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Bugsnax
Catch mysterious living snacks and feed them to your friends in this unusual island adventure!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
44 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A pretty great creature collector game that is very enjoyable. I 100% the game here's what make this game good: * Methods (tools/traps/planning) for capturing bugsnaxs are snappy and fun. * Decent Story. * Fun bugsnax…”
“An incredibly silly game with some surprisingly important messages. I like how the characters all come from different walks of life and have different perspective and stories to tell. Also, I think it's rather clever…”
“this game is so good and polished the story is very good and engaging the characters are extremely deep for a children looking game the catching mechanics are fun and creative the design of the bugsnaks and artstyle…”
25 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A pretty great creature collector game that is very enjoyable. I 100% the game here's what make this game good: * Methods (tools/traps/planning) for capturing bugsnaxs are snappy and fun. * Decent Story. * Fun bugsnax…”
“An incredibly silly game with some surprisingly important messages. I like how the characters all come from different walks of life and have different perspective and stories to tell. Also, I think it's rather clever…”
“absolute peak game, it has yuri, yaoi, and a doomed and not doomed straight couples, my issue is that why did my 4 hours of gameplay randomly despawn out of my pc's data base today [that will mean i lose a lot of…”
19 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A pretty great creature collector game that is very enjoyable. I 100% the game here's what make this game good: * Methods (tools/traps/planning) for capturing bugsnaxs are snappy and fun. * Decent Story. * Fun bugsnax…”
“this game is so good and polished the story is very good and engaging the characters are extremely deep for a children looking game the catching mechanics are fun and creative the design of the bugsnaks and artstyle…”
“If you love collecting and catching this with different mechanics, you'd definitely love bugsnax. Each snax has a different voice, catching technique, and artstyle. Its such a charming game and I definitely enjoyed it.…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A pretty great creature collector game that is very enjoyable. I 100% the game here's what make this game good: * Methods (tools/traps/planning) for capturing bugsnaxs are snappy and fun. * Decent Story. * Fun bugsnax…”
“this game is so good and polished the story is very good and engaging the characters are extremely deep for a children looking game the catching mechanics are fun and creative the design of the bugsnaks and artstyle…”
“If you love collecting and catching this with different mechanics, you'd definitely love bugsnax. Each snax has a different voice, catching technique, and artstyle. Its such a charming game and I definitely enjoyed it.…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game was such a fun hyper-fixation, do I start a new game?”
“I had a very fun time 100%ing all four save files”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“WEEEEEENNNYYY WOOOORRRRRRM and KWEEEBLEEE Are my favourite. we need more. like maybe a mode where you can play AS lizbert as she nad teh expedition crew first set out on the expedition?? or maybe a multipalyer mode…”
“this game got me invested HARD. like the mecanics are peak, the hundreads of these guys have cool and fun designs, and it sucks we problibly wont get a sequle. 10/10 MASTERPICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Sequel please 🙂”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“If you love collecting and catching this with different mechanics, you'd definitely love bugsnax. Each snax has a different voice, catching technique, and artstyle. Its such a charming game and I definitely enjoyed it.…”
“Boring, this is not a game, its a visual novel with the added flavour of doing fetch quests for insecure muppets from sesame Street that have no likeable traits, the only good thing about this "game" is getting to feed…”
“When on a sale I would call this game acceptable. The premise is interesting and even if the main..plot is body horror,the game is pretty nonchalant about it. The visuals and art direction is in my opinion focused a…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Bugsnax is what happens when someone turns snack food into wildlife and then adds emotional damage for flavour. You chase sentient creatures and feed em to your totally real friends- who absorb the nutrients and become…”
“Boring, this is not a game, its a visual novel with the added flavour of doing fetch quests for insecure muppets from sesame Street that have no likeable traits, the only good thing about this "game" is getting to feed…”
“I love the characters. I like the concept. Catching the Snax isn't that rough and it's all simple enough to do‚ with reasonable logic. But what‚ without ruining the plot‚ is the message? What is being said with the…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 97.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“I've played Bugsnax 3 times on Xbox, once on the iPad and now I am playing on the PC too!!!! I have the card game and my boi Bunger sitting next to me at my desk! If you can't tell this game fundamentally changed my life and the way I play games. No. 1 fav game of all time. The…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This is my favorite video game of all time. Don't let the weirdness scare you off; this game is super fun to play and well-polished too. I only wish it had a sequel!”
— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played“I was recommended this game by a friend. Here are my notes. 1: The game starts off extremely weird with its mechanics, but it makes sense at the end 2: To optimize the ending to where its as good as possible, complete all of the sidequests 3: I wouldn't say its Terraria level,…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
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Update 2.070617 (06/24/2026)
Windows: Fix a memory leak that can occur when alt-tabbing the game on uncapped framerate setting.
Update 2.070602 (06/09/2026)
Adds preliminary VR support for Steam Frame and Steam Frame standalone.
Bugsnax 60% off in Creature Collector Fest!
Join us from May 12- May 19 to celebrate Steam's Creature Collector Fest! The day has finally come! Bugsnax is featured in an event all about collecting creatures. Fill up your Snak Pack with little g
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Update 2.0.70474
VR: Fix an issue where low frame rate can prevent returning to game from the SteamVR void after loading a new level. Steam Deck: Correct display of input images when using mouse and keyboard. Raise pl
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Creature Collector · Adventure · Singleplayer · LGBTQ+ · Story Rich · First-Person · Comedy · Cute · Exploration · Puzzle · Cartoony · Colorful (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Tracked Controller Support · VR Supported · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Official site | https://bugsnax.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Quad Core 2.6 Ghz or equivalent Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB DirectX 11 Video Card (Intel UHD 620, NVIDIA GT 920M) DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 6.7 GB available space