2026-02-11 10:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Mat
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!
2025-12-05 02:00 UTC · Community Announcements · GamerskyGames
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!
2025-10-04 08:32 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
Updated the version of the game engine we use to fix a newly spotted security vulnerability within the engine
2025-03-29 22:07 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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!
2025-03-27 06:17 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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 wh
2025-03-02 14:28 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
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 th
2025-02-26 13:27 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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
2025-01-22 00:47 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44347348/e574e70dc4961ecb543a962ba454eb069107cddd.png
2025-01-11 01:03 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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!
2025-01-10 18:33 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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.
2024-05-01 21:43 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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 rende
2024-03-20 00:07 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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 cro
2024-03-18 13:24 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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
2024-03-14 22:29 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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): {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44347348/399a55b74377a5cda5e62fd59693900326c1ea49.png 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 ga
2024-03-06 19:53 UTC · Community Announcements · MatKost
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
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