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A tranquil world becomes ever more corrupt by the day, spoiled by a pirate organization that forcefully impose their brewing monopoly over the lands. It's up to you to explore, forage, craft, sell and deliver your brews to overthrow the corrupt pirate organization and restore peace.
The Brew Barons is a flight, action and open world game
developed and published by Lifetap Studios.
Released on March 01st 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 753 reviews of which 592 were positive and 161 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel i5-6500
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 960 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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The Brew Barons is a solid game with some rough edges. The flying is genuinely fun and that's the piece that had to be done right, so it helps one look past some of the janky bits. It's arcade-y but does have a degree of proper physics to contend with. It strikes the right balance of not feeling like a space ship, without going into full, onerous simulation. Drag, mass, momentum, and stalling are all things and your guns are not hitscan, nor do they have unlimited ammo. It does take a little practice to get the feel for everything but once you do, there's enough there to be engaged and find satisfaction, without crossing into stressful territory. It's good the flying has a strong foundation, because this game is all about near-collisions. Your weapons and boost are water-based and you refill the tank by flying low over water. You shoot fruit from trees, bomb plants free from the ground / seabed, and even cut wheat with your propeller. The resources you extract pop only a short distance from where you liberated them, so you'll need to fly close to the ground, water, trees, etc., and then dodge a hill or building on the other side. You fly a seaplane, so while you there are no waves to contend with and can therefore land just about anywhere and taxi to dock, you have to slow, level off and nose up a bit to avoid damage and broken goods in the process. It all takes a degree of skill, but you'll develop that quick enough. I used a controller for flying and found it to be spot on. The brewing is decent and it's nice you can get fancy with the bottling and naming of your brews. It's certainly picky about having recipes though. You can find them frequently in bottles floating in the water (there's that flying low stuff again) for free but while they say guessing is fine, just don't, it's not worth losing the materials making a batch of sludge. The key is to use only ingredients listed and make sure you keep the one listed with the most as having the most, the actual ratios after that don't matter as long as you hit your minimums. Thankfully, any brew you've made once is saved and you can make again with a pair of clicks, so if customers keep asking for something in particular, it's easy to oblige, provided you have the materials on hand. Now the jank. There's the odd bug like fatigue not displaying correctly and your pilot passing out, but that was the worst thing I encountered. Otherwise it's minor stuff, like the wrong portrait being displayed when a character is talking, the wrong music track getting stuck playing, scroll bars displaying weird, and some typos so egregious, they're frankly embarrassing. Controller support in menus is clunky and inconsistent, to say the least, but use a mouse in the brewery, bar, and settings, and life's good. In the beginning, one fellow blinks bottom-up, which is hilariously uncanny. I pissed him off and shortly after all but chasing me from his bar, he radioed in of his own accord to helpfully teach about salvaging wrecks. All the while red-faced, shaking with rage, angry vein on the forehead and bottom-blinking. Goofy as all get out but also one of the funniest NPC interactions I'd had in a while, so he gets a pass for making me laugh. On that note, the overall tone of the game is light-hearted and relaxing with some environmentalism vibes. Even if you crash the plane, it's pretty forgiving about it, you wind up back at the nearest shipyard / HQ needing repairs, yes, but not having lost your cargo or killed anybody. Indeed, for all the dogfighting and explosions, nobody dies. When you beat foes, they flee. Even if they crash, they talk so you know everybody's OK. You use water-based gear, while the pirates use smog-based tech that causes longer-lasting environmental damage. The dialog is often campy, as are many of the pirate personalities in general. It's all in good fun. Honestly, were it not for all of the alcohol references, it'd be a fine game for kids. Even then, it doesn't lean into it in a problematic way, there's even a quest where an alcoholic sees the error of his ways and turns it around. You made it to the end so some quick tips. Despite all the art showing the zeppelin boss, not all zeppelins are enemies, only the ones with black smoke coming out the bottom are pirates. The others are markets you can buy recipes and materials at, so if you want to start swapping parts on your plane, be sure to visit to get the materials instead of relying on boxes or picking fights you may struggle with on the default plane. Also do the character quests. One will add the locked trait, but the other will replace the negative trait with a positive one. The quests themselves are varied, fun, and worth it on their own but those trait improvements are quite important. So there you have it. The Brew Barons was apparently a Kickstarter game and made by a tiny team of 3 people. I think they did a fine job and the scales weigh in with a lot more being done well than not. I wouldn't mind trying what they brew up in the future.
