After the best indie game title of all time in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (2020), the turnip is back!!! And he’s as troublesome as ever. Hurray!

Developed by indie team Snoozy Kazoo in Massachusetts, Turnip Boy returns and this time he’s set on going all Bonnie and Clyde. And this title has much more shooting action than its predecessor, which was an RPG type lark.

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank launched in January 2024 and it’s frantic, it’s fun, and there’s a turnip. Where can you go wrong!?

Frantic Action Makes for Much Excellence in Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

Right, you can get this one on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One.

And this is a total genre shift over the previous game. Now you’ve got an Enter the Gungeon type of dungeon crawler type of experience going on.

The game follows on directly from Commits Tax Evasion.

In fact, in this outing Turnip Boy teams up with the notorious Pickled Gang. These gangster types plan a devious heist. The biggest of all time! ROB A BANK!

This you duly set out to do, with four hours of frantic gameplay here to blast your way across some crazy levels. It’s a heavily roguelite type of game, which means (for non-gamers) in-game deaths are expected. If not encouraged.

And each time you start the game over, you’ve got slightly improved powers to make a better stab at it. It goes like this!

How it works if you enter the bank, rob it Dog Day Afternoon style, then after three minutes the police arrive and you have to scarper.

Between each bank robbery, with the loot you got there’s the chance to upgrade your gear back at base and become a better bank robber.

Each bank is procedurally generated, so you have no idea what the layout will be! Which adds a bit of a randomness to proceedings.

We saw one review on YouTube with this title.

“Turnip Boy Robs a Bank and the Joy of Dumb Games”

And that sums it up perfectly for us. We love games like this. They’re completely absurd and stupid, but there’s so much joy to be found in the experience. Perhaps in a way non-gamers won’t get.

It’s an escapist retreat, are video games, and ones like this launch you into a ridiculous world where nothing makes sense. Fun!

Even dev Snoozy Kazoo is behind that—the description they’ve added to their website states, “We make really, really dumb video games.”

And we’d say they’ve made an improvement over their first game. As good as Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion was, Robs a Bank is just more fun and accessible.

You get about four hours of gameplay here.

As with most indie games, then, it’s not overly time-consuming. It doesn’t outstay its welcome or overdo its concept, instead delivering a lot of entertaining (frankly ludicrous) pew pew pew action. And it gets a big thumbs up from us!