Game

The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves

AppID 490690 Developer NLB project Publisher NLB project Release 2017-02-10

The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves is an adventure visual novel about the heroic feats of the intrepid warrior Ragnar. Now you can become the famed adventurer Ragnar and bravely seek out all-new original adventures in this exciting game. Delve into the mysteries of the caves and discover what lies in waiting below. Ready your sword: you will investigate sprawling, far-reaching webs of intrigues and unmask the cunning evildoer who stands in your way.

App ID	490690
App type	Game
Developer	NLB project
Publisher	NLB project
Release date	2017-02-10 00:52 UTC
Release state	released
Content descriptors	Some Nudity or Sexual Content, Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content
Store page	store.steampowered.com/app/490690
Last store refresh	4 hours ago

Launch options

#	Executable	Arguments	OS	Description
0	barbsc.exe		windows	Launch
1	barbsc		linux	Launch
2	BarbarianCaves.app/Contents/MacOS/sdl-instead		macos	Launch
3	barbsc.exe	-fullscreen -standalone -game barbarian_caves	windows	Launch

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Price history, US store (USD)

Date	Price	Regular	Discount
2026-09-11 21:36 UTC	$0.99	$4.99	-80%

DLC	AppID	Release	Price
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Branches

Branch	Build ID	Description	Updated	Password
public	4235684		2019-09-27 12:32 UTC

Depots

Depot	OS	Size	Download	Public manifest	Notes
228986	windows				from app 228980 · shared install
490691	windows · 32	300.48 MB	288.02 MB	4821634780171472729
490692	macos	347.25 MB	289.31 MB	2375074201249115428
490693	linux · 32	297.72 MB	286.70 MB	5627903135571919867
490694	linux · 64	297.55 MB	286.64 MB	7907525357797595626
490695	windows · 64	304.54 MB	289.38 MB	6767451149120024727

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Build ID	Branch	Updated	First seen
4235684	public	2019-09-27 12:32 UTC	4 hours ago

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The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves weeklong giveaway in Google Play

2021-07-26 17:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello all! Time flies! Only recently we celebrated the release of Palladium: Adventure in Greece, and now it is time for a first weeklong deal... You can now get the game at a discount for a limited time. Check out its page store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1137270 But this is not all the news. Right now you can also grab the Android version of The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves for free! This limited giveaway will last for one week, so please hurry :) The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves in Google Play Best regards, NLB project team

Palladium: Adventure in Greece is now in the Steam store.

2021-06-05 13:12 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello, everyone! Yesterday, we finally released the game we've been working on for the last two years. This is a great event for our small team. Palladium is a first-person 3D quest where you play as an archaeologist who explores an ancient labyrinth. He will have to solve riddles based on myths of ancient Greece. He can do so alone or take one of two possible companions. Each companion has his unique way of solving riddles, so if you finish the game with one companion, you can play again with another. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1137270/Palladium_Adventure_in_Greece/ To celebrate the r

Now this game is available as the DLC for Non-Linear Text Quests

2019-10-02 12:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello all! We are happy to announce that now this game is available as the DLC for Non-Linear Text Quests. The current owners of the game will get this DLC for free! If you are now familiar with it yet, Non-Linear Text Quests is the bundle of the text games from the different authors, which is available as the separate free game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/531630/NonLinear_Text_Quests/ Right now it contains several stories from us and some stories from the other talented people who like interactive fiction games. In future we are planning to extend the bundle with another game

I Know Everything on Steam!

2019-06-11 08:24 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello all! Check out our new game 'I Know Everything' It is the trivia/quiz with multiplayer support. Play with a friend or against the CPU opponent, learn new facts and test your erudition! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040310/I_Know_Everything/

The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves version 1.87 is here!

2018-08-12 11:49 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello all! Today we've released small update for the game. It contains some fixes, as well as new small branch of plot. You can meet again with the girl you saw at the beginning of the game at some circumstances. Please be aware, that this branch contain erotic content, so you won't be able to reach it if you decided to turn it off at the beginning of the game. And yes, small fix for our players, who refused to play the game because of the adult content, in this update you finally can turn it on. At the beginning of the game, just after the skills selection screen, the game will ask you, do yo

Update is coming!

2018-08-05 08:53 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello all! We are making the small update for the game. It tries to fix some gamedesign problems, and also you will get small storyline with the girl, which Ragnar saw at the beginning of the game. This story is really small (we were afraid to mess with this game, because the paths are so intertwined, that it was very easy to break anything), but we hope you'll like it anyway. If you haven't completed the game yet, please be aware of the fact that the game saves will become incompatible after the update, because, unfortunately, we modified the tools we use for creation of our games, and the in

"The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves" is now available on Google Play!

2017-06-14 20:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Hello all! "The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves" is now available on Google Play! We drastically impoved the performance of the game, now it should work fine on most tablets and low-end PCs. Steam version will be updated soon, too. Starting discount on Google Play is something about 30% for Russian Roubles and even more for some other currencies, but this discount will be active only till June 21st. Good luck to you all! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nlbhub.instead.barbariancaves

"The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves" is now available on Google Play!

2017-06-14 20:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Achievements hotfix

2017-02-10 19:45 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

We noticed that sometimes the game cannot connect to Steam properly at start, and therefore your achievement progress is not shown. But don't worry, we've already done small game update, which will try to re-send your achievements to the Steam when you run the game next time. This should be very rare case indeed, but if you experience this, we recommend you to save the game, then shut it down and restart. Please write in the comment section here, if you've experienced this problem. The method of getting achievements in this game is the same as for our previous game, and we never experienced it

Achievements hotfix

2017-02-10 19:45 UTC · Community Announcements · Antokolos

Full appinfo as delivered by Steam PICS, changenumber 37435436. Also at /api/app/490690/raw.

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