Petunia's Purgatory
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Petunia's Purgatory

Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.

DEV: Dead Possum GamesPUB: Level Up GamingAppID 4009450
UPDATE PULSEevery ~52d·last 15d ago·5 recent on record

Is Petunia's Purgatory still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

94.7
Excellent

Elixir Rating

95.5% of 88 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 88.9. The developers have shipped 2 substantial updates in the past six months, adding 5.8.

reception 88.9·support +5.8·Excellent

Computed from Steam’s own review tally and observable developer activity — never from anyone’s opinion of the game. How this is calculated

Should you look into this?

From Steam's own record

Current price

$4.89$6.99−30%

Development

Actively supported

Last heard from developers

9 days ago

Usual rhythm

every ~13.5 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

2

Current silence

within normal range

The developers post roughly every 13.5 days and were last heard 9 days ago — within their normal range. 2 substantial updates landed in the past six months. It is currently 30% below its usual price.

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Our coverage

1 dispatch written from this game’s announcements

releaseSep 30, 2026

Petunia's Purgatory 1.1.0 Adds Farm Automation Starting at Level 13

Dead Possum Games has released Version 1.1.0 for Petunia's Purgatory, titled the Automation Update, focused on reducing repetitive farm management tasks.

What changed

Auto Planting & Animal Bait — the headline feature, unlocked at level 13:

  • Clicking a planted field and selecting the crop icon instructs harvest sprites to automatically replant that crop type after each harvest; the behaviour can be toggled off.
  • Animal bait buildings now have an Auto Refill toggle that directs blood sprites to restock them without manual intervention.

Bug fixes and improvements included in the patch:

  • Crop growth timers are now visible in minutes
  • Fixed incorrect upgrade display on blood sprites
  • Sprite logic for watering crops and using crafting buildings has been made more efficient
  • Automatic corrupted save recovery has been added
  • Auto-save stuttering has been dramatically reduced
  • Panning the camera no longer deselects an active building
  • Fixed a playtime stat that rolled over incorrectly after 24 hours

For players who have reached level 13, the automation systems remove two of the more routine maintenance loops, while the save-recovery addition addresses a data-integrity concern that could surface without warning.

Two years of development

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17 announcements · 4 substantial · 15 months with nothing

Recent Transmissions

17 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsSep 24, 2026
Announcing A Companion Falls for You Festival!

We're proud to announce that Petunia's Purgatory is part of the A Companion Falls for You festival starting now on Steam! Check it out to see all the great Desktop Companion games on Steam.Big thanks to Mister Morris (Rusty's Retirement) an…

Community AnnouncementsSep 23, 2026
Announcing A Companion Falls for You Festival!

We're proud to announce that Petunia's Purgatory is part of the A Companion Falls for You festival starting now on Steam! Check it out to see all the great Desktop Companion games on Steam.Big thanks to Mister Morris (Rusty's Retirement) an…

Community AnnouncementsSep 18, 2026
Version 1.1.0 - The Automation Update

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 plan…

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Community AnnouncementsAug 31, 2026
Petunia's Purgatory Livestream!

🎥 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…

Community AnnouncementsAug 25, 2026
Petunia's Purgatory Livestream!

🎥 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…

Community AnnouncementsJul 28, 2026
Patch 1.0.1 and a BIG thank you!

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…

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Community AnnouncementsJul 16, 2026
Petunia's Purgatory is now LIVE!

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 shap…

Community AnnouncementsJun 26, 2026
Dev Diary: Concept vs. Pixel Art

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…

Community AnnouncementsJun 19, 2026
Meet the Sprites

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…

Community AnnouncementsJun 18, 2026
It's Official: Petunia's Purgatory will launch July 16, 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 (…

Community AnnouncementsJun 12, 2026
Meet Petunia!

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 …

Community AnnouncementsMay 28, 2026
Twitch Integration Added

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 all…

Community AnnouncementsApr 15, 2026
Content Complete + New Steam Page Artwork!

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 playe…

Community AnnouncementsMar 16, 2026
Demo Updated - V.1.15 - New crop art and bug fixes

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…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 25, 2026
Demo Updated - V.1.12 - Arabic and Save Bug Fix!

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 th…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 18, 2026
Demo Update v1.1 is out! Now with Thai and new desktop invasions!

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, …

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Community AnnouncementsDec 17, 2025
Petunia's Purgatory Demo is now available!

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 includ…

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