Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim

Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim is out now!Struggling punk rock band, Dead Pets, are looking for their big break. Play rhythm games at band practice, work a diner shift, converse with characters and manage Gordy’s life. Dead Pets is a feminist, slice-…

Hey Punks,We are hosting a Dead Pets Launch Party charity event for Women in Games International(WIGI) on February 5th - 7th.From Thursday to Saturday, a ton of amazing femme and gender queer streamers will be playing Dead Pets on Twitch while raising money fo…

Hey Punks, We interviewed Inna and Ida to talk about Dead Pets and the art direction for the game!“I usually describe it as an off beat coming of age story of a 30-something year old but also demons.”“We have been inspired by television shows. Mostly because w…

Hey Punks, Dead Pets is releasing to PC February 6th!Struggling punk rock band, Dead Pets, are looking for their big break. Play rhythm games at band practice, work a diner shift, converse with characters and manage Gordy’s life. Dead Pets Unleashed is a femin…

Hey punks,The band Dead Pets is going to be world famous this time. I can feel it. Let’s meet the band going to reach acclaimed status.GordyGordy is the legendary Bass player of Dead Pets!Gordy’s strings play so chaotically that they smash windows nearby. If i…

Hey Punks, Today is the final day for the History of Punk. I hope you enjoyed reading about punk and the culture around it. I want to wrap up the talk with what punk looks like today.Punk is more diverse than it ever was first starting out. Punk has such a wid…

Hey Punks,Day 4 of us taking a deeper look into punk! This time the focus will be in the culture of punk!To no one’s surprise that punk is an influential counterculture that has been around since the 1970s. It became a significant facet of non-mainstream socie…

Hey Punks,We are half way through the History of Punk, this time we investigate the different people who brought punk to the forefront. The RamonesThe Ramones were one of the first bands to ignite punk’s global popularity. They set the blueprints for punks wit…

Hey Punks,Day 2 of Steam Next Fest and Punk is going strong.Today we take a peek at some of the events that really push punk into relevancy.CBGBOne of the first important events to really boost punk into popularity are the performances in the CBGB club. The cl…

Hey Punks, Dead Pets Unleashed is joining Steam Next Fest this week! With Dead Pets obviously having its roots in punk, I want to go over the history of punk starting with the origin! Punk music started to form in the early 1970s in the undergrounds of New Yor…

Hey punks, I’m the community manager and we are the publisher band: Akupara Games.Dead Pets was one of the unfortunate indie games among the sea of games that got cancelled in 2024. We think that is bullshit so we’re going somewhere that many others are afraid…

***small spoilers*** It's Astrid, Game Director of Dead Pets Unleashed, checking in with another small behind-the-scenes look at Dead Pets Unleashed. If you've played our free demo, you already know our main character, Gordy. She is a bit of a mess, always spe…

Holy shit! Dead Pets Unleashed is an award-winning game! We're so, so honored to be the recipient of the Games for Impact Award at IndieCade 2023. It's so touching that the game we've been working so hard on for the last few years is on the receiving end of su…

***Trigger: unwanted infertility, period pains*** I’m Astrid, the game director of Dead Pets Unleashed. If you’ve seen the clips from our Uterus Egg Flipper minigame, it seems mostly like a funny joke without context. But I have a lot to tell with this game. D…

We've released another song from the Dead Pets EP - My Healing Potion is OUT NOW everywhere you stream music! This one is a little silly - seriously, how did Brian get away with writing this, let alone putting it on their EP 😂 But it's the perfect remedy for …

We were so excited about being featured in the Save and Sound here on Steam, that we've released a brand new Dead Pets song! You can check out "I'm Just an Animal" anywhere you stream music, it's a banger, if we do say so ourselves 😉 This is one of the SIX or…

Dead Pets Unleashed has been nominated for "Games for Impact" at the Gamescom Awards! 🥳🤘 We're so blown away by this nomination! If you'd like to celebrate an outspoken feminist game, please send a vote our way! 🥰 You can vote for us on the Gamescom website…

Dear Gordy’s Diary, it's already June! Seriously, where is the year going?! We had such a busy month in May, Gordy forgot to update her diary! You might have seen, we were a part of LudoNarraCon last month! We streamed some gameplay with commentary from our de…

Dead Pets Unleashed is exhibiting at LudoNarraCon from May 4 - 8! LudoNarraCon is a digital convention hosted on Steam celebrating narrative games and the people who make them hosted entirely on Steam, and presented by indie narrative publisher, Fellow Travell…