Goodnight Butcher Reviews

Goodnight Butcher is letdown of a game. It has one or two good things in it but the rest is bad. First the good game taking place in an old abandoned Butcher shop was cool. The game all so had a creepy atmosphere but that’s about it. Now for the bad. The game is way to short, it can get a little repetitive, and game can feel a bit not fair sometimes with the power all ways going off, or walking in the dark and getting killed by a demon. Then there is the story, there is barely story. Well there is kind of a story. After you get done getting blood, you get a newspaper clipping but that’s about it. You don’t know why there are demons trying to kill you, you don’t know barely anything, about the old abandoned Butcher shop. So all in all you can get this game for $1.99 but if you want it I say wait till it’s on sale. Other than that the game is not worth getting.

i opened the game, walked around... the game gave me a discease ... stay away from this game. But hey, the uninstall button works! >:D

I only have under an hour of gameplay in at this point, but I'm seeing the reviews favoring the negative. I feel as if I should write a review now and then modify it if my opinion changes because I don't think this is a "mostly negative" game. Pros: Simple controls Simple objectives complicated by stacking challenges Good feel and atmosphere Pretty tense when you're trying to carry a carcass while trying to outrun a spooky It's under two bucks The word "carcass" is used Cons: I felt like some of the objects in the game were a tad clunky to manuever around, but that may just be the learning curve I'd like to see a visible carcass while holding one (on character) as well as a floor carcass when one is dropped. Game is not titled "Carcass Dropping Simulator" I enjoy this game and can see updates improving any issues the negative reviewers are complaining about. Carcass

Alright guys, this particular game is effectively a survival horror flash game, just that. No major bugs that I've seen, little hard but that's what you want. Actually survival horror too, not action putting on a mask and saying "Oh aren't I so scary, by the way here's your gun.". There are a few things like making wasd work that I'd like rather than the directional buttons, but that's not a big issue, and frankly guys, it's two bucks, you'll spend that on like a soda, so don't expect years of entertainment, expect a horror game with a unique setting.

Pretty fun! Pros: The controls are perfectly responsive. Really easy going, but very old school in their feel. The sound overall is stellar for what it is. Pace of the game is perfect for an arcade style throwback Bloody and fun! Cons: Offense would be nice More game modes would be too, but this is a very good start. Randomly crashed after my first death, but that could also be a flash issue. Overall, it's pretty fun, definitely got my money's worth!

Really recommend this amazing game! It's just so good that I can't even put it to words. ahh.. I just remember seeing that bull skull ghost thing the first time and holy shit I cried tears of joy :') Just hope there will be a sequel to this masterpiece.

It's fine, it gets really boring after a while though unfortunately

The game is very slow-paced, and the levels get boring and too monotonous too quickly. It would be a lot better if there was faster movement, and not having to start all the way over ever time you died.

A cheap thrill. It’s short but doesn’t fall short of the asking price. The game is playable, and the dev says there will be updates. Which I hope will be timed and built on towards 2016’s Halloween as competing thematically with #Xmas and #StarWars doesn't sound like a good idea to me. There’s a lot of potential here and it’s worth the asking price in it’s current state. Pros-- 1) Music and sound are great. 2) Map is simple. 3) Controls are simple and work well when navigating the game. 4) Graphics are retro and work with the tone of the game. 5) Overall sense of fear is there. I felt tense and scared when the sound effects to opening doors. One door in particular was scary, and I thought a monster would be waiting for me. No monster, but I was scared during most of my first play through. Cons-- 1) Story could be more developed and better. It would be nice if the butcher had a kid and/or a wife he had to provide for. Or, maybe someone will die if the butcher doesn’t figure out the mystery at work. 2) Lack of variant game modes or gameplay. I think if the story was developed more, the game could be better developed. Like having a metagame to take care of a sick child in a hospital, etc. Or heck, even a love interest who visits the Butcher during the day. Eventually, as I got better, the tension was less, and thus my fear lowered increasingly. 3) Lack of caring about if I die. It sucks “yes” that you have to start over if you are killed, but I just feel I have to redo the work I did before, that the only reason I want to live is to finish my work and not a meta game or a compelling story. 4) No Steam Cards or Achievements. Update was promised in the community when I post this review, but steam cards wouldn't add to the game as other things could. Again, I think this is rough version of what could be a better game for a higher asking price, and I hope come Halloween 2016 to see some major updates or even a sequel.

Hmmm...a hard call, this one. It's certainly not asking an unreasonable price for what it offers, especially on sale, and it's certainly not anyone's definition of "incompetent". It is, on the other hand, a little hard to imagine just who I would consider "recommending" this game to, bar perhaps those masochists out there who think that constantly moving between rooms as instructed to perform myriad menial tasks, whilst avoiding the floaty ghosts of butchered beasties, constitutes something resembling "gameplay". Hell, it would at least be a passable time-waster if the saves were regular, but every unspectacular death just means several minutes of getting back to where you were beforehand, and the satisfaction of a job successfully completed is marginal at best. Now...I know that this arguably sounds like an awful lot of games out there, including some which I hold in incredibly high esteem, such as Outlast. I guess I maybe just require slightly "deeper" gameplay if I'm not going to be served oodles of ATMOSPHERE in the overall package, and the fine line between "horror" and "retro"/"arcade"-style antics is perhaps a little too skewed to the latter for my liking in this case. It really may just be a personal taste thing, though, and the vegetarian in me definitely wants to like the sheer perversity of this crazy little slice of madness. It's really, REALLY not "bad" at all. Maybe it's just not my bag, and maybe it will be yours. Hence the recommendation...that, and the lack of a "neutral" button for me to push, because this game really is about as "middling" as it gets in my book. Let me try putting it another way: If you like super-duper old-school "arcade" games, with just a splash of horror (and the good old red stuff) to give it a bit of context, then you may well enjoy this. I don't think it's going to hit anyone's all-time top-ten lists, but it may well be worth the two bucks or less if you're feeling suitably indiscriminating and just feel like killing a bit of time while you butcher a few cartoon carcasses. For me, personally, its appeal ran its course pretty quickly. Definitely NOT to be filed in the Lone Survivor/Claire-style category of genuinely "creepy" pixelated homages to Silent Hill, et al, though I guess it is at least marginally spookier than Commando or Pac Man. The very definition of a "take-or-leave-it" proposition, methinks, and for now I'm choosing to leave it. Good luck to the dev, though, as they seem sincere enough in their intentions, and who knows, may well go on to (much) bigger and better things... Verdict: 5.5/10.