The Bug Butcher
The Bug Butcher is an action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter "Super Pang" where you shoot vertically…
The Bug Butcher is an arcade developed by Awfully Nice Studios, released 19 January 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.
What The Bug Butcher is
The Bug Butcher is an arcade game developed by Awfully Nice Studios and released in 2016. It was published by 2Awesome Studio. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Harry's mission: survive until the decontamination of the building is complete, hoard coins like his life depended on it, and protect the scientists at all costs. Watch out for the spiders they have a particular fondness for rubber encased scientist brains. After landing, you will move from room to room through the facility blasting rockets, lasers, and wielding the power of lighting upwards at anything not human. Ravenous swarms and ferocious waves of bugs of every size will attempt to kill you, but luckily there will be weapon and health pick-ups to aid Harry on his quest. Fierce reflexes are mandatory for survival, but Harry's brutal power-ups will let the guts fly and make the larva…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 31 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Bug Butcher holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core Duo or faster, 4 GB RAM and OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Bug Butcher launched on 19 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. 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: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Bug Butcher yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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