Barony

My frame of reference for this type of game consists of Delver and Pixel Dungeon.

Barony beats them both!

Amazing and well structured gameplay loop! Frustratingly fun, especially in multiplayer.
Great variety of play styles and classes. Infinite replayability.

I strongly recommend giving this game a try.

Great roguelike rpg that plays great with friends. Infuriatingly difficult

Barony is a first-person roguelike, developed and published by Turning Wheel LLC. The game is inspired by old PC games such as TES Arena and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. The game also contains a lot of elements from the TTRPG Dungeons & Dragons. The game’s pixel-art style, coupled with its challenging difficulty, has won the hearts of fans who enjoy exploring labyrinthine dungeons, battling enemies, and collecting loot while managing survival stats.

At its core, Barony is a first-person roguelike dungeon crawler with RPG elements. The game focuses heavily on exploration, combat, and resource management. Every time you enter the dungeon, the layout is procedurally generated, ensuring that each playthrough offers a fresh experience. The dungeon is filled with various enemies, traps, and treasures. Combat is real-time, though it requires a fair bit of strategy. Players can attack, block, and cast spells, while using a variety of weapons like swords, axes, and bows. Combat is simple at first glance, but enemies vary in strength, requiring players to adapt their tactics. A well-timed block or spell can turn the tide of battle, while reckless aggression often leads to an untimely death.

The inventory system in Barony is extensive, with a wide range of weapons, armor, potions, scrolls, and food that can help or hinder your progress. Items are equipped on a grid-based system, which forces players to make strategic decisions about what to carry. Food is also a crucial resource to manage hunger, and players will need to ensure they are adequately fed as they explore. One of the standout features of Barony is its cooperative multiplayer mode. You can team up with up to three other players to explore dungeons together, which adds a fun layer of strategy, especially when dealing with difficult enemies and bosses.

Magic is an essential part of Barony’s gameplay. The game features a vast array of spells that can be used in combat or for utility purposes (like healing, lighting torches, or detecting traps). Players can find scrolls, books, or wands to expand their magical abilities. However, using spells requires managing mana, so you must decide when to use them wisely. As a roguelike, Barony features permadeath, meaning that when your character dies, you lose everything and must start over. This mechanic adds tension and excitement to each run, as players are constantly at risk of losing progress. The game doesn’t hold the player's hand, making it quite difficult, but the progression and loot you collect provide a strong sense of reward when you do survive.

The progression in Barony follows a roguelike structure, with players delving deeper into the dungeon across multiple levels. The goal is to reach the final floor, defeat the dungeon's master Baron Herx, and escape with your life. However, the dungeon is filled with numerous challenges and dangers, so players must progress cautiously. The dungeon is procedurally generated, and as players progress deeper, they encounter stronger enemies, tougher bosses, and more valuable loot. Every floor presents unique challenges, requiring players to adapt their strategy.

As you explore, you'll come across new equipment and items. Finding powerful weapons and armor is essential for surviving the later levels. Special items can also help with specific tasks, like identifying items or healing wounds. Every few levels, players encounter powerful bosses that offer significant challenges. Defeating these bosses rewards you with unique loot and progression to the next stage. Bosses are often highly resistant to certain attack types, requiring careful strategy and use of spells or equipment. As you progress through the dungeon, you can level up your stats and skills, allowing for specialization. You can choose to focus on magic, combat, or other attributes that best fit your playstyle. These incremental improvements make each run feel rewarding, as you unlock new abilities and strategies.

Barony offers a challenging and engaging experience for fans of dungeon crawlers and roguelikes. Its deep mechanics, vast array of character races, and difficult progression ensure that no two playthroughs are the same. Whether you're a fan of strategy, combat, or exploration, Barony delivers a rewarding experience for those willing to face its numerous challenges. With its real-time combat, intricate stat system, and cooperative multiplayer mode, Barony provides a modern take on classic dungeon-crawling games.

