Barony

Barony reminds me of Daggerfall's dungeon crawling, but with good mechanics from old rogue likes.
I adore such comfy dungeon crawling experience <3

In these 8 hours, I have played about 20 runs. The first 5 of them were utter chaos in a group of 4, the next 5 were in a group of three in which we managed to get to Baron Herx before getting blasted by lightning. Most of the other ones are me doing solo runs, most of which were ended by a surprise boulder. Why I enjoyed getting smushed in the skull by a massive rock, i cannot tell you. What i can, however, is that you should absolutely give this game a try if you like a challenge and a much more strategic game than your ordinary rogue-like. Overall, I´d say the games a solid 8.5/10, with a great skill system, tons of cool equipment and different enemies with different approaches to best take care of them.

insanely fun game with friends or solo, multiple choices of classes and race, steep learning curve, good replay-ability. I strongly recommend this game for everyone who is big fan on dungeon crawler.

You can choose from a lot of different classes and then dive head first into the dungeon. The fight mechanics are kept simple at first glance, but have a lot of depth and variety you can explore. Tactic and knowledge is the most important part of the game. Every enemy has strengths and weaknesses.

Pls do not expect this game to be easy. It's hard and punishing. Especially the start as a new player is challenging. Attending the tutorial is adviced.

9/10 would suffer again.

really hard dungeon crawler game, also really fun
play with dlc please

Fantastic game that is fun in both single player and co-op. Numerous classes and races with varied mechanics for hours and hours of replayability. Fun and challenging. Can't recommend it enough.

its a fun dungeon diver, took awhile to figure out that you can cast spells straight from the books without needing to learn them first.
Multiplayer with a group of friends is the way to go

Yes play this game with friends and look how many hour that i play with friends yes you heard it right i didn't play this game unless they ask me to.

This is an amazing game that has replaced my daily grind of Dark and Darker. My only complaint is that enemies can attack you through doors while their closing and that some enemies can hit you without them being close or within reach

a game that's always a blast to come back to with friends, even after years of hiatus. truly a timeless co-op classic that never gets old.

die to boulders, become a rat, get creampied, die to boulders, kill the devil

game good

Fantastic gameplay loop. Never had so much fun getting repeatedly smashed by large boulders.

This game is really fun when you play with a friend because its fun to get an army of allied monsters or getting really strong gear.

Awesome game. Learning how to navigate all the danger and optimize your runs feels really good, albeit frustrating at times due to the brutality of the game. Just finally beat the complete game for the first time, but still have some more optional content to beat.

I went down a floor, opened the first door, and was immediately flattened by a big rock. 10/10, would recommend if you like seeing death screens frequently.

This has become my new addiction and I highly recommend this game.

Gameplay:
-Explore randomly generated environments filled with traps, enemies and most importantly - loot
-Level and customize gear for your dungeon explorer to make them better at combat and exploration
-Die to boulder traps (or turn off the setting if you are less masochistic than I)

Pros:
-Local split screen (up to 4) co-op play!!!!! Ability to create 8 man lobbies with mods
-Large variety of classes to suit different play styles
-Classes start with fixed stats, preventing the frustration of picking a certain start only to find your stats have anti-synergy. However because of how the level ups work, an exceedingly smart and fragile tank (or one who is more capable at dishing out damage rather than tanking it) is definitely still possible.
-Solid spread of options to customize difficulty to what the player desires (ability to toggle traps on/off, removing hunger etc)
-Built in mod support


Cons:
-game mechanic explanations/tutorials are front loaded and quite frankly seem pretty overwhelming if a new player goes through all of them at once
-the art style may not appeal to everyone


What I would LOVE to see:
-I wish there were some minor upgrades/character enhancements to work towards from run to run. Something like improving a "hub" town so that maybe your future runs start with "slightly" better items or stats

Brutally difficult game. It scratches an itch in a way that few others can. Learning through failure is fun for me but I understand this is not the case for the avg gamer. It's niche but I think it's pretty good.

I would say some game mechanics are needlessly complex like the differences between book/staff/learned spells. But it just means the initial learning floor is a bit higher.

i don't see this game talked about too often nowadays. it's a shame cause its a really great game. very addicting loop. recommended especially with friends

Super fun game solo or with friends. The learning curve is very steep especially if you are like me and ignore the intro. You will die, a lot. I highly recommend it, I play it on my desktop and steam deck.

Easy game for the whole family to enjoy...No frustration, No traps, Trust me.

-You are going to die so you better get used to it

-The Races and the classes are pretty diverse and the synergies you can pull off with them are nice(races are dlc exclusive)

-Overall the game is nice if you like difficult dungeon crawlers with unforgiving mechanics

9/10

FULL OF BUGS

messed up steam overlay, the host dying is weird, if the host dies when ur in the settings it messes up, game's pacing is off, you start off squishy, there's little balance, etc.

Unforgiving dungeon crawler, but it's actually really fun, and it has online coop.

Play. Get gud. Go hard in the paint. Die to something stupid that makes you question your life.
10/10 Would lose my mind again.

Dungeons and Dragons FPS except gnomes are jerks. And with the DLC you can be monsters and attack the humans and the gnomes. Kill the gnomes. All the gnomes. No one likes the gnomes.

I keep getting ass blasted on floor 20 cause 30AC just doesn't matter against magic

you can die by a rat, or live long enough to see yourself die by a boulder trap on level 6

I've ragequit 3 times already. The above playtime was my sorry ass dragging itself through the tutorial.

