The Hungry Fly

The Hungry Fly

Released Oct 2024

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

92% positive · 124 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

The Hungry Fly launched on October 23, 2024, following three years of development by a two-person team (François and Jonathan). The pre-release announcement on October 11, 2024 described the experience as "completed," with three distinct endings and a fully realized story. The launch post confirmed the game was finished and ready for players. Following launch, the developers released a series of small patches through mid-November 2024 — fixing bugs (Patch 1.0.1 on October 25), adding motion sickness accessibility options (Patch 1.0.2 on October 28), and improving Steam Deck compatibility (Patch 1.0.3 on November 12). These are maintenance and quality-of-life improvements, not new content expansions. The last developer communication was on November 12, 2024. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no roadmap promising future content, and no developer statements indicating plans for expansions or additional story content. The game has no post-launch content update pattern beyond these initial polish patches. The game shipped as a self-contained narrative adventure with a clear beginning, middle, and multiple endings — consistent with a finished, complete product.
Evidence
Launch post celebrates the game's release after 3 years of development, describes the full experience, and invites feedback. Mentions active updates but in the context of bug fixing, not new content.
news post · Oct 23, 2024 source content shipped
high
Pre-launch announcement explicitly states 'The surreal experience is completed,' with three endings and a defined scope.
news post · Oct 11, 2024 source development ending
high

Media

Details

Publisher
indie.io
Achievements
11
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Once upon a time, in a swampland dreary, a fly awakened, weak and weary. Possessed of hunger, it set out on a search to find a morsel, a corpse, to stop starvation. But there was no death to be found in the swamp, only tormented life. It journeyed on, meeting strange creatures living in the swamp, ever sadder and more tortured, until, by chance, it happened on something delicious. 

You are the fly. Play as the dirty, filthy, corpse-eating fly on a mission to devour a monster living in a bath in a house far away.

Meet grotesque, surreal inhabitants who will ask you to do surreal and horrible things. Do them and eat horrific things to sate the fly's hunger for dead flesh. Then restart the tale and choose a different path through the story, eating your way to three different endings.

Be the fly. Explore. Meet depressing caterpillars. Experience a disturbing tale of existential horror. Welcome to the next brainchild of the creators of The Repairing Mantis.

Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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