Barony
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 13h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 83% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 630 (OpenGL 3.2+), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
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 $1.99, set in December 2016. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rampage Knights ($12.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Morta ($21.99, scores 73).
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 83 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 33 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 1,018 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 13 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 5.4 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
88% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 13-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
390 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Best dungeon crawler. Pros: Has a lot of replay value with various classes, races, and rogue like elements. Many options to adjusting the difficulty down to a player level even. Cons: Visually this game is lacking.
Barony... What should i say? Is it good? I dont know. Is it bad? Maybe... I will play more in the future until then you see me at the trapdoors, my fellow baronyens. Live, love, Barony
>Die by boulder >New Class >Die By boulder >New Class/Run >Die By Rat >New run >Die by super fast rat >Actually do tutorial >New Run >Kill Rats >Die by Gnome wielding the power of damn thunder >Crash Out >Buy DLC >Finally win a run with an overpowered class... >New run New Class New Race >Die by Boulder
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Barony scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/371970/baronyThe 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 Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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