Broforce
When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to run ‘n’…
Broforce is an arcade developed by Free Lives Games, released 15 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $2.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 13 hrs to finish.
What Broforce is
Broforce is an arcade game developed by Free Lives Games and released in 2015. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A side-scrolling run-and-gun game, Broforce casts the player as a member of the Broforce, an elite squad of hypermasculine commandos assembled under the direction of Nelson Brodela to combat terrorism across the globe. Each operative is an affectionate parody of an iconic action-movie hero, from the jungle-warfare specialist modeled on Rambo to the barefoot everyman patterned after Die Hard's John McClane, along with sendups of Chuck Norris, Mr. T, and the flamethrower-wielding heroine inspired by Alien's Ellen Ripley. Deployed into jungles, deserts, and enemy strongholds, the bros storm through fully destructible environments, rescuing captured comrades and prisoners of war while leveling…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Broforce holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 380 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.23 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core™ Duo or faster, 4 GB RAM and OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Broforce launched on 15 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Broforce yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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