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Play Fennel, a devil assassin, using tail-powered movement, stealth, weapons, and brutal takedowns to reach targets across four contracts.
Released 19 Nov 2025
Grapple With Your Tail
Use Thigh Takedowns
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A murky first-person immersive sim with tightly-wound melee combat and tangled, vertical levels to explore. Use your forked tail to tie your enemies in knots and climb impossible heights. Kill your mark with quickness and cunning, using whatever tools you see fit.
Developed by Knife Demon Software · Published by Knife Demon Software
In a harsh frontier world, you play Fennel, a devil making a living as an assassin. Each contract sends you into a hostile location to find and eliminate a target, with friendly and hostile characters who can react to crimes such as trespassing, theft, and murder.
Explore interconnected levels with multiple paths, gather keys and tools, and choose how to approach obstacles and guards. Fennel’s forked tail helps her move through vertical spaces and interact with objects; combat mixes improvised or stolen weapons with close-range takedowns. You can avoid combat or take on enemies, though direct fights are dangerous.
The game has one Greater Contract and three Lesser Contracts, built for replay. Challenges reward different approaches, including avoiding detection, sparing non-targets, or using no weapons; completing challenges and levels unlocks cosmetic options for Fennel.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often praise the agile movement, dense levels with multiple approaches, and distinctive takedown combat. Many enjoy replaying contracts to learn routes and complete challenges, while some find the game short. Inventory handling and enemy detection are recurring criticisms, though views on the overall stealth and difficulty vary.
Caught in the mulching churn of a frontier world, Fennel, a devil flung far from home, cuts out a living from the cities and towns at the edge of the earth.
Master a suite of unique combat and movement techniques through use of your forked tail. Lose your way in the slithering guts of the colonial undercarriage. Make wealth out of misery.
Brush Burial: Gutter World is an immersive sim with sanguine and spirited systemic gameplay. You may accomplish your goals as you see fit. All combat is avoidable; to show mercy or malice is your decision.
Features:
Tightly designed and interconnected levels with numerous paths to the objective, full of hostile or friendly NPCs who react to crimes like stealing, trespassing, and murder.
Fast paced, instantaneous combat that is simple but robust, encouraging the use of improvised or stolen weapons, environmental objects, and a unique hand-to-hand takedown system.
Dozens of unique cosmetics to be unlocked through gameplay challenges, as well as progression through the game's levels.
One 'Greater Contract' and Three 'Lesser Contracts' to complete. Four levels in total, built to be replayed.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
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