Barbardom is a turn-based micro strategy game, which combines two traditional concepts: "15-puzzle" and "3 in a row" (written for the text mode of DOS in ASCII style, and available on Windows and other OS).

You move one of 15 tile pieces, manipulating the game world. Each piece represents a terrain, a character, a building or a unit of the red or the yellow opposing sides. You can assist any side you want.

3 aligned terrain pieces form a building, and 2 adjacent pieces interact or fight, depending on the type of the piece. Your goal is to delay the end of the world, getting the score and fulfilling the chronicles conditions through building, fighting, trading, and interacting.

You can play the game on Windows (download the Windows-ready version) and on any OS with Dosbox.

Goals for the nearest update:

• Sound via PC speaker;
• Small bug and typo fixes;
• Balance adjustements.

https://primitivethinking.itch.io/barbardom

1.0 version is out! (10.10.2023 update)

https://primitivethinking.itch.io/barbardom

The 1.0 UPD. 10.10.2023 changes:

• 1.0 release version is out!
• game breaking glitch is fixed; 
• rebalancing: bridges, trade and terrain swap were reworked; 
• text tutorial was updated;
• sounds and music were added (via PC speaker).

(the screenshot from the game launched in FreeDOS 1.3)

Why to bother with Barbardom?

• it's an easy game to dive into, with several layers of depth;
• You explore chronicles' tasks, and trading, fighting, building mechanics, packed into the 15-puzzle;
• it's a turn-based strategy with brief and separate game sessions;
• its turn-based nature puts less pressure on you, than my real-time puzzle game about space exploration - Atomohod
• there is a sense of global progress through "masters upgrades", which increase your bonuses;
• it's made for the command line / text mode of DOS (and has the Windows-ready version) - it's a terminal / ASCII-styled game in medieval setting with the PC-speaker sound, giving old-school vibes.

Download and try Barbardom! (your feedback will be appreciated)

https://primitivethinking.itch.io/barbardom

In Barbardom 1.1 (update 11.10.2023) the "too many chips used" error was fixed

you can download the latest version here

https://primitivethinking.itch.io/barbardom

The big Barbardom 1.2 update!

• performance improved
• minor tweaks of the introduction 
• the sacrifice mechanics works as intended now
• big balance changes ("great flood" and "doomsday" are more strict)

The text in-game tutorial is kinda bad, still. I'm planning to do the separate one, describing main obscurities. 

Hope, you'll enjoy the puzzle of Barbardom!

https://primitivethinking.itch.io/barbardom