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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“great game, had lots of fun with it and gamplay is smooth. plays like a metroidvania with a lot of puzzles. Listening too the lore is not necessary for this game, but gives it a lot more depth. (I mean.. you're barbarian after all.. no need to listen, just smash!) ;) only thing…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:06 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials 1.4.4 Patch Notes
Support for custom modded languages See the following file within the game's install folder for instructions on how it works: /Batbarian Testament of the Primordials_Data/StreamingAssets/localization_
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials 1.4.3 Patch Notes
Prevented a soft lock possible on a miniboss in the Ethereal Palace caused by being able to leave the fight early
Free Content Update: Richochet Rumble! (and 1.4.2 Patch Notes)
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Action · Indie · Adventure · RPG · Metroidvania · 2D · Platformer · Singleplayer · Funny · Puzzle-Platformer · Retro · Dark Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 50 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://batbarian.dangenentertainment.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 and Above Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB) DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 1 GB available space