I'm incredibly excited to announce that the sequel to SNAKE FARM, FISH FEAR ME, will be coming out February 21st! Wishlist it now to get notified when it launches:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000120/FISH_FEAR_ME/

MORE DETAILS:

• The game will be launching on February 21st for $9.99, with a 20% discount for the first two weeks (so $7.99 in practice).
  
• It features three maps, fifteen biomes, sixteen boats, thirty weapons, and 150ish fish to catch. If playtests are anything to go by, this results in somewhere around 30-60 hours of content for completionists.
  
• It ALSO features a storyline exploring the Fisherman’s cosmic debt. To resolve this debt, you’ll need to delve into the eldritch waters beneath the earth, learn arcane rituals, and slay the Leviathan before it consumes you.
  
• It’s about five times larger than SNAKE FARM? At least. There’s a LOT of content here, including a full metaprogression system and fourteen separate game-bending lures which augment builds and give access to special ultra-rare bounties.
  
• If the game launches well, I have plans for multiple free content expansions with new maps, boats, weapons, and more! The first content expansion will be called WOMEN WANT ME.
  
• I will be taking down the free demo when the game launches. This isn’t because I’m opposed to free demos, but because the demo will corrupt newer saves and completely erase 90% of your progress if you try to open it after opening the main game. There’s no way around this outside of completely remaking the demo, which I probably… do not have time to do.
  
• That being said, if you played the demo, the game should remember your progress when you start the full game, and unlock anything you would’ve unlocked at your current level of progression!

Thank you for reading, and thank you for playing SNAKE FARM! In my opinion, this sequel accentuates the best aspects of the first game, while providing a much broader playing space to explore. What if SNAKE FARM had a giant subterranean ocean, and what if that ocean were filled with magic squid, and what if you could smack those squid with a huge anchor that's tied to your submarine? Find out the answer to that highly specific question and more, on FEBRUARY 21st!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000120/FISH_FEAR_ME/

Hey, snake farmers! I'm excited to announce that the sequel to SNAKE FARM, FISH FEAR ME, has a demo that's out NOW!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3281180/FISH_FEAR_ME_Demo?snr=1_7_15__13

For those of you who don't know: FISH FEAR ME is a bullet heaven fishing roguelike about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, upgrading your boat, and catching more fish. It's one part eldritch horror, one part dad rock, and two parts goofy nonsense. It's also an evolution of SNAKE FARM that's bigger, more polished, and weirder.

I've spent the past several months taking the base structure of SNAKE FARM and building off it in as many buck-wild directions as I can. It features dozens of fish, tons of unlocks, and lots of secrets to discover. (And no, I will not tell you where the Red Herring is.)

I hope you enjoy the demo!!! Also please wishlist the game if you enjoy the demo -- it helps a lot!

-- Heather

PUT DOWN YOUR PITCHFORKS AND SCYTHES, SNAKE FARMERS. IT IS TIME TO FISH.

Hey, snake farmers! I'm excited to announce that the sequel to SNAKE FARM, FISH FEAR ME, has a demo coming out THIS MONDAY!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000120/FISH_FEAR_ME/

For those of you who don't know: FISH FEAR ME is a bullet heaven fishing roguelike about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, upgrading your boat, and catching more fish. It's one part eldritch horror, one part dad rock, and two parts goofy nonsense. It's also an evolution of SNAKE FARM that's bigger, more polished, and weirder.

I hope you enjoy the demo when it comes out! (Also please wishlist the game -- it helps a lot!)

Hey, snake farmers! It's been a while. With the one-year anniversary of SNAKE FARM's launch next week, and the sequel to SNAKE FARM dropping its demo soon, I thought it'd be a good idea to show this game some love. On to the patch notes!
This has been a constant request since the game came out, and I really don't have an excuse for not implementing it until now (seriously it took like maybe three hours to get it working smoothly, I shoulda done this ages ago). Since I want to keep backwards compatibility with the community Steamdeck setup, activating gamepad targeting must be done in the options menu.
Bundled with this, you can now fire with RT, so both your thumbs are free for moving/aiming. Video games!
Another regular request, I'm excited to announce that SNAKE FARM now has Steam Trading Card support! With tons of cool backgrounds as rewards! Here's a sample of some of them:

WELCOME TO THE SNAKE FARM (common)

NO REFUNDS (uncommon)

THE GRINDSET (rare)

There's a few more rewards as well, but I don't wanna spoil every secret... :goosemask:

