Developer posts and news about this game.
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
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 &a
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 read
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 fro
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
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 ga
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~! We will see you all here next week
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
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! View game page FOLLOW AUTUMN IVY Twitter: YouTube: View game page Twitch: View game page
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 Yv
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 bu
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 an
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
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 abou
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 t
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
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. View game page