The Brew Barons
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $21.99.
- Length
- 16.4h 26.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.34/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 863 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A tranquil world becomes ever more corrupt by the day, spoiled by a pirate organization that forcefully impose their brewing monopoly over the lands. It's up to you to explore, forage, craft, sell and deliver your brews to overthrow the corrupt pirate organization and restore peace.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GTX 960 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
13 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 44 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, EVERSPACE™ 2 ($49.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Rebel Galaxy Outlaw ($29.99, scores 12).
More about The Brew Barons
This site sampled 499 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 106 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 21 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 09:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game felt like it had some potential. The flying is neat, but the combat is weak and the fetch quests are just annoying. My big problem though? AI voices. The devs couldn't be bothered to get ACTUAL PEOPLE to voice their game. I feel disgusted knowing I put almost ten hours into this game. If I could undo all of that and never have given these people my money, I would. Extremely disappointing from the...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
enjoyed this game prior to it going full-tilt on AI, sadly won't be returning to it and it's too late for me to request a refund
NOT the Porco Rosso adventure I was looking for... AI used, and poorly used at that. Repetitive, soulless, slop.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Brew Barons scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1636710/the-brew-baronsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.