Banana Republic

Banana Republic

TBD · July 15, 2026 · Thriller, Political, Action, FPS, Choices Matter

Banana Republic is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive78% · 27 📈 Making a comeback 87%
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About Banana Republic

Survive a tense, thrilling environment

You play as a cop on a daring rescue mission gone awry, leaving you to face a palace chock-full of armed rebels and hostages to rescue. What do you have? Hostages to rescue, limited ammunition, and not enough time. No pressure.

Talk, eavesdrop, and if need be, shoot your way to victory

Choosing stealth offers the chance to listen in on rebels to learn about their tactics and their objectives. Better yet, you can learn a lot about the siege by speaking to the hostages you rescue. But, when words won’t exactly save you from a barrel pointed at your chest, you can always be the one to shoot first.

Be challenged to think before choosing your targets

Nobody will have your back. Nobody can be trusted. The one thing uniting everybody in the palace is a penchant for being an unreliable narrator. Untangle this web of friend and foe, and you’ll untangle the mystery at the heart of the game.

Discover the truth

As you traverse through the palace, you can uncover evidence that will shift your views and cast who you trusted and who you believed in into question, eventually culminating in a powerful, morally-driven decision.

Play through events inspired by a real historical event

Banana Republic is inspired by the Palace of Justice Siege in Colombia in 1985.

Banana Republic — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Sep 4, 2026
Needs more bananas.
8 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 17, 2026
You can learn some history from this game.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 7, 2026
Fun little game, good art direction with immersive audio and gameplay. Something broke above medium settings though, had my PC thinking CPU usage was up to 130% and dropped from 144fps on medium to between 10-30fps on high?
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 16, 2026
Do not go gentle into that good night. [spoiler]And do not go gentle into that WC, too.[/spoiler]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 12, 2026
a very responsive shooting and combat this game speaks for the history of political violence that rock many south american countries Colombia comes to mind when i was playing this game, as a colombian american my father would tell me stories of guerillas forcing people out of their homes to force them to fight for a cause they had no feat in, how he and my mother escape colombia during the height of the Medellin cartel, here to a brighter future to Colombia and other countries that are still effected from the bloodshed of the past and of today
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 13, 2026
I did a 5 hour research process of Colombia's 1985 "Palace of Justice Siege" with background checks and all prior to playing this game since the steam page mentions it makes you experience "alternative history" but I fail to understand what's alternative about it, since the game starts and ends the same way and has a single ending. The "alternative history part" just has to do with evacuating civilians or not but ultimately it doesn't change history and I'm not sure if this is the point of the game; that no matter what was done differently, corruption would still be there or if I'm just missing something. The gameplay is a common FPS level design with interrogation elements but most of the interrogation to npcs achieve little to nothing besides getting the name and role of the NPC in a game where all names, including important ones, are (understandably) fictionalized. The game runs poor (10-20fps) on a pc that can run Cyberpunk 2077 with ray-tracing and while the unconventional ammo system was intriguing at first, there are not enough enemies to use more than one magazine. I believe shining a spotlight on South American conflicts is always important but not only do I feel like …

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