Scurry

Scurry asks players to lead a swarm of genetically modified killer squirrels against the golfers and townspeople who bulldozed their home to build a golf course, eating microplastics and trash to evolve into increasingly monstrous forms along the way. Developed and published solo by Identical Forest, it launched on 21 April 2026 at $4.99 after roughly a year and a half of public development, including a demo that debuted for October Next Fest 2025 and was iterated on repeatedly before the full release. This review's research found a small review sample — 18 total reviews at time of writing, 17 of them in English — but one that was unusually consistent in what it praised and what it flagged.

Vampire Survivors' bullet-heaven formula, with fur and teeth

Mechanically, Scurry sits squarely in the horde-building "bullet heaven" genre popularised by Vampire Survivors, but built around commanding a swarm of squirrels rather than dodging incoming projectiles directly. This review's research found reviewers repeatedly drawing comparisons to other summon-focused entries in the genre, like Sea Salt, Skull Horde, and Be My Horde, while also noting a distinct tonal flavor: one reviewer described an "undeniable echo of reverse-horror energy found in games like Carrion," writing that "you're not surviving the nightmare here... you are the nightmare, just with more fur and questionable biology." The store page's own description backs that framing directly, promising "clever squirrels that think and act like a real swarm" using "player awareness, spatial reasoning, and value-driven targeting" to fight on the player's behalf.

A meaningful stack of breeds, evolutions, and synergies

According to the developer's own description, Scurry offers eight unique phenotypes (reviewers themselves more often describe nine, likely counting a secret or late-unlock variant) with over 100 evolutions and modifiers and 56 possible synergies between them. This review's research found that depth cited consistently as the game's biggest strength: one reviewer called the breed-combination system "a mathematical approach to power-scaling, with compounding effects, exponential growth," while another specifically praised how each of the nine breeds "seem viable and interesting" with "no redundancies." A permanent meta-progression system lets players level up each breed's attributes between runs, alongside an "Apocalypse Mode" offering twelve stacking difficulty tiers for players who want an escalating long-term challenge.

The complaint that one breed does too much of the work

Set against that praise, this review's research found a specific, detailed dissent from one reviewer who otherwise recommended the game "with caveats": the "Scurry" breed, they wrote, is "by far the most important one, due to being able to apply to ALL squirrel breeds damage resistance, max hp, attack damage, less spawn time," making it something players will "use every single run to some extent, which is a bit of a shame since it adds to the sameyness." A second, negative review raised a related but distinct concern from the opposite angle: that the evolution system is "way too lenient," with "nothing in the game" pushing players to explore breeds beyond whichever one they already prefer. Together, those two complaints paint a specific, corroborated picture of a build-variety problem, even from reviewers on opposite sides of the overall recommendation.

A solo developer visibly working through player feedback in real time

What this review's research found most notable, beyond the moment-to-moment gameplay, was the pace and specificity of post-launch support from what all available evidence points to being a single developer. In the roughly four months following the 21 April launch, patch notes addressed a stream of narrow, specific issues: a crash tied to a "Nanobite synergy," lag caused by combining a fire-on-dash power-up with a speed buff, an item pulled entirely from the drop pool and re-added only once its underlying bug was found, and repeated, hardware-specific performance passes explicitly targeting Steam Deck and "mid-range hardware." A "Power-Update" three weeks after launch added six new power-up drops directly credited to community feedback, and a later update added an in-depth tooltip system for the evolution menu after players asked for more clarity on what each upgrade actually did.

Toggleable gore and a "hit flash" option, without being asked twice

This review's research also found a specific, concrete accessibility gesture worth calling out: alongside Scurry's official content descriptors for "frequent pixelated violence, gore, and general mature content" (both togglable), a mid-cycle patch added a dedicated "hit flash" option to the pause menu that, per the developer's own patch notes, reduces screen-edge reddening at critical health, halves the brightness of one ability's visual effect, and cancels explosion bloom — described in the notes as "more of a photosensitivity makeover in general." That kind of specific, responsive accessibility work is unusual to see documented this clearly for a solo-developed game of this scale.

What the achievement data says about the difficulty curve

Global achievement percentages back up reviewer accounts of a game with real difficulty escalation layered on top of its accessible core loop. The most commonly unlocked achievement, tied to a player's first kill, sits at 95.1%, but that curve falls off sharply: unlocking all nine squirrel breeds sits at 41.5%, completing all four in-game seasons drops to 3.2%, and the rarest achievement in the list, tied to using a specific unusual breed, sits at just 0.8%. That's consistent with a game whose core loop is approachable within the first hour but whose full meta-progression and Apocalypse-tier challenges ask for real investment.

Taken together, Scurry reads as a well-executed, if narrowly scoped, entry in an increasingly crowded genre, distinguished less by novelty of concept than by the evident care of a single developer working through specific, named problems in near-real time. The build-variety complaint keeps it from being an unqualified genre standout, but at its price and with its current trajectory of support, this review's research found the balance of evidence weighing clearly in its favor for genre fans.