Finally! Free To Play (soon™) and huge Changes!

The biggest news at the beginning:

Bombabomb! will be Free To Play!

If everything goes to plan, Bombabomb! will become free-to-play on the first of January 2026! After this change you will not be able to buy Bombabomb anymore! Every player who did so before will be granted an inventory item* which will no longer be obtainable afterwards!

So if you see someone with that item in their inventory, it means they supported the game before it went free-to-play! THANK YOU! if you are part of that group, but still of course thanks to all players of Bombabomb! Every single user who spends time in this game makes me happy! ^^/

That's it for the biggest news of the update. Let's see what has changed in this version! ːDː (Beta Branch will be disabled for now ːwinter2019neutralyulː)

A new shining Bombabomb!

Changes

• New design (and Text-Fonts)

• Button layout changed

• Moved some buttons to different menus

• Play-Area location shifted to the right

• Background image changed

• Menu (transparent) backgrounds

• Leaderboards have new style

• Achievement: "Champion of Bombabomb!"

  • Changed needed wins from 100 to 25

  • Changed description to: "Perfectly finishing the game 25 times!"

Added

• Added support for different languages

  • English (default)

  • German

  • Custom (basically nonsense words tbh.)

  • Added subfolder in game files for language and credits files (editable by user: “English.txt”, “German.txt”, “Custom.txt”)

  • Every language has its own button

• Full reset option: default settings and deleting local leaderboard

• Added a “crawler”, a scrolling text at the bottom of the screen

• Added Global-Stats which should be visible after the second time the game was started in the “crawler”

• Added supporter-Items for the steam-inventory

• Added in game inventory for your steam-items

• Added option to trade in 3 lower tier supporter-items for one higher tier item

• Added item supporter-shop “Bomba-Shop” if you want to support the development

• Added automated supporter-item drops: One item per 20 minutes playtime: max three per day

• Added a “Help/Info-Screen” (currently only in English)

• Steam-Leaderboards now can be displayed in game

• Local Leaderboard now has unlimited places

  • “unlimited” means 1000 for now because loading would take too long

  • Local Leaderboard .json files are available in game files

  • "Last Run"-Stats in local Leaderboard

Fixes

• Music bug: multiple tracks won't play at the same time anymore

• Game no longer crashes when "English.txt"-file is missing

• Custom language can now be loaded without freezing the game (sadly Custom language won’t work on SteamDeck)

• German language is now loaded properly when music is off

• Inventory isn’t reloading anymore when an automated Item-Drop is triggered

• Inventory “Select” button now will be green/red when selecting same/different items

• Names in leaderboards won’t show not supported characters anymore

  • They are shown as a space (“ “) now

  • Names in leaderboards can now be max 25 chars long so it won’t push the rest of the leaderboard to the right

• New player-stats will be updated to steam-leaderboards again

• The German translation should now be accurate

Misc

• Some minor code changes

• Added an official Steam-Group

As always - Thank you for reading and Have Fun Playing Bombabomb! ːvanilla2ː - CryT4x ːDː

*The granted item is visible in both your in-game inventory and your Steam inventory and cannot be traded in, traded with other players or sold o the Steam market. It is purely cosmetic and offers no in-game advantages. There are no other benefits associated with this item!