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Battle Bruise
Developer Zanardi and Liza
Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain.This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF! From the Steam store page
173 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
156 positive · 16 negative
95% range 85–94%
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| Steam reviews | 156 | 16 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
453 of 497 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 173 · most liked firstBattle Bruise is an adrenaline-pumping, action-packed game that is sure to provide hours of entertainment! It's a unique concept, as players must fight against swarms of enemies and navigate a constantly changing terrain. The graphics in the game are great, with plenty of detail and vibrant colors. The sound effects are realistic and they help to immerse the player in the game. The controls are simple and easy to use, and the game runs smoothly with no lag or glitches. The game is also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it worth $10? Probably not. Is it worth $5? Debatable. Is it worth $0.99? EVERY SINGLE CENT.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[OPEN][STEAM] Continuation of Christmas giveaway. Life has had its way with me, but I have added a few additional games to the giveaway I started at Christmas. The new games are: * Akihabara: Feel the Rhythm * Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded * Anomalies * Battle Bruise * Dreamstones * EarthTongue * The Egyptian Prophecy: The Fate of Ramses * Geo * GooCubelets: The Algoorithm * GooCubelets: The Void * Gynophobia * Heroes of the Seven Seas VR * Horizon Shift * It's Spring Again * Kerbal Space Program…
unlabelledView post →Would be nice to have a multiplayer mode tho. Still... Light em up!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the Weed Zombies games and this one kicks them up into high gear. Not as simple as it looks due to the corpse piling up system.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like unbalanced gameplay? Do you like paying actual money for a game that could have been found for free on CrazyMonkeyGames in 2006? Do you like the inability to adjust sound levels in the options? If you answered yes to any of these questions, than what the hell is wrong with you? Also this game might be for you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With this price this game is pretty much free It's a nice and bloody top down shoot 'em up game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy3fyIVBmHw
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game's awesome! It's fun to play, the idea is simple and it's cheap. The only problem I had was the game didn't tell about the alt-fire dash which made things alot easier near the end. furry/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battle Bruise is an exceptionally good game for an exceptionally low price. I got the game for 27 cents. The game is very easy to pick up. You have two choices when starting the game, campaign or car mode. In campaign you have to fight off waves of enemies from all directions; 8 waves in total per stage. After each wave you can buy different weapons and upgrade your current weapons. I car defense mode, you have to protect a car from being destroyed. In this mode you can also buy turrets…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, cheap looking and coarsely done shooter dodging game. Few weapons, a dozen runs within Campaign and Car defence mode. Game gets overly way too fast and hectic near the end. Playable, for a Low cost.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dinamic game with nice visual style and 100% completed game in your library what else you need from game with this price?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game de arena bem divertido e original. Gostei muito dos upgrade das armas e da "pilhas de corpos" que vão se formando no decorrer da fase. Trilha sonora muito boa também. Recomendo para quem curte games do estilo.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is like a newgrounds game on steroids. The amount of content and levolution that comes with this game is well worth the price. The programmers, designer and soundtrack developer should all be pretty proud. I'd rate this game an 8/10. Solid work and lotta fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is this game worth 40 cents? hell yeah, it's a great time consuming game where you buy weapons and kill zombies.. also there are 2 game mods so in case you are bored of shooting, you can buy turrets to do the job. Solid 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Being the cheapsest buy in my Library, I can say with 100% certainty this game is one of the few titles I've played and didn't regret the money. Just for 29 RUB(or whatever the hell your currency is; it's cheap anyways) you get a short but action-packed undead-killing and corpse-piling shoot-'em-up, where you have to quickly adapt to the enemy attacks and the constant change of terrain. Thankfully, the physics in Battle Bruise have no sense of self-respect, and thus you can sometimes hit the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ha..a coupon dropped for this game, so I bought it for like 30 cents to just get the trading cards. So I tried it out a bit while the cards dropped, and actually found myself liking the game. Just a simple crazy zombie shooter, killing waves of zombies and pink elephants. Yet it is quite well done and a bit addictive once you start it. Nice little time waster. Just wish there was some instruction and the ability to turnt the volume down.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite honestly, it feels like if the broken-ness of "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" was fine tuned into a top down horde shooter. Not much to say really other than it looks nice and is really fun to play. It's also funny to see a bipedal cat moonwalking with a sniper rifle while defending a car that has missiles shooting from cannons on top of it. Simply have a good time piling up bones and then crashing through them with a dash attack and watch as you go under the ground and have no idea…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battle Bruise is a chaotic and action-packed indie game that will keep you on your toes. The game features a unique gameplay style that involves fighting through swarms of enemies while navigating changing terrain. The explosions and piles of corpses that result from the battles create little mountains and holes that you must deal with. The game offers an "Arcade mode" as well as a "Car Defense" mode where you must defend your vehicle using turrets. The game's soundtrack, by Txai, is inspired…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BETTL BRUIIIIIIIIIIZE is one of those zombie shoot-em-ups. There are many zombie shoot-em-up, as many as there are zombies in each one, a quite fractal matter. But this one has something what others don't: a hecking furry cat girl as a hero. And she has katanas. And has some funny guy scream at me on powerup pickups. Oh, and it has style I like, with blue main zombie palette that doesn't try to spam red too much on me. And instead of you painting level into flat permanent red until it gets…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good survival shooter. Not easy becouse the rising corpse mountains blocking your shoots. I also like the draw art.