Bardbarian

Bardbarian

TreeFortress Games · April 1, 2014 · Indie, Tower Defense, Strategy, Casual, RPG

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Standard Edition · Steam
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Bardbarian price by region

Bardbarian costs £2.93 in the United Kingdom, €3.37 in Europe (EUR), $3.93 in the United States, $3.93 in Georgia (USD), CA$8.79 in Canada, NZ$9.99 in New Zealand, A$10.99 in Australia, R$15.99 in Brazil and zł18.82 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Bardbarian offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £2.93 −48% £5.59 £2.93 6
Europe (EUR) €3.37 −58% €7.99 €3.37 7
United Statesyour region $3.93 −51% $7.99 $3.93 8
Georgia (USD) $3.93 −30% $5.59 $3.93 7
Canada CA$8.79 CA$8.79 — 3
New Zealand NZ$9.99 NZ$9.99 — 2
Australia A$10.99 A$10.99 — 3
Brazil R$15.99 R$15.99 R$27.12 3
Poland zł18.82 −35% zł28.99 zł18.82 4

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Bardbarian

✦ AI summary

Play as Brad the Barbarian, who ditches violence for music, moving around a battlefield dodging enemies while playing an axe-lute to generate notes that summon and power up units to protect your town. This bizarre blend of tower defense, RPG, and RTS wraps frantic dodging, resource management, and strategic unit placement into a hand-drawn rock opera with over 200 party combinations and relentless boss fights.

Thanks to Young Horses, Slick Ent Inc, and Team Meat for allowing us to do these amazing crossover exclusives for our Steam launch.

What is Bardbarian?
Bardbarian is a game! A game we've been lovingly working on for far too long and are ready to unleash on Steam with (hopefully) some love from the Greenlight Community.

What genre is the game?
It is a mixture of Tower Defense, RPG & RTS with some 'Shmup and Snake elements.

What's the Story?
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. Fashioning a lute out of an old axe, he steps out to save his town in the most bizarre of ways.

What's Gameplay like?
Move Brad around the battlefield and dodge incoming enemy attacks and projectiles. Brad is constantly playing his axe-lute and generating notes, standing still will cause him to "jam" and generate notes even faster. These notes act as your in-game resource; you can spend them to perform solos to summon units to follow and fight for you, as well as solos to boost their performance.

Navigate your party through the hordes of enemies, dodging and attacking, preventing them from destroying your town's prized decorative crystal. Survive waves to progress, collect loot, and unlock new units. Upon death you are able to visit the town shop in order to upgrade Brad, the town and your followers, in hopes to make it further next time.

Features!
  • Beautiful, hand-drawn artwork from start to finish
  • An awesome Rock/Metal original soundtrack by Maximum Satan
  • Bizarre genre-bending hybrid gameplay
  • 12 unique units to unlock
  • Customize your party loadout; Over 200 possible combinations
  • Collect loot from your fallen enemies and upgrade Brad, the town, and your units
  • A difficulty curve that will punish you for making mistakes, and you will
  • Over 8 enemy types to make you regret everything
  • 4 Epic boss battles to crush your spirits
  • Endless and Survival modes with leaderboards for when you're feeling competitive
  • Easter eggs and references galore, can you spot them all?
  • There's a dinosaur boss
  • There's also a Ratcoon, look at those sad little eyes

Steam/Greenlight Exclusive Features
  • Full controller support + KB+M
  • Revamped UI
  • Camera Control
  • Steam Cloud Saves
  • Rebalanced for Desktop
  • 3 Exclusive Indie Crossover Units
  • Steam Achievements/Leaderboards

Bardbarian — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Bardbarian is a unique tower defense hybrid where you control a chain of units following your main character to defend a crystal, with progression helped by purchasable upgrades that ease difficulty in later runs. Players praise its distinctive mechanics and fun gameplay loop, though some are frustrated by design choices like disappearing coins and the initial difficulty curve. Most reviewers seem satisfied with the experience as a quirky indie title, though opinions on whether it's worth purchasing aren't explicitly stated across these reviews.

Not recommended Aug 31, 2026
This could have been fun for a laugh, but is hampered by inane design decisions. Having to run around to pick up coins before they disappear, like some mobile game? Not having it.
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Recommended Oct 2, 2026
rad
Recommended Jun 16, 2026
This game plays like a tower defense game, but your towers are are chain of units that follow your main unit around. This main unit (the titular Bardbarian) just provides buffs to the other units, but also (like the crystal that you are defending) needs to be kept alive. Like many modern games, the initial run is quite difficult but there are many upgrades that can be purchased using earned gold, which should make future runs much easier. For me, using a gamepad made controlling unit movement slightly more precise. It also made dodging most enemy bullets possible with a bit of foresight and tactics. There are certain unit combinations that were more optimal (at least in my opinion), while others could be ignored. The wizard unit's attack has a pushback which is particularly helpful. It's fun.
Recommended May 14, 2026
Fun and quite unique!
Not recommended May 7, 2026
huh? I don't remember playing this game but I have enough time for a review?
Recommended Mar 6, 2026
nice game. dev's could've made a great sequel.

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