An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
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Barbotine is a very short, experimental and linear game designed to be completed in a single sitting (20 - 30 minutes). There is no save system and minimal replay value. It can be played for FREE or donated to on itch.io.
Features:
Explore your progressively distorting apartment across 7 levels and indulge in the increasingly uncanny atmosphere.
Engage in a tense melee combat system against a peculiar enemy (Easy mode now available in the pause menu!).
Dig a big hole.
Music sampled from freesound. Creator credits:
Soundmatch24, Thehorsevalse, Volvion, Univ_lyon3, Keygenerator, Saintsamael, Doctor_Dreamchip, Arseniiv, Clacksberg, Giouseppe, Tobiasz 'unfa' Karoń, DZeDeNZ, David819
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Reviews
Themes across 43 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Short and simple horror-action game. I will admit that the combat did start to irritate me at the end, but I turned on easy mode and was fine after that. Two of the enemies are lodged on the stairs and bug out sometimes, and god forbid you stand in the wrong place when they spawn, because they will attack from underneath you.
Barbotine is an amazing experience about the struggles of isolation and cycles. The gameplay is unpredictable! The story is fun and its a nice little horror byte! I made a deep dive on the story! https://youtu.be/y3zGLqPTJOs?si=tDRrMXDjvyc95Ixp
Como adicto, siento que este juego representa la semana, luchar con los demonios del dia a dia mientras intentas pasarlo bien con sustancias y gente que aveces ni siquiera conoces, mientras tanto al estar solo intentas distraerte con videojuegos y enfocarte en poder terminar el dia sea como sea. 10/10 como pieza artistica, pero por la duracion es mas una experiencia que un videojuego.
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Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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a great and fairly short horror experience, with all the tasty PS1 era graphics you could want in a game. some parts started to get frustrating having to play them over and over again to progress but eventually you push through, overall I highly recommend it!
16分钟全成就，一块钱一分钟。
yes can i have more of these whatever pixelated John Carpenter meets Annihilation meets Silent Hill
A fun little 20 minute surrealist jaunt. Combat was pretty fun for something you had to learn and execute in a few minutes, though the AI does sometimes have problems when it gets stuck on the stairs. A lot of complaints seem to revolve around paying any money for a 20 minute game, but if you feel that way, the game is free on itch.io, so you can grab it there if you're curious.
this is so short that it should not be paid, but for everything else is fine
Average hangover experience: The game
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