Fit check
Is Age of Barbarian Extended Cut worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Sword-and-sorcery fans who want graphic melee combat
- Action players who enjoy combining platforming with exploration and small riddles
- Players seeking automatic character progression alongside weapon-based fighting
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who want combat without gore, blood, and dismemberment
- Players seeking a focused role-playing game rather than a mix of platforming, exploration, riddles, and hack-and-slash combat
- Players looking for cooperative play or tower-defense gameplay
Our take on Age of Barbarian Extended Cut
Players who expect a role-playing game centered on character choices may hit a wall when the experience shifts into platforming, trap avoidance, and direct blade combat. The combat also calls for using parries, dodges, rolls, and varied attacks, so players seeking a simple attack-only system may find that point difficult.
What is Age of Barbarian Extended Cut?
Age of Barbarian Extended Cut combines role-playing, platforming, and hack-and-slash combat in a fantasy sword-and-sorcery setting.
Players fight monsters with weapons, kicks, parries, dodges, and rolls, while exploring zones, avoiding traps, and solving small riddles. The game includes boss and mini-boss fights, different weapons and items, and the task of rescuing maidens from sacrifice and bringing them somewhere safe. Some levels require riding giant beasts. An automatic level-up system grants new moves and increases health, stamina, attack power, and defence. Its presentation uses digitized sprites, HD graphics, hand-drawn and edited artwork, and music selected for an epic fantasy atmosphere.
How Age of Barbarian Extended Cut plays
- 01Varied combat moves
- Fights allow weapon strikes, kicks, parries, dodges, and rolls.
- 02Boss encounters
- The game includes both large boss fights and mini-boss battles.
- 03Automatic leveling
- Gaining levels adds moves and raises health, stamina, attack power, and defence.
- 04Giant beast riding
- Riding giant beasts is required in some levels.
- 05Digitized sprites
- The game presents digitized sprite artwork in HD.
Age of Barbarian Extended Cut compared to similar games
Ghost of a Tale focuses on a mouse minstrel in a medieval animal world, with stealth, disguises, conversations, and exploration; Age of Barbarian Extended Cut instead combines melee combat, platforming, traps, riddles, and automatic character advancement. Vagante is also set in a dark fantasy world with monsters and demons, while Age of Barbarian Extended Cut includes maiden rescues, giant beast riding, and boss and mini-boss fights.
Age of Barbarian Extended Cut: platforms & release
Is Age of Barbarian Extended Cut worth it?
It is worth it if: sword-and-sorcery fans who want graphic melee combat. Skip it if: players who want combat without gore, blood, and dismemberment.
Where can I download Age of Barbarian Extended Cut?
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What platforms is Age of Barbarian Extended Cut on?
Windows only.
