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Bardbarian

TreeFortress Games · 2014-04-01

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 01, 2014 (Mac), Apr 01, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 14, 2014 (Android), Jan 16, 2014 (iOS)

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.

Bardbarian is an Action, Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2014, priced at $7.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 1510 reviews).

0
playing now
89%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
52/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Bardbarian is a multi-platform indie game developed by TreeFortress Games and published by BulkyPix in 2014.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 27,661 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 38k–91k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,513 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.95 at Humble Store (2015-07-09) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.952015-01-012026-08-102015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-02-17 — best price $7.992015-06-22 — best price $7.992015-07-31 — best price $7.992015-09-11 — best price $7.992015-12-07 — best price $3.192016-05-15 — best price $1.592016-06-23 — best price $1.992016-11-23 — best price $2.712017-01-26 — best price $7.992017-06-19 — best price $7.992017-09-07 — best price $3.992017-11-13 — best price $7.992018-01-11 — best price $3.992018-05-10 — best price $4.792018-10-01 — best price $4.792018-12-03 — best price $5.192019-05-10 — best price $3.992019-06-26 — best price $3.592019-10-28 — best price $4.792019-12-19 — best price $4.792020-04-06 — best price $7.992020-05-12 — best price $5.872020-07-09 — best price $7.992021-07-08 — best price $7.992022-07-07 — best price $7.992022-09-06 — best price $7.992022-12-02 — best price $7.992023-03-23 — best price $7.992023-09-04 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-04-15 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $7.992026-02-23 — best price $7.992026-05-18 — best price $7.992026-08-10 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1 pageviews2026-06-09 — 2 pageviews2026-06-13 — 2 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 1 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-29 — 0 pageviews2026-07-03 — 10 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 5 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1 pageviews2026-07-31 — 2 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 0 pageviews2026-08-20 — 0 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 2 pageviews2026-09-01 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 0 pageviews2026-09-09 — 1 pageviews2026-09-13 — 2 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 4 pageviews2026-09-25 — 2 pageviews2026-09-29 — 3 pageviews2026-10-04 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 2 pageviews2026-10-11 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
61.9%
earned "Early Bird"
29.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,78817%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGIndieActionCasualComedyFantasyStrategyAdventureRogue-lite

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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