Beary the Hatchet
A downloadable game for Windows
It's Halloween 199X, and you killed someone during your morning shift.
Honestly it's inconvenient. This job was imperfect, sure, but you got to wear a mask with no questions asked and the pay was livable. But now you'll have to keep the body in the backrooms till your shift is done. Bummer.
"You're... the absolutely WICKED and AWESOME Bearwater Grizzly Killer, aren't you?!"
...and now enters the dreaded true crime fan.
A game about hiding things.
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FEATURING
2.5D RPGMaker graphics
RPG elements with a minigame!!!
1 - 1.5 hours of gameplay
10k+ of dialogue
30+ CGs
Dozens of character sprites
A fully original OST
3 Main Endings and 10+ unique Game Overs
One (1) corpse in the back
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A GAME BY TEAM CETACITY
CO-DIRECTED BY MOKADEVS & KIRVIA
A SPOOKTOBER 2023 SUBMISSION
MADE IN RPGMAKER MV
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★☆★☆ FULL CREDITS ☆★☆★
★WRITING & PROGRAMMING ★
★ AUDIO ★
- ROM M - composer & sfx
★ ART ★
- KIRVIA - head artist
- HAMBOREE - pixel art & animation
- LOVELESSKIA - colorist & pixel assets
- MARLOWEMEMO - prop artist & graphic designer
☆ CONCEPT ART ☆
★ SPECIAL THANKS TO ★
- SILLYOWILLY - playtesting & proofreading
- RACHELDRAWSTHIS - playtesting & RPGMaker expertise
- BEENA - playtesting & saving our game <3
- MINISTARFRUIT - proofreading
- BUTCHCORGI - proofreading
☆ PLUGINS CREDITS ☆
- MV3D
- SUMRNDMDUDE
- YANFLY
- GALV
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WARNING:
This game is a black comedy and contains the following:
Swearing
Cartoon violence and death
References to drugs and alcohol
Bright visuals (Chromatic Abberation can be toggled in Options)
We hope you enjoy!
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This game is a work of fiction. It is not based or inspired by real life events or persons in any way, shape or form.
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Updates:
- Added a patch fix on 10/3/2023, and reuploaded that patch with another fix a few hours later.
Known bugs:
- Mac users may have problems loading the game due to the way that RPGMaker, unfortunately, just is built. We recommend reloading the game and trying again, but crashes are pretty inevitable in this version, so we recommend frequent saving.
- Due to RPGMaker's interactions with 3DMV, lag is a pretty significant problem on lower end computers. We're looking into optimization options and are considering releasing a "stripped down" version of the game that removes a lot of visual elements in attempts to have a smoother running experience, but at the moment, a stronger computer is recommended to play this game. Sorry!
Updated | 20 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (142 total ratings) |
Authors | mokadevs, Rom M, marlowememo, dialectic, LEGO, 12THHOUSE, cain, kirvia, Qveiis, TEAM CETACITY |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Tags | 3D, Halloween, Horror, Multiple Endings, Pixel Art, RPG Maker, serial-killer, Singleplayer, spooktober |
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I like the style and character of the game, though I have some criticisms. One, Pearl becomes a bit unlikable because she increasingly seems less like a "quirky misfit" and more of a "sociopathic killer". She just seems really eager to kill (or help in the killing of) an innocent person without much justification or reason behind it. Second, the MC bear guy just... kills for fun? Or kills cause he has to? It's sorta implied he does it for money, but it's not really elaborated on. I guess he's just a generic serial killer? Could do with more on his backstory.
Got all 3 endings and it was awesome. love this game. would play it again if there was a part two!
Killer game
2/3 endings and not a lot of the game over screens, but I REALLY loved this experience! The characters are SO well written and interesting, the overall plot is both silly, goofy, but wholesome and heart breaking. What a fun game! I am really glad I played Prey at the Altar and found you, this was such a treat. :) Guess I'll have to play The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight soon!!
Nice game
Yooo this game was sick af
I loved the art, the music, the concept, everything!
Just one thing that could help people with the same problem as me:
If the game doesn't run properly on your potato computer, there's an app in the playstore that works like easyrpg but for rpgmv/mz games, it's called Maldives player, it's worth the try!
And once again, thank you for the amazing game
this is amazing, i love the main characters, just..... WOW
10/10 would kill brandon again
this game is really fun! i love the character writing, and the artstyle is really good- every character has a strong silhouette and colour scheme. great work!
I love how charming and gorgeous the game is!!! The art style, the characters, the music, everything is so unique, I love it!!!
I am a final-year student of English-Spanish translation, and I'm currently looking for a project to finish my degree. If you are interested, I would be very excited to work with you on a free Spanish translation for the game.
Keep up the great work; your game is awesome!!!
