Chickenauts — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| ࣪ ִֶָ☾.🏛️🗝️The Key to the Season of the Dread is within your grasp 🦇༉‧₊˚. | 2026-10-21 | 🕸️๋࣭ ⭑The skittering, everywhere, under the walls. The mists are rising. Someone or- something? is watching you... The season of ghosts, scares, and pumpkins is here, and this time you've got everything you need to brave the dread! 🎃 Untold Tales Halloween Sale 2026 is on! October 21 - November 3, we place a key in your hands. With it, our entire catalogue is within your grasp, at a spine-chilling discounts, up to -85% 💀 Will Chickenauts be the title that'll help you face the autumnal spirits? Whether you're looking for a cozy place to hide, an immersive adventure, or, perhaps, a new horror, there's plenty to choose from! About Chickenauts |
| ⏳🪽 Games Under 5 Hours Festival begins! | 2026-10-10 | Week-long adventures of grandiose proportions with bajillions of sidequests and mechanics are fun. Well, sometimes what we picture the ideal game as. Oh, you're waiting for a "but", right? Well... When your life is a bit hectic, and you're not in the mood to disappear for a month, the sense of accomplishment that comes with finishing the game still matters. Or maybe you want to cut the bloat and focus solely on what's juicy? 📌 Whatever the motivation, Games Under 5 Hours Festival comes to the rescue when you want those sessions to be meaningful and manageable at the same time. October 10 - 24, celebrate the games that understand the brevity |
| ༄˖🍂༄˖° Embrace the change of seasons with Summer Sale 2026🍁 ༄˖° | 2026-10-01 | Green turns gold. Gold turns red. Something's shifting in the air, and the afternoons are hardly BBQ-appropriate. So, do you need some inspo for these long evenings? We got you! ☕️🍂 .° Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is on! October 1 - 8, you can dig into entire catalogue of Untold Tales' and find your next autumn obsession. Is it going to beChickenauts? Or perhaps something else? Make yourself a hot cup of your fave beverage and explore the options; there's plenty to choose from! 💻🍵😌 About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion based, action roguelite game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate yo |
| 💸📦 Bundle Up & Save! | Untold Tales Bundle Fest 2026 Starts Today! | 2026-09-22 | ✨ The more the merrier, right? ✨ How many gnomes does it take to pilot a Viking ship? Do you really need to choose between two cool two-stick shooters? Or do you want to get the full saga in ONE package? Fret not, for the Untold Tales Bundle Fest begins today! September 22-30, you'll find bundles of games from our catalog at huge discounts. You can find the full bundle listy for Chickenauts HERE Need some guidance? Check out some highlights of the festival: Two Everdreams, one magical farming escape. Step into two beautifully crafted worlds where farming, friendship, and magic come together in unforgettable ways. https://store.steampowered.co |
| 🥳 6th Anniversary Celebrations and All Time Low discounts! 💸 | 2026-09-09 | ✨ 6 years of indie gaming and prices cut 85% ✨ We know, we know. At this point, you may wonder why we act surprised each year that another anniversary has already arrived. But believe us, it still feels kinda surreal. Building the indie scene is a wild ride, and we couldn’t do any of this without you. Thank you for playing our games, sharing your thoughts, and letting us release weird, beautiful stories for 6 years straight 🤝 🌟 To celebrate, we’re putting most of our catalog, Chickenauts included, on sale from September 9 to 21, including plenty of All Time Low discounts. If you’ve had your eye on something from our lineup or just want to t |
| 🤍❤️ FROM POLAND WITH LOVE 2026 BEGINS🤍❤️ | 2026-07-27 | At this point, it’s a matter of tradition, right? When the fruit ripens in the sun, and the fields of rippling wheat are painted gold, you know it’s the turn of July and August in Poland. And when that time comes, as in previous years,we're inviting you to celebrate Polish gaming with us and 40+ Polish publishers. 🤍 Browse 200+ games at massive discounts. All Polish gems in one place, all made with love, care, and ingenuity! ❤️ During the event, you’ll meet Polish games of all shapes and sizes, from household names to ambitious debutants. Are you hungry for dystopian adventures? Cyberpunk 2077 got your back. Wanna see how Eastern European br |
| ☀️🌊 Enter the chillout with Summer Sale 2026 ⛱️ | 2026-06-25 | The world is lush with green, first fruits ripen on the trees and the heat slowly creeps in, begging you to slow down and enjoy some well-deserved relaxation. Are you ready to chill? No? That's okay, it's a no pressure zone 😌 Steam Summer Sale 2026 is on! June 25 - July 9, you can browse all of Untold Tales' catalogue, at your own pace and see what tickles your fancy. Perhaps it's the Chickenauts? 👀 Chances are, it's gonna be at a big, big discount as well. So, are you in? 🌞 About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion based, action roguelite game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your |
| ✨🃏 Build Your Perfect Gaming Deck, Experience Untold Tales Publisher Sale 🎴✨ | 2026-06-11 | A great story might lurk just around the corner. And it might be the kind of story that you don't just read or hear, but rather live through. For the next two weeks, discover unforgettable adventures, cozy journeys, terrifying encounters, and hidden indie gems in the Untold Tales Publisher Sale, Chickenauts included. Get to know the heroes and the villains, understand the gameplay and mechanics, journey to different worlds and breathe in the atmosphere. Then, decide what your perfect adventure will be 🫵 About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion based, action roguelite game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved |
