Hermit and Pig

Released: Feb 5, 2026
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 14:01 GMT

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22 Apr 2026Developer post
New Bundle: Born of Bread x Hermit & Pig 🍞🐷
We’ve teamed up with Born of Bread to bring you a new bundle featuring two quirky, Paper Mario–inspired RPG adventures. If you enjoy humorous, character-driven stories and lighthearted turn-based gameplay, this bundle brings together two offbeat worlds full of oddball encounters
19 Apr 2026Developer post
🌍 Earth Appreciation Festival – 20% Off + Charity Support!
The Steam Earth Appreciation Festival is happening NOW (April 17–24). It’s about appreciating the wonders of the environment, and confronting the horrifying consequences of corporations doing whatever they want. 🏭🔥 So naturally we're participating, and we're giving it our bigge
The Steam Earth Appreciation Festival is happening NOW (April 17–24).
It’s about appreciating the wonders of the environment, and confronting the horrifying consequences of corporations doing whatever they want. 🏭🔥
So naturally we're participating, and we're giving it our biggest discount yet - Hermit and Pig is now 20% off.
PLUS - we're donating 10% of all sales during the festival to Cool Earth, who work with indigenous communities to protect rainforests (actual heroes, unlike us, who just made a game about saving the environment).
So when you buy the game:
🌱 Trees are helped
🐖 Pig gets pets
😬 Late-stage capitalism receives cringe damage
f you’ve been waiting to pick up the game or recruit a friend into the anti-corporate pig resistance, now’s your moment:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/EarthAppreciationFestival2026
Thanks for caring!
Mason & Nathan
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26 Mar 2026Developer post
The Bonnie & Pig Bundle Is Here 🐻🐷
We’ve teamed up with Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime to put together a special bundle: Bonnie & Pig If you already own one of the games, you can complete the set and get an extra 10% off the other. Two strange worlds of adventure, in one super affordable bundle. If either game has
04 Mar 2026Developer post
Faster walking speed, update to missable trinkets, Mac third-party controllers
Happy Wednesday! Just uploaded a significant update! By popular demand, Hermit’s walking speed is now 30% faster! If you prefer a slower pace, you can change the speed in the settings menu. The two trinkets that were previously only available during Pig’s solo mission (and theref
Happy Wednesday! Just uploaded a significant update!
By popular demand, Hermit’s walking speed is now 30% faster! If you prefer a slower pace, you can change the speed in the settings menu.
The two trinkets that were previously only available during Pig’s solo mission (and therefore missable) have been updated so that they are available to the player after Pig’s solo mission.
The input/controller system has been given a major upgrade. For those that were having trouble with third-party controllers on Mac, it should (hopefully) be improved. We obviously can’t test every third party controller, but the root cause of the previous issues has been addressed.
Wren no longer appears in her house after the battle with Skid Feebis. So you no longer have to sneak and aren’t restricted in her house when backtracking.
The Morale special exploit has been closed (sorry!). Previously, you could just let the song play, wait to see the next correct arrow, and then press it when you were ready. This allowed for massive stat increases. Now, if you don’t attempt an arrow on the right beat, it counts as a miss, and the arrow gets updated.
Several sticky points that were reported should now be improved.
Several edge case crash report errors should now be fixed.
Enjoy! And as always, if you run into any issues, please report them in the Bug Report link in the game menu.
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11 Feb 2026Developer post
Steam screenshots and Steam cloud now available
Howdy folks! Another update for you. This time, we’ve added a few features requested by players: Steam screenshots should work now. Steam Cloud saving should work now, so you should be able to open your save file across devices. IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of how Steam handles transf
Howdy folks! Another update for you. This time, we’ve added a few features requested by players:
Steam screenshots should work now.
Steam Cloud saving should work now, so you should be able to open your save file across devices. IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of how Steam handles transfers, whichever device you open first will overwrite the save files on any device you open afterward. So if your main file is on your Steam Deck and a second, less important file is on your PC, you should open the game on your Steam Deck first, then open it on your PC.
On non-standard aspect ratios, you will now see a patterned border around battles and conversations. It was a design choice on our end to limit the battle/conversation aspect ratio to ensure animations and layouts are consistent. The old black border wasn’t a bug! With the patterned border, it should now be clearer that the size of battles and conversations is intentional.
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09 Feb 2026Developer post
Error at the end of the guards fight
For those that got this error following the last update, it should be fixed now! Make sure to restart Steam to ensure you get the latest version. Apologies for the inconvenience! ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object ob_transition: struct_get argument 1 incorrect typ
09 Feb 2026Developer post
February 9th Update
Howdy folks! Just published a new version with a bunch of fixes for errors and sticky spots that have been reported over the days since we released. If you run into any new issues, please report them in this form: Errors: most of these are edge cases that only happened to 1-2 of
Howdy folks!
Just published a new version with a bunch of fixes for errors and sticky spots that have been reported over the days since we released. If you run into any new issues, please report them in this form: https://forms.gle/hh2c66F7TPsAF8KU9
Errors: most of these are edge cases that only happened to 1-2 of the hundreds of people that have been playing, but wanted to note them here in case any of you are reading through them!
Step Event0 for object ob_player: Unable to find any instance for object index '-4' name ''
Step Event1 for object TimerManager: argument is not a method, unable to call
Step Event0 for object ob_player: Variable Index [1] out of range [1] - -1.109377(109377,1)
Create Event for object ob_menu_helper: sprite_get_name argument 1 incorrect type (string) expecting a Number (YYGI32)
Create Event for object ob_menu_save_load: sprite_get_name argument 1 incorrect type (string) expecting a Number (YYGI32)
Create Event for object ob_game: JSON parse error : unexpected end of data
Step Event0 for object ob_menu_start: struct_exists argument 1 incorrect type (undefined) expecting a Number (YYGI32)
Step Event1 for object TimerManager: Unable to get variable position from object 0000026311EE9D00
Draw Event for object ob_pig: bool argument is unset
