Barn Rush

Grab it. Haul it. Beat the clock. You're a farm animal, the field is covered in food, and the round lasts fifteen seconds. Fill your pockets, run it home, and bank it before the buzzer. Between rounds, draft upgrades until one little sheep has a tornado, a tractor and a snail on the payroll.

EASY TO PICK UP

You move and you dash. That's the controls. No combat, and food leaps to you as you pass. Whatever's on your back at the buzzer still counts. There's a short tutorial, a Very Easy mode, and you can save mid-run. Kid tested: the developer's daughters are on the playtest crew.

DRAFT A BUILD THAT SHOULDN'T WORK

Every level-up earns a Wooden Chest: small boosts that stack forever. Clear a Harvest for a Silver Chest: new tricks like a tractor or a second barn. Gold Chests are rare, and they break the rules. Reroll, banish or pin Wooden offers, pin Silver ones, and steer the build your way.

HARVEST EVERY FIFTH ROUND

Rounds come in sets of five, and every set has a Harvest Goal: the Feed you bank across all five. The fifth is a 45-second Gauntlet Round with a game-changing challenge you're warned about (a walled-in barn, heavy bags, an angry goblin). Make the Harvest Goal and your Feed is safe. Miss it, and the run is over. Then take a sure Silver Chest, or spin the Hay Wheel for a shot at gold. Play it safe or chase a game-changer: your run, your call.

THEN IT GETS SILLY

Bees fetch for you. A magnet pulse drags pies across the field. Then the world wraps around. Every run gets absurdly strong in a different direction.

YOUR FARM, YOUR LOOK

Back at your Farmstead, the Feed you brought home goes on looks. 17 animals, six colours each (yes, you can have a Berry sheep), a rack of hats from a Farmer's Hat to a Royal Crown, and fields for a sunny day, a moonlit night, autumn and snow.

KEEP SCORE AT HOME

Give everyone in the house their own farm, then check Records: bests for every difficulty, a Diary of past runs with round-by-round Feed charts, and lifetime stats down to how much food the goblins ate. Flip to Whole house to see who holds each record, then go take it back.

FAIR AND SQUARE

Every run earns Feed. Spend it mid-run on upgrades to push that run further, or end the run whenever you like and take your Feed home to spend on your farm. Back home, Feed only buys looks, and every new run starts from scratch. No microtransactions, no pay-to-win.

FEATURES

• 15-second rounds; every fifth is a 45-second Gauntlet Round with one of six game-changing challenges
  
• 65+ upgrade cards across Wooden, Silver and Gold Chests
  
• The Hay Wheel: keep a guaranteed Silver Chest or gamble it on a spin where half the wheel is gold
  
• Ten Harvests make an Era: 50 rounds. Then, if you choose, carry on New Game+ style: back to Round 1 with every upgrade you've earned, but more challenges, more goblins and steeper Harvest Goals
  
• 17 animals, colours, hats and four seasonal fields
  
• Four difficulties, from Very Easy to Hard
  
• Need to stop? Save from Pause and pick your run back up later
  
• Farm profiles for everyone in the house, each with Records, run charts and lifetime stats; Steam Cloud carries them to any computer or Steam Deck
  
• A chiptune soundtrack by Abstraction
  
• A goblin who eats your food (then needs a nap)

Free demo, October 16: the whole first Era, 50 rounds, on Very Easy through Normal.