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Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron's Workshop

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Bubble Bobble 4 Friends:
The Baron's Workshop
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron's Workshop cover
Developers
Taito
Windows A+ Games[1]
Publishers
Taito
Engines
Unity 2019[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows September 30, 2021
Reception
OpenCritic 72
IGDB 74
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Arcade, Platform
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy
Series Bubble Bobble
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Puzzle Bobble (series)

Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron's Workshop is a singleplayer and multiplayer side view action platform game developed by Taito, ported by A+ Games and published by Taito. It is part of the Bubble Bobble series.

The game was first released on Nintendo Switch as simply Bubble Bobble 4 Friends on November 19, 2019. A PlayStation 4 version was released on November 17, 2020 with additional content that was added to the Switch version on the same day; the game was retitled Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back! to coincide with the content update.

The Windows version, released almost one year after the PS4 release, is a port of the The Baron is Back! with a PC-exclusive level editor feature with Steam Workshop support. Both the PlayStation 4 and Windows versions were ported by A+ Games for Taito.[1]

The game is currently available on Steam.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows

Game data

General options.
General options.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\co_jp_taito\BUBBLE_BOBBLE_4_FRIENDS\BBSave\BBSaveData
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1287030/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\co_jp_taito\BUBBLE_BOBBLE_4_FRIENDS\BBSave\BBSaveData
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1287030/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
[2]

Video

Graphics options.
Graphics options.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
[2][3]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Listed as "Windowed(Borderless)".[2]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
[2][3]
120+ FPS
Capped at 60fps as of patch 1.0.1.[2]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Control options.
Control options.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate sliders for BGM, Voice, and SE.[2][4]
Surround sound
Stereo only.[5]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
[2]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Criware
Cutscenes Criware

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2400
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce GTX 550Ti
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2019.4.16f1[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1287030/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1287030) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 A+ Games work list (Japanese) - last accessed on May 2023
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Verified by User:TremiRodomi on 2021-09-30
  3. 3.0 3.1 This is concerning - Steam Discussions - last accessed on 2021-09-26
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Bubble Bobble 4 Friends - Coming to Steam! - last accessed on 2021-03-19
  5. Verified by User:TremiRodomi on 2021-09-30
    Tested with Orbiton Loudness Meter and a Soulion Tracer 30, which reports as a 7.1 audio device using virtual surround sound mode.