The Game Census
Butcher of the North cover art

Butcher of the North

Admia · 2025-12-15

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 15, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You never received any New Year's gifts. This year, you decided to take what is yours. After tracking Santa down by his IP address, you head to his lair to take what is rightfully yours.

Butcher of the North is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2025, priced at $2.69, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 126 reviews).

74%
positive of 128 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.69
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (47 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 27,914 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.6k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 128 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.24 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
444420252026Week of 2025-12-15: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-31: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$2.242025-12-152026-08-242025-12-15 — best price $2.392025-12-29 — best price $2.992026-02-16 — best price $2.542026-02-23 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-03-31 — best price $2.542026-04-07 — best price $2.992026-05-08 — best price $2.542026-05-15 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.242026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-07-13 — best price $2.392026-07-20 — best price $2.992026-08-24 — best price $2.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

Don't Knock TwiceHouse of CaravanTanziaMasochisiaDARQ: Complete EditionInflictionApsulov: End of GodsTorchlight III

Similarity via IGDB.