they easily could have added more settings in multiplayer mode.
If these two things were patched, I would have recommended the game.
Really fun roguelike that pulls on the gameplay that made Bomberman great. Planning and execution are key in this game, and I had a lot of fun working up to the finale. The cowboy/desperado theming really makes this game stick out, and it was well worth what I paid for it.
Bombslinger isn't fun, it's tedious and boring. There are multiple obstacles in your path that you have to blow up in order to go anywhere. If you don't move fast enough, you lose a heart. The controls are a bit clunky, not as responsive as they should be, and you move like a slug. If you're looking for a Bomberman like game, look elsewhere or go play the original, it's so much better than this! NOT recommended!!!
It’s bomberman in a cowboy hat. If you were expecting anything different, I don’t know why.
There are a few variations from the traditional bomberman, like a level-up system that gives greater control of progression than traditional power-up and a rouge-lite system of perks to choose from before each run, but nothing that really changes this game from being bomberman in a cowboy hat, except that it's also just a little bit worse. The controls are a bit sloppy, making it easy to get caught on corners or lay a bomb on a powerup instead of picking it up. It's a bit buggy, I had it crash a couple of times. My biggest complaint is that there is no save option for campaign mode, the player has to do the campaign in one sitting. It’s possible to do, the game’s only ~1hr long (assuming no deaths that cause you to start over), but it’s still frustrating in this age of tight schedules and cheap computer memory to see a game demand you schedule a minimum amount of time to play it.
I wish there were more games like Bombslinger because in my opinion the market for Bomberman-likes is still too small.
In Bombslinger you play as a former boss of an outlaw gang in the wild west. The titular Bombslinger decided to leave his gang to live with his wife on a small ranch but because he took the money from their biggest heist with him, they kill his wife and burn down the ranch.
Now hellbent on revenge you hunt them one by one down.
The gameplay mixes the typical Bomberman formular with rogue-like elements. Each run is randomized for more replayability. You have to travel through multiple stages, each one having their own boss, a member of your former gang. In typical Bomberman fashion you can lay down bombs to kill enemies. The key here is to corner them with your bombs so they cannot escape the blast. Bombs can be chained together and all explode at the same time if the fire touches each other. This can be used to set up combos. Killing enemies gives you XP and killing multiple at the same time through your combos gives you a bonus. Leveling up allows you to improve your stats, more firepower, more bombs can be placed down, more speed and so on. If you have lost HP you can also refill them through a level up.
Your bombs deal also damage to you, so you want to avoid that.
There are many different enemies that have different kind of behaviours. The first enemies will either wander around aimlessy or will follow you if they see you. Later you get outlaws with revovlers that shoot you if they see you, wolves that charge at, farmers with shotguns that sleep but wake up if they here noises and even shamans that can summon lightning at your position.
Luckily you can also find all kind of useful tools. You can find alternate bombs that have different effects, like a seeker bomb that fires a long flame wall that searches for enemies to kill them or the nitro bomb that completely blasts through obstacles and enemies alike. You can also find guns to shoot at enemies. One thing that you will find are snake oil flasks. Those act as random potions. You don't know what it will do until you drink it and it can benefit you or hurt you. It's still usually wortht he risk because you can get stat upgrades with those.
There is also a shop in each level where you can buy items for gold that you get from crates and enemies. What I really like here is that when you enter the shop, you realize that you are actually playing a 3D game despite the look. Suddenly you are in first person inside the shop, looking directly at the wares on display. It's really cool and I wish more games would do something like that.
That being said, the game is still in 2D fashion for the rest of it, it's just that the game mixes 3D environment with 2D sprites which is the reason why you won't immediately notice that the world is 3D. T´Besides shops there is no gameplay element that makes use of the 3D graphics.
One thing I like about this game is that achievements have a real use here. By completing an achievement you will unlock an item for your loadout. Before each run you can take up to four different items with you which will give you passive benefits. It allows you to go for a specific strategy or simply give you a headstart. It's not overwhelming in terms of power but it makes reaching certain milestones more rewarding. Thre is no other metaprogression besides that however, so you won't get more powerful with each run until you beat the game by sheer dominance.
There aren't any super powerful builds either to be honest, the focus is more on skillfully playing Bomberman with added randomization and items. This is in my opinion completely fine, it's a good Bomberman game although I do wish there were more items. Variety in this game is pretty scarce and that would be my biggst complaint. You will often see simiiar items in your runs, the variation mostly comes from how the stages are built.
The game also has a multiplayer mode, a classic arena mode like you know it. Kill the other players with your bombs, don't die yourself. It's good but it's only local multiplayer, which kinda sucks if you don't have friends at your home to play with. You can play with Remote Play together but that is often laggy. But if you have friends at home, than you can have some good old-fashioned Bomberman battles, which is always fun.
Its fun, but it the movement is a bit too sluggish. Its essentially bomber with a story its fine if you can overlook the movement
When I playing this I felt like I was tired of roguelike games, but this bomberman roguelike was so much fun?
As you play you'll unlock trinkets to make the next run easier and it's fun to try to get them all.
Another one of those good concept, bad execution games. I enjoyed the setting, design and sound design. Even the idea to have a level system and items in this type of game is pretty unique. The enemies are all way better equipped than the player though, you have to get lucky with your level up powers or you have to somehow get close to enemies with guns that will blow your bombs up the moment you drop them next to them and even getting them to stand still is not great. You can also get some power ups like special bombs, a shotgun, molotovs and so on, but they control really bad and use most of your special energy, so it's 1-2 uses only.
