Games like BUTCHER
If BUTCHER is your kind of game, the closest matches are CARRION, Party Hard and Hatred — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its difficulty scales to absurdity, pixel gore has physics and short but explosive. 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 BUTCHER: BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
Players who liked BUTCHER also play
Steam players who put hours into BUTCHER 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.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Top pick for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Party Hard
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with BUTCHER.
Second-strongest match for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Hatred
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Third-strongest match for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Hatred is a violent twin-stick shooter, in which you take the role of The Antagonist fighting against all of humanity.
ION Shift
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with BUTCHER.
Ranked #4 for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Valfaris
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with BUTCHER.
Ranked #5 for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Volgarr the Viking
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with BUTCHER.
Ranked #6 for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.
Sea Salt
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with BUTCHER.
Ranked #7 for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.
NOT A HERO
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Ranked #8 for BUTCHER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.
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ULTRAKILL
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with BUTCHER.
Reviewers of BUTCHER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Quake
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Reviewers of BUTCHER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with BUTCHER.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with BUTCHER.
Reviewers of BUTCHER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with BUTCHER.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Alien Rampage
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Reviewers of BUTCHER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with BUTCHER.
Your ship is in ruins. your cargo is lost... and you are one ticked-off alien trapped on a planet overrun by bloodthirsty mutants with the help of a handful of enslaved natives and enough firepower to level a city.
Soldat
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Reviewers of BUTCHER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Soldat is a unique 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game. Soldiers fight against each other in 2D battle arenas using a deadly arsenal of military weapons, across 7 default game modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below BUTCHER at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BUTCHER.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Action with 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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BUTCHER.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BUTCHER.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with 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 ~70% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under BUTCHER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BUTCHER.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with 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 BUTCHER.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with BUTCHER.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 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 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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BUTCHER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Valfaris
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with BUTCHER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Sea Salt
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with BUTCHER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BUTCHER.
Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.
Frequently asked about BUTCHER
- Does BUTCHER run on Steam Deck?
- 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 BUTCHER cost?
- BUTCHER is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to BUTCHER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BUTCHER are CARRION, Party Hard, Hatred.
- Who developed BUTCHER?
- BUTCHER was developed by Phobia Game Studio, Transhuman Design and published by Crunching Koalas.
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