The Third Pig

The Third Pig is a free indie survival horror game developed by PopsArcade, a video game developer whose been around for a couple of years with titles like “Red Ring of Death” and “PeePaw 3D”, the latter of which was a fan game based on the Black Eyed Priest character. Aside from this, I haven’t seen much of him aside from this, videos from Youtube stretching back four years (post-Pandemic of course and a lot of them are based around lore for indie horror games) and a Twitch channel all of which I’ll link below. The debut trailer would be released in February of 2025 before the full game itself would later be released a month later in March. As for me, I’m not sure how I encountered this game myself personally, but from what I can understand it’s probably one of the few people that I follow on Steam who either wishlisted it or played it. That being said, one has it wishlisted, one has it in their library and one actually played the game so I’m not sure which one it was. What I can say is that the promise of a unique looking survival horror fixed camera angle title based on “The Three Little Pigs” really enticed me, though I wasn’t able to get to it until much more recently with my …

I'll never look at The Three Little Pigs the same way ever again! If I were told this version of The Three Little Pigs when I was a kid, my little mind would've been scarred for life ... I would love to see other twisted versions of fairy tales told in the same style as this game's! https://youtu.be/kbV0vigoF-I

Tank controls? This game's version make traditional tank controls feel like an improvement. This insistence on indie devs to still push tank controls/fixed camera in 2026 for "nostalgia" is just f'n tiresome. It's not special or cool when it's done in dozens (if not hundreds) of titles per year. What is special, actually, is the option to turn those things off.

Take the camera of the first Resident Evil and add finding objects to complete a goal, Hello Neighbor style, and you get this. It is a nice game for those who are ready to tackle that camera style.

It's the three Little Pigs well, one not so little pig and the Big Bad Wolf, but with Resident Evil style camera angles.

(played it offline, so my total amount of gameplay time was actually 81 minutes!) A short game in a darker fairy-tale universe. You all know for sure the three, little pigs and in this one you are the last one of them. Avoid the big, bad wolf and try to escape your own home! If you know how to solve this game and read all of the notes inside, then you should be able to finish it in around 17 minutes. I had first troubles to start it properly on Linux, but it worked fine with the Proton 5.13-6 emulator. Only bad parts of this game I can mention are the clunky controls and achievement-hunters will be disappointed with this work here, since there aren't any to unlock for. If you are asking for the message of this story: [spoiler]we can't trust Skinheads![/spoiler]