A look of your own
A look switch built into the game: anti-aliasing, colour, a cinema mode, flicker and glitches, and how intense the effects are, down to the lightest.
No color grading, no added effects: every frame is straight from the game.
What is inside
Old-school gaming
A follower of the old-school shooters: fast arenas, bots, strafe jumping and nothing but skill.
A whole arsenal
A rivet gun, a cluster grenade launcher, a triple rocket launcher, a disc cutter, the hellish hookah, a welder, the Termo flamethrower, the BMFG and more.
A second mode on the guns
Weapons with an alternate fire: the chainsaw lashes a chain whip, the flamethrower turns to ice, the BMFG drops a nuke.
A world that breaks
A fully destructible world: walls come down under fire, and what is broken stays broken.
Movement, reworked
Easier strafe jumping, climbing walls, bouncing and jumping off them.
Screenshots
Prime Cut
- Eight maps: Scorched Works, Foundry, Meat Locker, The Gullet, Pithead, Dry Dock, Acid Plant, Cinder Smelter
- Three bots: Rooster, Cleaver, Sackhead
- Free for all, team and capture the flag against the bots, five skills; play with others over the internet or a LAN
- Windows 10/11, 64-bit; 4 GB of memory; a graphics card with OpenGL 3.3
Run the installer: Brutalo goes to the Start menu and, if you like, the desktop.
What's new
20261106-6016f1ed3
- NewRecord a match from the ESC menu: the file name is ready, a light at the side shows the recording, stop it from the same menu
- ChangedF5 starts a new match recording, F6 stops it; F8 plays the last one
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- NewLamps, fire and lava glow; Glow row in GORE & LOOK sets how strong
- NewRays of light when looking towards the sun
- NewBeams of light with drifting dust under the lamps
- ChangedWalls, floors and ceilings painted twice as fine: sharp up close
- ChangedNew skies: a skyline of chimneys, cranes and cooling towers on the horizon, clouds drifting in storm and night
- ChangedPickups are dark rusted steel with a glowing strip in the colour of the item
- FixedNo black specks on wet floors in the distance
20261105-746c36c5b-dev
- NewSETUP > GRAPHICS has Anisotropy and Relief rows: sharp floors at an angle and walls with depth can be switched on in a game installed before
- NewAntialiasing row in SETUP > GRAPHICS; smooth edges by default for new installs
- NewFloors under the rain are wet and shine, also in a lightning flash
- ChangedSharper reflections on metal for new installs
- ChangedGuns in hand painted twice as fine: rust, chips and knurling no longer blocky
- ChangedLong walls and floors no longer repeat the same look tile after tile
- ChangedSun shadows finer in detail, soft at the edge and twice as far into open yards, for new installs
- FixedUp to half again more frames in open yards and steadier frames while walls break
- FixedStatues no longer have holes in them when Geometric Detail is below High
Earlier
20261105-604f5e546-dev
- ChangedTextures at full size and sharp at any angle, with relief on walls and floors; set by default for new installs, an existing game keeps its own settings until changed in SETUP
20261104-08ceae32f-dev
- NewBreaks and Holes in SINGLE PLAYER and CREATE SERVER: walls only, walls and floors, or nothing breaks; holes stay, grow back, or grow back and crush whoever is in the way
- NewServers whose walls grow back show bricks in the server list
20261104-9404e1e1c-dev
- ChangedTeams play in signal yellow and violet instead of red and blue: fighters, flags, HUD, scoreboards and the announcer
- ChangedRooster looks meaner, his torso moves in step, and armour no longer makes the body bigger
- ChangedSkeletons and tanks of the Voodoo Doll cast a shadow, never vanish in the dark and wear the colour of their team; skeletons are heard walking
- ChangedThe Welder beam shows where it ends and whom it hits
20261031-4511a37e7-dev
- NewThe installer asks for the language of the game, and the game starts in it
- NewA stream of Termo ice held on a fighter freezes them solid for two seconds
