- Version 1.1.0 - The Automation Update - 18 September 2026
Hey farmers!We've got a BIG update for y'all today. Many of you have requested some more ways to automate your farm, so we did just that! Here's the scoop:Auto Planting & Animal BaitStarting at level 13, you'll be able to automate both planting seeds and refilling your animal bait buildings:Click on a planting field that has a crop planted in it and click on the crop icon. Now, your harvest sprites will automatically plant that type of seed. (You can click on the icon at the bottom to turn this off again.)Click on an animal bait building and then toggle Auto Refill on to have your blood sprites automatically refill your bait.Hope you enjoy, we've been having a blast with this new feature!Bug Fixes & ImprovementsWe've also been hard at work squashing bugs and improving the game. Check out the patch notes below if you're curious:Patch NotesYou can now see how long each crop takes to grow…
- Petunia's Purgatory Livestream! - 31 August 2026
🎥 Launch LivestreamWe invite you to watch the team play Petunia's Purgatory💬 Join Our Community Want to stay up to date, share feedback, report bugs, or share your farm? Join our Discord community! We'd love to hear about your experiences, see your screenshots, and grow crops with you! https://discord.gg/UuyX85syc Thank you for growing and harvesting alongside us, and don't forget to feed the Elder God!
- Petunia's Purgatory Livestream! - 25 August 2026
🎥 Launch LivestreamWe invite you to watch the team play Petunia's Purgatory💬 Join Our Community Want to stay up to date, share feedback, report bugs, or share your farm? Join our Discord community! We'd love to hear about your experiences, see your screenshots, and grow crops with you! https://discord.gg/UuyX85syc Thank you for growing and harvesting alongside us, and don't forget to feed the Elder God!
- Patch 1.0.1 and a BIG thank you! - 28 July 2026
Hello farming friends! We are SO happy that you're all enjoying Petunia's Purgatory! Thank you so much for supporting our creepy little farming game. We're also very appreciative of all the great feedback and bug reports we've received from y'all, both here and in our Discord. We've got a small patch today to fix a couple of the more common issues. We have some bigger changes coming, but those will take a little longer. Thank you for your patience and keep an eye out for future announcements! Patch Notes:Made it more clear in the Sanity tooltip that you can overmax your sanity. The previous version was a little confusingFixed a bug where crafting sprites would stop working if you move them around. Lazy birds!Thanks again for playing, and if you're enjoying the game, please leave a review. It makes a big difference for us. Keep farmin' and don't go insane! Matt & Megan - Dead Possum Games
- Petunia's Purgatory is now LIVE! - 16 July 2026
Matt and Megan of Dead Possum Games here! We're incredibly excited to finally welcome you into the world of Petunia's Purgatory. Thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way. Your feedback on the demo has been invaluable in shaping the game. Now it's time to keep...or lose your sanity! 🎉 Launch Discount To celebrate our launch, Petunia's Purgatory is available at 20% off for the next 14 days. If you've been waiting for the right time to jump in, now's the perfect opportunity. 💬 Join Our Community Want to stay up to date, share feedback, report bugs, or share your farm? Join our Discord community! We'd love to hear about your experiences, see your screenshots, and grow crops with you! https://discord.gg/UuyX85syc 🐞 Found a Bug? If you run into any issues while playing, please let us know checking out our "Report a Bug" thread under Technical Support. Every report helps us…
- Dev Diary: Concept vs. Pixel Art - 26 June 2026
We wanted to give you a peek inside the development process of how we created the characters in Petunia's Purgatory. For each character, we shared our ideas with our concept artist Emmy, and she took our ideas and turned them into a digital sketch of each character. Then, our pixel artist Alex took each sketch and used it to create a pixel art version of the character and animated each character. Here is what each of the characters looked like as a concept and the final pixel art! Petunia: Water Sprite: Harvest Sprite: Flower Sprite: Crafting Sprite: Blood Harvester: Do you have a favorite? Let us know here, or join our Discord!