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not gonna lie this game is surprisingly great, needs a tutorial though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played for like 10 minutes and I recommend this game already! Very funny and addictive! Can not waste any more time talkng.. Another wave is coming!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grabbed my attention for about 3 straight hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⢸⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠢⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠈⠑⢦⡀⠀Are you playing trash again son? ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠖⠒⠒⠒⢤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⣀⢤⣼⣀⡠⠤⠤⠼⠤⡄⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠑⡤⠤⡒⠒⠒⡊⠙⡏⠀⢀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠢⡄⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠇⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⠧⠟⠁⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠸⣀⠀⠀⠈⢉⠟⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢱⡖⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⢺⠧⢄⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⣠⠃⢸⠀⠀⠈⠉⡽⠿⠯⡆⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⣰⠁⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⠣⠀⠀⢸⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⢇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡌⠀⠈⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredible game for 0.07 usd 💥💥💥 Cant stop till finished it 🤘🤘🤘 Pros: ➕ lighting like gameplay pace ⚡⚡⚡ ➕ simple but not tedious 🔥🔥🔥 ➕ not too much levels so u wont get bored till complete it 🕰🕰🕰 ➕ good balance of easiness and hardcore 🔝🔝🔝 ➕ cool art style 🖌🖌🖌 ➕ achievements 🏆🏆🏆 ➕ cards 🃏🃏🃏 Cons: ➖ game options are kinda poor 😢😢😢
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain. Explosions will create holes, while pile of corpses will form little mountains. This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF! The game features: The main "Arcade mode", and, The optional "Car Defense" mode, where you defend your parked vehicle with turrets Around 5 classes of weapons 5 different enemies with distinct behaviors, and a final boss Soundtrack by Txai, inspired on Pothead Zombies…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game. Funny. Nice graphic. You can earn achievements. And you can get trading cards.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cheap and cheerful, unique artstyle and for the price a lot of fun. Easy to 100%.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very fun, fast paced, and the ideal game of what comes to mind when I think of the term "over the top zombie run and gun," and this game plays on the simple concept very well. With the full price tag being $1 for the game, I don't see a reason to complain, I would just as easily buy this game with a $5 price tag. The game stands on its own very well, it kept me busy for a few hours with the dozen or so levels each introducing a new level of difficulty and enemy type when…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →--- [Player Base] --- ☑ Casual players ☐ Hardcore players --- [Is it for mature players?] --- ☑ Everyone ☐ Mature --- --- ☐ Really bad ☑ Bad ☐ OK ☐ Good ☐ Beautiful ☐ Masterpiece --- --- ☐ Easy Peasy ☐ Easy to learn but hard to master ☑ Medium ☐ Hard ☐ Dark Souls --- [PC specs] --- ☑ Toaster ☐ Average ☐ Solid Medium ☐ High end ☐ Unoptimized --- --- ☑ Full price ☐ Wait for sale ☐ Don't do it ☐ Free --- --- ☐ Game itself is a bug ☐ Lot of bugs ☑ Few Bugs ☐ Nothing it's a good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fast paced shoot em up. Kill zombies, collect money and buy new weapons at the end of every round. Quick game to jump into and play. Well worth the money.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the most fun you can have for 99 cents. Plus I used to play their stuff on Newgrounds back in the day so I'm a little... How you say... Biasd.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battle Bruise is a hilarious ride! The wild characters and outrageous moves had me in stitches. Every match feels like a cartoon brawl, and the chaos is just pure fun. Perfect for some laughs and epic battles!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got bruised in battle
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended for game farming
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needs a steam award for most realistic zombie killing simulator. In other games dead zombies just vanish (?). Makes no sense! Can't wait for the PS2 port!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battle Bruise is a zombie horde shooter done very nicely. While there's not a wide variety of gameplay, this game does a nice job of finding a way to never feel stale or repetitive. Very fun to pick up and play a few rounds, and a nice game to keep you hooked until you beat it 100%. I would be willing to pay $2-$3 for this game, but I'm very satisfied with the fact it's only $0.99! Definitely will go back and play again from time to time when I'm looking for some quick fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I create a steam controller configuration for a game like this it means I love it right away! I've only played for about 15 minutes and I'm already very happy I bought this. I wish there was a way to reduce the choppiness of the frame rate. I have a killer machine so it's not a problem on my end. EDIT ADDITION TO REVIEW: By ensuring VSync was enabled on the video driver level I was able to smooth out the performance quite a bit. I feel my original comment about the choppiness was a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually, a really decent game for its price. Campaign (if you can call it like that) is 30 minutes long and car defense mode - about 1.5h. The core gameplay is ingenious. You shoot enemies, they die and then the corpses pile up into little mountains, which can block your bullets. But you and your enemies can destroy them either with weapons or with sliding. It would be an awesome strategic feature if the game wouldn't be so easy and mindless. Still, had some fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels more like something I'd find on Newgrounds back in the day when I was in High School. But it's cheap, fun, entertaining, has good music and great visuals. What more could you ask for?!