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Mr. Barrel

Eckham · EckGames · 2019-07-10

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 10, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Water to fire, acid to robots and pesticide to plant monsters, can you switch and shoot the liquids quickly to survive?

Mr. Barrel is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $1.99, released in 2019, with Mixed sentiment across 61 reviews (67%).

67%
positive of 61 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 250% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 61 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2022-12-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220172026Week of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.002017-10-062026-07-242017-10-06 — best price $1.992018-02-19 — best price $1.992019-11-01 — best price $0.992019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-01-22 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-09-21 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-04-05 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $0.992021-10-04 — best price $0.992022-01-17 — best price $0.992022-04-14 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $0.992022-10-03 — best price $0.992022-11-29 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $0.992023-03-06 — best price $0.992023-05-29 — best price $0.992023-08-14 — best price $0.992023-11-06 — best price $0.742023-12-13 — best price $0.742024-01-22 — best price $0.742024-03-17 — best price $0.592024-05-20 — best price $0.742024-07-22 — best price $0.742024-10-06 — best price $0.742024-12-19 — best price $0.742025-02-10 — best price $0.742025-03-22 — best price $0.742025-07-10 — best price $1.992026-05-13 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.992026-07-24 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, German, Turkish

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2019-07-16, latest 2026-09-09 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieActionCasualAdventureDifficultFast-Paced

Census log

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

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