Bang! Howdy
Bang Howdy! is an online free-to-play strategy game. The setting mixes elements from a variety of related genres, such as steampunk or Native American myth. Several of the players' available units are entirely…
Bang! Howdy is an indie developed by Affliction Networks LLC., released 1 December 2006 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It is free to play.
What Bang! Howdy is
Bang! Howdy is an indie game developed by Affliction Networks LLC. and released in 2006. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on jMonkeyEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bang Howdy! is an online free-to-play strategy game. The setting mixes elements from a variety of related genres, such as steampunk or Native American myth. Several of the players' available units are entirely mechanical, including artillery and a "steam gunman", a robot boasting large wagon wheels for movement while wearing a cowboy hat. Other, more conventional units include cavalry and gunslingers.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Bang! Howdy holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1Ghz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 64MB Video Card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Bang! Howdy launched on 1 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Medieval II: Total War, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Medieval II: Total War, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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