Bombernauts Reviews

The game looked fun but I wish I would've known that the online multiplayer is like a desert. There is literally no one whenever I went on. I wish I read the reviews about no one ever being in the servers before I bought this game.

Fun 2 Hours, I managed to find a lobby during the Autumn Game sale. I see myself coming back to play this. Had some Meme-worthy moments. Really Fun with character Customs, and Map Edit. Fun Arena game. No Solo Vs Bots or anything like that.

Fantastic game for some quick multiplayer fun. MUST be played with friends, you are unlikely to find a lobby otherwise. If you have a couple friends then this is a great choice.

Overall it's a fun game but the lack of any single player or local multiplayer makes this game completely dead unfortunately.

Awesome game, but no local co-op and online is 100% dead. Thanks, Glaiel Gamer.

Very good game with very clever ideas and lots of creative tools. However, there is no local multiplayer, so the game is currently (2020 November) completely dead.

Bombernauts is essentially what you'd get if you bred Super Smash Bros. and Bomberman. Easy to learn, difficult to master, this is probably one of the most fun multiplayer party games on Steam. The drop-in/drop-out lobby system makes it extremely easy to get a match going and the zillions of items, power-ups and maps makes every round feel fresh and exciting. At the moment, the only negative is that the game has a very small playerbase which makes it difficult to find lobbies outside of peak hours. That said, it's still very playable with only two or three players, so if you can find just one friend to play with you will still be able to have fun. Hopefully this will stop being an issue as more people find out about and start playing this great game. That said, I definitely recommend this game. Tell your friends about it, too!

This game is going for that party style game like Mario Party for example where with a group of friends you'll have a wonderful time but if you go into it alone, you literally can't play it as it doesn't have any bot support sadly though if it did then i'd recommend it. It also has a level editor which is a great edition but again without any people to play with, there really is no point. I do appreciate though that your steam copy gives you a gift to send it to a friend aswell as a 4 party pack to purchase to give to others so it's a good idea to send it to friends even if it ends in a match or two.

For me personally, Bombernauts is the pinnacle of quick casual multiplayer mayhem. It is amazingly well balanced and still random enough for absurd things to happen which make you either want to cry and punch your monitor to dust or praise the RNG dogs for an insane recover from a desperate situation. As of now (Sep. 2015) this game is in "Early Access", but with the original idea of "Early Access" in mind: This game is ALREADY A FULL GAME and not some PoC. Every major update, which happens to roll out each month afaik, can only make this REALLY GOOD GAME EVEN BETTER! Im not kidding; They could release it now and it would be great! Sure enough you will need to have a few specific gaming preferences to enjoy this: It is an entertaining, casual, quick round, absolute mayhem, multiplayer indie game. No ranks, no itemshops only fun for you and a few friends maybe some strangers... Oh btw: It has a level editor = endless user generated content if you want to YAY

Bombernauts is a tough one to review, because the game isn't bad, it's actually quite fun. I just can't recommend it at this point in time because it's online-only multiplayer. My issues largely come down to where I live and it being a relatively unheard of game at the time of writing this, so this won't apply to everyone. If you're an American, I suspect there won't be any issues with finding a match, and you'll have a blast (Get it? Blast. Bombs blast!). But, as an Australian the game is sitting in my library gathering dust because: A) Small player base = no one to play with, particularly in my timezone. B) Busy periods aren't when (working) Australian's can play. C) When it does find people to play with, pings are too high (it's P2P). If bots and drop-in, drop-out behaviour (e.g. Lego and Left 4 Dead etc) were added, that would go a long way to making the game playable while the player base establishes. As it stands I search for an active game, get told there aren't any so it creates a new one and I sit in the level waiting for people to join. Normally I'll wait 10 minutes (during which no one joins) before quitting. If Bombernauts had [i]local[/i] multiplayer I'd get some use out of it, although I recognise that brings a whole host of problems with the design of the game, so I'm not holding my breath on that. The camera can be frustrating, especially with the verticality of some levels. Even on level maps you can't see the person you're throwing a bomb at so distance and position are guess work. It's not worth writing much else about Bombernauts while it's in Early Access. The game is fun enough and the dev is actively updating it and seems to be listening to feedback. I hope it catches on in places other than America so we can all enjoy it and I can change my review to a "recommend"! UPDATE: This game is dead. I can never find a game and SteamSpy shows 5 peak daily concurrent players as an optimistic average.