Games like The Bug Butcher
If The Bug Butcher is your kind of game, the closest matches are Assault Android Cactus+, The Art Of Flight and Steredenn: Binary Stars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, funny and intense. 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Bug Butcher: A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.
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Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Top pick for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
The Art Of Flight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Play solo or with your friends in this fast-paced space shooter. Pilot multiple ships at the same time while taking on waves of enemies, finding power-ups, and gaining additional episodes along the way. Who will make it to the top of the leaderboard?
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Shares co op and an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Third-strongest match for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
Arcade Mayhem Juanito
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Bug Butcher.
Ranked #4 for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Arcade Mayhem Juanito is a retro experience about arcade-hopping. Teleport into different video games, play with unique mechanics inspired by well-known arcade games, face stunningly animated bosses and join the fight against the clonocell invasion.
Bleed
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Ranked #5 for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Shares co op and an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Ranked #6 for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Ranked #7 for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Nex Machina
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Ranked #8 for The Bug Butcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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Pang Adventures
WHY THIS
Shares power up collection and an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Reviewers of The Bug Butcher cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Bug Butcher.
The Pang series is a beloved collection of arcade video games from the early 90s. Guide two brothers on a quest around the world to save humankind from a massive alien invasion!
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Bug Butcher cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Space Invaders Extreme
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Reviewers of The Bug Butcher cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Bug Butcher.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Bug Butcher at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Bug Butcher.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bug Butcher.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bug Butcher.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Bug Butcher.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Bug Butcher on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Bug Butcher.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Bug Butcher.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Bug Butcher.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Shares co op and an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Bug Butcher.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Bug Butcher.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Frequently asked about The Bug Butcher
- Does The Bug Butcher run on Steam Deck?
- The Bug Butcher is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Bug Butcher cost?
- The Bug Butcher is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Bug Butcher have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Bug Butcher supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Bug Butcher?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Bug Butcher are Assault Android Cactus+, The Art Of Flight, Steredenn: Binary Stars.
- Who developed The Bug Butcher?
- The Bug Butcher was developed by Awfully Nice Studios.
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