- Meet the Sprites - 19 June 2026
Howdy! Dead Possum Games here to introduce you to the supporting cast of Petunia's Purgatory: The Sprites!The Elder One's hunger is never-ending and Petunia will need help fulfilling all of his orders. Luckily, you'll be able to summon some helpers to assist her.The Water SpriteA gentle, translucent being made of pure spring water, the Water Sprite is the perfect assistant to keep your crops well hydrated. You may wonder how she can water plants without a watering can... but it's probably better if you don't think about it too hard.The Harvest SpriteAt first glance, you might assume that this little critter is just a squirrel, but looking closer you may have doubts. Maybe it's the odd horns on its head or its unsettling red eyes. Regardless, the Harvest Sprite is great at picking up crops and carrying them around, not unlike the rodent it resembles.The Blood SpriteSome of the crops that…
- It's Official: Petunia's Purgatory will launch July 16, 2026! - 18 June 2026
Mark your calendars because Petunia is ready! She lives at the bottom of your screen.. quietly waiting, holding her sanity together while you do literally anything else...Cursed crops nobody asked for, mutant animals slaughtered for blood (because apparently that's just a Tuesday now), and an ancient landlord in the barn that's been alive longer than memory itself and is always, always hungry.. It's coming to your desktop on July 16 - whether you're ready or not!Wishlist now so you don't miss the exact moment everything goes wrong.
- Meet Petunia! - 12 June 2026
Hello, this is Dead Possum Games. We'd like to introduce you to the main character of Petunia's Purgatory, and tell you a little bit about how she ended up living on this strange farm. Petunia Buttonwillow was tired of taking orders. While working at the Forde Brothers ad agency, she had to take orders from everyone: her clients, her boss, her boss' boss, and on and on. One day, after coming home from a stressful day in the office, she spotted a bankruptcy auction for a quaint little farm in nearby Dunwich. She'd always been good with plants, and it felt like the universe was giving her a sign that it was time to take control of her life. Petunia arrived at the courthouse for the auction and found that, besides some scattered locals, she was the only one there. The locals eyed her curiously when she was the only one to bid on the farm, and she got it for next to nothing. The auctioneer…
- Twitch Integration Added - 28 May 2026
Happy May from the Petunia's Purgatory team! We're hard at work developing the final features for Petunia's Purgatory. We recently added a Twitch integration that will be available in the full game at launch. The Twitch integration will allow streamers to let their viewers join in the game as a helper with their Twitch username above their head. The helper will either water plants, harvest crops, tend flowers, sacrifice animals, or manage crafting machines. If you stream on Twitch and would like to help beta test the integration, please send us an email at [email protected] Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!
- Content Complete + New Steam Page Artwork! - 15 April 2026
We're excited to announce that our team has reached the Content Complete milestone. You might be wondering what it means for a game to be content complete? It means that everything we've been planning to be in the game can actually be played. This is huge step towards releasing the game! What's left for us to do: final testing and bug fixing, writing the rest of the text, and then getting the text translated and testing the translated versions. The finish line is in sight! We also recently updated the artwork on our Steam page with wonderful new illustrations by our talented artist Brenda. Got any feedback? Join our Discord! We'd love to chat.
- Demo Updated - V.1.15 - New crop art and bug fixes - 16 March 2026
Hey Purgatorians! (is that a thing??)We've just updated the demo with brand NEW crop art for all of the crops. We've also fixed a bunch of bugs and adjusted the game based on some great feedback from y'all.As always, thanks for playing, and let us know if you have any issues or feedback!Love,Matt & Megan - Dead Possum Games
- Demo Updated - V.1.12 - Arabic and Save Bug Fix! - 25 February 2026
Howdy Farmers!We are so happy that so many of you have hopped in to help Petunia run her creepy little farm. Here's the latest update for the demo!Added full Arabic translationFixed a save issue for players that played the 1.0 version of the DemoIf you downloaded and played the demo before Feb 18th and have had trouble loading your save on the new version, please download this patch!Thanks again, y'all. We're so proud of our little cursed farming game and hope you're having fun staying sane. Please let us know if you have any feedback or issues!Love,Matt & Megan - Dead Possum Games
- Demo Update v1.1 is out! Now with Thai and new desktop invasions! - 18 February 2026
First, we want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has played the demo so far. We've gotten many great suggestions from the community that we've added to the game. The new update includes a lot of quality of life and art improvements, along with Thai translations. We've also added some fun new desktop invasions when Petunia's sanity gets low, we hope you enjoy them. Please let us know on the community boards or Discord if you run into any problems with the new demo.
- Petunia's Purgatory Demo is now available! - 17 December 2025
Thank you so much for wishlisting our game! We truly appreciate the support.We're proud to announce that the demo for Petunia's Purgatory is now available! The demo is just a small slice of the full game experience.The full game will include:Upgradable helpersCraftable goodsTons more creepy crops and animalsAnd more surprises!We would love to hear your feedback on our demo! Please visit our Discord or fill out the feedback form to share your thoughts. We hope to hear from you soon!