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Barbotine cover art

Barbotine

Alex Rassloff · 2024-03-08

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 08, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

90%
positive of 176 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$1.79
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 60% of 10,962 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–7.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 176 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520242026Week of 2024-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$1.192024-03-082026-08-172024-03-08 — best price $2.692024-03-15 — best price $2.992024-05-08 — best price $2.392024-05-15 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $1.792024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-08-16 — best price $2.242024-08-24 — best price $2.992024-10-28 — best price $1.942024-11-04 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $1.792024-12-04 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $1.642025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-02-28 — best price $1.642025-03-07 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $1.642025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-05-23 — best price $1.642025-06-02 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $2.092025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.942025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-27 — best price $1.942025-11-03 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.792026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.192026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $1.792026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-08-03 — best price $1.792026-08-17 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
97.3%
earned "cheers"
96.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

Dark1990'sHorrorShooterSurrealAbstractStylizedAdventureOld SchoolAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.