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fiehra, rob · Published by fiehra, rob
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Pollinate or Die is a fast-paced action roguelite focusing on movement, combat and evasion. As one of the last surviving bumblebees, you alone can revive Earth’s flora. Slash, Smash and Dash through waves of enemies as you search for flowers to pollinate and bring life back to the planet.
Action, Adventure, Indie · More free games
Explore a world where survival hinges on your ability to pollinate or die. As a bumblebee, navigate treacherous landscapes, outmaneuver enemies, and restore life to the planet with each daring move.
About this game
Save the bees, save the world!
Features:
Harness speed and agility in dynamic, fast-paced combat.
Face relentless waves of enemies and powerful bosses standing between you and survival.
Save the remaining bumblebees and unlock their skins and special abilities.
Play as multiple bee species, each with its own unique looks and abilities
Pollinate beautiful flowers to gain powerful buffs and enhance your abilities.
Collect pollen to gain new abilities, and push your limits with every run.
Or Die!
Open Development:
Experience ongoing development live with the community on Twitch and Discord
Be part of the hive and contribute with your feedback to improve the game
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: windows 7
- Processor: intel 64 family
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: any integrated GPU
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: any modern soundcard
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: windows 10
- Processor: intel i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: any dedicated gpu
- Storage: 750 MB available space
- Sound Card: any modern soundcard
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
0.48 bugfix patch
this small patch adresses mostly bugfixes and balancingfixed a gamebreaking bug when using hold to autoslash accessibility settingadded a short cooldown to the special ability usage so it cant be used to fruitflyfixed missing sfx when navigation the settings fixed a bug that caused the ladybug shop to display the wrong itemsfixed a bug where the player could leave the levelupdated translationsmore balancing attemptsRead full article on Community Announcements (Fiehra)Patch NotesOfficial
0.46 hotfix patch
## 0.46this small patch adresses some issues with loading savefiles and attempts to balance the game some morefixed a bug where starting a new game would not reset the skilltreebalanced the boss fight and some gauntlet roomsdecreased the prices of skills and bee skinsRead full article on Community Announcements (Fiehra)Patch NotesOfficial
demo patch 0.31
fixed a bug when leaving focus with the mouse prevented the regain it with controlleradded optional tooltips when hovering over flowerbuffsadded run summaries and stats to archivesimproved game over spritesheetsadded new skill: UV visionadded dynamic bloom chance for flowers in connection with uv vision skillmosquitos only drop pollen now if killed by the playermore balancingRead full article on Community Announcements (Fiehra)Patch NotesOfficial
Major Demo update! v0.30 is out!
thank you so much to everyone who has tried the demo and especially for all the feedback! we received so much amazing feedback on how to improve the game so we worked hard to get some major updates into the demo build of "Pollinate or Die". major featuresmajor revamp of the tutorialadded new tutorial boss - rhino beetleadded dialogsystemadded input bufferingadded critical chance to player attacksmassively juiced up the boss hp barrefactored audio manager to hopefully fix all music transitions lolimproved and expanded translationsremoved auto aim skill and replaced it with increased critical chanceanother attempt at balancing levels and bossfightupdated font and fallback fontbugfixesfixed a bug where the player could leave the levelfixed a bug on macOS which prevented saving the gamefixed a lot of bugs in the enemy state machines and aifixed a bug where combobar was not displaying correct valuesfixed multiple bugs in UI displaying the wrong valuesfixed a bug where the fruitflies would have an active hitbox while dyingfixed a very elusive bug in the enemy state machine involving race conditionsfixed a visual bug of the player jump vfx pointing into the wrong directionRead full article on Community Announcements (Fiehra)Patch NotesOfficial
demo patch 0.23
in todays hotfix session on stream we managed to find the elusive softlock bug that prevented the gates to the next level from opening. Cause of this was overlapping collisionshapes made the physics engine freak out and teleport the enemy off the map... lol. ## 0.23fixed a bug where players would get softlocked in the current levelreset buffs correctly when returning to the hivefixed a bug where the music would not switch to the correct trackimproved various other audio and sfx related issuesfixed buttons focusing the wrong element in the memories listRead full article on Community Announcements (Fiehra)
