Blood & Bananas
Spotted Moth · 2025 · Strategy, Capitalism, Grand Strategy, Political Sim, Wargame
PC
Mixed63% · 24
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About Blood & Bananas
Blood & Bananas is a grand strategy game with a focus in economics during the cold war, a capitalism simulator where every country or company has their own goals and where you as the player is only a part of the world. Be a warlord by staging a mutiny or a benevolent ruler who focuses on diplomacy over war or the exact opposite, build the perfect army with different weapons, tanks and planes. Be a country and increase your state power with money to kick out the companies or be a company who puppets countries with good business so you can make money and buy the market provinces of a country, launch new products and change their prices to gain more money or gain more demand in a province, build factories and offices to expand your influence across North America, you could also hire mercenaries and take it by force. Build infrastructure to have more buildings which will improve economy. Use buildings to harvest/mine/extract different resources, monopolize them and mark them up when entities have no choice but to buy them from you. Either you start as a person and work yourself up via the career tree and buy seats to become more powerful than your liege and coup them or play as any entity on the map (tribes not suggested). You can do all at once if you so please.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀8 found this helpful
main menu wont go away and everything is popping up behind it so i cant click most things unable to play the game at all also game doesnt have tutorial or any info on how to play7 found this helpful
UI looks bad and game is too laggy to even try to learn it4 found this helpful
The concept has a lot of potential, however the UI is barely done, filled with placeholders, and makes it very easy to softlock yourself. Escape wouldn't bring the pause menu after some time, and before that I couldn't access the options either. Managed to go forward one (1) week, then everything kinda shat the bed. As a proof of concept, it's cool, I want to see this fleshed out, possibly with the rest of the world added, once the current scope of the game works decently. I wouldn't recommend it rn because of the game-breaking bugs/overall jank of the menus, but I will keep an eye on the development. (I also don't want to kill the ratings because I really like the idea of being able to start as a random that can potentially reach head of state through various means, the game feels like early-alpha and risk being downvoted to oblivion, which would be a shame.)1 found this helpful
"Blood & Bananas" is an odd title for a global economic/political strategy game, but here we are... the weird choice of title fits well with the decision to make the game assets and UI with MS-Paint, however... this looks like garbage and plays like garbage, no matter how appealing the genre might be. This is no Europa Universalis... it's a Flash reject mess that could have been a browser game. What do you do in the game? Click through various screens to do pretend economic management and political rulership, go to war, don't go to war... it's been done far better by dozens of other games. This is the poorest cousin. These guys haven't poked this for 4 months. It's lost in development hell and will likely never be a complete, fully playable game. This store pollution is just making it harder for customers to find genuine, fully made games from developers who did the right thing. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browse…
Blood & Bananas seems to be like the Kenshi of grand strategy games, meaning that unlike Civilitzation or similar you (can) start off as an absolute nobody and claw your way into what would be the begining of most grand strategy games which I really like. I hope this project goes on because I really like the idea.
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