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2014 · Supercell · MMO · Real-time strategy

Boom Beach

Storm the beach and win the day! Boom Beach is a combat strategy game where you fight an epic war against the evil Blackguard. Take your expeditionary force to beautiful paradise islands invaded by the enemy. Fight for every beachhead, free enslaved islanders and explore the uncharted archipelago.

Released
26 March 2014
Platforms
AndroidiOS
Genres
MMOReal-time strategyStrategy
Developers
Supercell
Publishers
Supercell
Modes
Multiplayer
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionWarfare
Country
Finland

About

Boom Beach is a free massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game for iOS and Android, developed by Supercell. It was soft launched in Canada on 11 November 2013 and released worldwide on 26 March 2014. A Windows version was released on 7 April 2026.

Keywords

  • world war ii - ww2
  • tower defense
  • free-to-play

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Boom Beach is a strategy game that combines attacks on and from other players with attacks against computer-generated (NPC) bases. The game's storyline is set in a tropical archipelago with the player on an island with defenses and troops (similar to Supercell's Clash of Clans game).

Boom Beach combines single-player campaign play as well as the ability to attack other players in multiplayer mode on the same world map. Featuring an expansive world map that expands as the player progresses, the game pits the player against an enemy known as "The Blackguard", a military force who is invading the archipelago and enslaving the locals for the valuable Power Stones found throughout the archipelago (which can also be used by the player to build buff-providing statues). Computer-generated Blackguard bases often appear on the map, and the player can destroy them for resources. Other notable features on the map include resource bases, which improve resource generation when seized and can be contested by multiple players, as well as dive spots where the player can send a submarine to search for treasure, provided they have built it.

Reception

The iOS version of Boom Beach was released to "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregator site Metacritic.

In a review by Stephen Haberman (IGN), he noted that it seemed like a modern version of Clash of Clans, another video game by Supercell.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Android26 March 2014Worldwide
iOS26 March 2014Worldwide

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