I LOVE THIS GAME! Who ever made this game please keep it up its amazing.O cant help but put in time and just get killed its fun LOL. Thank you to the entire team you all are amazing and hope you all have a merry Christmas and a HAppy New Year ... Ill post more as I get deeper in the game but so far its SOLID and if anyone is reading this BUY IT AND ALL THE EXPANSIONS ITS Badd Azz

very good, spent 4 hours building my character to be perfectly balanced, had a full party.

NPC walked under bolder and killed every party member followed by myself.

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☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

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☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

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☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

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☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

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☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% 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

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☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

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☑ 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

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

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☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

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☐ 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

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

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Underrated Roguelike. Way fun with friends, simple to start with lots of depth to learn and classes. Love it!

i big punch and need shield... minotaur no scary, crystal golem scary... i must woo the succubus/incubus... mmm tasty potions of confusion and paralysis

This game drives me nuts at times where I have to break, but I still come back and always get mad knowing I can always do better. I always have a good time but this game does not forgive for minor mistakes. Don't let the graphics fool you

my playstyle suits wizard perfectly!
9.5/10 would punch a demon to death again

A silly little game full of fun and death and more death.

I believe this is a true "Rogue-like"

Very difficult in a way that isn't fun. I love Fromsoft games, Darkest Dungeon, etc. This is just a slog of intense frustration. The non human races are a mix of 70 to 90 percent detrimental, and cut out central, important mechanics from the game like being able to access shops. Looks nice though, good voxels.

gameplay seemed fun on first impressions with promise of "difficulty." combat was fun and engaging, with unique first person hack and slashing common dungeon mobs. once you understand the combat, it felt great, and made you feel skillful for defeating an enemy that was giving you trouble. running around looking for loot in these randomized dungeons was fun.

my issues start with the "difficulty." every item you pick up doesn't tell you what it is or does, and it can even be cursed without telling you. your character will get hungry, so you need to find food or die. simple enough, but the issue comes when you find a candy bar that you think will help, so you eat it and actually you're sick from eating too much candy and you throw up and start dying of hunger faster.
you find a well that you can drink out of, and the water is... scalding? so it sets you on fire, and oh! a slime emerges from the well and damages you for half your health before you're able to react. your character is still hungry, and luckily you manage to find a bag of food, only to realize you need scissors to open the food? what the fuck? where am i supposed to find fucking scissors in a dungeon?
if ever someone asks me what i mean when i say "artificial difficulty" this is the game i will point them to.

A fun dungeon crawler game. It's a true rogue-like so the only thing kept between runs is your knowledge of how the areas/enemies/equipment work. Very fun to slowly delve deeper and deeper the better you understand the game and the multitude of classes that specialize in different skills keeps things fresh.

It would be REALLY cool if we didn't have to spend time rearranging the starting hotbar to what we want it to be. It's the simple things that are missing all throughout this game that make this a hard pass for me. It's comical for a bit, probably better with friends, but a mindless boring dull slog of insufferable lack of QoL for solo players. Beware.

I love difficult and challenging games, but most of these games are challenging while providing a high quality of life gameplay.
Barony is difficult because it has no quality of life gameplay (in simpler words, you will die through a lot of unfair BS. Maybe that's your thing.
To me, this is frustrating beyond belief. Never once playing a souls game, darkest dungeon, or any other roguelike have I felt such frustration in my heart.

The mines are the hardest levels ever conceived and I have a feeling the Rats built it just to fill their sadistic desires of ganging up on vulnerable players

One of the best dungeon crawler roguelike experience. Knowledge is power, not meta currency invested.

Most games rely on meta progression or obvious secrets which you find out about later and be able to solve them in a new run easily.