TLDR: Have you ever wanted to be rum running Porco Rosso? If so give The Brew Barons a try. It is now EASILY one of my favourite games. Full Review: The Brew Barons without a doubt is one of the most unique games i have played. Brings me back to the same creativity you would see back in PS2 days of gaming when everything and anything was being made. If you are familiar with warthunder's mouse/keyboard flight controls congrats thats pretty much what The Brew Barons does. Its not as good at automatically roll/pitch/yawing the plane to perfectly fallow the cursor but it succeeds at being way more accsesable than a flight sim. Plus there is some room for skill on your part utilising WASDQE controls to override the autopilot. The story is pretty simple. There is pirates that trade in crap alcohol that have forced all thier competition out either by just out supplying them or making it impossible for others to do buisness. You wish to change that and thus start The Brew Barons. There is more story beats than that but the game only took me 28 hours to complete so Ill leave the rest for you to discover. Its nothing mind blowing but not every story has to be. The gameplay is really where the game shines and clearly where the most effort went. Once your done the little bit of tutorial your kinda just free to proceed as you want. You fly around in your little plane collecting ingredients to make booze for contracts that come in. This will be your primary way of making money and earning a name for yourself. While your out and about you also can find new recipes from bottles out at sea and shipwrecks to salvage for plane parts and recipes. Once you have the ingredients you can either fallow a recipe you know of up to 3 ingredients at certain minimum percentages or.....if your feeling adventurous, WING IT and guess at a recipe you don't know yet to make a brew. Just know that in trial and error your gonna get a lot of error. once you got a brew that fits your contract load it up and head out for delivery....but be careful, bottles are glass after all and slamming your plane into something or getting shot can break the brew your transporting. Speaking of getting shot, once you leave your home island there is a chance that thier is pirates occupying the other islands you go to. If there is they will harrass you will you try to collect ingredients or worse if you have to deliver to that island prevent you from landing until they are are defeated. Early on the pirates are really easy and it actually made me worried but as you gain more fame and defeat them more they get tougher and tougher to defeat by sending more planes/missiles/towers/ships at you. Eventually they will even start doubling up on you and trapping you near the island with a smog dome. Some of the boss fights are a bit tricky to figure out what your supposed to do (looking at you zepplins) but once you figure out HOW your supposed to fight them its not super hard. There at the very least is enough varriety in the fights and depending on what type of plane and plane parts you have some fights will be easier or harder. Once your delivery is done you probably have a bunch of left over brew....what do you do with it? Well you also own your own bar which you collect the proceeds from every day. at first it won't be much but as your reputation grows and you start stocking higher quality booze it will be a great passive income. Or you could focus entirely on your own bar. Who am I to tell you how to run your company? As you visit other bars you will run across people that you can hire on to fill out your company, some are pilots, some mechanics, some are brewmasters, and others have little more varried skill set. Every character starts with 1 postive and 1 negative trait, these can range from fantastic to mild annoyences to things that will activly make the game harder until you get rid of that trait. Good news is once a preset pair of characters have enough flight hours together they will start a story quest that you can do to unlock/change traits. Do all of these and eventually everyone will have 3 positive traits. Its not only your crew and your brews you can tweak and tune. Your plane also has 7 catagories of parts you can change, each having between 5-8 different parts for each catagory, AND there is 2 varients of plane; light and heavy. This makes roughly 100 different parts so you truly make the exact plane you want. Every part has an upside and a downside. Example being stable wings lower your stall speed, make you turn tighter BUT your top speed is also reduced. This does lead to some parts working together way better and eventually you will work up enough money that you can start building specialized planes for certain jobs. An example being i had a light plane designed entirely for harvesting wheat fields. The Elephant In The Room Yes they clearly used AI for at least some of the voice acting and ya it is not great. But I can say that is easily the worst aspect of the game. Its not all bad as some of it is passible bordering on good and I didn't feel like it ruined the experience at any point. What I DIDN'T run into was bugs.....can you believe that? Not one...what a time to be alive.... It also runs great on my ASUS F15 Laptop without tweaking the settings it started with so any somewhat modern basic gaming hardware should run the game no problem. Maybe even a decently powerful work laptop with dedicated GPU should too. The Brew Barons is not perfect but for a first game its pretty damn good. (Note to Lifetap) Please give us a DLC to expand the map to the mainland. I want MORE. I wanna take the fight to the pirates! Thanks for the great game, hopefully you can hire some voice actors next time. :)
nice chill plane game. reminded me of crimson skies, and if you ever think about a sequel ,go bit more in that direction. but i did like the farming and brewing aspect of it and the visueel setting and chill. i hope you can and will make sequel and have the fights bit more action pack. put the breweries in the zepplins and add broadside cannons and rival zepplins with cannons that go toe to toe. with a fighter sqaudron each and the a.i voices arnt that great. and get annoying the more you hear it. try voice actors next time and if you dont got budhet maybe back to text bubbles
This is such a unique game. Fly, explore, harvest, dog fight, and brew. Don't let the negative reviews about the voices turn you away. If you are looking for something to chill and have fun with that involves flying and brewing, you can't go wrong here. Think art style of Valkyrie Chronicles with some Crimson skies combat and throw in some harvesting and brewing. The game is really easy to learn and step into and just have fun with. I am using a PS dualshock controller and it works perfect for flying.
Really excellent game. I absolutely loved it and would really like a DLC or a sequel. A little bit buggy though but nothing game breaking. Loved * the possibility to chose your playstyle (contracts, quests, bar management or fighting) * having a full roster of likeable and less likeable characters having their own quests and personalities * the plane mechanics * the atmosphere * the graphics Disliked * Crossed a couple of irritating bugs (but nothing game breaking) * Some missions really heavily ramp up the difficulty * Some bosses can be really confusing * The text can be really hard to read and the graphics really pixelated on a docked Steam Deck (the game wasn't intended for this platform anyway) Overall: excellent game, do not hesitate to buy and play it.
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The Brew Barons is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
No, The Brew Barons is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Yes, The Brew Barons received 592 positive votes out of a total of 753 achieving a rating of 7.47.
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The Brew Barons was developed and published by Lifetap Studios.
Yes, The Brew Barons is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, The Brew Barons is not playable on MacOS.
No, The Brew Barons is not playable on Linux.
The Brew Barons is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for The Brew Barons. Explore additional content available for The Brew Barons on Steam.
No, The Brew Barons does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, The Brew Barons does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The Brew Barons is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Lifetap Studios
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Lifetap Studios
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01 Mar 2024
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