Soiled Iron on the Commodore 64 is a 2024 Barbarian-style sword-fighting game where long-haired barbarians in loincloths duel with big blades in either a short quest mode or straight one-on-one arena battles. In quest mode you roam a simple dungeon, checking an automap, fighting warlocks and other foes, and chugging healing potions between tightly timed clashes; in the versus modes you focus purely on dueling, either against another player or a range of increasingly nasty AIs, using joystick moves to trigger blocks, lunges, and heavy strikes. It’s built around chunky, large sprites, crunchy music, and quick fights that lean more on timing and reading your opponent than on long move lists, basically playing like a modern C64 love letter to Barbarian’s pit-fight brutality.

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