Age of Barbarians Chronicles

I think this is a decent enough game with a lot of laughs to be had and cool stuff to see. I don't really think taking the rigid combat system from the original game and transplanting it verbatim into a game with a Z axis where fights have more bodies was the right choice. The stamina/parry/roll system just doesn't work very well here. Lots of jank overall. Feels a little light on content compared to the original but I think that had been out and updated for like a decade when I bought it. Worth experiencing for the genre fan.

A true hidden gem, shining as brightly as the sapphires nestled inside treasure chests hidden beneath the ivory towers of the lost cities imagined by Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, and the other great masters of Sword & Sorcery. This game is a remarkable tribute to their timeless worlds. If you love classic fantasy and masterpieces like Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara or, more recently, Dragon's Crown, you simply cannot afford to miss this game. The combat system is easy to learn yet surprisingly deep to master. As you carve your way through rivers of blood and severed limbs flying in every direction, you'll develop your character through a satisfying old-school loot system, collecting treasures and acquiring new weapons, armor, helmets, rings, necklaces, and much more. The dungeons are a joy to explore, packed with secrets and unapologetically old school. They are inhabited by creatures that look as though they stepped straight out of a Ray Harryhausen film or one of Frank Frazetta's legendary paintings. Every location captures the raw, epic atmosphere of classic Sword & Sorcery—a genre that is all too rarely represented today with such authenticity and passion. This is a…

Very good :)))

Age of Barbarians: Chronicles takes everything I loved about Age of Barbarian Extended Cut and expands it into a much bigger adventure. RPG mechanics, equipment, traders, random encounters, random dungeons, and a wide variety of locations make the world feel far more alive, while familiar enemies return alongside new additions. Most importantly, the game knows exactly what it wants to be. It embraces classic sword-and-sorcery without irony, wearing its Frazetta-inspired influences proudly. The controls are clunky, unintuitive, and occasionally even counterintuitive. Could the game be better? Definitely. But once you get used to them, the fun shines through. If you're looking for a sincere, old-school barbarian adventure rather than a modern fantasy blockbuster, this is an easy recommendation. And as a nice bonus, it runs beautifully even on weak hardware.

I would recommend this game because it's fun, edgy, gory and sexy. It's like Conan if he were in Mortal Kombat, travelled with a woman and everyone just decided to wear the minimum amount of clothes everywhere they went. I played alone and was never bored. The game kept me engaged and feeling like I was on an adventure. The combat was more fluent then I expected and once I got the hang of the dodge, roll and parry it just added to all the great combat. You can move in all directions like a regular beat-em-up so its not just single line side scroll movement like some games. I liked how the open world map was alive with activity such as weather changes that moved across the map with various sounds and lightning effects and it showed in the stages when accessed within the area with bad weather. There were also surprise attacks that pulled you in while moving across the map to minimize the simpleness and boredom of most games when you simply select the next location on the map. There are fun fatalities occasionally depending on how you hit the enemies. I would have like to see a bit more variety in the weapons. I wanted like a blade and rope type weapon or a bow and arrow or throwing k…

good game. conan flava