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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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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. :)
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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
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I picked up this game because of its strong resemblance to the Studio Ghibli film Porco Rosso. The developers did an amazing job with the visuals and design, and to my surprise, it’s also a very entertaining game. I’d love to see more games inspired by the works of Studio Ghibli!
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It's a great chilling game, great vibes and amazing atmosphere. I would never get tired of landing my hydroplane in such fantastic places. But it's more for players like me, who like games like truck/farm simulator, roadcraft or snowrunner. You set up your own aircraft with plenty of parts, manage your fuel and stamina, fly arround collecting resources/valuables while finding the best recipes for your brews and managing your pub. Occasionally you get attacked by pirates or you must fight their blockade, which it's by far the most annoying part. If you expect an arcade action flight game turn away, it's not for you.
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This is the kind of game that really needs a sequel that builds on the good ideas with mediocre execution and fun but underused mechanics of the first game, it also has a very weird progression system where you can get max fame and trigger the final battle far too early without even having experienced half of the game's content. It would have been nice to have some kind of automation system in place so you don't need to deliver brews yourself all the time too. The AI voice over is awful and significantly worsens the experience though, I'd have preferred no voices at all instead of AI
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The Brew Barons is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
The Brew Barons is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
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.
The Brew Barons is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Brew Barons is not playable on MacOS.
The Brew Barons is not playable on Linux.
The Brew Barons is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for The Brew Barons. Explore additional content available for The Brew Barons on Steam.
The Brew Barons does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Brew Barons does not support Steam Remote Play.
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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Developer
Lifetap Studios
Publisher
Lifetap Studios
Release
01 Mar 2024
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