Listen. A girl's gotta eat, and part of eating is convincing thousands of internet strangers that you're not a one-trick pony. I'm a two-trick pony, thank you very much, and the second game of the GET RICH AND DIE TRYING series (of which SNAKE FARM was the first installation, and FISH FEAR ME will be the second) will be coming out soon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000120/FISH_FEAR_ME

It's basically like SNAKE FARM, but instead of snakes, it's fish, and instead of a farm, it's a huge lake full of eldritch secrets, and instead of being fated to explode after ten days because you're made of shoddy secondhand parts, you're doomed to immortality until you can pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making. Basically, I took all the lessons learned from making SNAKE FARM and put them towards making something bigger, better, and weirder. I think you'll really like it.

• Fixed some typos in the French localization

That's all for this time! Thank you for a wonderful year of snakes, and I'm incredibly excited to show you what happens next.

Best,
Heather Flowersssssssssssssssssssss 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

Hey snake farmers! I'm incredibly excited to announce the spiritual sequel to SNAKE FARM, titled FISH FEAR ME!

FISH FEAR ME is the spiritual sequel to SNAKE FARM, built on the same premise but taking it in a very different direction. In short, it's SNAKE FARM but larger, weirder, you're on a boat, there's necromancy, metaprogression unlocks are more granular, it's full of weird secrets, you play as a human instead of an oil drone, and it's fish instead of snakes. But otherwise it's exactly the same.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000120/FISH_FEAR_ME/

Also you can tie a really heavy anchor to the back of your boat to swing at enemies, but it's so heavy that its momentum drags you around while you're trying to maneuver. Video games!

Plus there's, uh. Whatever this is.

It's probably fine. It's probably fine!

If you enjoyed SNAKE FARM, I sincerely hope you'll give FISH FEAR ME a wishlist. I've been taking every lesson learned from SNAKE FARM and putting it into this new game, and I think it's a much stronger experience as a result. Thank you for reading!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000120/FISH_FEAR_ME/

Hey, snake farmers!

My next game, The Last Days of Friendship Valley, just launched its Steam page today! It's a deckbuilding narrative RPG about conflict negotiation, cute lil goats, and impending doom. Build your negotiation deck, investigate ancient mysteries, and try to heal the deep schism at the heart of Friendship Valley before it destroys the world.

Wishlist today:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2815700/The_Last_Days_of_Friendship_Valley/

To give an example of the card-based tactical Friendship Encounter system: Let's say you're trying to mediate an argument between two other goats. Things are getting heated, and it's up to you to keep the peace. Depending on how you've built your character, you might...

• Approach with caution, starting with small talk with one goat to build rapport and take their attention away from the argument, and tamping down their anger until they give up the argument. At that point, you can focus on the other goat, suggesting that they apologize; with luck, they'll do so, resolving the encounter.
  
• Wade into the argument by starting a completely new fight. Once you're the center of attention, you can start to resolve that argument by apologizing for the mess you caused. Of course, if you're not careful, you might end up losing your head...
  
• Get at the real issue as quickly as possible by poking at touchy subjects. Sure, there's an argument happening, but is anger really the problem? Or is there an underlying grief that needs to be resolved?
  
• Completely ignore the argument, shouting "NICE WEATHER WE'RE HAVING, HUH" at louder and louder volumes until everyone else gives up trying to have a conversation.

All the while, you need to handle your own emotions; if you're not careful, you'll become the problem.

Outside of encounters, there's the town of Friendship Valley to explore, filled with colorful characters and surreal mysteries. Make friends, pick up quests, and learn new negotiation strategies, all while trying to hold the entire town together with your bare hooves.

This is a big departure from Snake Farm on an aesthetic and mechanical level, but I hope you're willing to take the leap with me. I promise it'll be worth it. <3

Happy new year, snake farmers! I'm excited to report that Snake Farm's second major expansion, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, is out now!! This update more or less doubles the amount of content available. Let's dive into it!
This expansion features two new game packs, with their own leaderboards, achievements, items, and snakes! To unlock the WORM PACK, you need to defeat all boss snakes of the curse pack (which requires beating all the boss snakes of the base game. Progression!) Some features of the Worm Pack include:

• Ten new items (Scythe, Ten Gallon Hat, Tooth Bomb, Polluted Water, Patience, Ammonia, Barbed Wire, Fallow Fields, Snail Shell, Compost). Snail Shell was invented by our speedrunning competition winner, Snail!
  
