Balrum
Balcony Softworks · 2016 · RPG, Adventure, Crafting, Strategy, Isometric
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 719
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About Balrum
✦ AI summary
Explore a massive open world in this old-school turn-based RPG where you craft custom gear, build your homestead, and command a loyal animal companion through tactical combat alongside an epic main quest. Deep survival mechanics, farming, and a branching narrative set in a mysterious fantasy realm give this indie gem the soul of classic RPGs with modern depth.
Balrum is an old-school, turn-based, open world RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. In addition to traditional RPG features Balrum has deep crafting which allows the player to craft their own custom items. Balrum also features farming your own crops, building your home, and survival mechanics complemented by the game's main features. In Balrum you will have a faithful animal companion as your pet. Your pet is fully controllable and adds greatly to the complexity of the combat.The player takes control of a young man whose peaceful life is suddenly interrupted by events which will change his life forever.
Features:
- Real-Time world with Turn-Based Combat
- A huge Open World with dozens of Dungeons to explore
- Spend your learning points to create a pure class or a hybrid class
- Dozens of Side Quests and an Epic Main Quest
- Three separate paths leading to the end
- Building
- Farming
- Tame various animals to be your loyal Companion
- Deep Crafting System which allows you to create custom items
- Day/Night Cycle with Weather Effects
- Survival Mechanics
Story
It's twenty years after your village fled the kingdom and took refuge in Darkwood. You always knew that these woods hold dark secrets but now you start to feel it's evil on your own skin. Horrible things are happening. You discover fragments of the woods dark history and come to the conclusion that you have to leave your home. You know in your heart that once you step out of the protection of the place where you grown up, nothing will be the same. You have to face a world that's in chaos. A world without laws. Nevertheless you feel something else too. You feel freedom. A completely new world awaits you to explore it, but the feeling quickly turns into guilt. There are people in Darkwood who are counting on your help. You are their last hope.
NOTE: Thank you to all our backers on Kickstarter for making this game possible.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Balrum is a very difficult game. I have to restart it more than three times because I selected wrong character abilities. Finally, I got all of achievements after 295+ hours playing. Pros: +Very huge maps. The Balrum map also connects to other big areas. +Many exploration points and quests. There are tons of enemies and dungeons. +Build your own house and depot in the safe place. +Farming, crafting and hunting. +Steal items from other people. +With a Mass Poison potion, you can kill everyone in the village. Cons: -All map locations are fixed. The number of enemies is limited. -There is no method to remove grass and fruit trees on the other maps beside safe place. -Adds learning points to unnecessary abilities will result in game failed. -Some quests might be stuck if you do things in the wrong order. -Don't use a Mass Poison potion on "Woman in black". Because you can't attack her, the game will be crashed after she touches you.5 found this helpful
Horrible controls and a chore to play.2 found this helpful
Turn based combat really turns me off in this game.2 found this helpful
Character is always starving, always thirsty. This is not fun. Game kept printing "Auto Saved" in chat. Went to Load the game, no saves shown. Wasted an hour.1 found this helpful
It's okay, gets a little boring after awhile.
open world, 90's diablo style rpg with crafting and base building mechanics. limited xp with several skill branches. turn based combat where you can accidentally wander into a zone way above your capabilities. there's definitely some jank, like changing zones on an isometric tile map, projectile traps fire every 3-5 seconds, but do not sync to the turn-based combat (you can exploit to eliminate enemies), quests can be vague, it's still fun.
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