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Butcher's Creek cover art

Butcher's Creek

David Szymanski · 2025-01-23

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 23, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.

Butcher's Creek is an Action game released in 2025, priced at $7.49, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Very Positive (94% of 1704 reviews) sentiment.— census verdict as of 2026-10-16

94%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (6 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.49
steam price (US)
Butcher's Creek is a 2025 first-person melee survival horror game developed and published by David Szymanski. The player controls an unnamed loner on a search for videotapes, which leads him to an abandoned cabin near the titular town of Butcher's Creek, Pennsylvania. The game is heavily inspired by the horror games Manhunt (2003) and Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005). The game was released for Windows on January 23, 2025.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 42 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (556 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 28,530 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–77k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,704 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.19 at Fanatical (2026-09-14) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 11 of 20 observed days · $3.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
51851820252026Week of 2025-01-23: 518 positiveWeek of 2025-01-23: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-01-30: 147 positiveWeek of 2025-01-30: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-06: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-02-06: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-13: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-02-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-20: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-02-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-27: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-02-27: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-06: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-13: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-03-13: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-20: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-27: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-03: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-17: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-15: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-22: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-29: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-12: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-10: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-25: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-02: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-30: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-20: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-10: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-09-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-24: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$6.192025-01-232026-10-162025-01-23 — best price $8.492025-02-06 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $8.492025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-04-14 — best price $8.492025-04-21 — best price $9.992025-06-12 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $8.492025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $8.492025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-10-20 — best price $7.992025-11-03 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-01-23 — best price $7.492026-02-06 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.492026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-20 — best price $7.492026-04-27 — best price $9.992026-06-01 — best price $7.492026-06-08 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-09-07 — best price $7.492026-09-14 — best price $6.192026-09-29 — best price $7.482026-10-01 — best price $6.192026-10-08 — best price $9.992026-10-16 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerCamera ComfortAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-01-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

DarkGoreCrimeActionCombatHorrorSurrealLore-RichDark HumorStory Rich

Census log

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

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