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Pesticide Not Required: Prologue

Pesticide Not Required: Prologue

Mow down countless crops and corrupt critters while crafting game-breaking builds! Pesticide Not Required: Prologue is a bullet heaven, horde survival roguelite with farming elements that offers a myriad of stats and special character traits to create wildly diverse run possibilities.

Released Jan 5, 2024 Developer Jampacked Games Platforms Windows Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogue-liteShoot 'Em UpAction RPG
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

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99.0%positive202 reviews
Recommended · 30 found this helpful

“Lovely game, but all of the buff/debuffs kind of make it tricky unless you show some tooltips. For example, whenever a buff to crit is mentioned, show a small box showing your current crit and crit damage, etc. That would make it pretty simple for us to decide which perk to…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 21 found this helpful

“This has so much potential i absolutely loved this”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“extremely painfully cute. my only complaint is that I wish the water beam was translucent (its hard to see things when the weapon is at a higher level).”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Latest official news

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Jan 24, 2024
Prologue Concluding And Demo Launching on Jan 29!

This coming Monday (January 29th) our prologue will be concluding and the demo on the main Steam page will be coming online! This demo will feature new characters, weapons, level rewards, the achievem

Jan 09, 2024
Hotfix 0.5.1 - Jan 8

Dropped in some quick fixes based off feedback: - Potential fix for game reset error carrying over gameplay objects into the home - Removed ambiguous joystick input - Increased controller deadzones -

Jan 05, 2024
Prologue is Now LIVE!!

Check out the new content included with the prologue launch and let us know what you think! If you enjoy the prologue be sure to wishlist the full version below, tons more content will be included! ht

Dec 28, 2023
We're Releasing For Free On January 5th!

Hey everyone! We're excited to launch this prologue on January 5th! It'll be completely free and give you a portion of the content that will be available in the full game. Content to expect: 4 playabl

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Facts & details

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GenresAction
Player tagsAction Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Rogue-lite · Shoot 'Em Up · Action RPG · Top-Down Shooter · Farming Sim · Action · Twin Stick Shooter · Casual · Singleplayer · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
ControllerFull support
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Dual Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space