Barotrauma

Buy94%

Very Positive · 90k player reviews · High confidence

Yes, worth buying.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

FakeFish · Co-op · Mar 13, 2023

Player review score
94%
Very Positive
Price
$17.49−50%
Lowest ever
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
76
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
13
Full audio0 of 13
Subtitles13 of 13

Should I buy Barotrauma?

Buy it if you like
  • Co-op: 99 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 59 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Performance: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 5 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 90k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise33% are divided17% are complaints
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
99 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
After a good 118 hours of play, I can say that the absolute best part for me is the co-op PvE Campaign.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
59 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
There is a very solid crafting system in the game which lets you build all but a select few (only one comes to mind) consumables, and definetly anything that is required to keep going.
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
23 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
There is a breadth of content accessible to all levels of skill, which I think is the key to what makes Baro so easy to play compared to other mechanically intensive multiplayer games.
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
20 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It finds a good balance between difficulty and accessibility, whilst not giving the impression that too much is lost when missions fail.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
17 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
After 400H this game still has new content for me, with its already long multichoice story where you can be the submariner that wants to help colonize this alien planet, or try and stop them, is a ton of fun and it can be solo player or multiplayer, just do me a favor?
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
But it offers endless hours of fun, room for creative problem solving, near infinite exploration, rewarding progression and combat, great opportunities for team play and emergent stories, an atmospheric voice chat, some minor but cool puzzles (totally optional, but worth the effort) and much more.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Co-op99 reviews
Gameplay59 reviews
Multiplayer23 reviews
Difficulty20 reviews
Story17 reviews
Combat8 reviews
Divided opinion
Graphics
100% still recommend
Servers and matchmaking
25% still recommend
Interface
75% still recommend
Characters
100% still recommend
Players complain
Performance
86% still recommend
Bugs
100% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Co-op
  • Multi-player
  • Online Co-op
  • Online PvP
  • PvP
  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Includes level editor
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Timeline
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded
$17.49$34.99−50%

That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

10 points recordedtoday · $17.49

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