The Bug Butcher on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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.
The Bug Butcher is a indie, action and shoot 'em up game
developed and published by Awfully Nice Studios.
Released on January 19th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 9 languages: English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Dutch and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 1,193 reviews of which 1,079 were positive and 114 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified The Bug Butcher into these genres:
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
- OS *: Windows Vista or Later
- Processor: Intel Core Duo or faster
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Standard Sound Card
- Additional Notes: Gamepad highly recommended
- OS: OS 10.6+
- Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Standard Sound Card
- Additional Notes: Gamepad highly recommended
- OS: Ubuntu
- Processor: Any processor with 2 cores
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Gamepad highly recommended
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