Description
Blow up your friends - and snakes - in 5 game modes including Battle Royale, Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Snake Hunter and EVERYTHING! Up to 20 players in local multiplayer, with online play via Steam Remote Play Together.
Background & history
Partition Sector is the creation of Andrew Gillett, a programmer who previously worked at Frontier Developments on games such as Dog's Life, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds 2 and Kinectimals. Partition Sector was originally released for MS-DOS in 1999, as a shareware game. In late 2018, work started on what was originally intended to be a minor update for a Steam release, with features such as running at resolutions other than 640x480. Within a few months it had become a much larger project, ending up with multiple team-based game modes, the ability for players to turn into snakes, new music and animations, and much more.
From the creator's own mouth
Partition Sector is a Bomberman-style game with a focus on team modes. It was originally going to be a minor update and
re-release of a game I made while learning to program over 20 years ago, but then I started having ideas, and spent way
too long adding stuff to it. The initial release of the game includes the game modes Classic, Deathmatch, CTF, Battle Royale,
King of the Hill and Snake Hunter (in which players must cooperate to destroy AI-controlled snakes).
The latest update introduces a new mode named EVERYTHING, where all the other game modes play out simultaneously.
A Steam curator described Partition Sector as a "Bomberman clone with awful graphics but good gameplay and some really nice ideas"
As a solo developer with a chronic health condition brought on by years of crunch in the industry, it's an uphill battle to
compete with the big beasts of the industry, so my approach is to put extremely stupid stuff in my games, like five game modes
at once or unlocking photos of cats and hamsters by collecting in-game currency.
Features
- Snakes!
- 7 game modes:
- Classic (individual Battle Royale)
- Deathmatch
- Capture the Flag
- Battle Royale (team)
- King of the Hill
- Snake Hunter (co-op against the AI)
- EVERYTHING - all the other game modes at once!
- Many powerups, including: Snake, Ultrabomb, Rocket Launcher, Flamethrower, Remote Control, Detonator, Annhiliator, Strength, Shield, Ghost
- Up to 20 players in local multiplayer (up to 16 with controllers, up to 4 on keyboard)
- Online play via Steam Remote Play Together - quad-core CPU and 30Mbps of bandwidth per remote PC recommended
- Wide variety of level sizes and game customization options
- Watch replays of previous games
- Accessibility options - customize player, team, bomb and background colors; show outlines around players; disable flashing background effects; change ghost opacity; slow motion
- Unlock cat photos and stupid drawings
- Soundtrack by .mpegasus
- Includes additional arena size options for ultrawide 21:9 displays