- ChangedDouble Barrel: its second mode is a piston. Into the floor or off a wall it throws you up like a rocket jump; whoever stands in front of it flies
- ChangedPiano Wire: the harpoon is its second mode now and needs no charge
- ChangedThe Welder and the Termo leave marks, the Hell Hookah smoke is 15% bigger, the BMFG nuke reaches 30% further and hits 20% harder
- ChangedAn armoured rooster is the emblem in place of the hazard skull: the window icon, the flags, the banners and the menu icons
- ChangedScorched Works is the last of the maps
- FixedThe Welder beam no longer pushes its target out of reach, and its balls are drawn as far as they strike
- FixedA crash when a skeleton or a tank of the Voodoo Doll hurt a bot
20261029-a8b833fb-dev
- NewRussian: the menus, the HUD, the frag messages, the server messages, the awards and the ARSENAL cards
- NewLANG in SETUP switches the language at once; on the first start the game takes the language of the system
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- NewARSENAL in the main menu: every gun turning on its card, both of its modes and their numbers
- NewA Voodoo Doll on every map, two on the large ones: thrown, it bursts into skeletons or a tank that fight for you
- NewSkeletons and tanks break in layers: the armour flies off, the meat tears down to the bone, then the part comes off
- NewRim light: a warm glow on the edge of living fighters, its slider in GORE & LOOK
- ChangedMULTIPLAYER opens on the internet and searches at once; creating a server is one screen
- ChangedThe smoke of explosions is thinner and clears faster
20261027-b135c7c8d-dev
- ChangedThe damage per second of the weapons is evened out
- ChangedA weapon picked up always gives its full ammo
- FixedThe internet server list, joining through a router and the relay keep working when the main address of the master server is out of reach
20261026-b8f537616-dev
- NewSeven more maps, eight in all: Foundry, Meat Locker, The Gullet, Pithead, Dry Dock, Acid Plant, Cinder Smelter, Scorched Works, each world with its own materials, light, air and decor
- NewAn installer instead of the archive: the Start menu, a desktop shortcut, a Windows Firewall rule so others can join your server; the build number in the main menu
- NewTermo: the flame sets fighters on fire, the frost slows them down; fuel crates on the maps
- NewPiano Wire: nail a line between two walls, whoever runs into it loses a limb. The line wraps round corners and cuts its owner too
- NewLimbs come off: wounds, bleeding stumps, falling bodies; your lost parts are shown at the left edge with a monitor beep until they grow back
- NewAn overkill blows a body into red mist, a point-blank Double Barrel tears it apart, the frozen shatter, the burnt char, Hell Hookah kills dissolve into slime, the BMFG leaves a silhouette of ash
- NewBlood pools spread and run down slopes and steps, bloody footprints, gibs stick to walls, entrails drag, killers walk around covered in blood
- NewBlood, scorch and bullet marks stay on the walls around a blown hole
- NewGORE & LOOK in the main menu: frame, gore and shadow tabs over a live scene; sliders for blood, meat, how long it stays, bleeding, marks and speed blur
- NewSpeed you can see: the view widens and the edges blur as you go faster, your speed on the HUD, easier strafe jumping
- NewAwards with their own announcer lines and medal cards, the AWARDS screen in the main menu
- NewOnline: servers of players on the internet list, joining a server behind a router or a VPN, a relay when that fails
- ChangedNail Gun nails stick flush, half-driven or bent, and fall out of broken walls
- ChangedBots use the second mode of every weapon, steer clear of nukes and chain their hops
- ChangedAn animated logo in the main menu, one look for every menu screen, new credits
- ChangedA 130 degree field of view and 250 frames a second on a new install; smoke and fire cost half as much, blood out of sight is not drawn
20261019-c63b209ac
- NewFirst public build: one map, Foundry, and three bots: Rooster, Cleaver, Sackhead
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