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Butcher

The easiest mode is 'HARD'! BUTCHER is a fast-paced 2D shooter game and a blood-soaked love letter to the early 90s. As a cyborg programmed to eradicate the last remains of humanity, your sole purpose is to well... annihilate anything that moves. So grab your weapon of choice (from chainsaw, through shotgun, to grenade launcher) and kill your way through underground hideouts, post-apocalyptic cities, jungles and more. And if you're feeling creative, there are plenty other ways of ending your enemies' misery - hooks, lava pits, saws... no death will ever be the same. If kicking corpses into a l

Release date
October 5, 2016
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Developer
Transhuman Design
Publisher
Crunching Koalas
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The easiest mode is 'HARD'! BUTCHER is a fast-paced 2D shooter game and a blood-soaked love letter to the early 90s. As a cyborg programmed to eradicate the last remains of humanity, your sole purpose is to well... annihilate anything that moves. So grab your weapon of choice (from chainsaw, through shotgun, to grenade launcher) and kill your way through underground hideouts, post-apocalyptic cities, jungles and more. And if you're feeling creative, there are plenty other ways of ending your enemies' misery - hooks, lava pits, saws... no death will ever be the same.

If kicking corpses into a lava pit and adorning walls with blood is your idea of a good time, BUTCHER is THE game for you. Ultra-violent uncompromising carnage in the spirit of Doom and Quake (chainsaw included) Skill-based gameplay mechanics Release your inner artist, paint the walls with (permanent) blood (up to 4 million pixels available to be painted per level) Use the environment (saws, hooks, lava pits, animals and other) to brutally dispose of your enemies Choose from an array of weapons (featuring classics like chainsaw, railgun and the deadly grenade launcher) Adorn more than 20 levels with the insides of your enemies Soak in the dark atmosphere reinforced by a wicked, heavy soundtrack (while you kick corpses around) Die painfully: melt in lava, become piranha food, get crushed by heavy doors... and more!…

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★ 7.8/10GOG · 206 ratings
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Most helpful8

★ 3 / 5
After playing the demo a while ago, I couldn't wait to lay my hands on the full version. And boy, it's a mixed bag of…
★ 3 / 5
The story is you are a killer robot á la Terminator sent to exterminate the last vestiges of humanity in a war against humanity. The…
★ 5 / 5
The mother ship, a massive behemoth of scrap steel patched and riveted together, fires you out of your drone ship. Your vision goes red, and…
★ 5 / 5
Amazing art style, pixelated and perfect! Great music and sounf fx (voices too)! There is a story to glue things in place! Keyboard and mouse…
★ 3 / 5
Even with the W.I.M.P update i must admit, my reflexes are just not fast enough to match the easiest setting. I love the setting and…
★ 5 / 5
First, there is a Casual Mode with 400% to life, so Butcher can be played by just about anyone, but I advise playing on a…
★ 4 / 5
You may say that Butcher is hard. Hard is the normal setting, ramping up impossible. But you will get through if you have played an…
★ 5 / 5
Anyone complaining about difficulty is just a whiner, the game looks, sounds, and plays fantastic. The levels are diverse and well designed, and as you…

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★ 2 / 5
If you make me play a relentless killing machine like a Terminator I should not get one shot some basic gun. That game shouldn't have…
★ 3 / 5
Good simple game, but it gets annoying completing the level over and over if you die at the last fight in the later and quite…
★ 4 / 5
Its anoying in a good way. Good level design and my nerves are pretty streched
★ 2 / 5
It is missing something. It has such small sprites and jumpy controls for the precision it ask for and honestly, it doesn't seem to offer…
★ 4 / 5
N/A It's good :) (Minimum 30 Characters to stop "Rate this game" from popping up. I just want to play the game.)
★ 3 / 5
great soundtrack, and theoretically ok gameplay, but there just wasn't enough juice to the gameplay to keep me coming back. DNF
★ 5 / 5
The level design is great The mechanicks are straightforward and easy to figure out but still challanging. The controller and keyboard control both equally good.…

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