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Bad Banker – Strategy Game Review
Bad Banker is a Strategy/Finance/Puzzle game from Max Gittel, first launched in 21st June 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 67+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bad Banker Stand Out
A high score puzzle game about economics which becomes more strategic the more you play it. With customizable game mechanics and a lot of challenges Bad Banker offers you a lot of fun time.
• 3 different game modes
• simple but addicting game mechanics
• customize your game style with custom game operations
• GameCenter support
• share your score on Twitter and Facebook
• nice tutorial
• additional challenges
• bullet point 8
• bullet point 9
• and more!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bad Banker is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th September 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bug Fixes | UI Improvements | Balancing
Download & Availability
Bad Banker is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Fun game! Unfortunately the difficulty curve peaks a little low so once you master the mechanic you can get to 50,000 points or more with no apparent end.
Sirnic has done it again. After a bit of playing and watching the tutorial a second time we caught on. Quickly got as addicted to this as we have been to Atomas. :).
Been playing this for a while and enjoy the dynamics of it. We hope you keep this game updated, this is a great game to keep the brain juices flowing.
This games awesome and doesn't get old.
Really difficult at first, but that's what makes it all the more awesome.
Would like to see more options for getting out of a bind like when you get a competitor in a corner.
Been playing this game for a while and it still hasn't gotten old. Only problem is that once we scored too high, it just kept crashing. We're at 170,000 points/180,000B/ tile level 30 in the classic mode. Please fix! Thanks, and thanks for a solid game.
For a few moments, this game was lost on us. We stopped and went back into the tutorial and everything started coming together. Now we can't stop playing.
Still need to connect to the theme but looks promising.
Once you play a few times, it really clicks. An excellent numbers-based puzzle game.
Easy to pick up, difficult to master. Fun if youre up to the task.
We really enjoy this game. Recommended to us by a family member.
Surprisingly fun little game that hasn't gotten old. We like that it's very playable without making any in-app purchases, although with that said we're about to make some in-app purchases.
We love this game! We finally, today got 841 points (we'd been stuck at under 700 for ages). Very satisfying! But, we cannot figure out how to play the 2 other game modes besides Classic. We've looked everywhere in the app, but we can't find anything to change the mode to Monopole or Tax Haven. Can anyone tell us how to change the mode.
Love all the games from this developer. They're challenging puzzle games that don't seem to get old. Great games.
Have a few minutes waiting for something.
We liked this game on Android, but you cant turn off the beeps on the iOS version. Very annoying.
This is a magnificent strategy game! Highly recommended.
When starting a new game, let's say you already lost a game and decide to go back to the main menu using the "3-dash" icon, the player can start another game with the same points as the previous game but lose as soon as it starts. When the player loses, Value-1 & 2 companies fill in the open fields and then get "destroyed". Doing this constantly can give the player easy achievements as well as "free" game modes. Each lose consists about 25-40 free points using this "trick". DO IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN BEFORE IT'S PATCHED.
Really enjoy it when we need to kill time.
This is a fun game. We end up playing this a lot.
The game is a blast, and we're fully into it. But it took us several days of failing early and failing often, with seemingly unnecessary "perks" and "special moves" sprinkled in that we hardly use. We absolutely love the gameplay for a number-based puzzler, but it just feels unbalanced in some nuances of the game.
Very good & fun game but we wish Fredos contacts were available without in-app purchase, like if your high score was over 2000. Just an idea.
Its not a bad idea but its not optimally designed. It gets to a point where we get 6-9 competitors in a row, and even maximizing the take overs at 3 at a time its impossible to not lose because you lose massive amounts of money every turn and only gain money on the initial creation of a company so (you lose more each move than you can gain) its unbalanced. His other game; Atomas; is much better designed.
It took us about 10 solid minutes of playing to finally understand the game and how it worked. We feel that a longer, more in depth tutorial would help with the learning curve. That, and the game seemingly decides to throw a lot of white tiles at you around the 200-300 mark consistently.
We have never been enamored with tile-shifting games; most are carbon copies of those which came before. Bad Banker, though, sets itself apart by upping the logic and planning required to excel, an original set of movement rules, and power ups that can actually be used to facilitate gameplay without breaking the bank. Add to this a smooth UI and different modes of play, and you have a smart, engrossing app that has high replay value. Well done, developers.
Fun game once you get the hang of it.
Like 1048 but with much more depth.
Interesting structure to this game. Different from other grid-based puzzle games we've played. Hard without being frustrating and very fun.
It's really good. Very, very good.
Like many of the other reviewers, we really enjoyed Atomas and Heatos, to put it mildly. Sirnic makes games that are the whole package; they all have really interesting background concepts, clean designs, and clever gameplay. These three key components add to addicting games. The soundtrack is the cherry on this beautiful sundae.
