Balrum

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 703 reviews of which 562 were positive and 141 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 Retro Exploration Farming

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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

Reviews

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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.

May 2024

This game is rewardingly difficult. I am still so early on in the game but I quite enjoy all it has to offer. The building, the farming, the taming, etc. All the mechanics are simple yet effective. Combat is the timeless old school RPG style where applying modifiers is king but it works great.

March 2024

It's been enjoyable figuring out how things work in game. Never felt the need to look up information externally. The game gives just enough information to learn and make informed choices. Game and its systems are rock solid as well.

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Developer

Balcony Softworks

Publisher

Balcony Softworks

Release 29 Feb 2016

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