Bardbarian
Fair · Roguelike · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
You play as Brad the barbarian, who is awoken to the sounds of his town under siege. Today is different though; Brad has grown tired of fighting all the time. The usual grind for XP has grown dull, and he has decided to pursue his dreams of making music instead of shedding blood.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.19, set in July 2015. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 87 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition ($7.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
62% start to 7% 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
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Bardbarian scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/269490/bardbarianThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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