The Roostfather: Rise of the Coop

Every rooster rules his own dunghill. Yours is the smallest one in the yard.

The old Don went into the soup, and the yard is up for grabs. You are a scrawny rooster in a fedora with big plans: court the hens, grow the family, outsmart the fox, and climb from Bald Tail to Don of the whole county. In this pixel-art chicken mafia comedy, eggs are money and Sunday is the deadline.

EGGS ARE MONEY
Every morning the Missus comes for the eggs. Meet the weekly quota by Sunday, or someone from your family ends up in the soup pot. Maybe you. Meet it, and the pot goes hungry for your rival instead.

THE FAMILY MUST GROW
Bring her corn. Bring her worms. Then show her your finest courtship dance. If she says yes, a cartoon cloud of dust, feathers and hearts hides the happy couple. Nobody sees a thing. Strictly for the family tree. If she says no, you get slapped, and the gossip starts.
Her next egg is fertile. Put it in the basket, where it counts double, or under a broody hen. Two days later a chick hatches. Two days after that, it guards the coop door as one of your capos.

RULE THE YARD
• Hold your crow on top of the dung heap to claim it. Crow too much and your voice cracks for everyone to hear
• Settle things beak to beak. No blood, no injuries: the loser drops his tail feathers and runs off with a bald behind
• At dusk, herd the hens into the coop and shut the door. The fox comes every night with a new trick
• A bucket, a rotten egg, a wheelbarrow, a dog on a chain: use the yard against your rival. Most of it can backfire
• Embarrass yourself and the gossiping hens will spread it from beak to beak

FIVE YARDS. SIX BOSSES. ONE HAT.
Ten chapters, one week each: your own yard, Auntie Ica's yard next door, a farmstead, the village and the big chicken farm of MEGAEGG Corp. Face Brahma Bruno the heavyweight, Bantam Benny who is small but mighty, Silky the fluffball, Naked-Neck Ned the old veteran, the Silver Fox and his clan, and finally the Chairman, whose caged hens have never seen the sun.

AFTER THE STORY
• The Endless Yard: the five yards come round again, week after week, with your own family
• 41 achievements, about half of them for failing in style. Their names stay hidden until you earn them

TWO PLAYERS
• Together, on one PC: the Don and Tony, his right wing, share one family and one quota
• Head to Head: player two takes over Brahma Bruno, and the week ends in a score. Play it on one PC, or online on two devices: invite a friend with a six-character room code
• On one PC, two players use gamepads or share the keyboard

THE DETAILS
• Isometric pixel art, every pixel drawn by code
• Keyboard or gamepad, with the same three buttons: Beak, Wing, Crow
• A day lasts about four minutes, and the game saves at the end of every day
• English and Hungarian, each with its own hen names
• One purchase: no ads, no in-app purchases, no account

A Bug Factory game.