- Mouse input guidance - v0.5.4 Hotfix - 15 June 2026
Hi snailers, Feed the Forest will be in Steam Next Fest, we hope a lot of new players will jump in! Please share the game with friends or your favourite streamer, it helps an enormous amount!Small update: We got worried that someone might miss how to plant now that mouse movement is in. So we decided to do some tweaks to how you learn the controls. And we've made sprinting into an upgrade! You'll have to do a bit of hard work in the beginning to unlock sprinting, but once you buy it, it feels amazing. If you have an existing save file, you'll have to buy sprinting from the Water shop in order to get back to rolling! Cheers, Victor, Edd, Andrés Changelog for v0.5.4AddedOverlays showing how to control the game using mouse input only. ChangedSprinting will no longer be active on game start - you can buy this ancient movement art from the Water!Graphics API priority for Linux so it prioriti…
- Mouse movement for Next Fest :) - 12 June 2026
Hi friends,In preparation for Next Fest, the good Edd added a much-requested feature: Mouse movement! Click near the snail to move and water, and simply drag further away from the snail to sprint. You can now throw your keyboard out the window, keep your mouse in one hand and grab a big glass of juice with the other. Sip that juice while you collect that juice.I hope you'll enjoy Next Fest! Looking forward to hearing from new people hopefully, and playing some demos for weirdos.Cheers,Victor and Edd and Andrés Micro changelog AddedMouse based movement.ChangedAdjusted popup text a bit.
- v0.5.2: Demo hotfix of hotfix - 28 May 2026
We messed up a bit and made some tiles non-paintable :| Here’s a quick fix for that + some minor UX changes.AddedDisplay to hotbar showing if there is enough water to place a tile.FixedNot being able to paint near the second pond.Tiles being watered even if there is not enough water.NRE in main menu scene when starting the game.
- Hotfix 0.5.1 - 25 May 2026
Heya! Thanks to all the people who have already played the demo! Already more than four thousand people have played the demo across platforms, and it’s a chart-topper on \ storefront. We’ve gotten some early feedback and are addressing that ASAP. So here’s a quick hotfix: AddedExclamation mark above shops if something can be bought. Lots of people seemed to be quitting before even getting their first item, and later it's also easy to miss available items. Hopefully this helsp.Timer to key popups so players don't accidentally close them too soon.See-through effect to Worm and Wizard shops so they're visible through plants."Next" value display on range upgrade.ChangedLowered initial fruit spawn cooldowns to quickly see effect of plants.Halved bush production cooldown (boosted berries)Game will be automatically save when exiting options and shop menu.Optimize text rendering to avoid GC all…
- DEMO IS OUT NOW! Feed the Forest! - 22 May 2026
Hey Snailers!The demo for Feed the Forest is out RIGHT NOW!Compared to the Playtest, the demo's got: New upgrades!Saving AND loading!Planting multiple plants in the same areas!New skins!Storybook!And maaany tweaks, improvements, and fixes, all based on the maaany great notes we got from the survey.Since we released the very first version of Feed the Forest, almost 38 thousand people have played it across platforms. That's completely wild to our tiny team. Thank you thank you for playing, you are the reason we did this update and why we won't stop before all deserts in this world have turned to pure juice.If you enjoy the demo, please leave a review! Go to the demo page, write your thoughts in the box and smash that Post button. Let every one of the lovely Steam-browsing sickos get a whiff of your magnificent takes. At least, let us hear those takes.Feed us, please,Victor, Edd, and André…
- Demo coming soon - some cuts :( - 20 May 2026
Demo is coming soon, we're just awaiting Steam reviewing the page and putting last touches on things.We wanted to warn ahead of time that unfortunately we've had to cut several things from the demo :(We've had to eat features...In the last post, we teased having multiple levels and a couple of features to go with that, such as a map for selecting levels.We ran into several design issues with having more levels - they just didn't feel very good. It felt like you lost progress when you advanced, and that nice incremental feel was missing. Also, we simply didn't have time in our tiny team to really polish it up to the level we'd want it to be at.But! We did land on a new idea that we're pretty excited about. We think it should make progressing feel more satisfying than levels, and it will let us easily expand with a bunch of nice stuff to the game. I'm not going to describe it directly her…
- Some new features in the upcoming demo - 5 May 2026
We've been hard at work implementing some of your feedback and wanted to share some of the upcoming changes! Note, all of the features are still work in progress, using placeholder artwork.First up, we know that bombs are not that fun to use, so we're adding an "eraser" item:Once you get trees, bushes are not that useful, so now if you have a patch of land only populated by bushes, you'll get a speed boost:There has been a lot of feedback on not being able to plant different types of plants next to each other, so we're fixing that! Also, we're adding an indicator which will let you know where you can and can't plant a specific type of tree (white ring around the plants):New lands to explore are being developed, you'll be able to travel to a set of new areas by using the map:We thought it'd be interesting to also show some stats, for example the amount of fruit collected by Helper Snails…
- First Playtest Results - 24 April 2026
Thanks for everyone who participated in the first playtest of Feed the Forest! We've gathered a lot of valuable feedback, prepared a massive aggregate excel sheet and already started to address some of the mentioned feedback points.Key highlights:Unpalatable areas which leave "gaps"Audio settingsNot being able to paint over existing plantsWant more areas to plant inVarious UI issues, such as ESC not exiting menus, 3D objects covering tooltips...Performance issues (always ongoing)Last but not least, adjusting the helper snail vomit sounds :DMany small UX problemsNeed more game!We're still accepting new submissions and we're still monitoring the feedback form, so if you have more juice - we're ready!Thanks again for the feedback and stay tuned
- Feed the Forest: Steam Playtest #1 - 12 March 2026
Hi peoples of Steam!We released the page for our game Feed the Forest some weeks ago, and now we are getting ready to let players try the game for the first time on Steam! (same build as on itch)So get ready to spread life in the desert, collect juice, and roll around at insane snail speeds. Most importantly, whatever you do:Beware:Game is in current development and it features a limited amount of content (around 20-40-mins)We are doing our best to keep the game free of bugs, but you might still encounter some. Please let us knowCarrying rituals for a worm-looking entity in the desert could result in the awakening of new gods of life and death lots of fruit!We hope you have a nice time trying our little game, please do send us feedback after playing, here is a simple survey we prepared!Well be back soon, Andrés, Edd, VictorIndoor Sunglasses team