This game is so much fun, like atomas. Sometimes it's get annoying that it just lasts forever and has no levels. But it's still fun.
Really original take on the swipe genre, which sure is a feat these days. Would request that the end game selling could be sped up a bit by tapping to skip.
We absolutely love this game. The only thing that could make it better would be an undo button like on Atomas perhaps? Either way it's a fantastic game and we're obsessed.
There's a little more to it than Atomas (which we love), but still really fun.
It takes a while to learn how all the scoring works but once you get it, it's great.
So far, we've loved every game from Max Gittels. This one is no exception. After being addicted to Atomas almost exclusively for over a year, and having exhausted all the levels in Heatos ages ago, we were excited to learn he had launched another game. Bad Banker is fun and surprisingly challenging. As with the other Sirnic games, instruction is minimal. It gets progressively harder; sometimes too hard. We're hoping that eventually, some of the bugs like poor touch-recognition will be ironed out (it can take numerous attempts to move a company), and that an "undo last move" option will be added. The latter seems especially crucial while there are still so many costly errors made due to bad touch recognition (for example, you might try to move your company over 3 spaces, but it only moves over 2 spaces, and drops you onto a lawsuit or something else that costs you the game). Our highest score in classic so far has been 776 (national company), but we haven't had any luck beating it without a bailout yet. And why does using a contact have to cost you so many BadBits? Those prices could stand to be lowered significantly, since they might really help extend gameplay. We don't bother to use them at all, because they're just too "expensive." Update: Since the last update we've topped our old high score of 776. Now we're at 2061 (empire) in classic. We're not sure if it's because of the update, but we're glad to see some progress. We still think we need an "undo last move" option though.
Like other have said, the game is truly amazing. Starts out simple and slowly progresses in difficulty. Only problem is that it gets too difficult. Competitors start spawning like crazy, non-profit organizations are extremely hard to remove simply because their values are usually as high as your top stock. By the time you manage to get rid of one, two more have spawned. For this reason we preffer Monopole over Classic. Less competition (though non-profits are still a big issue) and a more strategic playfield. Our highscore in Classic is 824, and on our first game of Monopole we scored 3062.
We enjoy the game quite a bit, but have had serious issues with it crashing somewhere along the startup process with an iPhone 6, 64 gb. The idea and execution of the game are great though. Challenging but not so much that it can't be played repeatedly.
It would be a fun game if we could get it to respond to our touch. Too frustrating to play. We'll try again if the game gets fixed.
Very intuitive and fun to play! We love the games from this developer, always a challenge and formatted beautifully! 5+ stars easily.
This game is really fun but it gets REALLY hard when you get further along. That's exactly what makes it so addicting.
Interesting concept, more challenging than any other puzzle games that we've played.
Honesty, takes a couple rounds to get used to, but once you do, it's an amazing game.
We absolutely love this game. We haven't had any trouble with getting scores over 250. It did take quite a few tries, but once we figured out some good strategies we have been able to get scores of 450-600 every time without using contacts or lawsuits. So it's definitely possible to progress really far. The father along you go the harder it gets and it can become frustrating with the amount of competitors that are thrown at you. This game is harder to figure out than atomas but we still think it's worth it. It's enjoyable and very addicting. We're constantly learning new strategies to get higher scores. This game is great for people who like really challenging puzzle games.
We have spent 1.99 for the extra contracts. The game is pretty neat and we haven't progressed extremely far but as of yet it feels pretty balanced. We would easily give it 5 stars had we not had issues with touch recognition. It sometimes takes a couple swipes to move a piece around the board and or jump over another piece. As soon as that is fixed we would gladly change our rating.
Like other reviewers, we have difficulty getting above 260, but it can be done. Going through the tutorial a few times after playing helped us improve our scores.
Not only is this game challenging, but it pushes you to think differently each time you play. Excellent design as well.
This game is freaking great. That is all.
Bad Banker is a really interesting concept with a great design, and would be a great puzzle game, if it weren't for a huge problem. Each game gets harder the longer and better you do (we.e. More competitors, and therefore less space.) which is fine, and actually a good thing. But at a certain point it gets impossible to contain and manage. This means that you can't progress, and the only way to get a higher score, above 260 or so, is to get lucky with the random numbers you're given. You could learn tons of strategies and get really "good" at the game, but you still won't be able to get a better score without a lot of luck. In Atomas we can learn from our other tries and get better and better, and eventually get a highscore. We can repeat this process and its fun the whole time. We guess what we' trying to say is, Bad Banker is cool concept with no sense of progression. We don't feel like we're getting better because, unlike Atomas, it's impossible to get past a certain point. Would be five stars if not for this problem.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.23
- Size: 22.11 MB
- iOS: 7.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Max Gittel]()
Last updated: 12th September 2016 | Genre: Strategy, Finance | Developer: Max Gittel