Barbearian

PC options are severely lacking. Rebinding keyboard controls was an exercise in frustration. Would recommend the mobile release over this.

Good stuff:
Pretty well balanced and fairly intense combat. Both in regular missions and boss fights.
Solid art and VFX.
Old-school styled explore and discover mentality that works well.

Not so great stuff:
Pretty annoying menu and map music (high pitched and repetitive)
Very linear character and story progression.
The final grind to get the good/true ending is a bit much.

The game is fast paced, but there isn't a lot of skill involved. The loop is simple, the controls are simple, everything is simple, and nothing is particularly engaging.

Cool looking game, but with repetitive action sequences that make it subpar for me.
Not bad at all, just not my cup of tea.

It's not a bad game.
Funny nice story cool bosses.
The music is annoying at times and the character could be faster.
Quite short even with the achievements.
Best with a discount.

honestly, kind of perfect? great balance - i had to retry a few times but never felt stretched beyond my breaking point, although i did feel FULLY immersed in the chaos, and quite clever after getting myself out of a few jams. not mindless, but not so intricate that i felt myself bogged down in decision making. and just delightfully weird and silly in a way that didn't take up too much time. a fair amount of secrets, some hidden depths, and ended with me wanting juuuust a little bit more.

Great little game :) spent a fiver and got 22 hours out of it. Easy to enjoy gameplay and very jump in and out, decent music and nice art design.

The recommend this game option is a trash rating system. This game is very middle.

The moment to moment gameplay is mostly fun if kind of braindead. There is an egregious design flaw that constantly pisses me off and might bother you equally.

When you kill certain enemies are portals open up to the next zone, these portals forcibly suck you in, if there is still a civilian to save in that zone you have to play through a multi zone area again and unless I'm mistaken there is no indicator of when you're going to open up a SUCC portal.

If the game didn't have the stupid blackhole area zone portals I would strongly recommend this game but with them in it I would call the game a mediocre experience. It's THAT fucking annoying.

This game appeared on my store page and the name caught my attention. After seeing that the game wasn't that much I decided to buy it, and I can say the game is definitely worth the price. If you ever just want the ability to rip through hordes of enemies and just feel the satisfaction of taking out a large group of minions at once then this game differently achieves that.

One thing for certain is that you need to have patience since some of the bosses are pretty challenging. But with enough perseverance, you can beat any of the bosses. This game is a 10/10 for me and even though I have beaten the game to 100% I am definitely going to play more.

This game could really use a bigger community and more love. Though I do suggest playing the game with a remote as the controls have been mapped a bit better in my opinion.

It's a shame, how final that thumb is. It's not that I didn't enjoy what time I had with the game, but the controls feel clunky in a game with already clunky combat. End of the day, it felt like I was playing a mobile game, and that's not what this PC is for

i have to say, with an xbox gamepad this game is a heck of a lot of fun - I wasn't really expecting that much from it, but its well worth the modest asking price. I like how you can power up your little companions into knights and archers and some of the power ups are great fun. it runs at a solid 120fps on my 120hz alienware monitor at 3440x1440 as well. Very well coded and not a bug yet in the hours I have been playing

Also available on phone, but I much prefer the Windows version. This is a true hack-n-slash game, no two ways about it. If you enjoyed those Diablo levels where the whole map is just sprawling with mobs and you gotta figure out how to survive it, you'll enjoy this one. The controls are simple, the action is visceral, the graphics cartoony. There are roughly 30 different mob types that all do a specific kind of attack or utility, near the end the game throws everything it has at you and that'll get the blood pumping! It's also pleasantly short, it doesn't waste your time with grinding or maze-like levels.

What a fantastic game!

While it is somewhat on the shorter side, having 100% in just 8 hours, it is a very fun time to be had with this game.

https://youtu.be/zcCNFvW5nv0
Fun, exciting, eventually mass-scale bash-em-up and zero-micromanaging RTS as you build up your melee and ranged attacks melee army into an AI-controlled swarm of mass destruction -- and you lead them into the battle as the axe-wielding Barbearian. :) Vast replayability due to the way that campaign maps are different each time you play one, and you'll see that on both subsequent tries of a failed campaign map-set, or when you just replay it for more money or for fun.

A great little game that imho deseerves a much larger audience but is probably hamstrung by its intentionally goofball game name and by the fact that its most refreshing aspect -- it's not a clone of something else, it's more like a hybrid of many genres -- also probably makes it a tough sell and difficult to market. While it's billed as 'hack'n'slash,' to me it plays more like an awesome "brawler," and you'll feel extremely powerful as you send your Barbearian into increasingly massive groupes of emies, bashing away with your axe and making charging rush attacks that send dozens of enemies flying.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1507898225
When you get special weapon pickups like the boomstick grenade, you may -- if you're old enough to remember Myth -- get a Myth Dwarf grenadier feeling as you watch the explosion send enemy monsters flying in tiny pieces. :) A variety of 12-second use powerup drops and tokens keep things fresh and changing, and you gather up various colorful 'food' items and crystals to gain money to spend on upgrades and more minions and special weapons.

