Dotemu Releases Free 8-Player Party Battle Game Blasterbug on Steam
The Windjammers 2 team's free Bomberman-style homage leans on Steam Remote Play Together for online play while keeping the core experience local multiplayer only.
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Dotemu released the 2D top-down party battle game Blasterbug: Last Bug Standing for free on PC via Steam on August 25. The game supports up to 8 players in local multiplayer, with online play available through Steam Remote Play Together. Players control one of 15 bugs and throw cross-shaped Pome Grenades across 15 stages and five modes, developed by the team behind Windjammers 2.
Dotemu's new party battle game leans openly on Hudson's Bomberman lineage, with cross-shaped explosions and a cast of bugs instead of bombs. The 15 playable characters each carry a special move, such as a spider that slows opponents with sticky webs or a dung beetle that rolls explosive balls, which adds a fighting-game layer to the bomb-laying fundamentals.
The five modes include Death Battle, Coin Battle, Crown Battle, Paint Battle, and Party Battle, the last mixing the other four at random. The 15 stages add gimmicks like water currents, passing cars, and spiked rollers that force different responses. One stage removes bombs entirely and relies on punch attacks.
Multiplayer is local only, so online play runs through Steam Remote Play Together. A 16th character, Garlandra, who fights with a giant sword, is available as paid DLC.
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