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Balrum on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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 726 reviews of which 581 were positive and 145 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.89€ on Eneba.

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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1 hours played
June 2026
It's okay, gets a little boring after awhile.
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395 hours played
May 2026
Balrum is a very difficult game. I have to restart it more than three times because I selected wrong character abilities. Finally, I got all of achievements after 295+ hours playing. Pros: +Very huge maps. The Balrum map also connects to other big areas. +Many exploration points and quests. There are tons of enemies and dungeons. +Build your own house and depot in the safe place. +Farming, crafting and hunting. +Steal items from other people. +With a Mass Poison potion, you can kill everyone in the village. Cons: -All map locations are fixed. The number of enemies is limited. -There is no method to remove grass and fruit trees on the other maps beside safe place. -Adds learning points to unnecessary abilities will result in game failed. -Some quests might be stuck if you do things in the wrong order. -Don't use a Mass Poison potion on "Woman in black". Because you can't attack her, the game will be crashed after she touches you.
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120 hours played
April 2026
open world, 90's diablo style rpg with crafting and base building mechanics. limited xp with several skill branches. turn based combat where you can accidentally wander into a zone way above your capabilities. there's definitely some jank, like changing zones on an isometric tile map, projectile traps fire every 3-5 seconds, but do not sync to the turn-based combat (you can exploit to eliminate enemies), quests can be vague, it's still fun.
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27 hours played
March 2026
This game cures hangovers. Play 12 hours a day for two days. These guys did Exiled Kingdoms, which I played to death on a tablet a few years back. It's a great little isometric platform, I wish the camera would rotate (it might & I am just too stupid), but I like the way they worked in the turn based combat so seamlessly, I can already tell there is way too much to do, this game is perfect for taking a break from FPS mania, or when your gf dumps you & you don't go out for three months.
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88 hours played
March 2026
Balrum is certainly an unforgettable experience. It has everything you'd ever want in a game, RPG, building your own house, farming, taming creatures, magic, etc. But where it really exceeds is at exploration, the world is HUGE, it took me this many hours to finish a run, I've went and gathered almost everything there was to get, I've explored every single cave, corner and more yet I feel like there's still hidden secrets and walls I haven't breached yet, quests that I haven't really fully completed because from what I understand the game sadly has some loose ends. I could praise it all day for it's quests, for the fact that it doesn't hold your hand at all which for the yellow paint players might scare them away but the game rewards you constantly for the amount of exploration you're doing, amazing loot is basically thrown at you constantly if you manage to complete the challenges and dungeons. Now we only need Balrum 2 to improve everything to perfection
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Frequently Asked Questions

Balrum is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

No, Balrum is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Balrum received 581 positive votes out of a total of 726 achieving a rating of 7.59.
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Balrum was developed and published by Balcony Softworks.

Yes, Balrum is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yes, Balrum is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Yes, Balrum is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Balrum is a single-player game.

No, Balrum does not currently offer any DLC.

No, Balrum does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Balrum does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Balrum 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.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Balrum.

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Balrum
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Rating
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Release 29 Feb 2016
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