Pesticide Not Required
Top-down action roguelite mixing automatic attacks, insect swarms, and farming
Jampacked Games · Published by Jampacked Games, Gamersky Games · Released Mar 18, 2024
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 94% of 951
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 2
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 2 days ago
- Sep 21, 2026
What is Pesticide Not Required?
In this top-down action roguelite, you fight swarms of insects with automatically firing weapons while growing crops, fishing, and mining on a farm. Short runs revolve around earning gold and experience, building an arsenal, recruiting pets, and unlocking characters and persistent upgrades.
For you if...
- +you enjoy balancing resource gathering with fast-paced combat
- +you like experimenting with different characters and weapon builds
- +you prefer short runs with persistent upgrades
Not for you if...
- −you want combat without farming, fishing, or mining
- −you want distinct arena layouts across successive runs
What players say
94% of 951 reviews are positive
Players praise the farming activities for giving them more to do during fights, as well as the different frog characters and build options. Some find the repeated arena layout monotonous and say random upgrade choices can frustrate build plans.
Screenshots and trailer
Pesticide Not Required system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer
- Processor
- Dual Core
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 800 MB available space
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 103
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, French.
Tags
- Action Roguelike
- Bullet Hell
- Roguelite
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Action RPG
- Top-Down Shooter
- Farming Sim
- Action
- Twin Stick Shooter
- Singleplayer
- Casual
- Top-Down
- Arena Shooter
- Pixel Graphics
- Bullet Heaven
- RPG
Recent updates
- Sep 21, 2026 · French Localization is Live!
- Oct 4, 2025 · Unity Security Vulnerability Fix
- Mar 27, 2025 · Patch for 3/25/2025
- Feb 26, 2025 · Content Update - Weapon Fusions and Challenges!
- Jan 11, 2025 · Controller Crash Bug Fix
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