Brush Burial: Gutter World
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About Brush Burial: Gutter World
Brush Burial: Gutter World is a first-person indie shooter with heavy immersion sim elements from Knife Demon Software. Released in late 2025 for PC, it blends stealth, vertical platforming, and brutal melee combat in a dystopian setting. You play as a creature with a forked tail, using it to grapple, climb, and yank enemies into knots. The game thrives on tight, twitchy encounters and labyrinthine levels that demand spatial awareness. It’s not just about killing targets, it’s about navigating impossible heights and exploiting the environment. Think stealth-action with a quirky twist, all wrapped in a grimy, stylized world.
Gameplay
Each session revolves around scoping out objectives, then slipping through vertically dense environments. Your forked tail acts as both weapon and tool: flick it to snag enemies, yank them mid-air, or grapple to ledges. Combat is fast and messy, you’ll dodge, strike, and use found objects like pipes or wires to dispatch foes. Stealth is key; alerting too many enemies triggers chaos. The controls are responsive but require finesse, especially when climbing jagged structures or weaving through tight spaces. Missions mix infiltration with vertical parkour, forcing you to adapt to shifting layouts. Every death resets you to check points, pushing you to learn enemy patterns and level design intricacies.
What Players Think
PlayPile users rate it 82% positive with a 7.4/10 average. 72% of players finish the game, averaging 12 hours of playtime. The community moods lean "satisfying" (38%) and "frustrating" (25%), reflecting its punishing difficulty. Review snippets praise the "crazy tail mechanics" but call some level layouts "needlessly convoluted." 50 achievements exist, with 15% completion rates for the hardest, like "Silent Ascent" (kill a target without alerting guards). Critics on major sites give it 78/100, noting "bold ideas held back by clunky pacing."
PlayPile's Take
Brush Burial: Gutter World is a niche pick for fans of tense, vertical stealth-action. Its $29.99 price matches its moderate length, and the 50 achievements add replay value. While the tail mechanics feel fresh, inconsistent difficulty spikes and confusing level design might test patience. Skip if you hate permadeath or prefer straightforward combat. But if you enjoy methodical, physics-driven gameplay and don’t mind learning through failure, its twisted world is worth the climb.
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