The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!

The Legend of Bum-Bo is a rogue-lite, indie and strategy game developed by Edmund McMillen, James Interactive and Ridiculon and published by Edmund McMillen.
Released on November 12th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 5,785 reviews of which 4,685 were positive and 1,100 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Legend of Bum-Bo into these genres:

Rogue-lite Indie Strategy Adventure Puzzle Match 3 Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Funny Difficult Casual Card Game Deckbuilding Turn-Based Turn-Based Strategy RPG Rogue-like Early Access

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or later (64 bit required)
  • Processor: Core 2 Duo
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Discreet video card, Shader Model 3+
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: one that works

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March 2025
A great idea, marred by a complicated and messy development. Still lots of fun to be had here! Gameplay is unique and interesting, music and aesthetics are perfect, and Isaac fans are going to love the overall story. If you're interested in checking it out, or are looking to give it another shot, may I recommend the "Windfall" mod? Bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and even some new content / balance changes. Good stuff! "Bum-bo want Coin! ...and Bum-bo want Patch!"
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Jan. 2025
Absolutely love this game. Has all the theming of Binding of Isaac in a unique take on a match 4 game. Negative: Let me get the bad out of the way first. Yes, the game can be buggy at times, but not unplayable. Also, the game feels a bit short with a limited number of enemies; hoping the team returns to this game someday and it gets the Binding of Isaac treatment. Positive: To help with people struggling, this isn't about matching 4 tiles and you win. At its core, it's actually about intelligent resource management. Knowing what spells to cast when and how to extend your turn as long as possible. If you're being damaged, you're doing something wrong (or you have bad luck when building your deck)! I also appreciate how each character forces you to approach the game wildly different. Tactics vary from straight up "Match 4" to "Use spells and only spells this whole run". Lastly, the music/sound/design all feel right at home in the Isaac universe. Incredible work. TLDR; If you like strategy games, you'll love this. If not, it can feel unfair at times and be frustrating. Just stick with it and it'll grow on ya.
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Nov. 2024
A relatively short, well-contained puzzle roguelike that feels good to improve at. Every character's got a unique playstyle (unlike the game its based on, lol) and they all feel well balanced. Aesthetics wise, it's nice. Don't know what it is about Edmund's "flash" artstyle but it's very appealing to me, especially when paired with the cardboard arts-and-crafts theme. The music's good as well, though I wish there was some variety. It's a love letter to Isaac fans, one I wish I hadn't put off playing for so long. It really isn't as bad as a lot of people made it out to be, I thought it was pretty good. (I recommend installing the Windfall mod, it improves the ui and fixes a lot of bugs.)
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July 2024
Fun little binding of isaac sidegame. Rguelike dungeon crawler with match 4 mechanics and a fair amount of strategic variety. Its style and fun factor have kept me coming back to it from time to time for quite a while. Solid game for sure.
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July 2024
Disclaimer : the game was dev in really poor conditions. Covid kicked in during the process and the main dev became depressed. This post is not mean to trash talk the team behind the game. Making a game is hard. TL;DR : For TBoI fans only. Game is buggy as hell, crashes everywhere and you need to install a mod in order ot unlock achievements because the game sometimes just won't (+ cloud saving does not work). Overall I enjoyed playing the game and mastering its mechanics but it felt like a burden to get all achievements. The pros : - Is actually part of the TBoI lore - Several characters with a unique gameplay/strategy - Many bosses and ennemies - The candy crush gameplay is actually interesting and asks for real reflexion - Graphics and sound design are really cool The cons : - Game is too buggy, even after many updates. - I get crashes for no reason (most of the time it feels like clicking "too fast"for the game to follow and it just give up on live. - Achievement unlocks can be buggy, you need a mod that check the state of your save in order to be sure you unlocked everything (from steam PoV) - While it's logical that this game's content is poorer thant TBoI, it feels too poor. There are 135 spells/items but half of them are starting items that can only be unlocked when finishing the game two times with the corresponding character - Cloud saving is working, but for settings only. If you wish to continue your save, you need to export and import it mannualy. Feels wrong for such a "mobile"-friendly game - Achievements are boring: - Finish the game two times with each chars - Finish the game with each chars while holding 45+ coins - Winning the ending game 10 times (you have a chance to win after the final boss, it's pure luck and forces you to play again if you are unlucky) - Game's mechanics are unclear, even with the tutorial they added after some updates. This could have been a really cool TBoI spin-off but in the end, it feels like an unfinished product. And I'm sure the team members are the saddest people about this.
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The Legend of Bum-Bo is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Legend of Bum-Bo is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

The Legend of Bum-Bo received 4,685 positive votes out of a total of 5,785 achieving a rating of 7.87.
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The Legend of Bum-Bo was developed by Edmund McMillen, James Interactive and Ridiculon and published by Edmund McMillen.

The Legend of Bum-Bo is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Legend of Bum-Bo is not playable on MacOS.

The Legend of Bum-Bo is not playable on Linux.

The Legend of Bum-Bo does not currently offer any DLC.

The Legend of Bum-Bo does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Legend of Bum-Bo does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Legend of Bum-Bo does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

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The Legend of Bum-Bo
14.79€
7.9
4,685
1,100
Online players
12
Developer
Edmund McMillen, James Interactive, Ridiculon
Publisher
Edmund McMillen
Release 12 Nov 2019
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