Boom Island Reviews
Imagine being stranded on an island in the early 1900's, being a only survivor in a experimental plane crash. However, the island you crashed on is not a normal island, its Boom Island! Engage yourself in this arcade style first person shooter, where the main objective is to shoot explosive balls while surviving.
App ID | 717820 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Caden Goodwin |
Publishers | csgood |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Includes level editor |
Genres | Indie, Action |
Release Date | 16 Oct, 2017 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | English |

16 Total Reviews
9 Positive Reviews
7 Negative Reviews
Mixed Score
Boom Island has garnered a total of 16 reviews, with 9 positive reviews and 7 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mixed’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
31 minutes
I enjoyed playing this game. Blowing up balloons is more fun than I imagined. I really like the piano style old music along with the old time graphics. There is more to this game than just grabbing a gun and shooting balls. Theres modes that let you save up money to buy weapons, kinda like cod zombies, just without the stations where you buy it, along with being able to just pick them up as an airdrop, in the survival mode.The level editor is also a nice touch. I seek potential in this game. Overall, I cant see myself playing this for hours, as its somewhat repetitive, however for the price its worth a buy, if you like games like this, you'll have some fun.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
19 minutes
For $0.99, you essentially run around in an island during ww1 with a few weapons from said era dodging giant beachballs of all things. Again for $0.99, it's good enough and you shouldn't expect much.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
60 minutes
Can't go one round in any game mode without experiencing a bug. Unplayable.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
35 minutes
oh em gee!!!!!!!!1 i think this game is right alongside with pubg, cuphead and gta 5. the gameplay is immersive and very realistic with 9k graphics and features.
14/10
👍 : 9 |
😃 : 20
Positive
Playtime:
142 minutes
It's a good game like it play it to con a half hours, so I guess it's good enough just wish I could fix a few things on it, but it is a good game with good change. The music a little bit. And maybe the sunset
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
14 minutes
Endless Amounts of exploding beach balls....
15/10 Get rekted by exploding beach balls again.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
9 minutes
Well…it’s a game. It has guns in it. Also beach balls.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
9 minutes
There are 3 types of game:
1. Survival some balls and that's it.
2. Shoot some balls and earn money to buy some weapons, ammo and health's.
3. Protect plane from balls.
Honestly, nothing of these 3 modes not impress me, not a single minute.
Not recommended.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
48 minutes
A fairly lame/just give me money/endless wave shooter slapped together by Caden Goodwin using Unity. One completely uninspiring island area where you have to shoot giant beach balls that explode when they touch you. You do this while being tortured with a single cafe music track that loops, where you going full blown Robert De Niro postal is probably only micro seconds from happening. This game becomes a big yawn within 10 minutes max even though it is padded with 3 modes.
1) Survival - Running from crate to crate to try and last as long as possible. (Hint just stay around a health crate)
2) Economy - Exactly the same as survival the only difference is instead of crates you now get a shopping menu instead. Each beach ball you blow up will give you $100.00. When you save enough, just click on the corresponding button you need from the menu to buy ammo, health or guns.
3) Protection - Using a mounted machine gun, protect a stranded plane from beach balls coming in from all directions. In this mode the gun aim is more off than a 'Y2K bug will kill us all' proclamation.
Major problems...
*Half the gun sights don't work properly.
*No variety. Other than more beach ball spawns nothing else happens. No background changes, no changes in the enemy.
*Buggy. You constantly have to play with the mouse slider.
* 1 Music track on loop.
The only saving grace, is that this game does have a level editor where you can make your own levels, decorating the landscape, moulding the terrain and littering it with nature.
I'm clueless why this game got a lot of thumbs-up as the developer has done zero work on it for 2 years, clearly doesn't know how to code properly and never delivered on what he promised.
I guess like all his beach balls, someone needed to let all the air out of his ego...
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👍 : 4 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
12 minutes
+++ leaving this Game & forget it
+++ easy 100 % Steam Achievements
--- all others Survival, i couldnt moved a bug/ glitch brought me to the Plane (no running no shooting, on Protection i could shoot but only 2 Balls than out of Ammo? No Reload? Crash? Dont know what Play Mode Nr. 2 Economy should be
-- sadly never will get 5 Trading Cards (but beeing better so)
Good for Achievement Hunters only. In Play Out.
Thanks for reading. Hope u enjoy NOT because impossible. GL HF
👍 : 57 |
😃 : 2
Positive