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BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

BUTCHER is a action, gore and indie game developed by Phobia Game Studio and Transhuman Design and published by Transhuman Design and Crunching Koalas.
Released on October 05th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 1,274 reviews of which 1,102 were positive and 172 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.80€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified BUTCHER into these genres:

Action Gore Indie Pixel Graphics 2D Violent Difficult Shooter Platformer Dark Adventure Retro Villain Protagonist Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Arcade Controller Action-Adventure Blood Metroidvania

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP SP2+
  • Processor: Core 2 Duo
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: DX 9.0/OpenGL 2 compliant with SM 2.0+
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
  • Processor: Core 2 Duo
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2 compliant with SM 2.0+
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+ or SteamOS+
  • Processor: Core 2 Duo
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2 compliant with SM 2.0+
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

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March 2025
Butcher is just hellishly fun! Anyone who wants to slip into the role of a misanthropic, merciless cyborg won’t go wrong with this game! The pixel style fits perfectly, the soundtrack is nicely dark, the controls are intuitive, and the sound effects really hit hard - in the truest sense of the word! I’m playing it on Steam Deck OLED at 800p / 60Hz. In my opinion, games like this need to be played on a small screen. It’s practically made for the Deck. When you start the game for the first time, you might notice something’s off - at least that’s how it was for me. I had to go into the controller options, enable the Xbox 360 controller, and restart the game. After that, I was able to map the buttons. If the mouse cursor bothers you, you should set the right trackpad to 'Mouse' and assign 'Left Mouse Button' while pressing. That’s how I fixed it. As for Butcher, I’m about halfway through. It’s a nice, short game that offers some really tough achievements to hunt. A clear recommendation from my side.
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March 2025
I think the theme of this game is mainly based on ms dos era games like Abuse (1995) and Alien Rampage (1996), with significant terminator/predator influence. And the gameplay itself, just like Abuse is similar to famous id software games like doom or quake, so Its very fast, fluent and satisfying. Graphically, however, It does not look like games I mentioned, rather it resembles 8-bit games such as Super Mario Bros. I understand that it was easier for the developers to make a game with these graphics, but considering by what games It might have been inspired by, it would be better to go with 16/32 bit graphics. On the other hand, the way the game looks like gives it a certain simplicity and maybe greater possibilites of movement and speed. Curiously enough the concept is similar to awesome game called Atomic Butcher Homo Metabolicus. Anyways this introduced me to run and gun shooters, or platformer games in general and I really enjoy this game, because It managed to blend elements from all my favourite games. The only flaw is that this game is very short, and even though It has level editor there is not many community maps/content.
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Dec. 2024
Pretty neat and short game. Plays like Doom but 2D. OK for 5 dollars, but 10 is a bit high. Replay value only high if you want to challenge yourself more and more. 10/10 on sale only 8/10 without sale
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Oct. 2024
Fun game. Run around, kill humans. Lots of pixel gore If you find the game too hard, try following: 1. Pick a gamepad. Aiming with mouse is difficult, cursor lock on helps a lot 2. Improve contrast in the settings 3. Play on first difficulty
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Aug. 2024
I've barely played it and this game slaps, especially for the price tag (but I got it on sale anyways). The main thing I wanted to mention was this: It is hard. BUT DON'T LET THAT DETER YOU! There is an easy mode free DLC if you're having trouble. If you're wondering just how hard it could be, imagine hard mode (the easiest mode) being Ultra-Violence on doom. If you're one of the crack-heads that has a reaction time twice as fast as the average person, you'll be right at home here. However, as a casual gamer, you will die. A lot. But I highly recommend giving at least hard mode your absolute best shot! Don't give up, after all it is the way the devs intended the game to be played. The one way I can put this game bluntly is that it feels exactly like a movement shooter like doom or turbo overkill, but 2D. Good luck and have fun :D
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BUTCHER is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam.

BUTCHER is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 2.49€ on Steam.

BUTCHER received 1,102 positive votes out of a total of 1,274 achieving a rating of 8.23.
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BUTCHER was developed by Phobia Game Studio and Transhuman Design and published by Transhuman Design and Crunching Koalas.

BUTCHER is playable and fully supported on Windows.

BUTCHER is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

BUTCHER is playable and fully supported on Linux.

BUTCHER is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for BUTCHER. Explore additional content available for BUTCHER on Steam.

BUTCHER is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

BUTCHER does not support Steam Remote Play.

BUTCHER is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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BUTCHER
-75% 9.99€ 2.49€ -92% 9.99€ 0.80€
8.2
1,102
172
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Developer
Phobia Game Studio, Transhuman Design
Publisher
Transhuman Design, Crunching Koalas
Release 05 Oct 2016
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