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Games like There's a Butcher Around

If There's a Butcher Around is your kind of game, the closest matches are ENEFN, 喵路昭昭 The long journey and Immortal Mantis — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but replayable scenarios, atmospheric and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About There's a Butcher Around: There's a Butcher Around, a brutal hide & seek. Bill the butcher has escaped from the asylum and is looking for new victims. During the game you will have to find a place to hide, remembering that your friends are also trying to hide from the butcher. Every round, Bill the butcher chooses a spot to investigate, are you well hidden?

2019IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Qianmo Interact
There's a Butcher Around — Steam game cover
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Steam players who put hours into There's a Butcher Around also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. ENEFN

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    ENEFN is a strange school, something even more strange happened and only one of the students circulates in its corridors, you, satisfying the requests of those who can no longer move... make your journey in search of your freedom.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 喵路昭昭 The long journey

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    In order to find the lost cat, the girl must embark on a difficult road!

    2024IndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Immortal Mantis

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Discover secrets, solve puzzles and survive the serial-killer in this pixelated topdown. You are Akin, an exterminator, who bought a house in a rural area, but the past of this house will affect your present.

    2022IndieRPGCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Shipwrecked 64

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with There's a Butcher Around.

    Ranked #4 for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    A recovered copy of a lost game from the late 1990s about a Beaver named Bucky and his friends trying to escape from an island they crashed upon.

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with There's a Butcher Around.

    Ranked #5 for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Get ready to rage with your friends in this co-op precise platforming adventure! You're stuck in Hell. You can only jump upwards and all you have to do is escape … it can't be that hard, right?!

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. DERE EVIL EXE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with There's a Butcher Around.

    Ranked #6 for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    DERE EVIL EXE is both a terrifying thriller with a gripping meta horror story and a retro 16-bit pixel platformer with unique puzzles and obstacles.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with There's a Butcher Around.

    Ranked #7 for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Extreme Exorcism

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for There's a Butcher Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Extreme Exorcism is a paranormal platformer where every move you make comes back to haunt you.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below There's a Butcher Around at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under There's a Butcher Around on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with There's a Butcher Around.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There's a Butcher Around.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about There's a Butcher Around

Is There's a Butcher Around verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — There's a Butcher Around is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does There's a Butcher Around cost?
There's a Butcher Around is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to There's a Butcher Around?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside There's a Butcher Around are ENEFN, 喵路昭昭 The long journey, Immortal Mantis.
Who developed There's a Butcher Around?
There's a Butcher Around was developed by Qianmo Interact.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on There's a Butcher Around.

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