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An atmospheric horror micro-game about anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

  • 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.

    Also available on Steam, with achievement support.


Music sampled from freesound.org. Creator credits:

Soundmatch24, Thehorsevalse, Volvion, Univ_lyon3, Keygenerator, Saintsamael, Doctor_Dreamchip, Arseniiv, Clacksberg, Giouseppe, Tobiasz 'unfa' Karoń, DZeDeNZ, David819

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Release date Mar 08, 2024
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(91 total ratings)
AuthorAlex Rassloff
Made withAdobe Photoshop, Unity
TagsAtmospheric, Creepy, Experimental, Horror, Indie, Low-poly, PSX (PlayStation), Psychological Horror, Retro, Surreal
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
AccessibilitySubtitles
LinksSteam

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Barbotine_Windows_1.0.4.rar 45 MB
Barbotine_Windows_1.0.3.zip 56 MB
Barbotine_Windows_1.0.2.zip 56 MB
Barbotine_Windows_1.0.1.zip 56 MB

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Love your GAME! I just showcased in my 25 Short Horror Games Season 6! Keep up the AWESOME & Spooky Work! | Game 03

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 6 months l8r still waiting on a creepy game like this 2 come along again lol
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Uncovering The Terrifying Secrets Of This Surreal Body Horror!

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Made a video on Barbotine

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More games need to let you destroy ceramic men with shovels. Unlocked something within me

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Damn this game is hard. I really really love the slow rotting/mutating concept you have going on.

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Very nice game! really enjoyed it :)
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Give the man his shovel.

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watched a playthrough of this :] incredible atmosphere, and everything fits together so cool visually. these were the best animations i have ever seen as well. really cool experience

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Very well done and super fun to play, good job!
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Played on steam but got a speedrun.com page setup for this game and id love to see new runners :)

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Wonderful and very good horror, great soundtrack and game design well done!

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ALL ENDINGS!

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I loved it! I didn't think I would but man what a fun surprise.

Everything is really well made, and that ending! loved it.

I know it's way easier said than done, but you could do a bigger game with something like this, this was a lot of fun, and I thought of silent hill with this, the story, environment, enemies, and combat, but your thing! loved it

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DAISY HEAD CRAZY

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ALL ENDINGS

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Can't launch it on popOS, any plan for a Linux build?

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god the animations of your hands and arms reallly makes my skin crawl! 

Full Play NO Commentary 

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Awesome Game!!!
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Barbotine takes players on a chilling journey through themes of anxiety and isolation, wrapped in a surreal PSX aesthetic. Across seven eerie stages, the distorted levels of your apartment create an increasingly unsettling atmosphere. The concept is intriguing, evoking vibes reminiscent of Suda51's work. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and am eagerly anticipating more from the developer.
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Good Job
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A very interesting project. Have you ever read the visual novel "Saya No Uta"? There, the main character sees the world in a similar way.

I thought about the plot of your game. The first thought that I had for me was that the girl at the beginning of the game infected the protagonist and the following days is the sensations of a sick person during high temperature. White people are microbes (perhaps covid?). The main character fights the disease. But what symbolizes the pit? The hero tries to dig a tunnel to escape from the disease? Or does he want to bury himself from the outside world? Maybe the allusion is not on the disease, but rather on the fear (or hatred) of society and how such a person sees the world. Perhaps white people are guys from the party? Satire for rotten society and noisy companies. Perhaps I dig too deep in search of meaning, but it is very interesting to know what the author put in the plot when creating. But probably this is a secret.

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One second I’m partying, the next I’m fighting for the glory of stone cold Steve Austin. Awesome game! 

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This was a fun and cool game. I didn’t make it to the end however. I wasn’t good at the end part lol

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absolute GEM 11\10 still not sure wtf just happend...
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good gem :3

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VERY STRANGE GAME, in a nice way! The atmosphere is incredible and the gameplay very smooth. Keep it up!!

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This game was CRAZY! I had someone look up what barbotine meant and it helped me understand the imagery a lot better, but this is a SUPER INTERESTING concept. Great Job!!
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An interesting little horror game with unsettling visuals! I was less keen on the combat mechanics, though that may just be me being crap. Nonetheless, decent stuff overall!

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Super fun, Day 5 made me want to do bad things.
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Game gud, I like game
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