Open now · By request
Unstable Explosives playtest
by FakeName Games
A press-your-luck party card game for 3-8 players. Pile dynamite onto the live stack and pass it on, get stuck holding it and the sticks count against you. Lowest score wins. Also includes MELTDOWN: a solo roguelike descent through one unstable bomb after another.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Nov 14, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- FakeName Games
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Multiplayer, Online PvP, PvP, Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Unstable Explosives playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Unstable Explosives playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
AI was used to assist in this project. Its final output was explicitly never used without human editing and verification. AI was used to suggest some text and layouts in the game and on this steam page. All of the text was edited by a human to make it correct for this game and was taken as suggestions, not final output. AI was not used to create any of the artwork. The cards, characters, logo, and backgrounds were drawn by human artists. AI was not used to create any of the audio. The music is licensed, and the sound effects are either CC0, or tones synthesised in house. AI was used to assist in programming. None of the code in this game is the sole final output of a generative AI. AI was used to double check work, fix bugs, and fill in small pieces where appropriate. All of this code was checked by, edited by, and verified by a human. Thank you for your kind understanding. The last thing we want to do is hide anything from you. If you have further questions, please contact FakeName Games for details.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Unstable Explosives
Unstable Explosives is a press-your-luck party game about a bundle of dynamite nobody wants to be holding.
Each turn you feed a stick onto the live stack and pass it to someone else. The stack grows. The fuse (the deck itself) burns down. Sooner or later somebody has to TAKE it, and every stick they take counts against them. Lowest score wins.
Then the special cards arrive. Cherry Bomb plants a point at the bottom of someone else’s pile. Tea Party shuffles every hand and deals them back out. Magic Mirror copies the last card played. Dud snuffs a detonation at the last possible second, if you’re holding one.
3–8 players online
15 special cards that bend the rules
Build your own deck, or play the house set
MELTDOWN: the solo descent
One player, one bomb at a time. Feed the stack to keep moving; take it to vent pressure and pay for it in score. Clear the Sector, spend your salvage in the Workshop, then descend again, deeper, into hazards that rewrite the rules and malfunctions that switch on as the needle climbs.
Every day brings one Daily Bomb: the same descent for every player, one attempt, one global leaderboard.
From the game's Steam page.