Step Event0 for object ob_timer: Attempting to set Instance id 715865 with Object Index 280 (ob_animation) with invalid bound top nan bottom nan left nan right nan
Sticky spots: I went through and cleaned up some of the painted collision to try and prevent getting stuck in the following areas:
Green guy house above lamp.
After Wren’s house, heading toward the well, between spike and river bank.
Before Wren’s house, in the bottom left corner of the truck that pig jumps into.
Bottom left corner of witch’s house between wall and table (couldn’t recreate but made a change that should hopefully help).
In town, in the restaurant, between wall and the guy talking to the business man.
In town, in the sewer, top of pipes near stairs in second sewer area.
In town, in the first open area, the spot north of a bench and fence.
In town, got rid of the hidden walls in the park after Hermit’s speech.
In town, a spot near the line of bottom buildings directly below the park.
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09 Feb 2026Developer post
Hermit and Pig’s First Reviews Are In
Hermit and Pig launched on Steam last week, and we're really grateful for the thoughtful response from press so far. RPGFan: 95/100 The A.V. Club: A- (91/100) Loot Level Chill: 9/10 STWGames (Italy): 9/10 So Many Games: 4.5/5 Destructoid: 8/10 Quest Daily: 8/10 The Indie Game Caf
Hermit and Pig launched on Steam last week, and we're really grateful for the thoughtful response from press so far.
RPGFan: 95/100
The A.V. Club: A- (91/100)
Loot Level Chill: 9/10
STWGames (Italy): 9/10
So Many Games: 4.5/5
Destructoid: 8/10
Quest Daily: 8/10
The Indie Game Café: 4/5
“A heartfelt RPG that isn’t afraid to sit with discomfort.” — The A.V. Club
“One of the most emotionally grounded indie RPGs in recent memory.” — RPGFan
Hermit and Pig has also been featured by Polygon, GameRant, and Good Game Lobby, with coverage exploring its themes of social anxiety, corporate forces, and stepping into discomfort.
Steam player reviews make a huge difference for small indie games, so if you’ve been enjoying your time with Hermit and Pig, leaving a review really helps - especially this early on.
Thank you to everyone who’s played, shared, or supported the game so far!
Mason & Nathan
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05 Feb 2026Developer post
Error when talking to pig is fixed!
For anyone experiencing the following error when you get to the end of the prologue and talk to pig, this has been fixed! Just restart Steam and you should get the update. Apologies for the inconvenience! ERROR in action number 1 of Create Event for object ob_convo_manager: Chatt
05 Feb 2026Developer post
Hermit and Pig is Out Now
If you’re looking for a story-rich, turn-based RPG with key-combo combat, dialogue-driven encounters, and a lot of mushrooms, you can pick up Hermit and Pig today with a 10% launch discount. We also have a couple of launch bundles available on the store page, including one with t
01 Feb 2026Developer post
How to play Hermit and Pig your way
With four days until launch, we wanted to share a dev update on what we've worked on to let you play Hermit and Pig your way. From the start we knew we wanted Hermit and Pig to focus more on player skill growth than grinding over experience points. As development went on the idea
With four days until launch, we wanted to share a dev update on what we've worked on to let you play Hermit and Pig your way. From the start we knew we wanted Hermit and Pig to focus more on player skill growth than grinding over experience points. As development went on the idea expanded to give players more ways to tailor the game to how they like to play.
Choose Easy, Normal, or Hard to change strength of attacks, base HP, and timer speeds, depending on if you want a more casual or challenging experience.
Battle styles: Use key-combos that flex your memory and finger speed, switch to Simple mode that removes the combos, or choose Story mode where the best attacks are selected automatically and you focus on story progression.
Timers: Disable timers entirely, or only in conversations, battles, or menus.
Custom controls: Fully remap controls for both keyboard and controller setups.
There are about 40 trinkets throughout the game that you can collect and equip in battle. These boost Hermit and Pig’s stats and abilities. You can only equip a few at a time though, so it’s up to you to decide what will benefit their play style the most.
TTYL,
Mason and Nathan
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29 Jan 2026Developer post
Hermit and Pig Releasing Feb 5 at 10am EST
We finally get to say it - Hermit and Pig launches one week from today! We’re putting the final touches on the game and getting ready for launch. Thanks so much for all the support along the way. We're almost there. More soon, Mason and Nathan
15 Jan 2026Developer post
Join us for a last round of playtesting and bug catching
We're officially three weeks out from launch! Our alpha testers are wrapping up their last play throughs and we've been shrinking down the to do list every day. We're opening a final round of shorter Steam playtesting to a larger group for a broad sweep of any remaining bugs. If
01 Jan 2026Developer post
Final weeks of development and an updated launch date
Happy New Year! Welcome to our first Hermit and Pig devlog of 2026, and one of our last before launch. It has been a minute since you've heard from us, but we're finally emerging from the deep dark development journey known as the final stretch, and things are looking very good i
14 Oct 2025Developer post
🍄Special Demo Just Dropped for Next Fest Only🍄
It's a Next Fest surprise! We just dropped an extended version of the Hermit and Pig demo on Steam for a limited time! Players will go beyond the prologue into the first full world of the game, venturing deeper into the plot of Hermit and Pig and experiencing Pig as a battle comp
09 Oct 2025Developer post
🍄Everything everywhere all at once for Hermit and Pig - Next Fest and beyond!🍄
Howdy and happy October! Wow - we probably thought the gamedev journey couldn't get any busier, and then we entered this season. On the top of the list is Steam Next Fest - save the date! We've been prepping behind the scenes for a while now - polishing up the demo, reaching out
15 Sep 2025Developer post
BIG NEWS for Hermit and Pig this week
Hello Steam friends! Wanted to give you a heads up that Hermit and Pig will be in the Six One Indie Showcase this Thursday, September 18. We’re revealing a Hermit and Pig trailer with all new, exclusive content - and a PRETTY BIG announcement - no spoilers! Pre-show starts 11:50a
17 Aug 2025Developer post
THE GAUNTLET: Hermit and Pig battle testing opportunity Aug 22-Sep 5
Hiya! We've been focusing intensely on battles. So much so that we're ready for you to playtest (if you want!) what we're calling THE GUANTLET. This is primarily a testing environment for us, but for you it’s a roguelike-ish, arcade-y, self-contained “game” that focuses on battle
Hiya!
We've been focusing intensely on battles. So much so that we're ready for you to playtest (if you want!) what we're calling THE GUANTLET. This is primarily a testing environment for us, but for you it’s a roguelike-ish, arcade-y, self-contained “game” that focuses on battles.

