PigWars

Let's get it out of the way: this game is not pretty. The pigs look like someone described a pig over the phone. We know. We're working on it, and in the meantime they're too busy fighting to care.

You don't control your pig either. You raise it, you shape it, and then you watch it walk into battle and make its own decisions — good, bad, and occasionally explosive.

PigWars is an autonomous auto-battler. Every pig thinks for itself. Your job is to build the kind of pig that survives.

BUILD YOUR FIGHTER
Spend points across eight stats — Strength, Health, Intelligence, Agility, Vision, Aura, Will and Empathy — and unlock skills that change how your pig behaves in a fight. Every build grows into one of 84 personas. Make it strong and tough and it becomes The Brawler. Others are stranger: The Glass Cannon, The Vampire, The Suicidal Healer, The Obese Juggernaut. Put nothing anywhere and you get The Dead Weight: "Does literally nothing. May accidentally block a hit by standing in the wrong place at the right time."

WATCH IT FIGHT
Once the battle starts, it's out of your hands. Pigs pick their own targets, heal their friends, throw grenades, cast spells, raise shields, teleport out of trouble, charm their enemies and, as a last resort, unleash a fatal fart. A clever pig forages for food when it's hurt. A cowardly one runs.

PIGS THAT WORK AS A TEAM
Teammates talk to each other. They call for help when they're cornered, spot enemies for the rest of the team, focus fire on the weakest target and regroup when the fight turns against them. Nobody tells them to — it just happens.

PERMADEATH
If your pig falls and nobody on its team brings it back before the battle ends, it's gone for good. Fallen pigs take their place in the Ancestry, the hall of pigs who didn't make it, and you start again with what you learned.

EARN A NAME
How your pig fights decides how it's remembered. Last Pig Standing. The Executioner. Ghost of the Battlefield. The Truffle Expert. Or, less gloriously, The Coward, The Stumbler and Punching Bag.

SIX BATTLEFIELDS
• The Barn — a dusty farmyard at dusk, where the loft smells of hay and danger
• The Butcher's Block — flickering lights, tiled walls and hooks that swing on their own
• The Colosseum — a roaring crowd and sand that has seen a thousand last stands
• The Kitchen — hissing burners and something cooking that no pig should identify
• The Ruins — crumbling stone and river mist
• The Space Station — failing life support and airlocks with opinions

Fight in small 3v3 skirmishes or in all-out 30v30 wars, as a team or every pig for itself. Terrain matters: high ground helps, and fog of war hides what your pig hasn't seen yet.

YOUR STABLE
Keep up to three pigs at a time, level them up, and browse every skill in the Wikpig to plan your next build. Track your achievements and look back through your battle history.

Still early. Expect rough edges, new features, and a lot of pigs meeting untimely ends.