Barnburners

About the Game

Barnburners is a love letter to the arcade hockey games of the '90s and early '00s. Easy to pick up, tricky to truly master, and built for huge hits, dirty dangles, and top shelf goals.

Core Game

5v5 hockey the way the old arcade style games played: penalties on, offside and icing off by default, and fights that leave their mark on the ice until it gets resurfaced. A faceoff camera straight out of 1994. Franchise mode, pond hockey, and a stack of arcade mode, plus an unbranded ice resurfacer during intermission.

If you have friends on the couch or friends far away, you can go head to head or team up against the CPU. Online Play Now matches you online with someone else looking, preset rules, no fuss. Or host a private lobby with a join code and tune the rules to your heart's content.

Barnburners introduces the BHL: 24 fictional clubs from real hockey towns, each playing the style its city is famous for. Boston and Philly hit hard. Detroit plays 2 way hockey, Every club has a captain with a signature ability that charges up over the game and doubles down on the team identity.

Pick a club, build a dynasty, and chase the Clevenger Cup. Set your lines, swing deadline trades, sign free agents, and draft your next stars, all while keeping ownership happy and staying under the cap. Watch a prospect grow from draft night to the minors, then call him up and find out if he has what it takes. There is no end date so run it as long as you want.

• Pick-up-and-play controls you'll recognize (plus remapping if you want)

• Arcade skating with boost, big open-ice checks, and helmet pops

• Full force fighting with combos, supers, and KO finishers (or use simple mode, or skip fights entirely)

• 24 original clubs with full rosters, lines, and captain abilities

• Franchise mode with draft lottery nights, deadline trades, free agency, a salary cap, aging, awards, and rivalries

• Lots of ways to play: Exhibition, Full Tilt for faster action, Franchise, short-season Cup Runs and Gauntlets, Training Camp, 3v3, House Rules modifiers, Golden Goal, Hat-Trick Hero, and pond hockey

• Online head-to-head with Quick Match, join codes, and instant rematch, plus couch play for 2 to 4 players (versus or co-op)

• Full controller support, a Steam Deck graphics preset, and accessibility options: one-button mode, hi-vis puck, reduced motion and flashing, high-contrast kits