Blast Grid

Move through a grid of destructible and solid walls, dropping bombs that detonate into a cross of flame. Blast through soft walls to open routes and reveal power-ups, and time your bombs to catch enemies in the explosion, while never standing in your own blast radius.

• Bombs explode in a plus-shaped flame; the flame is stopped by solid walls.
• Destroy soft walls to find power-ups that lengthen your blast and let you carry more bombs.
• Trap opponents in the flame while keeping your own escape route clear.

• Desktop: Player 1 uses WASD with Q or Shift to bomb; Player 2 uses the Arrow keys with Enter or '.' to bomb.
• Phone & tablet: on-screen movement and bomb buttons make it playable by touch.

• Campaign, clear stages of computer enemies.
• Versus AI, duel the computer at adjustable difficulty.
• Versus 2P, local hot-seat battle; plus an online option.

• Always drop a bomb knowing exactly which way you'll flee, never box yourself into the blast.
• Open up the soft walls early to collect power-ups before the fights get tight.
• Herd opponents into dead ends, then seal them in with a well-placed bomb.

Blast Grid revives Bomberman, first released by Hudson Soft in 1983 and reinvented several years later, when the battle mode turned a tidy single-player maze game into something people shouted at each other over. You lay bombs that detonate in a cross of flame, blasting soft blocks apart to open routes and uncover power-ups.

The design turns on one deliberate ambiguity: the blast that clears your path is the same blast that kills you. Every upgrade makes that worse. A longer flame reaches further down the corridor and further back toward you, so a well-equipped player is also a fragile one, and most deaths in a four-player match are self-inflicted.

Blast Grid is an original take on the grid-bombing maze arcade genre, free to play in your browser solo or head-to-head.

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