The 12-second powerups are color coded: Blue-indestructibility; Pink-an auto-melee attack 'ball' spins around you annihilating everything immediately around you as you move; and Green-much faster movement and melee attacking.

Eventually you can also unleash a Rage mode that briefly turns your Barbearian and your minion army into an angry red tornado of rage. :)

While you don't control your ever-growing minion army directly, you'll find surprisingly deep tactics in deciding whether to rush ahead of them, or le them do their thing first. I tend to go tackle the tougher enemies and aura-generating enemy crystals first while my dozens of minions do their thing. You can upgrade minions to Knight or Archer. You'll spend a lot of time summing replacements on the battlefield.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1510852830
The game promises 100+ levels so I have a ways to go. The way most of the campaign works is you work through a series of 5 campaign mission sets (my term) -- each set is usually 3 separate maps strung together. These all seem to randomize in layout and enemy monster mixes, so they're very replayable. You can usually rescue up to 3 minions on each set, by bashing open a pod that imprisons each. Doing so is helpful to you, though it isn't necessary to completing the mission set.

Great, crunchy sound effects and good music (NOTE: I just remembered I turned down the music so I could focus more on game sounds). :) Terrific animations that manage to be both brutal and cute at the same time.

I play the with an XBox 360-style controller and it works flawlessly and you can change the button settings. It requires very few buttons to play. While kb/m is supported, I feel like it's very much a game that feels best on controller at the moment.

I think the game would be perfect on the Nintendo Switch, but we'll see if the dev duo can afford to do a project like that. Probably it would be an excellent doubleheader with the just-released Bad North. :)

Really fun game. Managed to finish it with 100%. Gameplay is really solid and highly addictive. After each level you want to play just one more. Perfect game when you have kids and can play only short time. Some bosses are quite challenging at first try but when you learn pattern it gets easier. Minions are fun gameplay element especially at later game when you start to have more than 60. You need to be tactical when to spawn new ones and also protect those little guys. Brute force doesn't get you anywhere. Game itself runs smoothly and I didn't experience any slowdows even when whole screen is full of enemies and effects. Highly recommended for people who like hack and slash games.

Fun at first, but some balance issues a couple hours into the game make it significantly less fun. No real way to keep your minions alive at a sustainable rate, and a lot of incoming damage is unavoidable in practice. Gets repetitive and grindy for upgrades.

This game is crazy fun. Perfect blend of cartoony aesthetic and barbarian raging. Killing off the hordes feels very gratifying. May seem a little repetitive at first, but the mechanics and level design are top notch. At first you are thinking you will just be blindly smashing through the levels, but once you are about 15% through, the strategy you use becomes really important for survival. I've only played about an hour, but that first bit is challenging yet a little forgiving. Learning curve seems shallow so far, but I have a feeling it will get a lot steeper in the mid-game.

Beautiful game, amazing soundtrack. If you enjoy the hack-n-slash genre you will love this game. It is challenging enough to keep you on your toes but simplistic enough to not get you confused. A perfect game to spend a couple hours playing.

Great fun! Especially when you charge into big pile of monsters which get blast away!

EDIT: After completing the game 100%, I still like the game. I bought this at the same time as I bought Dead Cells, and this one is much more fun. Well worth the full price.

I've played only a little but so far i highly recommmend this fun and simple Hack and Slash.
It is very fun while staying challenging in its simplicity.
The art work is amazing. I like it! I've experienced no bugs, gliches or lag! On the Release day too! Very cool!
It runs very smooth and seamless. (Windows 10 64Bit gtx 1080ti)
I've only just gotten out of the 5 training levels and into the main game.
I still have a lot more to explore and think about.
Gameplay:
You can go in Axe blazing and the next minute have to be very careful and think.
The bosses in the game demand your respect and will crush you if you don't have a strategy.
The only thing I didn't like right away was how the enemys will always follow you no matter what.
I didn't mind this at all but when you have to kill the last boss right away...well.. you only have about 5~10 seconds to get anything you might of missed.
As a level completionist this did suck. But I do understand the game they are aiming for.
Fast paced, get in, get out. Level fast. go go go go go. move move move. I understand and I like it.
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I happend across this game about a month ago and I knew it had potential. I put in on my WishList and was excited as the release got closer.
I am so glad i bought this game. This is a game I want to support so we can see even better stuff in the future.
My hats off to the Developers and Creators of this game! I can't wait to play more and see where the story goes!