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The Brew Barons

Lifetap Studios · 2024-03-01

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionCasualRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 01, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 09, 2026 (PlayStation 5)

A tranquil world becomes ever more corrupt by the day, spoiled by a pirate organization that forcefully impose their brewing monopoly over the lands. It's up to you to explore, forage, craft, sell and deliver your brews to overthrow the corrupt pirate organization and restore peace.

76%
positive of 861 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$21.99
steam price (US)

A tranquil world becomes ever more corrupt by the day, spoiled by a strong-armed pirate organization that forcefully impose their brewing monopoly over the lands. Armed with your own brewery and seaplane, it's up to you to explore, forage, craft, sell and deliver your handcrafted brews with aid from fellow pilots who've joined your cause to overthrow the corrupt pirate organization and restore peace.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 45 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (394 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 13,539 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 861 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.09 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
28628620242026Week of 2024-03-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

29
achievements tracked
87.8%
earned "Dive Bar"
13.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4460%29
PS5 (PlayStation)514%28

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

Player tags

RPGActionCasualCombatFlightEconomyPiratesCraftingAdventureManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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