Atomic Butcher

By: Derek Yu

On: June 12th, 2007

The great thing about running this site is that I’m forced to play every type of game. I can go from playing a soothing Orisinal game where I’m helping deer cross a stream to being a disgusting mutant with radioactive piss, hunting for meat in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. And you know what? Both have their place in this little world of indie gaming.

Here’s the recipe for Atomic Butcher: take a platformer that smacks of old Apogee shareware. Then add mouse aiming, cheesy sound effects, and some kind of industrial techno soundtrack. Top it off with a particle system that lets you pee into a fan and have it sprayed back into your face.

Honestly, this is a pretty fun, gruesome game, and with 10 large levels it offers a lot of very gory, simplistic gameplay. The terrifying graphics and overall presentation work with the theme of violence to create an atmosphere of true horror. I leave you with a quote from the developers (found in the online manual for the game):

“If you think this is a stupid and unnecesarilly [sic] violent concept for a game, you are right and paid attention; congratulations, you now understand a lot about the current state of computer games.”

(Source: Soldat Movies)

Posted in Freeware, Platformers, Windows

http://www.arsecast.com DrDerekDoctors

Blimey, I remember playing this a while ago and quite liking it briefly. Nice setting but the enemies in it are somewhat boring.

I think that there’s a truly great Abuse-style game out there waiting to be made some day…
OrR

Changes from 1.0 to 1.1:
# urinating on burning enemies will now also cast a ray of fire

Sounds great… o.o
Kent

This is a truly great game. I’ve played it lots, and almost finished it. There’s something about it which makes you want more.
Eudaimon

BROWN GAME! BROWN GAME! BROWN GAME!

…okay, I’m done.
Raincoatduck

A game with peeing gets my attention.
Random

Incidently the only other game I can think of with piss as a weapon was called Rodger Ramrod, an early shareware pornographic doom clone.
DrDerekDoctors

Could you shoot only once every 10 minutes or so? ;)
Neon

You had me sold at raidioactive piss.
http://www.g4g.it FireSword

The effect of the piss was
made better in the game I’m OK
Don’t remeber the autor of that
game.. ihihihihi
;)
Cycle

I named this freeware game of the month something like two years ago… it was fun then, and it’s still fun now.
Atomic Butcher

Ha, replying in a thread after 9 years, not bad ;) Anyway, int the extremely unlikely case of anybody reading that, we made a sequel to Atomic Butcher :D After > 3 years of work, we can present you with “Atomic Butcher: Homo Metabolicus” – Steam Store Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/523970