The Bug Butcher
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $3.47/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.59. That was December 2018. 65 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Nex Machina ($19.99, scores 66).
80 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 237 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.3 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 3.2 times as long.
The drop-off
34% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
The Bug Butcher is what happens when Space Invaders gets a PhD and decides violence is peer-reviewed. You stand there, shoot up, and commit enthusiastic science on every creepy-crawly in sight. It's simple, fast, and way more intense than a game where you technically never move. My mouse hand got a workout and my aim got… slightly less tragic. Bright colors, chunky guns, and bugs that absolutely did not sign up for...
Awsome game. i play it with my 9 years old daughter and we have a lot of fun (and she is good !)
Very fun game. Brings me back the arcade vibes 30 something years ago. Definitely a Pang successor with great drawings and fluidity
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Bug Butcher scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/350740/the-bug-butcherReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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