- RUNT - Patch v 1.49 - 31 August 2026
Hey everyone!We’ve heard your feedback~! As of 8/31/2026, we have patched the game with the following fixes:If you have completed any of the previous puzzles in any runs, you will now be able to skip these games by pressing the ‘Give Up?’ button. While this is an automatic fail, you can proceed through the story faster, especially on replays.Please note that you cannot skip puzzles in the ‘True End.’These skips will carry over across all saves and all runs!Dreams can now be skipped by pressing \. Additional grammar edits have been made to the game’s dialogue.Generator Puzzle has had adjustments made to it's controls.Fixed an issue where the initial Smoke encounter would softlock players if failed.Several conversational flags have been fixed.Fixed an issue where Day 2 available free time would be incorrect on subsequent playthroughs.Instances of character journal pages not appearing afte…
- Music BTS - 20 August 2026
Happy post release everyone~! Thank you all for your feedback, it all helps to make the game better and reach more people who would love the world of RUNT!This week, we wanted to talk about one of the most important elements of RUNT - the music! We sat down with Stephen Spies & Taylor Shechet, our two composers for the project to ask some questions about their process working on the OST, which is available now on Bandcamp!https://taylorshechet.bandcamp.com/album/runt-original-game-soundtrack What are some projects you’ve previously worked on?TS: Gloomwood by New Blood is definitely the project I’m most known for. It is a survival horror immersive simulator game set in an alternative Victorian era, currently in Early Access. I’ve been making the music and SFX for Gloomwood since the demo. I recently did sound effects for the demo of All Living Things by MOXO - a gorgeous claymation puzzl…
- Quick Update! - 16 August 2026
Hello everyone!It's been almost a week since we released RUNT and we are so happy to see all the support come through!Just as an update, we are working on patch to address some of the bugs and some requests from the community. We will update you all once we have that patch ready!Thank you!-Grimtaste Studios
- RUNT Is Out Now - 10 August 2026
Hello and happy release day everyone~! It's been about a year and 5 months since we started working on RUNT and had no idea that we would ever complete it or that we would get the amount of attention that we have! Seeing all the fanart and work and comments and Runtsonas just from our demo alone has been incredible and we cannot thank you all enough for supporting us.For me (Yves), this has been a rollercoaster of emotions and long days and countless hours of writing and re-writing. Here on release day, I don’t think I would change a thing (except add wayyyyy more art : D). I am beyond honored to have worked with my co-dev Soren, as well as the infinitely patient team at DreadXP. We’ve been unbelievably lucky with this development to have seen the response we have~!!!Soren here! This game has been a herculean effort on both our parts, and I'm very happy and excited for it all to be fini…
- RUNT Release Update - 7 August 2026
Hey Everyone!Thank you for your patience while we pushed the release of RUNT back a few days. But we have some great news, we heard from Steam today that RUNT has passed its review process. So this means that RUNT will now be launching on Monday, August 10th! -DreadXP
- RUNT Delay Announcement - 6 August 2026
Hey Everyone,Today (August 6th) had been the planned release date for RUNT, but unfortunately the Steam build review process has taken much longer than normal, so we’ll have to delay the launch. We’re all very excited for you all to get to play, and our plan is to launch the game as soon as we’re able, but we don’t currently know how much longer the review process will last. Thanks so much for all your support so far for RUNT and the team at Grimtaste Studios. - DreadXP
- Interview with Lucy James - RUNT + Grimtaste Studios - 31 July 2026
Hello everyone~! It's only a short while till RUNT is released~! To tide you all over, check out the interview we did with the wonderful Lucy James over at lookingforgame ! We go over how we started Runt, our inspos, and our hopes for the game~!https://player.gg/publications/lookingforgame/posts/lucy-recommends-runtWe will see you all here next week for release~!!! Love,Soren + Yves (Grimtaste Studios)
- RUNT Release Date Announcement - 23 July 2026
Hello everyone~!We are so proud to announce that RUNT will be releasing on AUGUST 6TH, 2026! That’s just two weeks away! We hope you are all excited to play it and discover the full world of RUNT! We will check back after release to answer any questions you have about the game or the world - we are so excited to finally talk about what we’ve been working on the past 1.5 years~! Take care out there! Soren & Yves (Grimtaste Studios)
- RUNT Demo Live Stream With Autumn Ivy! - 22 June 2026
Check out Autumn Ivy play through some of the demo for RUNT! Make sure to check out the demo yourself, and wishlist the game today! FOLLOW AUTUMN IVYTwitter: https://x.com/xXAutumnIvyXx?lang=enYouTube: Twitch:
- DESIGN SPOTLIGHT - STRAYER KITCHEN - 28 May 2026
STEAM POST - KITCHEN BACKGROUNDS BTS! Hello all, Soren and Yves here today to give you a little behind the scenes peek at one of the background paintings for the game. Like a lot of the design, art and writing in the game, the backgrounds are a collaborative mix between me and Yves. They're also a mix of photography and digital painting, some of them leaning more towards heavily filtered and photos with hand-painted elements, while others are 100% digital painting. Today we're taking a look at one that was entirely painted--the lovely, beautiful, not at all grim-and-depressing and disgusting Strayer kitchen! The kitchen is the heart of the home, which is why I wanted to show off, on every little level that I could, that this one's kind of awful. It's seen better days. It hasn't been properly taken care of in years.The initial kitchen layout with furniture was created in a simple 3D mode…
