Atomic Butcher: Homo Metabolicus

Man those guys know their pee physics, I can only imagine how much research must have gotten into that. ;) Joking aside, this is a well crafted platformer with innovative shooting mechanics and a very fitting, badass metal soundtrack. Did I mention Poop Jump?

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'Atomic Butcher: ♥♥♥♥ Metabolicus' is a post-apocalyptic action platformer, with some gore and gross elements. Specifically made to resemble the retro feeling with pixelated graphics. Overall it's a quite enjoyable gaming experience for any platformer fan that can tolerate the gross parts. The story goes that mankind has finally managed to destroy itself mostly through nuclear weapons but the details are vague, however, there are few survivors as well as many mutants, you are one of the later! You play the butcher himself in his quest to satisfy his irresistible glutony. PRO: -Its mechanics are grossly well crafted! >>You have limited hit points, however killing enemies make them drop meat, which in turn you eat and store in your stomach, getting wounded makes you consume this meat in order to heal. >>Your hero basic attacks is radioactive urine! Yes, you mostly pee your way through the levels and depending on how much your tummy is filled your pee gets stronger! Also, the liquid physics are quite good making you look for fans or electricity to use to your advantage, especially in boss fights. >>If you manage to fill your stomach you'll be able to unleash the butcher's ultimate attack! His vomit! For a few seconds, you'll be spraying your enemies deleting them from existence until your meat levels drop to about 50% where you'll stop and start eating again. >>There are quite many powerups to be found, some in plain sight, some hidden. Most are not mandatory to get in order to finish the level, but some are funny and some are really useful. >>You can use the cadavers of your dead enemies as thrown weapons. Once something dies, it leaves a carcass that the butcher can pick with his mouth and spit. You are also able to use some items, weapons mostly, that once you empty its ammo you can throw like the previously mentioned dead bodies. Finally, there are some, few rocks that can also be thrown. >>Lastly you can double jump and slide by default. You'll find upgrades 'mutators' on your way that improve or even add features to your skillset. E.G.: my least favourite, and perhaps most gross, is the poop jump, that makes you poop underneath you every time you double/triple jump, dealing quite a lot of damage in the process. -Its combat is quite fast paced the majority of the time. Your character feels quite responsive and agile besides his bulky appearance. Occasionally you may feel you are getting overrun by enemy spawns, or you'll find enemies with more threatening moves that you must anticipate! Most enemies have something to look for, or else punish you. There will be a few dull moments where you'll be able to safely kill stuff but these are so few that I won't even list it as negative. -There is controller support and both mouse+keyboard and controller can be customised to your liking. -There are story intervals between the levels and as you progress the levels you'll find some story parts within some levels. Additionally, there are options to enable some extra silly features, like commentary lines on deaths and kills, jump texts and other stuff making the game details more interesting. -The music is quite accurate to the games theme, both that post-apocalyptic and retro feeling. CONS: -Due to being made to fulfil that retro feeling, the game lacks a lot of options. It only supports 4:3 aspect ratio that leaves 2 blank areas on the sides of the screen and sadly bugs the pop-up steam notifications, making it look ugly. There are no windowed/fullscreen options or resolution settings at all, making it tiresome on bigger monitors. While you can force the game to windowed mode with Alt+Enter the mouse can't be locked only in the game so you may start clicking outside the games window. -It's grossness. Not much of a negative but more like a warning. If you avoid 'The binding of Isaac' for all the poopy, degenerate, mutated theme then this game is not for you. Overall 'Atomic Butcher: ♥♥♥♥ Metabolicus' is a good game for its genre. I give it a 7/10 and that's because of the lacking video options that made the game tiring for me. If you are fan of action platformers and can withstand the gross, then you should give it a try! ----------------------------------- Introducing Gamephasis www.gamephasis.com is a new gaming website featuring a talented team of game writers from around the world. Gamephasis features news, reviews, giveaways and much much more. Please visit us and join our Steam group. We're always looking for more talented gamers and writers to join our team.

It's not really much different from the OG game. And you can get that for free.

Disgusting. I absolutely love it so far. For reals though, I'd definitely recommend this game if not just for how vile and gross it is. Puking, peeing, and crapping on enemies is incredibly fun! Definitely not a platformer for children!

If you want to bring peace to postmodern earth and get rid of the hipster plague in one go this is the game for you to play! Challenging 2D Shoot'n'Run with some gory graphic details, imaginative nightmare-like enemies and a really enthralling soundtrack.

Wow...lol. The game is a bit gross at times, but still pretty awesome. At least enough to offer a near-instant recommendation after a relatively short play-through, with the Tutorial and some early rounds. Very responsive controls, and gaming that, though not too difficult thus far...still keeps one on their toes. There is fun in it, and subtle reminders of +Postal 2- type urine-as-a-weapon homage, but keeping a very fresh take on style, if 'fresh would ever come to mind in describing a gross-fest like this here game. If you like shooter/platformers with enhancements to the grotesque, this here's a no-brainer buy...at least what I can surmise in less than a half-hour in...and only doing so with the game very new, with very few reviews in...and I haven't seen one negative review at the time of my writing. The metal tunes alone are likely reason enough for that...lol.

Fantastic jump and pee game. Well balanced gameplay with the opportunity for awesome superruns. If you manage the double jump and slide move right you can super fast travel the level architecture. Scorefreaks will freak out too (combomoves possible), The soundtrack is also brilliant (metal and some 80ies italian horroflicklike musicstyle (john carpenter score). The graphics remind me of some 90ies amiga games. Gory like doom and disgusting like boogerman. I have battlefield 1 and titanfall 2 on my hdd but i prefer to play another short round of atomic butcher. ;) Hope there will be some additional levels out soon. Contra: graphics will sometimes stutter around a little bit (you know we have some super smooth scrolling on the commodore 64 ;)

2D Platformer with 360 Aiming, it's all in the title my friends, and you'll have to find out what the 360 aiming will be for. A new kind of platformer you haven't seen before! It's all kind of nasty and dirty, that's why I enjoy it! Wreak Havoc everywhere and take a golden shower on everyone.

So ive finally beaten this game and it was quite hard, but once you learn how to use the abilities like dash, slide, jump, piss and some patterns for boss fights its very enjoyable and smooth. But why am i even talking about this? Atomic Butcher h. metabolicus is a sequel or resumption of a 2004 platformer shooter of the same name, which I have not played, but from what i ve seen the sequel is just the same idea but much better. Both games are basically diy project of two enthusiasts, and that's a bit visible on the technical state of the game, but it also adds a certain charm and originality. For me it became one of my top favourite games, for several reasons. Firstly i am a fan of 90s/00s era games like Abuse 1995 and this just fits perfectly in terms of style, but also adds something new (if you mind 4:3 crt ratio, its probably not for you). Secondly finding something more over the top, crazy ,violent and unconventional would be very hard. The soundtrack composed by two members of Austrian black metal band Locus Neminis is just awesome mixing metal, industrial and techno. But lets also mention some downsides of this game, forexample the sound of Flying Meat Skull is ridiculously loud, the optimalization is not the best and the gameplay felt a bit short. To sum it up its unique, fast, funny and i can only recommend to give it a try.