However!

There's *so* many secrets to be found and even I got to feel like a genius for solving some of them! In the tutorial!
This ought to be a game for me, I'm curious to see where the playtime will go.
Definitely recommend!

good game. gets too easy after the Baron though.

I waited until i beat the game until i posted a review. It took a whole 90 hours. This game is very fun and also makes you rage but it has sooooo much replayability and its challenge makes it fun. There is only one bug and I would recommend this game to anyone that wants a challenge and/or likes roguelikes.

This game is FAR more fun than I originally thought it would be. I struggled to get anywhere at first, but I am now getting the hang of it and love this game. I highly recommend trying the CLERIC as a starting class for newbies. You begin with healing potions and a scroll that can summon monster allies who stay with you, alleviating a some early game stress.

A remarkable experience. If Daggerfall was remade, modern, into a roguelike framework. This is such a comform game for me.

Keeping this simple:
The graphics are as you can see above.
The game play loop is quite fun and engaging, if not infuriating at times.

The enemies seem quite good at tracking you early game as though you killed their entire family.
The companions are all brain dead. Summons, recruits, or domination doesn't matter.
It feels like leading a horse to water but the horse is missing 90% of its brain and doesn't understand it has legs, a mouth, or a need to survive.

Cute, hell down right adorable.
Love the pixel art
It’s simple dungeon crawler
It’s fun & pretty difficult

Nethack in 3d, need I say more? well im gonna anyway. did a top notch job for the game, but microtranscations are a downer. Games great, jump scares to the lewt grind. skills progress as you use them and if your fairly smart and lucky you can have DOZENS of minions willing or not to go and die for your pleasure while you stay behind the front collecting items. classes are limited, but if you survive long enough you all blend into a kind of "i can do about everything" class. the workshop has some good things, but one half doesnt work and the other is based off of microtransaction items so its nearly completely worthless.
Are you willing to risk life and limb for gold and power? if so prepare to check into Barony, but you might never leave again.

Phenomenal rougelike, and one of the few that have really good coop.

This game is much better than it looks, good dungeon crawl mechanics, decent interface, solid single and multiplayer options. Loot goblin and speedrunner adequate, plenty of classes, races, enemies, and variety content. Minecraftish levels with an rpg settings, an average full run can take 1-5 hours, very replayable.

One of very few games I've played lately that I'm willing to call a roguelike. But you are descending a dungeon, there's an item identification meta, a BUC system, foocubi, etc. At first the gameplay made me think more of a 3D take on Gauntlet, but the constant references like the scroll names being from Hack/NetHack, and the aforementioned features really do give me a roguelike vibe after all. It also helps that you spend a lot of time dying.

Overall, I find this game quite fun, and the difficulty becomes a lot more tolerable with the large amount of tweakable settings, and the up-to-four player multiplayer.

Excellent game with fantastic replayability. I would put this in the same level and category as Binding of Isaac, a very fun experience with many ways to exploit the system or challenge yourself for new runs. More amusing with friends but also enjoyable solo.

Amazing. One of the best action roguelikes that I ever played. Really liked vampire conjurer gameplay.

This game is very chaotic and unpredictable all the time! its so much fun in solo play and in multiplayer! its a must play game!

Its very fun even tho I tend to get crushed by a boulder and leave my partner alone until the next level. 20/10 tho.

picking a class.
sees anarchist
long range. fun
magick. more fun
tinkering. sounds fun
plays the class a lot
after hours realizes its arcanist and not anarchist
proceeds to ignore that and keep calling it anarchist

Barony is the closest thing I can imagine to a dungeon crawling sim. If the average person grabbed some gear and set off for adventure the outcome would measure up to early play. You are wildly underpowered, aimless and starving. Everything wants to kill you. Boulder...

That said. Even though I'm in a constant state of anxiety and frustration, it's the most fun I've had with a game in a long time. Solid mechanics, lore, randomly generated for freshness. Wild that it's so old.

Initial impressions after playing with some randoms in this game: This game is amazingly fun. It is brutal and difficult. I have laughed so much at my deaths for how silly they are and the soundtrack is good. I picked up the DLC because of the additional classes/races. I can't wait for my friends to pick this up! (nobody really wants to have people on their lobbies so be sure to have some friends to play this game with beforehand.)

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☑ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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---{ Author }---
☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

Barony stays fresh with every play-through being different. You can start out as a Monk, but end up as a powerful wizard with a powerful punch. You could start out as a Wizard, but use turrets and recruited allies to do the work for you.
The boxy graphics may turn some people off, but its not as noticeable in game. There is definitely a learning curve. You will learn the most about this game by dying and not repeating those mistakes.

goated game, if you don't like it at first just get good. (as much of a joke as that is you will have a more fun time the more you keep playing and learning the complexities of the game so just give it a chance)

I genuinely don't know how this game isn't more popular and I can't find another game like it. The progression is fun, it takes time to get max skill, but the benefits are genuinely a blast to have. The rouge-like system makes the game very challenging, and it takes some time to get used to the mechanics and tricks to the game which to me is the most fun part about it.

If you like abusing magic systems, getting crushed by random boulders and good dungeon crawlers, barony will have you strapped for 3 hours straight.

must play. the way it is built makes it feel like a board game, but with much more immersion