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Pegs & Bones
Send villagers into danger, make hard choices, and manage your tribe in Pegs & Bones from your browser tab.
ByPofiPrototypeLink checked Oct 18, 2026
How to play Pegs & Bones
- Use the mouse to manage your settlement and make expedition choices.
- Send villagers into the Wasteland and watch them bounce through dangers, encounters, and rewards.
- Gather food and materials, build and upgrade your settlement, and keep your tribe alive.
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- Simulation
- Survival
- choices-matter
- colony-sim
- Idle
- Management
- Mouse only
- Pixel Art
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What is Pegs & Bones?
Pegs & Bones is a tribal survival and settlement-management game with a Plinko-inspired expedition system. You send villagers into a dangerous wasteland, then guide the settlement through shortages, discoveries, and difficult choices. Pofi made the game, with AI-assisted code, graphics, and sounds. It runs directly in a browser through itch.io, with browser-based saves. The current version is a prototype, so expect an evolving game rather than a fully finished release.
How a run of Pegs & Bones plays
A run of Pegs & Bones starts by sending a villager into the Wasteland. Watch their path bounce through pegs, dangers, encounters, and possible rewards, then make choices when events interrupt the journey. Expeditions can return with food and materials, or cost a life. Back home, gather supplies, construct and improve buildings, assign roles, and keep the tribe alive across hunger, predators, disasters, ageing, and time.
Why Pegs & Bones is worth a try
Pegs & Bones puts a Plinko-style journey at the center of tribal survival. The bouncing expedition creates uncertainty before each encounter, while your settlement decisions shape what happens afterward. Its biggest twist is the living history of the tribe: villagers age, have children, inherit traits, betray one another, and die permanently. The cemetery keeps those losses visible, giving each choice more weight than a simple arcade score chase.
Who will enjoy Pegs & Bones
Pegs & Bones is for players who enjoy management games, roguelite pressure, and choices with consequences that stick around. It should appeal to anyone who likes balancing food and supplies while watching a settlement develop across generations. The game is still a prototype, so expect an experimental experience with evolving ideas rather than a polished, content-heavy campaign. If permanent character deaths and unpredictable expeditions sound interesting, this is worth a look.
FAQ
Pegs & Bones FAQ
Is Pegs & Bones free to play?
Yes. Pegs & Bones is listed as free to play on itch.io, so you can try its tribal survival and settlement-management prototype in your browser.
Who made Pegs & Bones?
Pofi made Pegs & Bones. The project also discloses AI-assisted work across its code, graphics, and sounds, alongside credited AI contributions to the prototype and localization.
Where can I play Pegs & Bones?
You can play it directly in your browser on itch.io. The game also uses browser-based saves, so your progress is stored through the browser rather than requiring an installed desktop version.
How do you play Pegs & Bones?
Send villagers into the Wasteland, watch their Plinko-style expeditions, and make choices during encounters. Pegs & Bones also asks you to manage food, supplies, buildings, and village roles while trying to keep the tribe alive.
Is Pegs & Bones like a survivors-like game?
It shares survival pressure and roguelite uncertainty with survivors-like games, but its main focus is different. The game combines settlement management, generational villagers, permanent deaths, and Plinko-style expeditions instead of presenting only an action-focused survival loop.
Is Pegs & Bones finished or still in development?
Pegs & Bones is currently marked as a prototype. That means its core ideas are playable, but the experience may still change as development continues. Expect an experimental browser game rather than a final, fully polished release.