Heavy Feather Games Launches Too Many Roaches Trial on Steam
Heavy Feather Games launched a trial version of its PC title Too Many Roaches on Steam on Thursday.
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Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Why it matters
The trial turns a single absurd premise into a resource-management loop of nerve, coins, and upgrade trees, and Heavy Feather Games is using Steam to test whether that loop holds players before committing to a release date.
Key Facts
- Too Many Roaches is set in a nighttime kitchen with over 2 million cockroaches.
- The estimated playtime to clear the game is about 3 hours.
- Six weapons appear, including a slipper, a rolled-up newspaper, and a kitchen burner.
- The release date of Too Many Roaches is undecided, and it supports Japanese display.
The game drops players into a nighttime kitchen holding over 2 million cockroaches, which are crushed with a slipper and five other weapons. Clearing the swarm takes roughly 3 hours, and an endless mode opens afterward. The release date for the full game is undecided.
The trial version is playable now on Steam, and the game supports Japanese display. Six weapons appear: a slipper, a rolled-up newspaper, a fly swatter, a frying pan, insecticide spray, and a kitchen burner. Each works better against different swarms, so players switch between them as the night goes on.
Two systems shape a run. Nerve drains over time and drops faster when roaches crawl onto the player's hand; when it empties, the lights go out and the night ends. Coins earned from kills buy upgrades across four trees between nights.
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