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Guess this game was really cheap, but was it worth the 6 minutes i played it? I dunno. Had to use time to download it and buy it also. It is a game, but waaaaaau to basic. If the dev guy added some upgrades etc, it would be a playable game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a very underrated game. It's a great shoot'em up with great mechanics, especially the part when dead enemies make a mountain. Although it still needs a little polish, for example the player and enemies dissapearing when going "underwater" or the strange shooting when the player and the enemy are on different heights. Theese are minor things but still fixing them would make the game look more finished.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a game with a very simple and fun gimick that makes the game chaotic. Its super cheap and super fun, I cant think of a reason not to get this gem of a game, I cant recommend this game enough. I dont give a damn if its basic its fun as hell.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best thing of this game is It's not boring to replay it. You can keep playing again and again ,and it won't get dull. Terrain get changed by various reason during the play. And it will mostly obstruct the player. So every game you play will feel different. Do you like shooting game? Do you like Alien Shooter game play? Then you will love this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Colorful loud topdown shooter where you kill waves of enemies but you can't turn the volume down.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short game, great game mechanics, love the terrain mechanics (how you can blow it up or build it up using bodies). Very fun mindless violence sandbox game. Hords upon hords of enemies, you got to move around. Overall I loved it, nothing to complain about. Its super cheap and has steam cards and achivments, well worth the buy!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Watch the trailer and you know exactly what to expect. Fun gameplay, especially car defense mode, though a severe lack of depth & longevity is the main problem here. I flew through both modes dying only once, using default weapons (!).. Very very easy, a short but enjoyable experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best click to shoot'er game I've played so far! I absolutely love the artstyle and am drawn to even making fanart~
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best 10 cents I have ever spent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've seen some good 1 dollar games through the years (recommending Battle High 1 and 2 on XBLIG), and Battle Bruise is no exception. This top-down shooter is proven to have plenty of fun in a low, low price. Gameplay consists of 2 main modes with several levels and 2 different weapon sets: a main Campaign with three waves per level and a Car Defense mode with 8 waves per level. Campaign is all about surviving a horde of zombies while car defense is as it's named (and can be brutal at times).…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a steam coupon for it so I only paid $0.10 and it was a lot more fun than I expected. The gameplay is fun and challenging enough to justify paying $1 for it. The appearance itself all appears hand drawn but is still somewhat chaming. Good, quick, cheep fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →suprisingly Good considering the price, I highly recomend the game for people who have 5 minutes to hours of free time
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →YES!!!!! Get this!!!! Inexpensive, fun, challenging at times, rewarding all the time. Also sounds like the developer is going to be enhancing it a little more in the future, but as is it's an amazing game and totally worth the 50 cents or 99 cents asking price. Lets see... 2.6 hours of play time so far, 49 cents.... carry the 7... divide a turnip... um... wait... I cannot maths, but this game is fun. Good job to the developer! Also thank you for making this game. Cheers!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i bought this game just because i got a discount coupon from steam for this game, and guess what? it was worth it :D u may think that this game isn't fun or it's one of those games that u just buy to fill ur game library, but no; this is a really fun, addictive, shoot-em-up game that totally worth $1.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good bargain for its price. It's traditional "Alien shooter-like" with interesting "corpse pill-up" mechanic. Basically when enemy got killed, they turn into "floor" and will pill up into hill when enough enemy is kill in that area and player can walk on the hill and feel like a badass. The interesting part is that some weapons can be 'blocked' by this 'hill' so player can't just stay still or they may not be able to shoot. Another one is that some weapons and enemy attack or pick up will…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll admit I'm not one for shooters where your put in an arena and forced to shoot down a bunch of enemies. Not that its bad just that I feel they never have enough depth. But that is not the case here this game has plenty of depth yet is still easy enough to understand so you can just pick up and play. Granted there are a few technical glitches but it never distracts from the game and I love the aesthetic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battle Bruise is a simple yet fun game. The visuals seem to be taken straight out of some downtown graphitti, and that's pretty cool - it fits with the awesome soundtrack very much! While I'm not that much into simple pick-up-and-play games, Battle Bruise gave me some good fun, skillfully dodging waves of undead enemies. Ah, and do expect some random difficulty spikes - mostly RNG things. This is the most fun you can get for a price tag like this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I FIND THIS IS ONLY WAY TO EXPRESS HOW MUCH I AM IN "Lu~v" WITH THIS GAME 0.1 HRS WAS ENOUGH TO SHOW ME MY NEW "Punk Rock Kitty" WAI~FU!~
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a super simple game. I like the astetic and playing it felt nice, though the gunsounds are, in my opinion, too weak for a game like this, the'y need to be super booooom, when they are more of a pewpewpew, if you understand this weird comarison :D I got bored of it quite quickly, but it is one Euro and for this price I think it's worth it, you'll be entertained for about an hour I'd say.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The changing soundtrack works quite well with the arcade gameplay. But... there's not a survival mode? I would love to battle on the mess until everything turns fubar.
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