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JJ H-E · Published by JJ H-E
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Boobytrap a mini Chess board in this turn-based party game for 2 - 4 players!Works on Steam Deck!Only ~40Mb!
£2.49
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Price history
Indie, Strategy, Casual · 2024 · More under £5 games
Ninja Numpties invites 2-4 players to lay traps and strategize on a tiny chessboard in this turn-based party game. Works seamlessly on Steam Deck, taking up less than 40MB of space.
About this game
Ninja Numpties is a video board game where 2-4 players place traps on a mini Chess board island, but watch out – the traps disappear next turn! Earn ninja stars by pranking your frenemies... Whoever has the most stars by the end of the game wins!
Three distinct kinds of traps!
Push Tiles drag your foes around or even off the island! Daisy-chain them to form a conveyor belt!
D4 Caltrops deal damage to your (opponent’s) dice roll!
Rock-Paper-Scissors traps start the RPS minigame! The winner gets at least 1 star – raise the stakes by making a Push Tile path to the rock/paper/scissors...
Press P to pause, not Escape!
Ninja Numpties is a Game Maker 8.0 game so the Escape key instantly closes it!
Autosave to the rescue! Return to where you left off before you “paused” the game...
Start button on gamepads will pause the game as usual.
Adjust match settings!
Set number of rounds to adjust the length of the play session (game autosaves, so feel free to continue a long session later...)
Individually adjust the first d6 roll and all subsequent d6 rolls... (random or fixed value)
Set d4 caltrop damage (Random, fixed value, or even Push Tile conveyor combo!)
Wrong settings? Pause the game (with P key) to revisit the Settings menu!
Supports a wide range of gamepads and even shows their buttons!
PlayStation DualShock 3/4 and DualSense
Xbox 360, One and Series S | X
Nintendo Switch Joy-Con (individually) and Pro controllers
NES, SNES (Purple and Multicolour), Gamecube controller and Wii Nunchuck
uDraw tablet (PlayStation 3 model)
Choc-a-bloc full of memes and puns!
Licensed Vine boom and Kill Bill guitar riff (“rizz sound”)
Silly puns such as earning stars (badum tuss!)
Badly drawn memes!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 2000 or later
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 32 MB RAM
- Graphics: 500MHz integrated graphics
- DirectX: Version 8.0
- Storage: 40 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 8 compatible
- VR Support: N/A
- Additional Notes: Ninja Numpties is a Game Maker 8.0 executable, so should run fine on devices made in 2004 or later.
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
(Belated) Steam Winter Sale Discount!
Ninja Numpties is now 80% off on Steam. Sorry for missing the starting date of Winter Sale 2024. If you bought this game recently (within a 2 week refund window) and spent less than 2 hours playing the full version, Steam Refund policy permits you to refund then buy Ninja Numpties at the current sale price.Read full article on Community Announcements (blobeee)Patch NotesOfficial
V2 hotfix
All versions of Ninja Numpties are now called nn.exe so you can actually run the beta branches now (and V2 Ninja Numpties) yippeeRead full article on Community Announcements (blobeee)AnnouncementsOfficial
Version 2.0!
Multiple controller support! Now there's an additional screen for syncing your controllers and choosing the right button icons / glyphs You can still just use one controller as before! Just sync one controller then press A to continue to Settings. Settings menu has been squeezed into the whole screen now that glyph selection has moved to its own screen. Supported controllers Valve Steam Controller Steam Deck's built-in gamepad Xbox - separate 360 and One/Series glyphs) PlayStation (all PlayStation controllers including uDraw tablet have been consolidated to this option) Nintendo Switch Pro NES* SNES* - choose between JP/PAL and US colo(u)rs! N64* GameCube (via 8Bitdo GBros adapter - ensure it's switched to X mode!) Wii Nunchuck (plugged into 8Bitdo GBros adapter - works the same in S and X switch mode) * NES SNES and N64 controller glyph placement is based on the Nintendo Online editions of these controllers, so may not work well for the original controllers... Misc. changes Slightly moved the cup on the normal title logo. Pressing Esc no longer quits the game and is instead a 'cancel' button. Consequently, Autosave is now off by default Edit config.txt to re-enable it! Edit 8th Dec 2024: New hotfix: run the new exe! file size doubled because both versions of Ninja Numpties are installed. oops :(Read full article on Community Announcements (blobeee)Patch NotesOfficial
Controls revamp and player number QoL update
Gamepad improvements Gamepad: press Select/View/etc. to toggle the Help Menu Trap Menu: now you can also close the Boobytrap Menu with X/Square button Skip hop is now on A/X button which is much more diegetic Keyboard: extra buttons Keyboard Controls Revamp E: Open/Close Boobytrap Menu Space: Select menu option, Skip Hop Previous control scheme still functions like before, i.e. Ctrl and Backspace* for opening/closing Trap Menu respectively. *Skip Hop is now on Space instead of backspace since it felt more natural and prevents the accidental hopping immediately after closing the Trap Menu Player numbering revamp Offshore and general GUI: Player number are actually numbers now instead of tiny dots! Player number above ninja bonces are just the dots now, so you can see the traps on the floor more clearly and still see "who's who" at a glance like before.Read full article on Community Announcements (blobeee)
