The Bombanana Demo: 7 Levels, 6 Million Players, Now Offline

Timeline

  • June 15–22, 2026 — Steam Next Fest. Lefto streams the game and the demo becomes the festival’s #1 most played.
  • June 16 — hotfix: Italian manual pages, the Calculation Module text, lobby joins, voice delay.
  • July 3 — macOS support added to the demo.
  • August 1 — Lefto reports 6 million demo players and the “second most played demo on Steam” for June–August.
  • August 12 — release date set; demo removal announced for August 19.
  • August 20, 16:00 UTC — demo taken offline (one day later than first announced). Private playtests begin via Discord; 1,000 testers took part.
  • September 2 — full game launches at $7.99.

What was in it

Seven campaign levels built from four modules: Cable (level 1), Direction (level 2), Calculation (level 3) and the Switch panel (level 5), with levels 4, 6 and 7 combining them. Level 7 was the end, which is why “can’t go past level 7” became a search term and why players asked on the forum how many more modules the full game would add. The campaign levels page has the level-by-level evidence.

Why it was removed

Lefto’s August 19 post: “the way we set things up makes it extremely difficult to [keep the demo up] while allowing us to test the features coming in the full game.” The demo and the launch build shared infrastructure, and the team had “only a few of us”.

Is the demo coming back?

Two statements, in order:

  1. August 19: “We can confirm that the demo will definitely come back when we launch the full game, it will have the same amount of content as the current demo AND a couple new things too!”
  2. September 2 (pinned FAQ): “The team is focusing on the game launch; once that is done, we’ll reassess if it’s possible to bring the demo back.”

As of September 3 the store page has no demo button. Until it returns, the only way to try the game is the $7.99 full version, and everyone in the trio needs a copy.

Demo records

The demo’s seven levels were speedrun as a set; the fastest video we know of is 4:28 retimed. See speedruns and records.

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