Compare BomberX prices across 50+ stores and find the best deal. Developed by Studio Inward. Published by Studio Inward. Released on 3/16/2020. Available on PC. Genres: Casual, Indie.

Skip it. BomberX is a Unity asset flip with a dead server, one peak concurrent player, and a review score propped up by suspicious accounts.

I'll be straight with you because nobody else on the store page will be. BomberX is not a game Studio Inward made. Community investigators on Steam identified it as a repackaged Unity asset called Bomber IO, built by a separate developer named SURIYUN, renamed and pushed onto Steam as an original product. That context matters before you spend a single second evaluating the actual gameplay, because the foundation is rotten. With that said, here is what you are actually getting mechanically. It is a top-down arcade bomber title in the Bomberman mold. You move a third-person character around a grid-style arena, plant bombs, and use power-ups to outlast opponents. In-game pickups cover explosion range, movement speed, bomb count, and a health bonus. There are three maps, three game modes, an offline bot mode, and online PvP. Controls are minimal, WASD plus one button to drop a bomb. Partial controller support is listed. An in-game currency system lets you unlock characters and cosmetic equipment using gold earned through play. Steam leaderboards were added post-launch alongside Russian and Chinese language support. None of that sounds bad in a vacuum. The problem is population. SteamSpy records a peak concurrent player count of one. One. I have waited longer for a match in games that cost fifty dollars and have dedicated servers. The online PvP in BomberX is functionally non-existent unless you are coordinating a session with people you already know, which means the entire multiplayer pitch collapses. The offline bot mode is what you are actually buying, and bot AI in a ripped Unity demo is not going to challenge anyone who has touched a Bomberman game in the last twenty years. Steam flagged this title as Profile Features Limited, which means it will not contribute to your game collector badge, cannot be displayed in certain profile showcases, and Valve's own systems have flagged it for low community acceptance. The 91% positive review score on twelve reviews has been credibly challenged as review manipulation by long-standing community members. Treat that score as noise. If you want a bomber game with an actual heartbeat, look at Bombergrounds: Reborn, which is free-to-play and has a real player base. If you need local couch play, Bomber Games supports up to eight local players with a proper mode list. BomberX has neither the population to make online work nor the original craft to justify existing. The price is negligible. So is the game. Fred, Scout Team

BomberX
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BomberX

Mar 16, 2020Studio Inward
GamerScout Says

Skip it. BomberX is a Unity asset flip with a dead server, one peak concurrent player, and a review score propped up by suspicious accounts.

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About BomberX

I'll be straight with you because nobody else on the store page will be. BomberX is not a game Studio Inward made. Community investigators on Steam identified it as a repackaged Unity asset called Bomber IO, built by a separate developer named SURIYUN, renamed and pushed onto Steam as an original product. That context matters before you spend a single second evaluating the actual gameplay, because the foundation is rotten. With that said, here is what you are actually getting mechanically. It is a top-down arcade bomber title in the Bomberman mold. You move a third-person character around a grid-style arena, plant bombs, and use power-ups to outlast opponents. In-game pickups cover explosion range, movement speed, bomb count, and a health bonus. There are three maps, three game modes, an offline bot mode, and online PvP. Controls are minimal, WASD plus one button to drop a bomb. Partial controller support is listed. An in-game currency system lets you unlock characters and cosmetic equipment using gold earned through play. Steam leaderboards were added post-launch alongside Russian and Chinese language support. None of that sounds bad in a vacuum. The problem is population. SteamSpy records a peak concurrent player count of one. One. I have waited longer for a match in games that cost fifty dollars and have dedicated servers. The online PvP in BomberX is functionally non-existent unless you are coordinating a session with people you already know, which means the entire multiplayer pitch collapses. The offline bot mode is what you are actually buying, and bot AI in a ripped Unity demo is not going to challenge anyone who has touched a Bomberman game in the last twenty years. Steam flagged this title as Profile Features Limited, which means it will not contribute to your game collector badge, cannot be displayed in certain profile showcases, and Valve's own systems have flagged it for low community acceptance. The 91% positive review score on twelve reviews has been credibly challenged as review manipulation by long-standing community members. Treat that score as noise. If you want a bomber game with an actual heartbeat, look at Bombergrounds: Reborn, which is free-to-play and has a real player base. If you need local couch play, Bomber Games supports up to eight local players with a proper mode list. BomberX has neither the population to make online work nor the original craft to justify existing. The price is negligible. So is the game. Fred, Scout Team

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singleplayermultiplayerpvponline-pvptier:sub-5Asset FlipDead ServersBot-Only ViableBomberman-likeOffline Fallback

System Requirements

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OS
Windows 7/8/10 - 64bits
Memory
2 GB RAM
Storage
430 MB available space
Graphics
Intel HD Graphique
Processor
2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent
Sound Card
All

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Developer
Studio Inward
Publisher
Studio Inward
Release Date
Mar 16, 2020

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