Broforce

Broforce
Developer(s)Free Lives
Publisher(s)Devolver Digital
Director(s)Evan Greenwood
Producer(s)Shaz Greenwood
Designer(s)
  • Evan Greenwood
  • Dorian Dutrieux
Programmer(s)
  • Evan Greenwood
  • Ruan Rothmann
  • Richard Pieterse
Artist(s)
  • Jarred Lunt
  • Dawid Strauss
  • Filip Orekhov
  • Jonathan Hau-Yoon
  • Dorian Dutrieux
  • Duncan Greenwood
  • Philipe Rios
Composer(s)Deon van Heerden
EngineUnity
Platform(s)
Release
  • Windows, OS X
  • 15 October 2015
  • Linux
  • 17 October 2015
  • PlayStation 4
  • 1 March 2016
  • Nintendo Switch
  • 6 September 2018
  • Xbox One
  • 8 August 2023
Genre(s)Run-and-gun platform
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Broforce is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platform video game developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital. The game has the player as one of several "bros", based on popular culture action movie icons (for example, John Rambo and Ellen Ripley – "bro" treated as a gender neutral term), rescuing other "bros" through highly-destructible environments.

Development began in April 2012 as a game jam entry and continued with developer and popular support, existing as an Early Access game. The game was released on 15 October 2015 for Microsoft Windows and OS X, and a Linux port followed two days later. A PlayStation 4 version was released on 1 March 2016 and a Nintendo Switch port was released on 6 September 2018. It was later released for Xbox One on 8 August 2023.