The Incredible Baron

A charming strategy game with a retro presentation that is a lot of fun to play. Let down a little by not being that adventurous in its level design and feeling a little spammy. For the price it’s a strategy title worth taking for a spin.

76%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, replayability

90% User Score Based on 39 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 4 reviews

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The Incredible Baron is a single player role playing game with a comedy theme. It was developed by flatredball and was released on May 27, 2016. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and positive reviews from players.

The Incredible Baron combines real-time strategy gameplay with over 45 collectible animal species in a tale of exploration, science, and betrayal.

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Audience ScoreBased on 39 reviews

story7 positive mentions

grinding4 negative mentions

The game features charming pixel art and a humorous story that adds to the overall enjoyment.
Gameplay is engaging with a fun mix of strategy and creature collection, allowing for various approaches to each level.
The progression system encourages replayability, as players can revisit earlier missions with upgraded units for a satisfying challenge.

The game can become tedious and repetitive, especially when grinding for certain units or completing higher difficulty levels.
Some players may find the difficulty spikes frustrating, particularly in later stages that can feel unbalanced.
Controls can be unresponsive at times, and the game lacks depth compared to other titles in the genre.

story
38 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
18%
74%
8%
The story of the game is characterized by its humor and charm, featuring a quirky cast led by Baron Buffon Hildengard on a comedic expedition to catalog unknown species, which leads to unexpected challenges and rivalries. While the narrative is engaging and well-presented through animated cutscenes, it is relatively short and serves primarily as a backdrop to the gameplay, which emphasizes replayability and strategic depth. Overall, players appreciate the lighthearted tone and clever writing, making it a delightful complement to the game's mechanics.
- “The story is well written and quite funny, and the game progression mechanics are a nice blend of permanent progression and more temporary features (e.g. you have to rebuild your base each level), but with the base rebuild on each level you can configure the loadout of your creatures and powers and which order they appear in.”
- “I won’t spoil the plot for you, but expect rivalry, betrayal, and violent scientific discovery.”
- “The game has a simple story: you, Baron Buffon Hildengard, with the help of your assistant Smartlee and the money from Lady Nora, are going to discover and catalogue unknown species for fame, fortune, and science.”
- “The story is a little shorter than expected.”
- “It’s easy to pick up and play and the story is amusing, albeit predictable.”
- “You can play through the story fairly quickly if you don’t bother to read it, but it’s worth a laugh.”
gameplay
28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
29%
60%
11%
The gameplay is characterized by a fun and engaging loop that combines strategic unit selection and deployment in a tug-of-war format, with a mix of permanent and temporary progression mechanics. While some players find it simple and occasionally repetitive, others appreciate the charming writing, beautiful pixel graphics, and the variety of monsters and abilities that keep the experience fresh. Overall, it offers a balance of accessibility and depth, making it enjoyable for both casual and more strategic players.
- “It creates this really fun gameplay loop for me where I want to do the later missions to get upgrades to complete earlier missions' harder variants.”
- “This is a charming little strategy game with simple yet engaging gameplay, cute yet memorable writing, beautiful pixel graphics, and a variety of monsters and abilities.”
- “Core gameplay involves you strategically picking units to take into each level, and strategically deploying them to defeat the enemy's base, in a tug of war style scenario.”
- “This game is a poor mobile port with braindead gameplay.”
- “Repetitive tug-of-war gameplay can be frustrating.”
- “The fact that I can sum up the entire gameplay in a single short sentence says a lot.”
music
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
57%
29%
14%
The game's music features a unique steel-drum soundtrack with heavy calypso themes, perfectly complementing its island setting. Reviewers appreciate the upbeat, danceable tunes and the availability of the soundtrack as DLC, noting it enhances the overall retro feel of the game. Despite some critiques on level design, the music consistently receives praise for its quality and enjoyment.
- “The music throughout the incredible baron has heavy calypso themes—fitting considering the game takes place on a series of islands.”
- “The tunes tend to be chipper and could almost fit as dance music.”
- “The graphics and music in this game nail that retro feeling but the game design is modern and fairly deep.”
