Barbotine

Barbotine

Released Mar 2024

An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

90% positive · 169 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Barbotine is a deliberately compact, self-contained experience — the store description explicitly describes it as "a very short, experimental and linear game designed to be completed in a single sitting (20–30 minutes)" with "minimal replay value." The game launched on March 8, 2024. Post-launch activity was limited to minor quality-of-life and accessibility improvements (Easy Mode added on March 15, 2024; bug fixes on March 16, 2024; parry window adjustments on April 13, 2024), all of which are consistent with standard post-launch polish rather than ongoing content development. There are no DLC listings, no announcements of future content, no roadmap, and no developer statements indicating plans for additional content. The developer has not posted any updates since April 13, 2024. Given the game's explicitly stated design as a finished, single-sitting micro-experience, it launched as a complete product and has received no signals of further content development.
Evidence
Store description explicitly markets the game as a very short, linear, single-sitting experience with minimal replay value — designed as a complete, self-contained product.
description · Mar 8, 2024 source development ending
high
V1.0.4 increased parry windows on enemy attacks. Last developer communication on record.
news post · Apr 13, 2024 source development ongoing
low

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Alex Rassloff
Achievements
11
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

Barbotine is a very short, experimental and linear game designed to be completed in a single sitting (20 - 30 minutes). There is no save system and minimal replay value. It can be played for FREE or donated to on itch.io.

Features:

  • 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.

Music sampled from freesound. Creator credits:

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

Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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