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The Adventures of Badgersaw

The Adventures of Badgersaw is a dark comedy RPG where your main way to restore MP is by slapping your teammates. Solve puzzles, beat up aliens, and try to escape a monsterous cave that defies the limits of reality.

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Developer
Xetoil Zethos
Publisher
Castle Moustachio
Release
March 9, 2025
1 year and 146 days ago
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About the Game

Lost, Confused, and In Too Deep

The Adventures of Badgersaw is a narrative-driven RPG filled with the kind of jolly denial that emerges only when all hope is lost.

Badgersaw and his companions are trapped inside an alien cave. What begins as a simple adventure slowly spirals into something far stranger.

Explore, Fight and Talk your way out in a dashing formula of Adventure game puzzles, Turn-based combat, and Dialogue.

Motivation is a resource

Each party member uses a unique resource tied directly to their personality:

  • Badgersaw gets lost in his Malice

  • Tantalum's potential is gated by his Motivation

  • Mr L denies the existence of magic, but stops every now and again to recharge his Mana

Badgersaw can restore Motivation (and Mana) by slapping his teammates in a bold display of leadership.

Customise your approach

As you progress, you’ll unlock new abilities and equipment that let you shape how the party functions. Choose carefully—wouldn't want to die, would we?

But death is part of the experience

Resources are limited, saves are scarce, and death is always close. Each death also gives you a unique scene, so you can have fun dying, too.

What to expect in Chapter 1

  • 3–4 hours of main story content

  • Additional side content and hidden scenes

  • A self-contained chapter with ongoing story threads

  • Future chapters released for FREE

Features

  • Restore MP by slapping your teammates

  • Discuss mortality with a meat golem

  • Steal sandwiches from a child's lunchbox

  • Watch the protagonists slowly lose hope as they get lost in an increasingly strange and hopeless environment

  • Engage in banter to lighten the mood

  • Overcome the terrors and escape (maybe)

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