Press Kit
Description
Developed by a tiny, two-person dev team, Bug & Seek is a relaxing bug-catching game with a mystery twist and pixel art bugs. 🪲 🦋 🔍
You've just bought an abandoned Insectarium (bug zoo)—congratulations! Now, go catch real-life bugs, build your collection, and level up your skills. Bug & Seek features a very simple and peaceful gameplay loop, no stress, and no wrong choices. So relax and enjoy all those bugs (and learn about them too)!
Features
Pitch
Catch 200+ real life bugs in this peaceful creature collector. You’ve bought the local insectarium (bug zoo) in the cozy town of Buggburg, so start swinging your net to build your dream bug collection and create the best insectarium Buggburg has ever seen.
✤ COLLECT - 250+ different real life bugs. Every bug comes with a humorous tagline and a codex entry with facts presented by the bug itself, and each bug can be found in seasons, locations and at times that mirror real life. Change the way you view the world around you (and especially under your feet).
✤ CUSTOMIZE and expand your Insectarium. Build new wings to the Insectarium and create the best display the town has ever known. And of course, fill it with bugs!
✤ EXPLORE the world. Bugs live in every kind of habitat: from meadows, deserts, and forests to wetlands, beaches, urban environments, and caves. And wouldn't you know it? Bug & Seek has all of these!
✤ MEET the locals. From the mayor to the herb farmer, meet the 19+ locals of the town of Buggburg and perform jobs for them to earn special gear and items, secrets and gossip, and maybe even haikus.
✤ SOLVE the mystery. One year ago someone broke into the Insectarium in the middle of the night and stole all of the bugs in an incident known as The Great Bug Heist. See if you can piece together what really happened as you solve the mystery and unmask the guilty party!
Media
OFFicial Release Trailer
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Branding
Colors
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the studio / team
So Peculiar is a tiny indie studio of two, who happen to be married:
Chera and Craig. Chera spent the last seven years
studying game design and coding as a hobby, which she now puts
to use in Bug & Seek, and Craig is a recovering attorney who
handles most of the art and written content for Bug & Seek. Bug & Seek is their debut project.
Game History & Vision
After moving to the woods of East Tennessee, Craig and Chera spent lots of time walking and hiking to see what they could see. And what they could see were bugs—lots and lots of bugs. Bugs so odd they had to be looked up to figure out what they were. In this time of discovery and wonder, Chera came up with the idea for a game that captured a bit of what they were experiencing in real life. And the idea and the timing came together, and Craig and Chera started developing Bug & Seek together, full time.
We are developing Bug & Seek to introduce players to the fascinating world of insects. While the player will be exploring a cozy and humorous fictional town, the bugs they catch are not fictional—every bug in the game is real, and presented with real information from the bug’s perspective.
Our hope is that not only will players enjoy the relaxing gameplay and creature-collecting of Bug & Seek, but they will also view the world around them with new appreciation and wonder. A bug that spits acid? Check. A bug that can stuff itself so full of nectar it can’t walk anymore and has to be carried around? Yup. A bug that puts its babies to work as little thread dispensers? You bet. Bugs that weave, bugs that sew, bugs that shoot, bugs that sculpt with clay or poop? Yes, yes, yes, and oh yes.
Because we’re suckers for a good story, as players engage with the core gameplay of Bug & Seek (explore, collect, level up, expand), they can also collect clues from the 19+ NPC’s in the town of Buggburg to piece together the story of the Great Bug Heist and try to unmask the culprit.