- French Localization is Live! - 21 September 2026
Pesticide Not Required is now fully localized to French. Huge thank you to Martin for doing the French translation!
- New Game Demo Out Now - No More Pesticide! - 11 February 2026
Hey everyone!We're incredibly excited to announce that we just launched the demo for our new game No More Pesticide!The game is a soft sequel to Pesticide Not Required, with familiar gameplay but reimagined as an active incremental game. Progressively upgrade your frog as you fight mutant bugs through new environments. In the full version, you'll finally be able to take down the corrupt pesticide monopoly and put an end to their nonsense!Try out the demo and be sure to add it to your wishlist!
- 🚀 Pesticide Not Required drops into the Bullet Heaven Festival! - 5 December 2025
Dear players,We’re excited to announce that Pesticide Not Required will be participating in the “Bullet Heaven Festival”!During the event, the game will be available at a limited-time 40% discount. Now is the perfect chance to add it to your library!🎮 40% Discount – Get It Today!Thank you so much for all your support! Join our community and meet like-minded players!
- Unity Security Vulnerability Fix - 4 October 2025
Updated the version of the game engine we use to fix a newly spotted security vulnerability within the engine
- Portuguese (BR) and Spanish Localization! - 29 March 2025
Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that Pesticide Not Required is now available in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, allowing more players to experience the game in their native language! Massive shoutout to Samuel Santana (Jhnd on Discord) for localizing the game to Brazilian Portuguese, and to Chris from the dev team for the Spanish version!
- Patch for 3/25/2025 - 27 March 2025
Hey everyone! I've been rolling out some changes since the big update, I just finished off the last of them so here are the official patch notes. Changes: Made the Fusions menu viewable from the Merchant shop (first, click on the bag in the shop to open your inventory) You can no longer buy more seeds than will max out your weapon level, fixing issues of accidentally over-buying weapon seeds and harvesting an undesired weapon after a fusion Adjusted shop rerolling to scale lower in price and cap out at a cost of 5000, allowing more attempts when trying to get specific weapons Fixed an issue where the game speed option could apply incorrectly in certain cases Fixed an issue where a farming plot could become stuck during harvesting and no longer be usable Reduced visual effect of the Dimensional Slash attack to make it less jarring Fixed cat animation flickering Adjusted weapon icons to b…
- Frantic farming roguelike Pesticide Not Required adds new fusion weapons - 2 March 2025
If you've ever wished Stardew Valley was more all-action, Pesticide Not Required is well worth trying. It takes the tried-and-tested wave-based horde survival gameplay popularized by Vampire Survivors and combines it with a clever farming system to create one of the most delightful roguelike surprises of 2024. Now, developer Jampacked Games has unleashed a fresh update with an entire new tier of weapons and more challenges to put the most committed players through their paces. Alongside this, you can pick up the already-cheap indie game at a discount thanks to a Steam sale. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Stardew Valley meets Vampire Survivors in new Steam farming roguelike
- Content Update - Weapon Fusions and Challenges! - 26 February 2025
Hey everyone! We're super excited to launch this new content update and hear everyone's feedback. This update brings a new mechanic into the game - weapon fusions! Upon maxxing out the two required weapons, you'll be presented with the option to fuse them into a new type of super-powered weapon. Weapon fusion info can be found at any time by clicking the new 'Fusions' option in the pause menu. Along with this new mechanic, we have added 10 fusion weapons to the game: Dimensional Slash Shovel Meteor Smash Sweeping Slash Wind Bombs Mole Hat Fairy Tango Devil's Fork Tidal Wave Tadpole Burst We've also added new, extra-difficult challenges to the game for hardcore players to attempt. These challenges are only visible once all regular in-game achievements are completed. Get out there and fill up your trophy shelf if you dare face the task! https://i.ibb.co/1YFZ3kZm/spinnygif.gif
- Steam Trading Cards and Point Shop Items Are Live! - 22 January 2025
We released trading cards into the wild the other day! Check out the trading cards, profile backgrounds, emoticons, and badges with our hand-made art ːpnr_joeː ːpnr_furogː ːpnr_roscoː We're also working on a content update, more info should be coming next month!
- Controller Crash Bug Fix - 11 January 2025
Some players have been experiencing unusual crashes while playing on a controller, this bug is confirmed to have been an issue within the game engine we are using. Thankfully, the issue has been recognized and fixed, this patch has an updated version which should fix this nasty bug! If you continue to have any issues, please let me know!
- Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Localization! - 10 January 2025
We’re excited to announce that Pesticide Not Required is now fully localized in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean! With all in-game text and relevant images updated to support each language, we're thrilled to open the game up to a new audience and allow more players to experience the game in their native language! To celebrate, we're also running a 25% discount, and have a bunch of new bundles with other great games to check out.
