BOOMBER MAN

Blast the bricks. Plant bushes. Find the exit.

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The goal

Bomb your way

Drop bombs to break blocks and open paths.

Defeat every enemy

All enemies in the level must be gone.

Walk into the exit

The door is hidden under a crate. It opens when the last enemy falls.

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Controls

Move

↑↓←→orWASD

Drop bomb

SpaceorJ

Plant / pick up bush

ShiftorK

Detonate (Remote)

E

Pause

PorEsc

Mute

M

📱 On a phone or tablet, use the on-screen pad on the left and the BOMB and BUSH buttons on the right.

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Know your blocks

Stone

Never breaks. Blasts stop here.

Brick

Breaks with 1 bomb.

Wooden crate

Needs 2 bombs. It cracks after the first.

Cracked crate

One more bomb and it's gone. Crates hide the exit.

💥 A bomb explodes after 2.5 seconds in a cross shape. Bombs caught in a blast explode too, so chain them!

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Bushes: your shield and your health

You carry a pouch of 3 bushes (up to 5). Plant one on the tile in front of you. Press the key again while facing it to pick it back up.

🛡️ Blocks enemies

Enemies can't walk through your bushes, but you can.

🔥 Soaks up blasts

Your own blast stops at a bush and destroys it. Aim around it!

❤️ Works as health

If a blast or spore hits you, one bush burns instead of you.

🌱 Refills

Grab Bush Seeds. You get at least 3 back after each level and each life.

☠️ You lose a life when…

…an enemy touches you, or your last bush is gone.

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Lives

You start with 3 lives. Clear levels 1 to 7 and a heart waits on the exit door: +1 life each. From level 8 on there are no more extra lives, so play carefully.

Out of lives? Continue restarts the level with 3 lives but halves your score. Unlocked levels are never lost.

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Power-ups

Found inside broken bricks and crates. A blast destroys them, so grab them fast.

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Enemies

Every level brings a new enemy with its own trick. Learn how each one is beaten. Levels 5, 10, 15 and 20 are Big Battles: see the next section.

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Big Battles

⚠ BIG BATTLE ⚠

Every 5th level you face a Titan: a giant boss, 2×2 tiles, armoured and very hard to beat. Learn its weak moment, survive its attacks, and keep hitting.

🛡️ Armour

Bombs just go CLANG. Hit it only during its weak moment, shown by a gold ring under it.

🟥 Red floor

Red tiles mean an attack lands there in about 1 second. Get out!

📈 Phases

At each mark on its health bar it roars and gets tougher. You get a free power-up.

😡 Enrage

In the last phase its bar flashes red: it is faster and attacks more often.

🌱 A Bush Seed appears every 15 seconds, and each new phase drops a free power-up and a Bush Seed. If you die, the Titan keeps its damage. Beat a Titan without losing a life for the +2000 Titan Slayer bonus.

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Pro tips

  • Drop and run. Before you drop a bomb, know where you will hide.
  • Bush behind you. Plant a bush in a corridor behind you to make a safe door.
  • Mind the angle. A bush between your bomb and an enemy saves the enemy. Bomb from the side.
  • Watch the clock. When time runs out, unstoppable Reapers come for you.
  • No bush lost = +500. Finish a level without losing a bush for a bonus.
  • Too hard? Turn on Easy mode on the title screen: slower enemies, more time, bigger pouch.
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Boomber Man · 20 levels · 4 worlds · 4 bosses