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Balrum
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It's twenty years after your village fled the kingdom and took refuge in Darkwood. You always knew that these woods hold dark secrets but now you start to feel their evil on your own skin. Horrible things are happening. You discover fragments of the woods dark history and come to the conclusion that you have to leave your home. You know in your heart that once you step out of the protection of the place where you grown up, nothing will be the same. You have to face a world that's in chaos. A world without laws. Nevertheless you feel something else too. You feel freedom. A completely new world awaits you to explore it, but the feeling quickly turns into guilt. There are people in Darkwood who are counting on your help. You are their last hope.
Balrum is an old-school, hybrid turn-based, open world indie RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. In addition to traditional RPG features Balrum has deep crafting which allows the player to craft their own custom items. Balrum also features farming your own crops, building your home, and survival mechanics complemented by the game's main features. In Balrum you will have a faithful animal companion as your pet. Your pet is fully controllable and adds greatly to the complexity of the combat.
Balrum is an old-school, hybrid turn-based, open world indie RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. In addition to traditional RPG features Balrum has deep crafting which allows the player to craft their own custom items. Balrum also features farming your own crops, building your home, and survival mechanics complemented by the game's main features. In Balrum you will have a faithful animal companion as your pet. Your pet is fully controllable and adds greatly to the complexity of the combat.
- Real-Time world with Turn-Based Combat
- A huge Open World with dozens of Dungeons to explore
- Spend your learning points to create a pure class or a hybrid class
- Dozens of Side Quests and an Epic Main Quest
- Three separate paths leading to the end
- Building
- Farming
- Tame various animals to be your loyal Companion
- Deep Crafting System which allows you to create custom items
- Day/Night Cycle with Weather Effects
- Survival Mechanics
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30 hMain
40 h Main + Sides
70 h Completionist
51 h All Styles
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Indie, Fantasy, Role-playing, 2D, Turn-Based,
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Open World, Sandbox, Survival, Isometric, Crafting, CRPG
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Posted on: April 29, 2020
Tucoffin
Verified ownerGames: 200 Reviews: 7
Don't buy this one if you like immersion
Just what the title says. After playing the Eschalon series (which I loved), Balrum's graphic style got me sold. It's an isometric RPG, with a crafting system, with a chance to build your custom home from the ground up! All just dandy, right? Wrong. I swear I tried to like this game for what it offers you down the line, but in the first week I got it I found I was forcing myself to keep playing the game. The reason was there is no sense of immersion: the game has a lot of cool mechanics but severely lacks key RPG concepts. I'll provide two, maybe three examples and leave it at that. ## SLIGHT SPOILER AHEAD ## At the very beginning of the game, you find out that your grandfather was a powerful wizard that, among other things, offers you a rune to teleport yourself to a safe haven. At level one. No sweat, he just plainly gifts it to you. No quest, no peril. The rune was just sitting there in his inventory, and upon starting the game it is in your possession. Well, you know you are the saviour of the world. Next, you hover the (frankly open unfinished patch of grass that is supposed to pass as the) world map and the mouse pointer indicates that you found a trap! Well, all necessary mathematical information is instantly revealed to you, like the exact chance you have to disarm it. Even if you're ten paces away and just got a glimpse by the corner of your eye. Well, you're the saviour and have Superman's eyesight. Lastly, I'll end this sad note with the uninspiring narrative: it feels like it was done out in a rush, like something to fill the dialog boxes just to get it done with. Brief, to the point and in the saviour's point of view, without sparkle and (again) immersion. I almost considered a refund, but I suppose I won't go into that much trouble. Very disappointed with Balrum's gaming experience.
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Posted on: January 21, 2021
Excogitator69
Verified ownerGames: 111 Reviews: 23
Balrum
Terrible game. I died of starvation within 20 min of gametime. Nowhere near acceptable. It would be like me waking up in the morning and starving to death while performing my duties before breakfast, assuming I could make it throught the night without dying of starvation or thirst or lack of sleep. I have a 32" monitor and everthing is so tiny I can't discern anything on the screen. I gave up after nothing but frustration from this product.
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Posted on: April 13, 2021
Swissy88
Verified ownerGames: 665 Reviews: 115
Nope
Done wasting my time with games like this. You can't bother to teach the player how to use your garbage interface. There are so many little quirks with how you have to go about doing every little thing that it feels impossible to remember all of them. Just died because I don't know how I'm supposed to use my ranged attacks. It just kept saying too far away, until they were melee, and then I used a sword even though I'm an archer. They definitely went for the feel of a game from 1990. Pure jank, no modern convenience, uninstalled.
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