Boomerang Fu is a 4-player party game where your goal is to attack your friends with boomerangs and be the last one standing. You can run around, dash, throw and pick up your boomerang, and even use a punch attack provided your boomerang is still in your hand. The game is extremely fast paced, with individual rounds lasting a minute at most ensuring that even if you get knocked out, you’re only a couple seconds away from getting back in the action. This is already fun on its own, but where this game really shines is its powerup system.
While some powerups increase your firepower or ability to evade (like being able to throw ice boomerangs or dash through walls), some of them exist purely to cause chaos like the battle royale power that causes the screen to start gradually closing in, or the fire boomerang which sounds really good in theory until you realize you can in fact set yourself on fire and now no one wins the round because you’ve successfully set fire to everything on screen. Everyone can hold up to three powerups at once, and they carry forward between rounds so once things start getting chaotic, they tend to stay that way until even more crazy powerups are in play.
This is overall a fantastic game to play with friends regardless of how often they play video games in their own time. The only flaw I can point out with it is that you don’t have the ability to play it online with friends, which is understandable as the game is developed by an extremely small studio.
If you’re at a game night with friends and don’t have any good ideas for what to do, I can’t recommend this game enough, although I’d recommend waiting until it goes on sale (which it does fairly often, even up to 70% off).
References
“Boomerang Fu | Just Desserts DLC Out Now on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and Steam.” Boomerang Fu, Cranky Watermelon, 2024, www.boomerangfu.com/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
“Boomerang Fu Price History.” SteamDB, 2025, www.steamdb.info/app/965680/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.