graphics
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
64%
29%
7%
The graphics of the game are consistently praised for their vibrant, colorful, and charming pixel art style, which evokes a sense of nostalgia and complements the humorous narrative. Reviewers highlight the beautiful 16-bit graphics and engaging creature designs, noting that they enhance the overall experience of the game. While the aesthetic is well-received, some users mention a lack of customization options for graphics settings.
- “The bright, cartoony graphics are cute and charming and a good fit for the humorous story and personalities the game presents.”
- “RPG, strategy, and tower defense mashed up together to form this one beautiful pixelated game; graphics like this always give good impressions towards a game, I can't help but feel overwhelming nostalgia upon launching it.”
- “The graphics and music in this game nail that retro feeling, but the game design is modern and fairly deep.”
- “There are no sound or graphics options other than turning sound on and off and moving from full screen to windowed.”
humor
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game is praised for its well-written and humorous story, complemented by funny dialogue and entertaining cutscenes. Players appreciate the colorful cast and charming graphics that enhance the comedic elements, making it a delightful experience for casual gamers. However, some feel that the humor could have been further enriched with the introduction of new characters.
- “The story is well written and quite funny, and the game progression mechanics are a nice blend of permanent progression and more temporary features.”
- “The cutscenes are also well done and humorous.”
- “The bright, cartoony graphics are cute and charming and a good fit for the humorous story and personalities the game presents.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find the grinding aspect of the game to be tedious and sometimes frustrating, particularly when trying to unlock certain troops or complete all difficulty levels. While some appreciate that the game doesn't feel excessively grindy overall, the need for multiple playthroughs to achieve 100% completion can make the experience feel longer than expected.
- “This game is very tedious.”
- “Trying to grind for some of the troops you can use is tedious and annoying, with the crate of mad horrors being one of the worst.”
- “Somehow, it surprises me how there's only 30 stages in the game, but since I beat them on each difficulty, which required multiple playthroughs and grinding, the game was longer than I thought it would have been.”
replayability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
100%
Players appreciate the replayability of the game, citing various difficulty levels and well-designed units that encourage multiple playthroughs. The engaging story and strategic challenges add to the experience, while the pursuit of silver and gold medals offers additional motivation for replaying. Overall, the game provides a satisfying amount of content that enhances its replay value.
- “There's a reasonable amount of content for a $5 game with some replayability in chasing the silver and gold medals.”
- “Different difficulties provide some form of replayability.”
- “The units are well designed and balanced, the story is clever and entertaining, the challenges are strategically hard in a rewarding way, and there is a lot of replayability to try and unlock everything.”
- “There is a reasonable amount of content for a $5 game with some replayability in chasing the silver and gold medals.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
100%
The game is free to download on iOS and Android, but it includes in-app purchases that may enhance the gameplay experience.
- “The game is free on iOS and Android, though it offers in-app purchases.”
- “I appreciate that the monetization model is fair and doesn't feel exploitative.”
- “The in-app purchases are optional and don't hinder the overall gameplay experience.”
- “The game is free on iOS and Android, but it heavily relies on in-app purchases.”
- “The monetization strategy feels overly aggressive, making it hard to enjoy the game without spending money.”
- “While the game is free to download, the constant push for in-app purchases detracts from the overall experience.”
atmosphere
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The atmosphere is effectively crafted to immerse players in the experience of a scientist exploring tropical islands, enhancing the overall gameplay with a fitting and engaging environment.
- “It suits the atmosphere of a scientist exploring tropical islands.”

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The Incredible Baron is a role playing game with comedy theme.

The Incredible Baron is available on PC, Phone, iPad, iPhone and others.

On average players spend around 9 hours playing The Incredible Baron.

The Incredible Baron was released on May 27, 2016.

The Incredible Baron was developed by flatredball.

The Incredible Baron has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its grinding.

The Incredible Baron is a single player game.

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