| We're joining Steam Bullet Festival 2026! | 2026-06-08 | Are you ready to enter the fray, guns blazing? You'd better be, because Steam Bullet Festival 2026 begins! For the next week, dive into all forms of bullet-packed action, from classic shooters to modern twists on the genre. One thing is certain: the action is coming, and it's gonna be loud! And what about our contribution to the festival? Read below! About Chickenauts https://store.steampowered.com/app/2350460/Chickenauts/ Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelite game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environmen |
| 🎁Get 50 Games for 2000 Days to celebrate our 2000 days! | 2026-03-20 | Milestones are fun. They remind us of how far we got and how many obstacles we've overcome (and you can believe us, there ARE obstacles to overcome when you're an indie game publisher). Finally, it's hella satisfying to see how much we've grown. Today, it's 2000 days since we started doing what we do. To honor this and to thank you for all the support we've received, we created a time-limited bundle with almost entire catalogue. For the next 72 hours, you can grab it at a discount we haven't applied before. We're basically putting our entire history in your hands, Chickenauts included. Thank you for being with us for all that time. About this |
| 🌿˚.🌸 Declutter Your Wishlist during Spring Sale 2026 🌸🌿˚. | 2026-03-19 | The last remnants of snow have almost thawed, sun is brighter day by day. Stretch your legs and arms, it's time to go out and touch some grass, finally! And while you're at it, perhaps your Wishlist could also use some spring cleaning? 👀 Steam Spring Sale 2026 is on! March 19 - 26, you can grab most of Untold Tales' portfolio at prices as fresh as spring rain, Chickenauts included! No better time to start fresh and declutter your Wishlist than the Spring Sale! 🌱🐝 About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion based, action roguelite game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to |
| 🍗🚀 CHICKENAUTS EARLY ACCESS OUT NOW 🚀🍗 | 2026-03-03 | Them no-good UFO mutant chickens got your sweet flock. Load your guns. Some say that the revenge is best served cold. This one’s gonna be deep-fried, with a rancher sauce on the side. About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments, and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2350460/Chickenauts/ Follow us! Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok |
| 🛸🍗 CHICKENAUTS COMING TO EARLY ACCESS TOMMOROW 🍗🚀 | 2026-03-02 | The fowl smell lingers in the air. The ground trembles. Hold on to your hats, folks! Less than a day left! 🍗Don’t forget to Wishlist & Follow the game so you won’t miss it! About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments, and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2350460/Chickenauts/ Follow us! Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok |
| 🛸🍗 CHICKENAUTS COMING TO EARLY ACCESS IN 2 DAYS 🍗🚀 | 2026-03-01 | Alrighty, folks, just 2 days until we land harder than a hen off a fence post! You better get ready, these laser-eyed chickens from space are getting bold! 🐔🤖 🍗Don’t forget to Wishlist & Follow the game so you won’t miss it! About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments, and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2350460/Chickenauts/ Follow us! Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok |
| 🛸🍗 CHICKENAUTS COMING TO EARLY ACCESS IN 3 DAYS 🍗🚀 | 2026-02-28 | Well pluck my feathers and ring the dinner bell, only 3 days left before the egg hits the pan! Lock n' load, we're gonna need everyone on board! 🔥 🍗Don’t forget to Wishlist & Follow the game so you won’t miss it! About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments, and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2350460/Chickenauts/ Follow us! Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok |
| 🐔🛸 Why wait? Chickenauts launches on MARCH 3RD! | 2026-02-25 | You know what, folks? The game is locked, loaded, and ready to strut out of the coop, and we are so fired up we can barely keep our feathers on. So we figured, why wait around like a hen on an empty nest? We are moving that release date up and serving it sooner, fresh and hot. That is right. Chickenauts comes to Early Access on March 3rd. If Steam is still showing the old release date, do not you fret none. That is just some good old-fashioned technical shenanigans in the henhouse. Come March 3rd, we are cracking this egg wide open regardless. You best keep your eyes on the sky, because we are gonna need every last one of you to help fend off |
| 🍗🚀 Chickenauts coming to Early Access on March 5th, 2026! 🚀🍗 | 2026-02-13 | Do you hear the clucking, the plucking, and the weird, UFO sounds?! Them robo-mutant chickens are getting closer, folks. But now we know when they gonna hit us... Are you ready?🍗🍗Wishlist & Follow, so you won't miss delicious stuff that's cooking 🍗🍗About ChickenautsChickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments, and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space!Follow us! Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok |
| Tiny Rouguelikes 2026 starts now! | 2026-01-31 | Tiny Roguelikes Event 2026 starts tonight, thanks to Rogue Duck Interactive and Gamersky Games. According to the event’s host, this is the first edition of a new series of events celebrating small ideas, big replayability and endless runs. And we’re happy to join their ranks! Check out the full list of titles HERE About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2 |
