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Butter Side Down

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72%Game Brain Score
graphics, music
stability, story
100% User Score Based on 23 reviews

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Butter Side Down is a single player casual role playing game with fantasy, mystery, comedy and science fiction themes. It was developed by Kalle MacDonald and was released on September 23, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.

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graphics3 positive mentions
stability1 negative mentions
  • Unique and surreal experience with a distinctive faux OS interface and quirky world-building.
  • Engaging and fun writing with humorous, bizarre questionnaire choices and intriguing mysteries to uncover.
  • Well-designed gameplay featuring exploration, multiple endings, custom soundtrack creation, and enjoyable mini-games.
  • Some players may find the game initially obtuse or confusing due to its randomness and unusual style.
  • Relatively short length might leave those seeking longer gameplay wanting more.
  • Niche appeal; may not suit everyone’s tastes, especially those not interested in offbeat or surreal games.
  • graphics
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are praised for their unique, surreal art style that complements the game's bizarre and humorous world, enhancing the overall immersive and intriguing experience.

    • “Loved the audio design, world building, and visuals.”
    • “I loved it, deliciously bizarre and surreal, with great art style and full of humor that may appear complete nonsense at the beginning but by the end you can understand what's behind it by solving the 'mystery'.”
    • “This game offers a delightfully surreal experience, featuring a unique art style.”
  • music
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users appreciate the music aspect for its customizable soundtrack feature, allowing them to create and play their own unique music while engaging with the game’s diverse activities and storyline.

    • “We also can make our own soundtrack using the sndscp program, play different types of card games, call coworkers, and uncover a lot of histories and factions around this company!”
    • “Play a custom soundtrack unique to you.”
  • gameplay
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is engaging and fun, focusing on players independently solving clues, which adds an enjoyable and interactive element to the experience.

    • “The writing is very fun (important!) and the gameplay revolving around figuring out the clues by yourself is engaging.”
  • humor
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's humor is quirky and surreal, appealing especially to fans of fictional operating systems. It starts off seemingly nonsensical but gradually reveals a clever underlying mystery, making the comedic experience rewarding and unique.

    • “The game is quite funny and if you're a sucker for fictional operating systems like I am, then it's worth the low price to give it a look.”
    • “I loved it, deliciously bizarre and surreal, with a great art style and full of humor that may appear complete nonsense at the beginning but by the end you can understand what's behind it by solving the 'mystery'.”
  • stability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game exhibits several glitches that impact overall stability, suggesting it may require further patches to resolve these issues.

  • story
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is unconventional, focusing on exploring a fake OS for hidden easter eggs rather than following a traditional mystery or cohesive plot, offering a unique and novel narrative experience.

  • atmosphere
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere is described as zany and lively, contributing to an engaging and never boring experience.

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Butter Side Down is a casual role playing game with fantasy, mystery, comedy and science fiction themes.

Butter Side Down is available on PC, Windows and Linux.

Butter Side Down was released on September 23, 2025.

Butter Side Down was developed by Kalle MacDonald.

Butter Side Down has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Butter Side Down for its graphics but disliked it for its stability.

Butter Side Down is a single player game.

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