Balrum on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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. Grow your own crops, build your home, and craft your own custom items.

Balrum is a rpg, adventure and crafting game developed and published by Balcony Softworks.
Released on February 29th 2016 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 719 reviews of which 573 were positive and 146 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Balrum into these genres:

RPG Adventure Crafting Strategy Isometric Open World Indie Survival Sandbox Fantasy CRPG Turn-Based Combat Building 2D Singleplayer Old School Turn-Based Exploration Retro Farming

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Processor: Single Core 1.6Ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1650 / NVIDIA GeForce 8200 / Intel GMA 950, or equivalent
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes: OpenGL 1.4 compatible

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.7 or later
Processor: Dual Core Processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 1.4 compatible
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later (64bit)
Processor: Single Core 1.3Ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1650 / NVIDIA GeForce 8400 / Intel GMA 950, or equivalent
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes: OpenGL 1.4 compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

I'll start with saying that I expected way less before playing. Less gameplay and way less fun, knowing that I read some bad reviews before playing. I was looking for a UO-like game but a solo experience. A deep crafting system, level up, exploring, freedom that some of the early games was so good at. Let me tell you that it didn’t disappoint. Someone said that playing with a mage was a terrible mistake, so I did just that. The game has its challenge—if you're playing a mage, be sure to constantly look for mana potions. Usually, I'm not into lore, reading quests and hints, but this game got me reading all the little notes I could find explaining what has happened in the village and with our character. I love exploring and collecting stuff, so it has a lot in this section that really scratched my UO-like gaming experience. I had to get used to walking and how the environment works, but let me say this, I've been playing BG3 just before this game, and I have way more fun with Balrum. I love the graphics, it's something that I've been looking for a long time. You mainly level up with quests, not when killing mobs, so it offers a different perspective than I'm used to. Some of the things in the game get pretty repetitive, like same monsters, dungeons—you eventually know what to expect. I read that people don't like mobs dying permanently, but I really appreciate them not respawning. It's not an action RPG though, and this decision suits it well. For now, my only problem with the game is that I would like it to be bigger, get frequent updates, DLCs or a sequel. I haven't finished the game, but I'm eager to. I don't think you're supposed to master all the skills in one run, so it leaves a lot of space for replayability. The game is full of surprises, I was not expecting a lot of things that happened, and I love it about the game. The atmosphere is quite dark, and the music is great. It's a good game for people who appreciate early pixelated games with a lot of freedom.

Dec. 2024

A strong entry the turn based RPG genre. It has the nostalgic feel of Genesis and SNES games but has a lot more depth. There are times where it becomes a slog and could do with pacing adjustments on the some of the quests, but overall its fun and well worth playing.

Oct. 2024

its fun for a classic rpg style game. would be great if they updated it with better movement/combat mechanics - 6/10

Sept. 2024

Game has its issues but it's a lot of fun as long as you don't play it in the hardest mode. You follow the story (which starts out great, but then loses quality) and do some side quests to get more experience. Monsters do not respawn and are generally not worth killing because they barely give experience. You have your own house you can build and craft stuff in. I finished the game as a warrior (using some spells) in the hardest mode and it was frustrating and had to save-scum all the time because I always had like 50% chance to hit due to the game mechanics. Then I finished it again in mage in normal difficulty (followed the main story and it took me less than 10 hours) so I could get the remaining achievements, and it was a lot more fun. I could have played a third time as an archer (I hear it's the best class) but there wasn't more achievements to get. I enjoyed over 100 hours of fun almost for free. Recommended.

Aug. 2024

It took a little bit to get used to the game and what it is asking for me to do. But once I got familiar with it I am having so much fun with it.

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14.99€

7.6

573

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Developer

Balcony Softworks

Publisher

Balcony Softworks

Release 29 Feb 2016

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