• Ten new snakes (Baby Worm, Firework Snake, Tombsnake, Mutant Lootsnake, Stone Snake, Teen Worm, Snake Snake, Reaper Snake, Gummy Worm, Colossus Worm)
  
• A new post-apocalyptic look for the farm

The Scythe is the new core weapon available in the worm pack, and it's a ton of fun. At level one, it's a dash attack with some i-frames; at level six, it's an oil-powered death machine that lets you cross the map in seconds, destroying everything in your path. I think y'all will enjoy it :)

Once you've defeated all boss snakes in the Worm Pack, you unlock the CHAOS PACK: every item, every snake, every landscape from every pack. It's complete nonsense and I adore it. Chaos Pack is the point at which you can start breaking the game in half in any number of directions: combine Stealth Socks and Scale Mail to become permanently invincible, mix Cold Water and Polluted Water to cover the field in oil and frozen snakes, use both Patience and Eyepatch to deal over a thousand damage in a single shot. Because it's so broken, the Chaos Pack has just one leaderboard for every weapon. If you want to get to the top, you're gonna have to fight dirty.

TEN new achievements have been added! Two for pack unlocks, and eight that focus on new content. Like always, these achievements encourage you to push the game and your skills to the limit. You're gonna hate me for this one, though:

• Changed endless mode so you get a new set of random snakes each day. This was a much-needed change to add some variety and challenge.
  
• Limited Curse of Greed to 1,000 uses. You can only delay the inevitable for so long.
  
• Changed Curse of Speed to also increase snake agility and smarts, so they don't just go rocketing off into the void.
  
• Similarly, added a loop-around barrier beyond the edge of the map so snakes that *do* go rocketing off into the void will swiftly go rocketing back onto the map.

• Fixed a bug where you could "end day early" on the first endless shop, letting you loop back to the day 10 shop and build curse forever. Whoops!
  
• Fixed some localization issues
  
• Fixed a bug where pausing on the final frame of a day would softlock the game
  
• Changed snake death animations so they aren't framerate-dependent
  
• Added a prompt to skip to the end of score tallying if it takes more than ten seconds
  
• Added the ability to skip coin/curse tallying on the end of day screen by clicking the mouse once the numbers start moving
  
• Shortened curse tick-up counter in endless mode
  
• Added a windowed mode option -- go to the pause menu and deselect "Fullscreen" to go to windowed mode!
  
• Added a new button in the endless shop that lets you change how many curses you buy per click: 1, 10, 100, or 1000.
  
• Added some optimizations
  
• Gave the corral snake in the main menu another friend :)

Oh! And did I mention the game's on sale for the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest? It's true! We're 40% off -- probably the lowest price the game will ever be! Tell your friends about this fun snake game you've been playing, and how they can get it for less than a soda costs in some hospital vending machines! Use those exact words: "less than a soda costs in some hospital vending machines." See what happens!

That's all for this time! I'll probably put out another update in a few days to fix whatever I broke putting this one out. Happy New Year, and enjoy the FURY OF THE WORMSSSSSSSSSS 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

SNAKE FARM is 30% off for the Steam Winter Sale!

Hey, snake farmers!

I'm excited to announce that the next FREE expansion SNAKE FARM: ECONOMIES OF SCALE will be launching on January 8th! It's a fresh new year and we'll be coming into it with style.

As a treat (and for your speculation), here's the full item list for the expansion:

• Scythe (main weapon)
  
• Ammonia
  
• Barbed Wire
  
• Compost
  
• Fallow Fields
  
• Patience
  
• Polluted Water
  
• Snail Shell
  
• Ten-Gallon Hat
  
• Tooth Bomb

Snail Shell is the suggestion of the Great SNAKE FARM Speedrunning Contest winner, Snail! You can check out the full contest results here.[www.speedrun.com]

In addition to these new items, this expansion will feature ten new snakes, some balance changes, some new accessibility features, and eight or so new achievements. Lots of content for ZERO additional cost!

As a reminder, ECONOMIES OF SCALE will also be featuring two new packs: the WORM PACK, which has you racing against the clock in a barren wasteland, and the CHAOS PACK, which combines all content from every pack! It's a gigantic mess and a ton of fun.

That's all for this time! What do you think those items do? Which ones will be so powerful they immediately need patching? What snakes are you hoping for in the upcoming expansion? Enjoy sssssssssssssssssssssssssssspeculating! 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