BOOM Bound is a fast-paced precision movement and pattern-dodging game inspired by classic RTS custom maps. Read the explosions, click your route, and survive 100+ handcrafted challenges solo or online with up to six players.

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BOOM Bound is a fast-paced precision movement and pattern-dodging game inspired by the classic “bound” maps created by real-time strategy custom-map communities.

Click where you want to move, study the repeating explosion cycles, and cross each arena without getting caught in the blast. Every map is a real-time test of observation, memory, timing, route planning, and nerve.

You will die. You will learn. You will try again.

Eventually, a level that once looked impossible becomes a clean run.

A Timing Puzzle That Never Stops Moving

BOOM Bound combines the instant decision-making of an action game with the pattern recognition of a puzzle.

Explosions activate in repeating formations. Moving too early, too late, or into the wrong lane can end your run immediately. Watch the warning states, identify the safe spaces, and move while the opportunity is still open.

Some levels test your reactions. Others challenge you to memorize an entire sequence. The most difficult maps require both.

Play Solo or Online

Take on the campaign alone, or host and join online multiplayer lobbies with up to six players.

Create a public lobby, play privately with friends, use an invitation code, or jump into Quick Play. Survive the same hazards together, compare routes, and see who can keep moving when the arena starts exploding.

Current Content

  • 100 official campaign levels with an escalating range of patterns, environments, and timing challenges

  • Level 101 and additional long-form horizontal and community challenge maps

  • Online multiplayer for up to six players with public and private lobby options

  • RGB Mini Game — survive an intense 5×5 sequence of warnings, shifting safe spaces, and explosions

  • Endless Mini Game — test how far you can survive as the challenge continues

  • 1v5 Mini Game — a different BOOM Bound challenge built around hazard control and survival

  • 64 Steam achievements covering progression, persistence, perfect clears, speed, power-ups, multiplayer, Endless, 1v5, and RGB

  • Seven character skins to use across supported maps and modes

  • Best-time tracking for improving and comparing your runs

  • Result screenshots and shareable summaries after completing a challenge

Earn Coins and Expand Your Options

Collect gameplay Coins while progressing through official levels. Coins can be used to unlock additional maps, character skins, and survival items.

  • Orb — blocks one explosion hit that would otherwise defeat you

  • Angel Wings — block two explosion hits

  • Additional Maps — unlock Level 101 and special horizontal or community challenges

  • Character Skins — customize the player while preserving the same movement and collision behavior

The additional gameplay maps can be unlocked using Coins earned through normal play and do not require a direct real-money purchase.

Designed Around Trial, Error, and Mastery

Failure is part of learning the pattern.

A run may end after several seconds, one mistimed movement, or a final explosion near the goal. Each attempt gives you more information: where the danger begins, when the safe window opens, and which route will work next time.

BOOM Bound rewards:

  • Reading visual warning states

  • Recognizing repeating patterns

  • Memorizing safe routes

  • Making precise movements under pressure

  • Recovering after repeated failures

  • Improving completion times

  • Completing difficult maps without taking a hit

A Tribute to Classic Custom-Map Culture

BOOM Bound was created in the spirit of the custom-map and UMS communities that turned simple movement, repeating hazards, and player-made challenges into unforgettable multiplayer experiences.

If you remember spending hours learning dangerous lanes one explosion at a time or you simply enjoy difficult games built around timing, memorization, and “one more try” welcome to the Bound!

System Requirements

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macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 or newer
    • Processor: 1 Ghz or faster processor
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Graphics Card that supports OpenGL 2.1 or better
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: OS X 10.7 or newer
    • Processor: 1 Ghz or faster processor
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Graphics Card that supports OpenGL 2.1 or better
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection

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