Dynomite Deluxe Reviews

Every minute is fun! I'm really enjoying it! One of the best Popcap games ever made.

I cannot stop shooting colored eggs at other colored eggs.

One of PopCap's earliest ballistics puzzles. Dynomite! Deluxe combines a colour-based match-three puzzle with a bouncing projectile. If you know Puzzle Bobble (AKA Bust-A-Move) or Frozen Bubble, Dynomite has the exact same basic gameplay. You shoot eggs at a slowly descending wall of eggs to match three or more together causing an explosion. You can bounce eggs off the walls for trick shots. If the eggs close in too much, you get stomped. Simple, yet fun. There are four game modes: - "Endless Puzzle" is the default game mode. In this mode you try to hold back a descending wall of eggs. Periodically Whirley will appear and try to fly to the top of the screen with a new egg colour to add to the puzzle. You can shoot him to stop new colours being added, which is pretty neat. You get warned right before Whirley appears so you can be prepared. - "Stomped Puzzle" pits you against preset puzzles, which you must clear away. If you fire too many eggs, Mama will get angry and stomp you for a game over. Just figure out how to clear the puzzles with as few shots as possible. - "Fossil Challenge" requires you to extract fossils embedded in puzzles. There are two sub-modes: "Strategic", which is slow-paced with trickier puzzles, and "Panic", which is fast-paced with simpler puzzles. There is a progression of different fossils, and you can view the fossils you have obtained in the museum screen. - "Time Trial" is a casual game mode in which you try to clear away many rows of eggs as quickly as you can. You cannot lose, you just need to clear away the eggs. As with most of PopCap's old catalog, Dynomite works well via the latest Proton Experimental as of this writing (19-08-2025). The game also has a Platinum rating on ProtonDB. So Linux users should have no problems with this game. Windows 8, 10, and 11 have some major issues with the game. Again, this is similar to the rest of PopCap's old catalog, which also tend to work very poorly on Windows versions newer than 7. Users have reported issues including all sound being missing, fullscreen not working, broken scoring, and eggs randomly changing colour. Some users report it works fine on their systems, so your experience may vary. Windows 7 and older usually run the game fine. On 7 and Vista you may need to set compatibility mode to Windows XP first. As is often the case these days even for current titles, this Windows game runs notably better on a Linux system via Proton than it does on the latest Windows. Overall, pretty good. You can get this for about a dollar during some sales; for that price this game has good value.