Games like Butcher of the North
Below are 33 hand-picked alternatives to Butcher of the North for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Butcher of the North also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Admia, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Butcher of the North: You never received any New Year's gifts. This year, you decided to take what is yours. After tracking Santa down by his IP address, you head to his lair to take what is rightfully yours.
Players who liked Butcher of the North also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Mouthwashing
Top pick for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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The Wellmonts Case
Second-strongest match for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Butcher of the North.
The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.
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Martha Is Dead
Third-strongest match for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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Luto
Ranked #4 for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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The Lightkeeper
Ranked #5 for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
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Summer of '58
Ranked #6 for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
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GET EVEN
Ranked #7 for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Dead Take
Ranked #8 for Butcher of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Butcher of the North at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~67% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
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?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~50% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
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.
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Blood and Bacon
Priced ~67% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
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.
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shapez
Priced ~67% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
Priced ~67% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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Bit Blaster XL
Priced ~67% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
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Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
Priced ~67% under Butcher of the North on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Admia
Other recommendable Steam games by Admia, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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Welcome to Kowloon
Another title from Admia, the studio behind Butcher of the North. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
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Don't Play This
Another title from Admia, the studio behind Butcher of the North. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
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Lair of Torment
Another title from Admia, the studio behind Butcher of the North. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
This is an indie horror game with first-person puzzles. Terror and fear have enveloped the city. The maniac has returned. You sneak into his lair to try and stop him before he goes too far...
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Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]
Another title from Admia, the studio behind Butcher of the North. Shares Indie with Butcher of the North.
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター] - this is a New Year's horror game from the first person, in the Japanese style and genre of walking simulator. Collect gifts and make the kids happy on New Year's Eve. But don't forget that Midnight is a time of miracles!
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Night Grove
Another title from Admia, the studio behind Butcher of the North. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
This is a first-person indie horror game. A young deliveryman took an unusual order that led him to Night Grove. This place has a dubious reputation among the townspeople, because for many years it has been sent to live with people that society has long since abandoned.
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Frozen Shelter
Another title from Admia, the studio behind Butcher of the North. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Frozen Shelter is an indie first-person walking simulator game made in realistic 3D graphics. As a location, the player will be presented with a bunker built during the Cold War of the USSR. The fascinating atmosphere of loneliness will put pressure on the player throughout the game.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Mouthwashing
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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GET EVEN
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Butcher of the North.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Dead Take
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butcher of the North.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Frequently asked about Butcher of the North
- How much does Butcher of the North cost?
- Butcher of the North is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Butcher of the North?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Butcher of the North are Mouthwashing, The Wellmonts Case, Martha Is Dead.
- Who developed Butcher of the North?
- Butcher of the North was developed by Admia.
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