Barbotine
A downloadable game for Windows
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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
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Release date | Mar 08, 2024 |
Rating | Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars (91 total ratings) |
Author | Alex Rassloff |
Made with | Adobe Photoshop, Unity |
Tags | Atmospheric, Creepy, Experimental, Horror, Indie, Low-poly, PSX (PlayStation), Psychological Horror, Retro, Surreal |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Accessibility | Subtitles |
Links | Steam |
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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
Development log
- V1.0.4 - Increased Parry WindowsApr 13, 2024
- V1.0.3 - Bug FixesMar 16, 2024
- V1.0.2 - Easy Mode AddedMar 15, 2024
- Music CreditsMar 15, 2024
- V1.0.1Mar 10, 2024
Comments
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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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Made a video on Barbotine
More games need to let you destroy ceramic men with shovels. Unlocked something within me
Damn this game is hard. I really really love the slow rotting/mutating concept you have going on.
Give the man his shovel.
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
Played on steam but got a speedrun.com page setup for this game and id love to see new runners :)
Wonderful and very good horror, great soundtrack and game design well done!
ALL ENDINGS!
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
DAISY HEAD CRAZY
ALL ENDINGS
Can't launch it on popOS, any plan for a Linux build?
god the animations of your hands and arms reallly makes my skin crawl!
Full Play NO Commentary
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.
One second I’m partying, the next I’m fighting for the glory of stone cold Steve Austin. Awesome game!
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
good gem :3
VERY STRANGE GAME, in a nice way! The atmosphere is incredible and the gameplay very smooth. Keep it up!!
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!