Games Like BOMBANANA

BOMBANANA is a co-op game about communication breaking down between players who each know only part of the answer. If you want more of that, these are the closest picks — and the honest note that some of them still need a proper hands-on comparison.

Closest in idea

• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes — the obvious one: a bomb on one side, the manual on the other. Freer communication than BOMBANANA, and it works with two players. See the full comparison.
• We Were Here series — two players in separate rooms describing what they see to solve puzzles. Asymmetric information, calmer pace, no timer panic.
• Operation: Tango — two players, one Agent and one Hacker, sharing screens they cannot both see.

Co-op party games it shows up next to

Trends and store data put BOMBANANA alongside a few other three-and-up co-op games — Big Walk, PEAK and Mimic Party. These are more general co-op experiences than communication puzzlers; a proper comparison of their core loops against BOMBANANA is still to be done rather than guessed at here.

For two players

BOMBANANA requires exactly three. If you only have two, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, We Were Here and Operation: Tango all work as a pair.

See also multiplayer and how to play.