Blood & Bananas

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UI looks bad and game is too laggy to even try to learn it

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.)

Blood & Bananas is a really unusual strategy game, and I liked how it combines economics, corporate power and military conflict into one strange Cold War sandbox. I can approach the world from the perspective of a country or a company, and that immediately gives the game a different feeling from a normal grand strategy experience. I enjoyed having the freedom to decide whether I wanted to build power through business, diplomacy or force. The economic side is probably my favorite part. I can develop products, change prices, build factories and offices and try to control different markets. I liked that money is not simply something I collect between battles. It is the foundation for almost everything else I want to accomplish, so managing the economy becomes part of my larger strategy. The military side gives the game another direction. I can build an army with different types of weapons and vehicles, hire mercenaries and use force when diplomacy or business is not enough. I enjoyed having these options because it means I am not forced into one particular style of play. I can try to become a powerful economic player or turn the whole campaign into a military struggle. The politica…

"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.