This is not the case with Barony. You must perfect all aspects of your run - combat - walk out of any 1v1 with full health, exploration - find best ways to get the most loot, speed - be fast enough to complete floors while doing anything else perfectly, resourcefulness - manage your inventory and how you use items so you have enough for the final stretch of the game, quick wit - what you do if your plan went to shit(it happens a lot). Over time it clicks in your head and you begin to get further and further until you win. You understand the gameplay and best ways to optimize and min max your run. Then you repeat it a hundred times with all kinds of various combinations of race + class + play style. Then you enable hardcore and get your ass kicked because what you did before was child's play.

10/10, I'd die 100 times more in the gnomish mines and underworld.

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I haven’t been able to put this down since purchasing it. AMAZING roguelike. All perma death no meta progression so each run feels so intense and all the more satisfying. 10/10

this is a great game to play with friends, it can still be fun solo but it really shines when playing with friends.

Barony is a fantastic rogue-like with a surprising amount of depth. Doing a "full run" can take you as long as 20 hours, and it is a tense ride from start to finish, filled with its own humor to lighten the mood along the way. Along with the DLCs which add even more depth and complexity and replayability, Barony succeeds in everything it attempts. I don't think I can ever hear a gnome giggle without having flashbacks to the mines, and honestly things are better off that way.

I love this game very much and I appreciate that the devs have put so much love and care into it recently. It's the first dungeon crawler I've ever played and I absolutely love it, the mix of challenging but rewarding is very much something you'll feel playing this and there are so many fun little secrets that even if you've already beat the game, you'll have a reason to replay it whether it's with friends or solo. I haven't checked the multiplayer games list recently, but back when I first played, when it was free on the Epic Games store, I met a lot of people on there and had so much fun. I played a few months ago when the newer updates were coming out with the entire ui overhaul and balance changes, but I was originally put off by how difficult it was on some classes to get started.
However, the game isn't perfect and that's fine. But here's a list of (hopefully) constructive criticism I had while playing:
-The overhaul definitely leans towards almost requiring a mechanist for your team if you're playing multiplayer or as a new player build for solo, as glasses aren't easy to come by on the earlier floors and it can be difficult for classes with no perception to play, as you'll likely be getting cursed constantly. However, mechanists can craft glasses for all players on a team which makes it super handy.
-I understand that the devs need some way to make money, but locking races with tangible stat/ability differences behind dlc is a little disappointing. I'm still going to buy and have bought some of the DLC to support the devs, but I do wish they'd find another way to monetize, whether it's through cosmetics or different gamemodes.
-The minotaur is ridiculously easy to kill as a mechanist because it follows other mob aggro rules; it still attacks dummybots like an idiot. Granted, as soon as you get the speed and cold spell he's a piece of cake regardless, but it does feel like a lot less of a threat on mechanist.
-This is a personal gripe, I love the new compendium, but I wish that scrolls collected on a run would show their words in the compendium that way I don't have to remember it by memory or trial & error the enchanted feathers. It would also kind of break immersion if I used a notepad or wrote it down somewhere. Alternatively, if I have the enchanted feather in my inventory, it could just unlock the scroll name in the feather ui whenever I pick one up.
Definitely looking forward to replaying with other classes and getting the pre-herx artifacts next time around. If the devs see this, I love this game, keep up the good work!

Such a fun game to bs around on with some friends

Imagine Minecraft and Dungeons & Dragons had a baby, but that baby was raised by a rogue AI who loved permadeath and dark humor. That’s Barony.

This game is an absolute riot. You'll start off confident: "Oh, I’ve got this! A dungeon crawler? Easy." Two minutes later, you're clubbed to death by a skeleton while trying to eat moldy cheese. The cheese was poisoned, by the way. Welcome to Barony.

The multiplayer is where this game truly shines. Team up with your friends, they said. It'll be fun, they said. But they didn’t tell you your friend would "accidentally" fireball the group while trying to “help” fight a rat. Or that they'd open a cursed chest and turn into a chicken. Pro tip: Never trust the guy who picks the Jester class. Ever.

The graphics look like they crawled out of the early '90s, but honestly, that just adds to the charm. It’s like playing a dungeon crawler on an ancient toaster, and I mean that in the best way possible.

