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2014 · Tower Defense · RPG · Action Roguelike

How long isBardbarian?

by TreeFortress Games

6 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 3 hours and 10 hours

A wall partway in: one story step stops 26 in 100 of the players who launched it.

Does Bardbarian hold up?

Grows on people

Grows on you seal

86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 96% at 10–20 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

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Do the first two hours of Bardbarian tell you?

In the first two hours70%recommend it

After that92%recommend it

11 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 9 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 6 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 10 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,530 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 86% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 96% at 10–20 hours.

17% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 70% of those recommend it. After the window, 92% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 57% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2.5 hours in.

When would you get there?

6days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 6 hours on Monday, October 26.

Half of its reviewers had played between 3 and 10 hours: Oct 23 to Oct 30 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Bardbarian?

The filter

High Noon

26 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Early Bird and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Early BirdComplete the "morning" chapter.−3862% hold it
  3. High NoonComplete the "noon" chapter.Filtered −2636% hold it
  4. Good EveningComplete the "evening" chapter.−828% hold it
  5. NightmareComplete the "night" chapter.−1018% hold it
How this is counted

62% of the players who launched Bardbarian hold Early Bird, its first story achievement on Steam, and 18% hold Nightmare, its last. The steepest drop comes between Early Bird (62%) and High Noon (36%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Bardbarian worth it?

Is Bardbarian worth it? Yes.

  • Good value

    1.7× the hours of a typical casual game, for the same money

  • Loved

    92% recommend it after the refund windowmost casual games: 92%

  • Gets played

    94% of owners here have played itmost casual games: 60%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $7.99, the typical player's 6 hours come to $1.33 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.33 an hour, Bardbarian is cheaper per hour than 678 of 880 casual games here: the typical one of 880 casual games here charges $2.29, so the same $7.99 buys 1.7× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (casual games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Bardbarian?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Bardbarian, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Bardbarian would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Bardbarian

All 30 games like Bardbarian, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.