- Patch for 05/01/2024 - Improved Resolution Support - 1 May 2024
The main focus for this patch was getting the game to be playable on many different monitor resolutions with minimal compromise (Note: Vertical resolutions are not recommended) - any resolution is now playable without black bars or limiting view - made windowed mode freely resizable - removed camera zooming in/out occurring on different resolutions - fixed player health bar appearing in different positions relative to the character on certain resolutions - fixed cursor-based movement joystick UI sizing inconsistencies on different resolutions - damage numbers and boss health bars are now rendered smooth rather than pixelated for readability - fixed odd formatting on the Pufferfish's compendium entry description - improved Wood Axe weapon's base attack size, crit chance, attack frequency, and knockback - changed timer for 5 second boss kill achievement to start only after the boss initia…
- Patch for 3/19/2024 - 20 March 2024
Hey y'all! It's amazing seeing people play the game at last! Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions, I've implemented some changes here: Added V-Sync toggle option Added Show Damage Numbers toggle option Reorganized settings menu Allowed aiming controls to be used to move the character when Twin-Stick Mode is disabled Fixed mistakes across various fish and ore compendium entry descriptions Fixed Plotty's unlock cheevo displaying the wrong froge Fixed hardwood stairs pixel flickering Fixed very rare edge case of music cutting out in the home and garden Fixed bottom right background crop seed being larger than the others in shop Increased selection area for shop seeds Fixed crow boom seed having a different name in the Steam achievement Effectively removed limit bounds for stat changes
- The Game Is Now Released!!! - 18 March 2024
It's finally live! Its been a journey getting here, thank you so much to everyone who contributed their feedback and helped shape the game into what it is today. I'm really looking forward to seeing people mess around and discover everything that we've put in here! Leaving an honest review would be greatly appreciated!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2479320/Pesticide_Not_Required/ For more info on what's included in the full release, check out our last announcement here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2479320/view/5970156536062178639
- What To Expect From Full Release - 14 March 2024
We're now just 4 days away from release!! I wanted to take a moment to answer some questions and lay out what will be included in the full release of the game. We've upheld our promise from the demo with the following content being included in the game (with a few extras, such as an additional character): We've also added 2 accessibility options that have been frequently requested: mouse-based character movement arachnophobia mode toggle Some other additions: alternate pet skins (18 total choices) customizable backyard garden with day/night cycle 50 decor cosmetics unlocks to personalize your home and garden with improved menu UI highlighting clarity (as frequently requested) compendium that tracks ore and fish from each season revamped achievements display visuals revamped kitchen skill tree visuals a secret room in the house.. if you manage to unlock it 👀 One last thing I wanted to b…
- Launch Pricing ($6.50 USD) - 6 March 2024
Hey everyone! Quick announcement to let you know that the game will launch at a price point of $6.50 USD! There'll be a 10% launch discount as well as a small bonus for anyone getting in right at release. Pricing for other currencies will be set based off of Steam's regional pricing. That's all for now, release is in 12 days (Monday, March 18th)!!! Super excited for everyone to see what we've been cooking :D
- Release Date Announcement! - 23 February 2024
Pesticide Not Required will be fully releasing On Monday, March 18th!! We've been cooking up tons of fun stuff and can't wait for you to try it yourself! Be sure to add the game on your wishlist so that Steam will notify you the moment it releases! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2479320/Pesticide_Not_Required/
- Demo Is Live Now! - 29 January 2024
Demo is up!! Its got some new content including new characters, weapons, level rewards, achievement shelf, and more! There was also a rare file corruption issue in the prologue, multiple steps have been taken to mitigate this as much as possible. If you have any issues, please let me know and I'll get on it ASAP! Of course, if you're enjoying the game or looking forward to full release, add it to your wishlist :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/2479320/Pesticide_Not_Required/
- Demo With New Content Coming Jan 29th + Steam Next Fest - 24 January 2024
This coming Monday (January 29th) our prologue will be concluding and the demo will be coming online! This demo will feature new characters, weapons, level rewards, the achievement shelf, and more to be fun for both new players and those who have played the prologue. The demo will be available on this game's Steam page once its launched. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2479320/Pesticide_Not_Required/ We're also entered into Steam Next Fest, which starts on February 5th! The response to our prologue has been absolutely incredible, far beyond any expectations we could've had. Thank you so much to everyone who decided to give it a shot! We're super excited to get the full game out within the next couple months and let everyone see all the fun stuff it has to offer. Also, you may or may not be seeing this goofy lil chum in the new demo 👀 https://i.ibb.co/MPzXTFy/furog-House.gif
- Turns out that farming is a pretty compelling addition to the horde survival roguelite formula - 14 January 2024
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... Read more.
