We’re always looking for new strategy games to waste our time with here. After all, when you grow up with Civilization and Age of Empires, you can’t help but look for the next pixelated war to fight. That’s why we got so hyped when we discovered Boom Beach, a free-to-play app from Supercell. It’s available for iOS and Android devices, so you and all your friends can get in on the fun. And you’ll want them to–because then you can kill them. And who doesn’t want to kill their friends? That’s what we thought. Here are some more of our top reasons you should be playing Boom Beach right now.
1. Girls In Tanks
Most of the troops you’ll get in Boom Beach will, unfortunately, be dudes. After all, Supercell knows their target demographic, and they’re sticking to it. To their credit, though, the most powerful offensive unit in the game looks (from promo art, at least) like it’s operated by a squadron of feisty redheads, and folks, we are all about that. In our heads, all our tanks are being driven by Scarlett “Black Widow” Johannsson and crushing our enemies under their exquisite dress uniform boots.
2. Aquatic Adventures
Not everyone can handle one battle after another, over and over again, ad infinitum. We call these people “pansies.” Come on, there’s not even any blood in Boom Beach! But if you’re going to go all faint on us, you can take a delightful trip under the sea after you unlock the Submarine. Once you’ve got one of these and a sufficiently high-tech radar system, you can go diving for buried treasure to your heart’s content. We don’t know what “Life Shards” are yet, but we know we want all of them.
3. Copious Explosions
If you’re anything like us (and if you’re still reading this article, we’re probably the same person), you like to see a bunch of junk get blown up. Extra points are awarded if that junk is deadly and belongs to barely-concealed Nazi analogues with names like “Doctor Terror.” Boom Beach has clearly been reading our diaries, because explosions like that are 99% of the game. Whether you’re shooting from your gunboat or setting mines for enemy tanks, explosions are where it’s at. Best part: after you destroy an enemy HQ, all remaining buildings blow up in a chain reaction. Rock.
4. Badass Warrior Tribes
After a while, you’ll be able to recruit the natives of this tropical archipelago to help you waste the enemy. These dudes just needed some time to get their crystal hammers out of storage, and now they’re ready to roll. Seeing these crazy bastards wading into a gunfight with gigantic glowing hammers isn’t just incredible–it’s a positively religious experience. The kind of religion that makes you want to destroy things.
If we’ve managed to whet your appetite for destruction by now, head right over to Boom Beach Cheats to get started with this sicknasty game.
