Turns out that farming is a pretty compelling addition to the horde survival roguelite formula
Published: January 01, 0001
The horde survival genre grows weekly and a recent entrant is Pesticide Not Required, which tosses in familiar tropes from the ever-popular farm and life sim genres: Don't craft or pick up your weapons, grow them instead. Defeat enemies
for money, then buy seeds, plant crops, and harvest them for experience—or go mining and fishing, like you do.
Pesticide Not Required has one of those trendy free Prologue versions out on Steam, and it's pretty fun to tool around with and see where the developers are going with the game. It has extra characters to unlock alongside a bunch of weapons, upgrades, and crops to make—though [[link]] the developers (and in-game icons) are quite clear it's not all of them. .
It's pretty genre-standard gameplay with the kind of normal twists you'd expect, having you [[link]] use a combination of weapon choices and upgrades to craft an invincible build that'll help you survive the waves. The real twist, and it's a decently compelling one, is how you're forced into various kinds of movement while you play. You have to move much more than is normal for the genre so you can water your crops or catch fish, emphasizing the genre staple of learning how and where your weapons attack.
By far the funniest part, however, is that when your frog survives a whole season it goes Wumbo mode, grows to fill the entire screen, and then you trample every remaining bug into goop.
Pesticide Not Included is the first game from Jampacked Games, an indie studio based in Toronto, Canada. They're also working on , a movement-based FPS roguelike looter-shooter.
You can find , where it's set to release in the first quarter of 2024. You can also find the on Steam, and you can check out the to boot.
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