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Pegs & Bones
Pegs & Bones places a tribe in the Wasteland, asking you to balance risky expeditions against settlement survival.
ByPofiPrototypeLink checked Oct 18, 2026
How to play Pegs & Bones
- Use the mouse; the game is mouse-only.
- Send villagers into the Wasteland and observe their routes through hazards, encounters, and rewards.
- Gather resources, build and improve the settlement, and manage food and supplies.
- Assign villagers as hunters, gatherers, or healers while keeping the tribe alive.
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- Simulation
- Survival
- choices-matter
- colony-sim
- Idle
- Management
- Mouse only
- Pixel Art
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About Pegs & Bones
In Pegs & Bones, Pofi presents a survival simulation set around a vulnerable tribe in a dangerous Wasteland. The game combines settlement management with expeditions shaped by a Plinko-style bouncing system. Villagers gather supplies, take on roles, age, raise children, and may die permanently. It runs in the browser through itch.io, with saves kept in the browser. The project is currently a Prototype, and its code, graphics, and sounds were created with AI assistance.
Gameplay and choices in Pegs & Bones
Pegs & Bones asks you to send villagers into the Wasteland, then respond to what their journey brings back. Their path can lead to resources, hazards, encounters, or a fatal outcome. Back at camp, you gather materials, build and improve structures, manage food, and depend on hunters, gatherers, and healers. People develop across generations, gaining inherited traits, forming relationships, betraying one another, and leaving permanent gaps when they die.
What sets Pegs & Bones apart
Pegs & Bones gives survival management an unusual expedition format: a villager’s route unfolds through bouncing movement rather than direct control. That uncertainty is matched by decisions with consequences, including whether to save a predator’s cub or claim meat and face possible retaliation. The generational structure also gives the settlement a longer memory, with ageing, children, inherited traits, disasters, relics, and a cemetery recording the tribe’s losses.
Is Pegs & Bones for you?
Pegs & Bones should suit players who enjoy colony management, survival pressure, and choices that can reshape a small community. It has appeal for strategy fans who like weighing food, materials, roles, and dangerous expeditions rather than simply fighting through levels. Players interested in short runs with lasting consequences may also find its structure compelling. The main limitation is clear: it is a Prototype, not a finished full release.
FAQ
Pegs & Bones FAQ
Is Pegs & Bones free?
Yes. Pegs & Bones is listed as free on itch.io. The supplied information does not mention paid editions, optional purchases, or additional pricing.
Who developed Pegs & Bones?
Pofi is credited as the author of Pegs & Bones. The credits also identify AI-assisted work on the code, graphics, sounds, design feedback, and English localization, alongside the original idea, world, and rules.
Can I play Pegs & Bones in my browser?
Yes. Pegs & Bones is playable directly through its itch.io page, without a separate application. The game also uses browser-based saves, so its stored progress remains in the browser according to the provided facts.
What kind of game is Pegs & Bones?
It is a survival simulation with settlement management, tribal community systems, and Plinko-style expeditions. The game includes resource gathering, villager roles, generational change, permanent deaths, and choices whose effects can continue through the settlement.
Does Pegs & Bones have upgrades or builds?
Yes. The settlement can be constructed and improved, while villagers serve as hunters, gatherers, or healers. Pegs & Bones also includes inherited traits and generational development, but the available information does not describe a formal character build system.
Is Pegs & Bones a full game or a demo?
Pegs & Bones is marked as a Prototype. That means it should be approached as an early version rather than a completed full release. The facts do not specifically label it a demo, but they do make its unfinished status clear.