Power of Bombs: Bombstead

Bombstead is played in short sessions a few times a day, driven by timers: collect what your workers hauled home, send out the next hauls and explorers, start a building or a piece of research, and train troops or forge bombs. Beyond your walls the realm is dark, and explorers push into the smoke to find richer ground, loot and other players' steads. Players never attack each other on the map — they fight in live PvP matches built on the Power of Bombs mask loop. Your squad fights with its faction abilities: defeat an enemy and its mask drops, carry the mask back and bank it at your altar, and enough banked masks open the enemy gate so your bombs can reach their Nexus. The gate and walls you defend are the ones you built at home.

Power of Bombs: Bombstead is in development for iOS and Android, with Steam and Mac planned. It is not yet available to play — follow Buried Games and our devlog to hear first when it can be played.

Bombstead exists so that Power of Bombs has players before it ships: a lighter game in the same world, played in minutes rather than matches, that can carry the universe to an audience long before the big one launches. It is built in Unity 6 with a real-time 3D world and a 2D interface, on a server-authoritative backend of its own — every timer, reward and battle result is decided by the server, never the device, so the game stays fair. Its world, factions, masks and bombs come from the Power of Bombs design, written down once in a shared universe document that both games follow.