Butcher
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…
Butcher is an arcade developed by Transhuman Design, released 5 October 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG.
What Butcher is
Butcher is an arcade game developed by Transhuman Design and released in 2016. It was published by Crunching Koalas. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FMOD.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Butcher holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo, 512 MB RAM and DX 9.0/OpenGL 2 compliant with SM 2.0+. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Butcher launched on 5 October 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Battlefield 1, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI and Sid Meier's Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, Battlefield 1, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Butcher yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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