Brush Burial

To preface, I played Brush Burial after having played BB: Gutter World. As other reviews have mentioned, if you're a fan of Gutter World and want more from this universe, it's worth picking BB up on sale. Otherwise I'd pass. But buy Gutter World, it's phenomenal! Brush Burial is a short, experimental immersive sim that mixes FPS movement, stealth, and combat to sell the experience of being an aggressive, silent, deadly assassin from another world. It takes place in three acts: Act 1 takes place in a sprawling, underground sandbox, filled with collectable mission objectives, stealth encounters, and NPC encounters. The scale of this area is impressive for a game of this size. Act 2 I'm more mixed on. It serves as a large cryptic puzzle, where the player is required to navigate a series of rooms in order to collect another handful of mission objectives. While each room has a short, engaging puzzle to be solved and navigated, the way they're assembled as a collective can be a bit obtuse and frustrating. Act 3 is the shortest act by far, only being a simple boss fight. If I'd played Brush Burial before its sequel, I'd say that it was a solid foundation held back by some abrasive design choices, but overall an interesting experience. After having played Gutter World, I think this is a charming and ambitious first step in the developer's catalogue. All of the good parts of Brush Burial were expanded upon in the sequel, and I'd make the case that even the worst parts of this game could be reconfigured into something great in the future.

This is a really cool game with an amazing concept, but it feels very under baked and under playtested. Most of the trailer is just the first major level when it comes to combat and the second major level doesn't feel anything else like it. I think it's a very great idea, but needs a whole lot more refinement in... every aspect. It's not bad! It's very good at what it wants to do! It's just that it needs some QoL and better level design, mostly.

I played acts one and two and finished this cool indie stealth sim. Really, only act one is fun, albeit a bit cryptic. Act two is kind of a mess of puzzles and RNG it is skippable. Time to play gutterworld.

you get to prowl around leap on guys and assassinate them with crazy movement it's absolutely fire

Lovely atmosphere and fun movement + combat!!!!

Pretty good little atmospheric exploration game. it's very short and I felt the math puzzle in the second level was a bit annoying but luckily if you sit down and figure it out you can work out a very cheap solution to avoid thinking about it too hard and save scum to get through it. Definitely play the second game it expands a lot on the exploration and combat in a lot of meaningful ways it really fleshes out the foundation that was built here in this game, it's very good.

bought the game and managed to finish it in one sitting. The game is great, there are a couple of issues in terms of item usage and movement that were addressed in the second game, but aside from that the game is great

very fun, especially for the price. pretty short though.