Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction is a video game in the strategy genre and published by Durell Software Ltd. originally released in 1990. It is currently playable on DOS.

Chain Reaction is a popular puzzle game that was invented in the mid-1980s for the Commodore 64 and other computers, and new versions are continually being made for new systems, including Windows and handheld computers.

The game resembles a cross between checkers and life, although it is more unique. Players take turns adding bombs to a grid of squares, taking new squares of their own or adding to squares that already contain their own bombs. When the number of bombs in a square reaches a certain level, the square will explode and cause bombs to fall in each of the surrounding squares, changing the bombs in those squares to the color of the player who initiated the explosion. These explosions can cause other squares to reach their explosion point, and so Chain Reactions of explosions can take place all over the board, and so on. The object of the game is to eliminate all the other players' bombs, so that yours are the only ones left on the board.

This download is one of the first PC versions of this wonderful game. It is freeware, and the computer AI is quite good. If you like the game but want a more modern interface and better graphics, check out the Windows versions in the related links section below.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.