Butcher's Creek
First-person horror built around improvised weapons and environmental kills
David Szymanski · Released Jan 23, 2025
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 94% of 1,620
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 97% of 34 in 30 days
- Players
- 3
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Jan 24, 2025
What is Butcher's Creek?
Butcher's Creek is a single-player, first-person horror action game set in rural Pennsylvania, where a search for snuff tapes leads to capture by killers. You move through levels in farmhouses, factories, and strip clubs, fighting with tools and kicking enemies into hazards. Photographing murder scenes restores health.
For you if...
- +you like dark humor mixed into disturbing horror
Not for you if...
- −you prefer ranged combat over close-quarters fighting
- −you avoid graphic gore and murder imagery
What players say
94% of 1,620 reviews are positive · 97% of 34 in the last 30 days
Players praise the grimy atmosphere and visual style. Complaints focus on repetitive combat and a campaign some find too short.
Screenshots and trailer
Butcher's Creek system requirements
Minimum: with DX10 (shader model 4….
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Butcher's Creek?
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- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- SSE2 instruction set support.
- Graphics
- Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Does Butcher's Creek have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Butcher's Creek run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
- Languages
- Full audio: English.
Does Butcher's Creek use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Horror
- First-Person
- Combat
- Hack and Slash
- Action
- Singleplayer
- Gore
- Atmospheric
- Dark Humor
- Story Rich
- Surreal
- Crime
- Psychological Horror
- Dark
- Lore-Rich
- Demons
Recent updates
- Jan 24, 2025 · Version 1.151
- Jan 24, 2025 · Version 1.15
1 DLC available.
