Budget Cuts Ultimate
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About the GameZip, sneak, and stab your way through a heart-pounding dystopia filled with evil robots! What began as a cost-cutting strategy has spiraled out of control, and now it’s up to you to save humanity from being optimized out of existence.
Budget Cuts Ultimate is the essential VR action stealth game, containing all previously released games and content updates.
- Seamlessly play through all 13 levels in the main story of both Budget Cuts 1 and 2, with over 10 hours of stealth stabbing action!
- Mutators allow you to customize your gaming experience with everything from Infinite Stabby Crystals, Locomotion Preferences, Gravity Settings, Bullet Time and “Paltkoma” mode (if you know you know).
- Arcade mode includes a local high score system, 5 replayable levels, 3 difficulty settings, and a “budget calculator” scoring system that will show you how much money your mission has cost, spending less money is better!
- Discover and take advantage of the many weapons throughout the game from knives, bow and arrows, grenades and blunt force coffee cups (among other throwable objects to help you create *distractions* for a quick getaway!)
As your last human co-worker is hauled away, a mysterious briefcase from someone on the outside is delivered to your desk. You need to get to the bottom of what is going on at TransCorp.
Sneak around enemy robots by climbing through air ducts and service tunnels, or embrace violence by unleashing a fistful of knives, quivers of arrows, grenades, and coffee mugs onto their unsuspecting circuits. Once you’ve completed your mission, test your skills in the arcade with multiple modes, difficulty levels, and scoring.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
It's a decent VR stealth game. Very simplistic, there's very little to this game outside of that. Weapon selection is a bit underwhelming as well, but it works.
It is a bit pricey though for what it is. I beat it in 6 hours.
There are collectibles, "nightmare mode" and arcade levels with (local only?) leaderboards if you are into that sort of thing.
Item holding interaction is a bit wacky on Index controllers, it not using the grip at all which also limits when you can do with the stuff you pick up.
Some achievements are either broken or are extremely annoying to get.
Steam User 1
Budget Cuts Ultimate is all the content of Budget Cuts 1 + 2 with the free Adam Isolation update being extended to the base game, do I recommend it yes, ONLY if you're new to the franchise or want to support the developers for their incredible work
Steam User 0
An amazing stealth based game and a must play for any VR fan. One thing I've always given props toward is the AI in this game and how it helps create such a good stealth experience. If you throw a knife near a bot, they will be alerted and look at it, then look at where it was thrown from. If they see you, they will slowly get alerted. If they don't get fully alerted but see you, they would start walking toward where they saw you at. If they get alerted, they will unholster their gun and begin firing, still keeping the gun in their hand for a bit even if you eventually get out of sight, making it easier for them to be alerted. Although it's a pretty basic AI, it still gives a fun experience trying to stay out of sight and unlike others I've seen in VR. It's story and concept is awesome, and although I think it wasn't executed the best and the game was more focused toward it's mechanics, I still really enjoyed it. I got and played this game a lot more on Quest a year or 2 ago (which explains the amount of hours played), and it might be either that I haven't played it in a while or just that it's PCVR, but one of my only complaints is replaying this came with a lot of bugs, such as more dumber bots, enemies being in the wrong spots at the wrong times, or oil splatters just not appearing on surfaces entirely. Besides that though, it was still really fun replaying this and I definitely recommend this to anybody looking for this type of genre game.
P.S. Adam is terrifying and he always will be
Steam User 0
Finally a cool game that respects tracked controller inputs and is genuinly fun to play!
Steam User 0
Pity that savegames nor achivemts from the BC1 nor BC2 are imported to Ultimate... :(
Otherwise, very fun game.
Steam User 0
I was very impressed at how much more serious and deeper the story and gameplay this game was than what I initially thought. I played the demo of this game way back in the day on the htc vive .
Yeah, I was quite pleased with the game. Great story, great gameplay art style definitely worth buying and playing
Steam User 0
This game is pretty fun, nightmare mode works in the first half of the game now with this ultimate version. I'd still buy them separately though, ultimate has more optimizations which makes the game very buggy at times. At one point in the game (don't remember where) you had to use your teleporter to go up though a hole in the ceiling, but the room above wasn't loading in properly because of the optimizations. Sometimes objects and enemies will also just disappear if you teleport with them, put them down, walk away and walk back which is really annoying and why I still prefer playing the Budget Cuts 2 version of the second half of the game. Considering the game hasn't been updated in 2 years though I doubt this will be fixed, I just hope they don't try to bring over the optimizations are ruin the 2nd game. I still recommend this game because it's a nice way to play both games and the menu looks very nice, I just wish those issues would be fixed or have a toggle for the optimizations.