| 🐔🛸 Chickenauts Coming Soon to EARLY ACCESS! | 2026-01-22 | Hold on to your hats, folks! It must be those mutant robo chickens! They’re… back!? Or rather, they're finally coming in a full (almost) swing! We’re proud to announce that Chickenauts will be coming to Early Access quite soon! 🚀🐣 Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming: TRAILER So, when exactly is that going to happen? Keep your eyes peeled, we’ll share more details as soon as we can! 🍗Don’t forget to Wishlist & Follow the game so you won’t miss anything! About Chickenauts Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myr |
| 💀😭🎪 Laughs & Smiles Fest 2025 Starts Now! 🎪😭💀 | 2026-01-16 | We all need to decompress from time to time and treat ourselves with something nice to get through a tough day. We all have our ways. Sometimes the thing that helps is a hug from your loved one, sometimes it's a tasty snack, and sometimes... well, if you're here you know already - sometimes it's games! Thanks to CrunchingKoalas, Laughs & Smiles Fest 2025 starts today! It's all about cheering you up with a handful of games full of lighthearted fun and humor, Chickenauts included! 🎪 We're still working on the game so it's gonna be a moment before you can jump in, but leave a wishlist & follow today, so you won't miss the launch! 🥳🗿 About Chi |
| ❄️☃️ Winter Publisher Sale is on! ☃️❄️ | 2025-12-04 | Look, while we're absolutely endorsing outdoor, snowy fun, we're well aware that the best answer for these early sunsets is cozying up, sipping your favourite hot, aromatic beverage, and spending quality time with your loved ones or by yourself. And while there are many ways to do that, if you're already here, we might have something for you… 🎮 Between December 4 - 18, we're inviting you to face a true snowstorm of indie titles, from action-packed top-down shooters, through cozy farm sims, and heartfelt puzzlers. And to make sure you don't have to make your wallets cry when picking holiday gifts and managing your entertainment budget, we're |
| 🔫🐔 Chickenauts join the Untold Tales family 🐔🔫 | 2025-12-04 | Chickens no longer cross the road. They demolished it with their big, whooping spaceship and are out to get all earthly poultry to turn it into death-spewing alien robo machines! ☄️ In other words, we’re proudly welcoming Chickenauts in the Untold Tales family! Play the demo, Follow & Wishlist so you won’t miss the delicious stuff that’s cooking! Chickenauts is a companion-based, action roguelike game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments, and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space! https://store.steamp |
| Big content update | 2024-04-22 | We just rolled out a massive update for Chickenauts! Inside the newest build you will find: Three unique chicken companions encourage different play styles. Updated environments and a new boss with lightsabers. Run modifiers for additional challenge. Various weapons to match your play style based on companions. Enjoy the ride and always let us know if you have any feedback inside the community tab on steam! |
| New demo update! | 2024-01-16 | We are adding another companion chicken to the game! With initial chicken abilities we're also adding some new chicken upgrades. Furthermore, we mostly worked on some balancing and bugfixing for the game. Would love to hear your feedback on how we did! |
| Upcoming demo update | 2023-12-22 | Happy festive season everyone! We plan to introduce a new update to the demo around December 1st. Here are some new things we're adding. Persistent progression In this update we plan to focus on adding some additional persistent progression upgrades to the game where you'll be able to empower yourself using a mysterious substance brought back from the ship. Grandma! A new NPC is also arriving to the farm! Grandma (whodoesn't have a name yet) will be present to help the player throughout the runs New map And finally we plan to better show the place where the player is fighting so we will be adding an environment map! |
| Chickenauts Demo Release #2 | 2023-11-23 | Hey everyone, We are pleased to announce that a new demo for Chickenauts is now available on Steam. This update includes: New Chicken Companions: Free your adducted chickens and then mutate them to help you in your battles. Potions: In Spaceship you will be able to find potions that have random generated effects that can lead to crazy events. Updated Level Art and Design: We heard your feedback and we complexly remade our levels, including art and design. New upgrades and mutations: Not only more upgrades for player but now you also can mutate your companion. Talking NPCs: Interact with a variety of NPCs who offer stories, quests, and valuabl |
| Chickenauts Gameplay Showcase! | 2023-06-21 | Let's celebrate the festival with the gameplay showcase from the developers of Chickenauts! Chickenauts is a fast paced, action roguelike game where you battle Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Tackle a myriad of foes, undergo strategic mutations, loot prizes, and wield powerful weapons. Your singular mission: reclaim your chickens! |
| Chickenauts Gameplay Showcase! | 2023-06-20 | Let's celebrate the festival with the gameplay showcase from the developers of Chickenauts! Chickenauts is a fast paced, action roguelike game where you battle Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Tackle a myriad of foes, undergo strategic mutations, loot prizes, and wield powerful weapons. Your singular mission: reclaim your chickens! |
| Chickenauts gameplay | 2023-06-19 | Join us developers talking about our game chickenauts! |