Pros:

Endless hilarity and despair.
Tons of replayability (because you WILL die).
Accidentally roleplaying as the world's worst adventurers.

Cons:

Losing to bats is a humbling experience.
Your friends will betray you for loot. Or because it’s funny.
10/10 Would die again.

A true 3D Roguelike game.

It oozes with character and charm. The core mechanics are intuitive - simple to learn but with a lot of potential depth.

You will die. Just restart and try again. Enjoy the experience.

Great fun in co-op (and solo) but no permanent upgrades like in other roguelikes. Only your knowledge of the game improves your subsequent runs.

Only playable with a close-knit group of friends, plenty of options for many different play-styles. Endlessly repayable but mainly with a group.

This game has become one of my favorites for a number of reasons. For one it's great fun with friends and offers so many ways to work together or hinder each other, even as a ghost you can slow your teammates and mess with them. As a single player game it's brutal and unforgiving, but incredibly fun once the ball gets rolling and you've got good loot. My personal favorite thing about it is the vast number of achievements that you can hunt, it has pushed me to play and master classes I would have otherwise been uninterested in playing. Easy 10/10

I think i passed on this years ago because of the graphics - that was a mistake. The game is fantastic and I now see why it is highly recommended. Lots of different classes to fit different play styles. If you watch older videos be aware that the ui was updated and looks much better.

great game pretty hard tbh if you dont take some time to learn the game glad to see the game is still being worked on and still should be highly underrated imo

I like hard games, but this is a brutal, unpleasant experience. Though, I have only played solo so far. I'm sure it's better with friends. Sadly, there is no "outside the run" experience. You go in, you see, you die. No level ups, stash, trading, etc outside the run you are on. So after you die to one of the 1000 "gotcha" situations, you feel like you wasted your time. Sometimes hours... again, probably meant to be a group game to screw around with friends for a few hours.

On surface level it's basically Dark and Darker but better because no stupid PvP to deal with :3

It's fun yet annoying, you die to some rather unexpected things, just bad luck. Like why in the hell does the minotaur have levitation to me that just doesn't make sense. I get that you don't want it to be cheesed, but people using their brain and I feel like you get punished for that. Other than those unexpected things it's a good game 10/10 would play

good game but really hard. it doesnt have any major progression but that doesnt take from it

Great game

Basically Diablo Minecraft

kinda hard but the challenge and the depth of ways to play will keep you coming back

Very fun, The best classes are locked behind some DLC but if you have some extra money it is very worth it.

Brilliant rogue-lite dungeon crawler.
So many different mechanics to play with.
Don't be put off by the minecraft like graphics - this game has more gameplay than most games out there!

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good game for solo players, even better with friends
downside is the graphics makes me cannot trick my friends to play this game

A pretty punishing and difficult roguelike but i think it's pretty well made and fun (especially in multiplayer with friends)

It's a rogue-like, but first person. Very fun. Brutal though as rogue-like games should be. Weirdly, I got very motion sick while playing the game which is something unheard of for me (I've been playing FPS games dating back to the OG Wolfenstein. I also played, and beat, the original Rogue on floppy disks back in the day - I'm old). Barony was good enough for me to dig into the cause of feeling sick and discover that changing the field of view from the default setting to a much higher number (I think I ended up just maxing it out) took care of my problem. Now I can play it without issue and am quite happy!

I'm looking forward to beating this damn game now. I'm motivated!

Very fun, especially with friends. Quite a challenge too. The only thing holding this game back for me is the suuUUUUuper simple combat. Wish there was some more to it than swinging, hard swinging, and blocking. If you're better at games you could probably do some cool combo-y stuff with magic and ranged weapons, but I've always felt like the only effective way to win is a high strength melee build.

If there was more to the combat this game would be one of my top ten of all time, despite only having about 40 hours in it.

