Power of Bombs

Every creature wears its faction's mask over its true face, and the masks are the objective. Defeat an enemy and you can take their mask (leaving them bare-faced), and while you hold it you can throw their faction's special bomb. One carrier per team escorts the masks home, and a carrier who falls drops everything they held. Bank enough masks and the enemy Gate opens; behind it waits the Nexus you have to destroy. If time runs out, both gates open at once. The five factions play very differently: the Celestial Sentinels fly and scout, the Ironclad Guardians raise shields, Cluster Bombardment rains cluster bombs, the Speedstorm Chargers dash and leap, and the Vitality Keepers heal and protect their allies.

Power of Bombs is in development for PC, with Steam and the Epic Games Store planned. It is not yet available to play: follow Buried Games and our devlog to hear first when a playable build or a release date is announced. In the meantime its world has a second game in development: Power of Bombs: Bombstead, for iOS and Android.

Power of Bombs is a team game in which every match turns on the masks. Unreal Engine 5 lets us push the dark, volumetric look (fog, embers, and bio-mechanical creatures whose cybernetics were bolted on by the people who enslaved them), while one vivid colour per faction keeps a ten-player fight readable at a glance. Its world is written down once, in a shared universe document, so everything it establishes carries across to Bombstead, the mobile game set in the same world.