ButtonMash

ButtonMash

Thomas Charlton · September 14, 2021 · Adventure, Casual, Platformer, 2D Platformer, 2D

ButtonMash is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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ButtonMash price

ButtonMash is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About ButtonMash

You play as Joy, a lost controller trying to find their buttons back after you've been smashed to pieces. As a 2D platformer, you will have to cross a cyberpunk style city, and a fantasy filled forest using the simple buttons you can find, and some of the more advanced ones. You may start with only being able to move to the left, or the right, and it is your job to use your movement abilities to find the rest of them. Over each level you will find your normal movement abilities scattered across the world, such as moving to the left, the right, and jumping. The move advanced buttons you'll find are the grappling hook, dash, and shoot ability. Good luck, and watch out for dragons.

ButtonMash — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 18, 2021
A great game made by some great folks! GOTY, 11/10!
6 found this helpful
Recommended May 3, 2024
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2 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 19, 2024
"ButtonMash" is a simple but really mediocre 2D retro platformer with somewhat janky controls and hitboxing, and a rather average "meta" theme about being a game controller. Which is funny because this is on PC so most gamers are using keyboard and mouse. Did they not know that before they designed the game? A bit of research goes a long way. Anyway, there's a swinging mechanism and wall jumping and some other more modern platformer stuff but the overall quality is very very low, which undoubtedly lead to the dead silent public reception. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs to pretend they're mobile phones or Commodore 64s. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gamin…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 27, 2021
Needs some work, but a cool concept!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 22, 2023
[h1]Before I played ButtonMash, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Not recommended Nov 14, 2021
eh, not really my style. nice development but not for me.

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