Wow, this is much more fun than what I first expected it to be.
Very deep with many different mechanics and, although relatively hardcore, difficulty can be tweeked easily in the settings for new players or players less inclined with getting constantly destroyed (I personally turned off random traps at first to learn the game a bit).

Graphics aren't as bad as they seem at first glance and actually end up being quite charming (making it more of an art style than a graphics quality).

The gameplay is incredible even if punishing... You might even say that it being punishing is what makes it even more fun. Managing to push further, breaking your record, is incredibly satisfying. Even their tutorial area is superb, even comes with "secrets"... that's right, even the tutorial is fun to play through (the time you take in each of these tutorial trials is also recorded so you can compete, time-wise, with yourself and other people!)


With the most recent big update (that's right, this almost decade old game is still getting love from the devs. Another indie dev W) bringing a sort of meta-progression. It isn't one that will make you stronger straight-up, but it will give you the knowledge you NEED to know to get better at the game... Knowledge you can learn through trial and error or by spending some of your hard-earned lore points to immediately unlock (say, if you unlock lore about fountains it will tell you not only what they do but the probabilities of those various events occuring after interacting with one. The more general class, stat, etc... lore is more for keeping track of what you've accomplished in the game, which is really cool). To be honest this sort of Meta-progression feels incredibly good instead of the boring "increase damage by 5%" or "attack 7% faster" you might find in other games with meta-progression (looking at you DRG: survivor lmao). It means you also won't just steamroll the starter levels with pure stats (you CAN steamroll starter levels with pure knowledge, skill and technique) which means that the starter levels don't become default "skip" levels like with most other games with meta-progression.

All in all this one is a recommended, ESPECIALLY if it is on sale like it is currently (until November 4th 2024). Hell, many people will very likely find it worth-it even if NOT on sale.

The epitome of First-person Roguelike and it just keeps getting better. This game has been handled with care and delivers on a level only seen by a small list of other gold standard classics. If you love the genre, then add Barony to that list. Seriously, what the ♥♥♥♥ are you waiting for?

continues to get updates after years of release, and its just a good game for 20 bucks.

Think Doom with a lot more options.
Fun defines this game, I am just getting started, it is a challenge.
I think you will enjoy this game.
This is 8/10
-1, for not including the Secret add on
-1, for not being more detailed concerning different Human races.

Buy it on sale to reward yourself.
Thank You for reading

Barony is a surprise hit for me. Learned about it through Youtube videos of Charborg and Criken playing the game together. Barony immediately grabbed my attention with its presentation paired with a style of gameplay I was not familiar with. Picked it up and have been enjoying it greatly. The amount of variety between all the different races, classes, spells, and weapons give immense choice when it comes to making builds for a given run. The variation is taken further by the fact that you are able to find new spells, weapons, and armour as random loot throughout the dungeons. The dungeons themselves add even GREATER variety with procedural generation and keep you on your toes with all the various room layouts, traps, and enemies to test your skills as you descend further down. I haven't dug too deep into all the various mechanics the game has to offer as of yet (especially alchemy) but I'm very excited to keep learning more about what secrets Barony holds. I highly recommend it!

I have been playing this game on and off for 3 years now and I has just gotten better and better. It can be very difficult as a new player when you don't know what your class does and what the enemies do. There are many many hidden things in the game to discover and hundreds of play styles. I absolutely recommend playing this game with others as it allows some classes to become even more fun to play and will make the game a little easier. Many people in open lobbys are vets that will be happy to help you learn the ins and outs of the game. If you are a hardcore player then this game has some amazing styles to play if you want to make things hard on your self. Newer players can make things easier with the melee classes that have high armor and can block. You can disable many of the features that make the game really hard or annoying like hunger or friendly fire. I am a slave to the rouge-like games and this is one of my favorites by far.

This game is insanely fun, you go into dungeon, feel like 'it's the run" and then you get into ruins and see 20 gnomes and new enemies shoot you to death,get spiked and bleed on top of that. Masochist enjoyers would like this game :steamhappy:

still need to beat game atleast once