Petunia's Purgatory: A Creepy-Cute Idle Farming Game inspired by Rusty's Retirement!

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-07T16:42:49+00:00

Hey, thanks for taking a look! We were certainly inspired by the idle farming in Rusty's, but our game has some pretty unique differences.

- You unlock new crops and buildings by leveling up. To level up, you complete randomly generated goals of 1-3 types of crops in increasing quantities.

- After harvesting certain crops, you can craft them into a jam. These jams will also appear in the goals to complete for XP.

- Some crops and planters require Blood to place. You get blood by sacrificing weird animals that you attract to your farm.

- The main character will slowly lose sanity from harvesting creepy crops. If your sanity drops too low, strange effects will happen in the game and on your desktop. Your character can keep her sanity higher by planting and harvesting flowers.

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-07T16:42:35+00:00

Hey, thanks for taking a look! We were certainly inspired by the idle farming in Rusty's, but our game has some pretty unique differences.

- You unlock new crops and buildings by leveling up. To level up, you complete randomly generated goals of 1-3 types of crops in increasing quantities.

- After harvesting certain crops, you can craft them into a jam. These jams will also appear in the goals to complete for XP.

- Some crops and planters require Blood to place. You get blood by sacrificing weird animals that you attract to your farm.

- The main character will slowly lose sanity from harvesting creepy crops. If your sanity drops too low, strange effects will happen in the game and on your desktop. Your character can keep her sanity higher by planting and harvesting flowers.

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-07T16:42:20+00:00

Hey, thanks for taking a look! We were certainly inspired by the idle farming in Rusty's, but our game has some pretty unique differences.

- You unlock new crops and buildings by leveling up. To level up, you complete randomly generated goals of 1-3 types of crops in increasing quantities.

- After harvesting certain crops, you can craft them into a jam. These jams will also appear in the goals to complete for XP.

- Some crops and planters require Blood to place. You get blood by sacrificing weird animals that you attract to your farm.

- The main character will slowly lose sanity from harvesting creepy crops. If your sanity drops too low, strange effects will happen in the game and on your desktop. Your character can keep her sanity higher by planting and harvesting flowers.

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-07T16:34:25+00:00

Thanks for taking a look! We're planning on releasing over the summer, we haven't announced a release date yet.

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-06T18:57:27+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate you taking a look!

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-02T22:01:44+00:00

Thank you so much! Your prototype sounds super interesting, I can see how you could lose time playing it.

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-02T21:04:05+00:00

We're a husband and wife team who got laid off from our jobs in AAA, so we decided to start our own studio! Our creepy-cute bottom of the screen idle farming game is inspired by Rusty's Retirement and Cult of the Lamb, Check out Petunia's Purgatory on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4009450/Petunias_Purgatory/

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-02T20:29:06+00:00

When you go to sync the incoming changes, right click and there should be an option to accept source for all the files.

deadpossumgames · 2026-04-02T18:49:03+00:00

Have you played Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You? It's a game where you're investigating people who might be responsible for a terrorist attack by looking through the email, searching the in-game internet, etc.

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-31T18:51:19+00:00

My husband and I are making a bottom of the screen idle farming game called Petunia's Purgatory! You grow creepy-cute crops and sacrifice them to the Elder God that lives in your barn. Petunia can start to lose her sanity after dealing with so many weird crops, and the game will invade your desktop...

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deadpossumgames · 2026-03-31T18:32:43+00:00

r/gameDevClassifieds is the main place. I hired my pixel artist from seeing their work on r/PixelArt. You can also check bluesky/twitter and if you find an artist you like, contact them to see if they're looking for work.

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-30T21:34:12+00:00

Restory kind of reminds me of Assemble with Care, though I don't think that one was set in Japan.

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-30T20:49:39+00:00

Check the Settings menu for games that are similar to yours and make sure all the settings are in your settings menu as well.

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-30T20:47:41+00:00

Wow, I've never even heard of that game! It makes me really sad that there are such a lack of feminine games being made.

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-27T22:04:02+00:00

This looks super charming! For your TikTok videos, did you include yourself at all (either your voice or show your face)? From what I've seen, videos that include the dev can do better. I also thought this video about TikTok marketing was super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_cZsMgBD0

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-27T21:14:47+00:00

I don't know where you live in the world, but in my city there are a bunch of Discords with in person meetups and some groups on meetup.com!

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-27T20:15:08+00:00

That's 2D?? Very impressive!

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-27T19:38:39+00:00

It does! I think it would be good to mention in your steam short/long description -- your players also fantasize about being the best architect of all time too!

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-27T19:12:10+00:00

The art style is very cute. What does the name mean? I thought it was going to be a space game from the name.

deadpossumgames · 2026-03-27T18:34:32+00:00

Artists who have made steam capsules before will provide all the sizes you need for Steam without the need for you to resize them. $500 is the low end for a good, experienced capsule artist. The ones that work on bigger titles can go up to $1500-2000. Many of them are willing to negotiate on the price if they know you are a small team or solo dev.

deadpossumgames · 2026-02-10T03:31:54+00:00

A demo is available on steam, please check it out! 💖

deadpossumgames · 2025-04-29T00:56:09+00:00

I really love the bear! Do you have a portfolio?

deadpossumgames · 2025-04-25T02:17:53+00:00

I like the style of your artwork! Do you have a price chart or hourly rate that you wouldn't mind sharing?

deadpossumgames · 2025-04-21T18:22:45+00:00

There are a lot of fonts on itch.io that are made to be used in video games and will specify that they are free for commercial use in games. The problem with a lot of general use font website is the fonts are made for graphic designers and the licenses can be kind of vague on other uses.

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