- DESIGN SPOTLIGHT - FISHER - 14 May 2026
Soren here today to talk about the design and character of Fisher Strayer! Fisher's the second youngest Strayer brother at twenty-five, and like Tanner, his design came forth far before his full personality had been developed. So when I designed him, it was focusing on nothing but the very core of his character. And he's got an interesting sort of dichotomy, and I guess one that's always been fascinating to me: someone with a really scientific, analytic mind who also happens to be exceptionally religious.He also has a push-and-pull going on between being the most devout Strayer, but also having a job outside of the family. The only Strayer brother that actually does. He's rarely home, but he's also trying to keep his father's faith and legacy going. Can he really be devoted to both?So it was these two things, this push and pull, that I wanted to bring to life in Fisher. Like Tanner, I d…
- Design Spotlight [Carver] - 30 April 2026
Hello everyone~! This is Yves and this week, we will be going over the creation of Carver. Off the bat, he is my favorite brother. He was the first of the Strayers to be conceptualized. When I first started mocking up concepts for UI, I kept imagining the fox guy from Darkwood and used him as a reference for things like color and tone. We’ve seen a few people mention that Darkwood style approach to characters and y’all were right! The character design from that game helped a ton with influencing RUNT’s style. (Early concept mock-up for the game) To give some initial stats on Carver, he’s about 28 years old, born almost exactly 9 months after Tanner. Given this closeness in age, he and Tanner are exceptionally close and are probably the only pair of brothers that genuinely like each other. Additionally - also given the closeness in birth - Carver is actually a bit stunted in his growth c…
- Design Spotlight [Tanner] - 16 April 2026
Hello all, Soren here to talk to you about the design & character of Tanner Strayer this week. I won't lie, Tanner's my favorite brother. Carver's the most infuriatingly charming, Fisher's design has elements from my favorite video game, and Hunter's…. Hunter… but Tanner's my pick every time. Tanner's design was heavily inspired by the photography work of Charles Fréger and his Wilder Mann series documenting folkloric costume around the world. Tanner, like Hunter, took to the off-grid lifestyle the most out of the brothers, and the materials he's used to adorn himself with and the handicraft involved reflect that: fur, wood, antlers, leather.(The first sketch of Tanner's design, straight from my sketchbook. Revisiting this, I'm surprised to see the note at the bottom that reads "KITTED TF OUT - HE'S AFRAID".) His mask is a shell of carved wood, blackened by fire (he carved it himself an…
- Design Spotlight [HUNTER] - 2 April 2026
Hello everyone! This is Yves~! Thank you to everyone who stopped by the DreadXP booth at PAX East! It means the world to hear how people were reacting to the demo~! For this week, we wanted to go over the design of one of our dear Strayer brothers. We will switch off talking about all of them along with other townies, so if you are interested in how we conceptualize all the characters, stay tuned! To kick things off, we wanted to cover Hunter, the eldest brother! (Early sketch)(Final design) Canonically, Hunter is about 6’4, making him the tallest of the brothers. He is also the oldest, being about 32. As the leader of his brothers following their fathers passing and as the unofficial leader of Skipclaw - though he’s more akin to a military general - he needed to stand out in a scene.Hunter's concept was essentially ‘the scariest man alive.’ He represents hyper-masculinity, the very ide…
- Welcome to Skipclaw! [Lore + Design] - 19 March 2026
Hello everyone, it's Yves~! Thank you for all your feedback regarding the demo as well your bug reports~! It’s helped a lot in shaping the full game to be even better than we planned! We also wanna say thank you to everyone who's streamed it or written a review or just had nice things to say - no matter the reaction (which has been super positive!! Wow!! Thank you!!), knowing that people are invested in the world of RUNT has been invigorating!! For this week and upcoming weeks, we wanted to provide some lore and behind the scenes work on how RUNT came to be~! There will be no spoilers for the full game, but there may be some for the Demo, so give it a shot if you haven’t and come right back here for more~! This week, we wanted to talk a little bit about how Skipclaw came to be, both in the world and how it was designed. To give an overview, I’m passing this over to Soren! Also RUNT will…
- RUNT DEMO Update - v 1.17 - 24 February 2026
Thank you all for playing the RUNT demo! We have updated the demo to 1.17 with the following fixes:Minor edits to dialogue for spelling.The journal tabs for the Smoke and Twister no longer overlap each other when switching between the two.Minor changes to animation during the end of day dream Minor UI changes for sound and interactionFixed Steam Wishlist Link on the main menuUpdated character sprite for Doc If you enjoyed RUNT, please leave a review on the demo, spread the word and let us know your theories in the DreadXP discord!All the best,Grimtaste Studios
- RUNT Demo Out Now! - 20 February 2026
The demo for RUNT is out now! Step into the boots of Runt Strayer in the opening chapter of a rural gothic mystery. Explore the rich web of branching dialogue, a handful of microgames, and the tension between Runt, his brothers, and the people of Skipclaw.
