Barbarian Run

Why We Picked Barbarian Run

The route through Barbarian Run is the game: timing your jumps, with checkpoints close enough that a mistake costs seconds. It comes down to timing your jumps, and the game rarely asks you to do the same thing twice. The sense of progress comes from the map rather than from a number. It has been opened 1,147 times, and the retry counter is probably higher. For reference: 4.0 out of 5 from 29 ratings, and 128 of 183 on the adventure shelf.

How to Play

The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:

• Scroll the page until the whole frame is visible, since clipped edges swallow clicks near the border.
• The level points you at the exit; the work is the route between here and there.
• Collect on the way through rather than on the way back.

Editor’s Note

Audio helps on the first screen and is optional afterwards. The category leans on level design rather than presentation, so the pages stay light and start quickly.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.