What a great hidden gem. I only find out about it now 5 years after it's release. A great mix of Bomberman/The Binding of Isaac. Working perfectly on a Steam deck. If you do have this on your Steam deck i recommend getting it !
A fun roguelike bomberman style game with varying bosses and simple to understand gameplay, definitely worth buying if you enjoy bomberman!
Pretty sure this is the best Bomberman like game ever. I prefer it over actual bomberman games, especially the newer stuff on steam. Has the spirit of the old stuff but is doing lots of great stuff of it's own. Would recommend to anyone who loves this brand of gameplay.
Love the concept...it's Binding of Isaac meets Bomberman. But I really hate the execution. The pacing is so slow and boring because you spend so much time chewing your way through the terrain of every room bit by tedious bit with bombs. And changing directions is pure, absolute frustration. The controls are so awful and sluggish...your character constantly gets hung up on the indestructible parts of the terrain. I guarantee you will blow yourself up trying to get out of the way of your own bombs far more often than the slow, predictable enemies will kill you.
Pros:
- overall the game is fun
- nice art style
- different builds are possible
- some degree of replayability(different bosses, unlockable starting items, levels layouts randomly generated each playthrough)
- not a lot of bomberman-like games out there
Cons:
- the game starts slow. Your avatar moves slow, has one bomb with one title blast radius. I almost dropped the game at first, but struggled through the first couple of runs and luckily unlocked a couple of items which made the game less tedious
- random is not fun here. Some starting items unlocks(and steam achievements) are heavily depends on random. For example you need to collect 3 certain items to unlock 1 starting item. And either the game will spawn them in a shop or in chests, or it won't and there is nothing a player could do about it. Sometimes a level is long(more enemies = more gold), sometimes it is short, so no shopping for you. Sometimes there are two shops on a level, sometimes - only one. Sometimes there are several key locked chests on a single level, sometimes - only one chest for a whole run. I hate random in this game.
- the final boss arguable is less challenging of all bosses, just stay at a top lane.
It's basically Bomberman with roguelike elements. I'm a big fan of the roguelike genre and played the hell out of Bomberman in my childhood, so I should be liking this game. But I don't.
Goddamn is it SLOW. You begin with a bomb with an explosion radius of a single square and have to carefully place the bombs and pray for the enemy to not randomly move away from the bomb and avoid dying out of sheer luck... which happens half the time. You also have to manually clear dozens of obstacles in your way by laying a bomb and waiting for it to blow up each time. Suuuper slow and boring game start.
Then I reached the boss and he moves around pretty fast around a gigantic arena, so again, you keep laying bombs and hope that EVENTUALLY the starts will align just right so that the boss will come in contact with your bomb.
I tried again and it was a different first boss this time, but he used this same "mechanic" where you have to wait until HE decides to use the ONLY attack which leaves him vulnerable, which happened once right away but then didn't happen again after two minutes, and when he finally decided to expose himself again, I died.
Oh, and when you die, you have to start from scratch without keeping any of the gold and items found (permadeath).
I'm noping the fuck out of this. If the first level is any indication, this game is too slow, too luck based and too punishing. Refunded.
Bombslinger offers Bomberman-style gameplay with a rogue-like dungeon crawl overlay. The game is pretty smooth but some aspects of the combat feel a bit stiff. Overall a fun little game with some good depth/replayability and permanent unlocks - definitely worth picking up on sale.
I got this game for $1.20 (on sale) and am very satisfied with my purchase.
Probably the closest to a legitimate Bomberman experience you'll get to on PC, not just Steam, outside of emulation, and far more party-ready. The multiplayer is solid, and you can play online via Parsec (which I recommend if you've got a good connection for just about any local-multiplayer game).
The single-player is fun and has all the highs and lows of any other rogue-like game. Other than a few very rare bugs that can occur (especially frustrating toward the end of a very powerful run), the game runs very smoothly and without issues on a large variety of hardware. The bosses are extremely tough when starting, but are fairly predictable, and as a result this particular game is more consistent than most rogue-likes. The item variety adds a fair bit of strategy to the game, and it's fun messing with different builds to find either incredibly powerful builds that will allow for an easy run or succeed-or-suck builds that are a huge gamble with the possibility of quick death or deft victories. I've put in a lot of runs on this game and it's an excellent time killer with endless opportunities for fun during multiplayer. My only wish is that multiplayer would get more options for customization going forward. Other than that, the game is fairly flawless, and delivers on its promises excellently for both the experienced rogue-player and newcomers alike.
I bought the game on sale, then after an hour or so of gameplay, asked for a refund. It's not because it's not a good game, but because it has too many things I'm looking for that is not yet available at this early stage of the game.
It would be great to have a co-op adventure, not just a multiplayer battle mode-- what I was looking for at this time as I was looking for something to play with my non-gamer wife.
To be fair, I still recommend the game. To be fair, I still will look forward to buying the full "explosive" potential of the game, but just not now.
It still is a lovable game and is the best Bomberman-like type of game I have seen and played on different platforms.
Huge game for a low price. Bombslinger is very surpising, at the first time you could think that it is only a Bomberman-like but it is much more. The sensation of the explosion is brutal, the soundtrack is wonderfull, the ennemy are funny and the boss are difficult. Just what I needed for a long time.
Thank you
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Mode4 |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 27.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 72% положительных (47) |