Brush Burial
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.4h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 288 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.10 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A lo-fidelity First Person Snatcher inspired by the immersive sims of yesteryear. Play as Fennel, a knife-wielding swamp devil with an eye for gold and a penchant for violence. Use your tail to toy with your prey: grab and fling objects, climb impossible heights, and knock your enemies off balance.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 460 or Equivalent, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
17 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Thief Simulator ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Platform 8 ($3.99, scores 56).
More about Brush Burial
Of the 276 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026.
What players say
obtuse and a bit clunky (the equipment and combat, for instance), but also cool and unique don't recommend playing without a guide though
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
To preface, I played Brush Burial after having played BB: Gutter World. As other reviews have mentioned, if you're a fan of Gutter World and want more from this universe, it's worth picking BB up on sale. Otherwise I'd pass. But buy Gutter World, it's phenomenal! Brush Burial is a short, experimental immersive sim that mixes FPS movement, stealth, and combat to sell the experience of being an aggressive, silent...
I really wanted to love Brush Burial, and for a little bit I did - the game has a cool visual style, the map for Act 1 is a maze of nonlinear connections that is a joy to explore, especially with the game's unique tail-grappling system, and there's plenty of fun, scrappy combat. The ImSim inspirations really come through in the first half, as you're crowbarring open vents, creeping up on foes, grabbing dropped...
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Cite this score
Brush Burial scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2676540/brush-burialReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.