If you are interested, please contact me at:
claudio.contreras.torres@alumnos.uta.cl
or cct.contreras@gmail.com
i loved it!!!!!!!!!1
This was an absolutely phenomenal experience! The style, the music, the game play, the story, the characters, I am so, so glad I got to play this game. You and everyone involved should be so overwhelmingly proud of this, as I'm sure you are. I sincerely hope this isn't the last time I get to see Pearl and Grizz, I'd be happy to pay to make that happen if need be.
Great story line and amazing art, the only issue I had with it is that it was extremely glitchy on everything but the cut scenes, but overall great game!
Apologies; this game is rather resource intensive due to the fact that we’re using a 2D game engine to render 3D graphics. We recommend having a decent amount of RAM available to play the game smoothly. Sorry for the inconvenience!
the music was BANGING !!
This is such a cute game!! The art is soo colorful and charming and I love the whole concept! I loved the music and the setting and all the customers, you can tell people had fun creating this
Manly brought me here. What a gem of a game! I'm obsessed with Pearl's design, like, for real!!! As well as the expressiveness of the art. And the 2.5D look. And the quirky silly dialogue. Beary nice little game 🐻
One tiny change I'd suggest is adding either character names to textboxes or making the boxes unique to each major character (like with a graphic, icon or even just colour). Most of the time it's fine since the talksprites change, but during the climax I did get a bit confused since there were three people talking. I think it could look really stylish too.
Really cool! I love the art direction, I always find it so incredible to see what RPG Maker can accomplish.
I love the dynamic between the two, and just the situation itself having the really dire things being reacted in a mundane way, and the mundane being reacted in a dire way. Though to be honest, retail really is that frantic in real life.
Thanks for the really enjoyable time, I can't wait to check out more of y'alls stuff!
A pretty solid game overall. I mostly like the game's art direction, which goes well with the quirky little narrative you've got going on. Seems to be a common theme with puzzle-based visual novels like these.
Loved the game so much that I cosplayed Grizz AND made a keychain of her (not for sale!)
hey if you ever do make some of these keychains for sale hit me up.....
If Team Cetacity ever allowed me to, I would! (I'd love to design merch for them)
But for now I'll only make merch for myself.
hi! i'm one of the artists on BTH-- I don't know if I ever commented on this, but your cosplay and merch is absolutely amazing!! It's so cool seeing this character come to life... the prop too! awesome job :-)
Thank you SO much! It means a lot! I have a few more pieces of BTH merch in mind that I wanna do, so I'll update my previous comment when I eventually get to do them :D
Exciting!! FTR, selling your merch is fine as long as within hobby scale -- so conventions, online shop, etc. is fine! j
Ohh I see now! Thanks for clearing that up :D
Update: Wore my cosplay to an actual gas station!
This is so insanely cool!! Thanks for showing this to us, I keep smiling whenever I look at these pictures :>
Update: They're finally reunited!
Yes I also made this Pearl keychain!
Do you guys know when the concert is starting?
I just love this game. I found a gold
It's an incredible game, I loved it, the art, the dialogues, the characters, everything is beautiful!!! You are very talented, I hope you continue releasing more games, with so much talent you will go very far 🫶 I made this little drawings of Grizz and Pearl (it's not much and they don't look alike at all XDD), but it was very nice to draw them, thank you for this wonderful game!! 🎄.
Found this through Manlybadasshero and I think that speaks for itsel
good game
Un estilo artístico bonito y una historia interesante, definitivamente un gran juego. Me ha encantado.
I really love the fact that you never find out how or why Beary killed Courtney , the corpse is just there and that's it.
So thankful I have Wine installed! This game is amazing!
It's a fun game, It has a cute art style and is pretty funny. I also kinda ship pearl and beary
I love the game The art style is fantastic. As well, the dialog & characters are amazingly written.
Fun and quirky rpg maker game. I really liked the dialog and artstyle. Hope to more.
good game!
I need more of this game
pearl kinda cute tho, not in like a weird creepy way, just they're kinda funny
Hear me out, the game name MIGHT be called beary the hatchet because, the dude with the bear head is called beary. It's just a maybe though
never would've guessed /hj
Hey!
Could you also upload native Linux builds for the game? Pretty sure RPG Maker MZ/MV allow to export for Linux. If not, would it be possible to bundle for a web release? That also works natively on Linux, since you just need a browser!
Is the killer a lady 🥺👉👈
Grizz is a girl, yes!
For a sec, I thought Grizz was a man with a mullet, thanks for clarification...
darnit, that woulda been a cute ship >:(
gay people exist dude
I meant like marriage, gay marriage wasn't legal in the 90's unfortunately. they could be a perfectly cute couple still. I just meant like in a marriage scenario
lesbians/wlw still existed in the 90s dude
🤍BEST GAME EVER🖤
The art of this game is really impressive and well done. All Endings here:
Hide Ending.
Absolute kino game, love the artstyle!!!
No gamepad support? Interesting game concept. Cool arr style and character design-the colors somewhat pop. Will there be a sequel?