Chip chap chipchipchap! For our listener-requested episode this week, we are dungeon diving through Barony: the voxelized roguelike with split-screen co-op! Listen to our encounters with horrible gnomes, armies of human villagers, and Pac-Man ghost scouts. There’s a lot to unpack from a game with just one axis of movement, be it spellcrafting, hunger management, commanding your army of the Zap Brigade against the minotaur, and navigating halls of rolling boulders. Lucky for you there’s a robust tutorial system…if you survive! Drop in and listen or we’ll drop you into The Underworld!

• 1:09 - game stats
• 3:00 - one sentence description
• 4:17 - Story introduction criticism and scrolling text complaints
• 8:23 - No meta progression and first biome experience
• 16:58 - Combat system discussion and melee problems
• 25:09 - Magic system and wizard class advantages
• 30:20 - Identification system and item appraisal mechanics
• 34:51 - Tutorial system criticism and death penalties
• 42:30 - Multiplayer experience and split-screen chaos
• 45:53 - Emergent gameplay moments and ZAP brigade
• 52:57 - Comparison with Shattered Pixel Dungeon mechanics
• 59:17 - Level design issues and lack of complexity
• 1:03:39 - DLC content and monster race characters
• 1:04:38 - Music discussion and audio cue importance
• 1:07:48 - rankings and final thoughts
• 1:15:18 - similar games
• 1:16:36 - listener email from the Wildermyth developers!

Next episode: Lonestar

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Intro music: Billy Cobham - Red Baron

Outro music: Barony - Merchant’s Theme