THE GAUNTLET will run August 22-September 5. To participate you'll just need to use this form to sign up, and then we'll email you a game link on the 22nd.

You can play through THE GAUNTLET as many times as you’d like between August 22 - September 5. All participants will receive a credit in the game, a digital playtester badge (THE GAUNTLET edition), and have the chance to win PRIZES! Prizes include:
$50 Steam gift card to the overall highest score*
$25 Steam gift card to 2nd and 3rd overall highest scores*
Hermit and Pig-style sprite of your choosing for achieving other in-game challenges we’ll reveal on Friday
(*Steam gift cards will be purchased in USD and automatically convert to your local currency upon redemption if you live in another country).

So what will actually happen in THE GAUNTLET? You’ll progress through randomized rooms, fighting three battles in each one, and then visit a hub where you can get an upgrade and some other goodies. You'll progress like this through different rooms until you reach the very end (and hopefully want to run it again and again). Here's a quick look at one of these hubs (which also gives you a sneak peak at how we're using truffles as currency in the game!):

You’ll get to experience about 90-95% of everything that Hermit and Pig has to offer battle-wise, including a wide range of enemies, items and trinkets, upgrades, and our brand new special mini-games.
Hope to see you in THE GAUNTLET!
Nathan and Mason
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26 May 2025Developer post
Out of the woods!
Greetings! Well, we always knew this day would come. Hermit and Pig are actually gonna have to leave their woodland comfort zone if they want to find the Jumbo Fungo and help the townspeople. EXCITING! And we're finally ready to give you a sneak peak of what lies beyond the fores
10 Mar 2025Developer post
Leveling and Customization
We’re implementing our ACTUAL leveling system in the game, which will include a new type of item: trinkets! These are mystical, mysterious, lucky objects that our heroes can equip to modify their abilities. As you level up you’ll be able to equip stronger trinkets. Ya know, like