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Do you have what it takes to escape Piggy and uncover the mysteries surrounding the beast?

Piggy is a Survival Horror game created by MiniToon on Roblox. Originally made as a Lightmare Fuel parody of Granny and Peppa Pig, you play as a police officer searching for a missing boy named Georgie Piggy. Upon arriving however, you hear a snort right behind you and are knocked out. Waking up in the Piggy household, you discover a monster roaming the building, and must escape before the timer runs out.

On August 17, 2021, MiniToon announced Piggy: Hunt, a spin-off game with gameplay similar to Among Us, released on Steam Early Access the following October.

You can play the original game here, and view the Steam page for Hunt here

Piggy provides examples of:

  • Aerith and Bob: Some skin names include Piggy, Dessa, Markus, Pony, Billy, Katie, Alfis, Felix and Willow, all fairly normal names. The names start to get a bit less normal with characters like Rash, Raze, Dakoda, Kamosi, Crove, Owell, Phenna and Budgey. But then there’s Kraxicorde, Silzous, Spidella, Primrose and Bakari.
  • Amusement Park: Mr. P's Carnival, which serves as the setting for Chapter 8 of Book 1.
  • And I Must Scream: The infected characters are apparently suffering from this, according to an encoded note left by a (at the time the note was written In-Universe) soon to be infected Teacher.
    • The note: " I feel everything I do. I can't control my actions. I can't help myself. My mind yells for help but my body does not agree. I wish the world would understand."
  • And Then John Was a Zombie: Tragically, some of the characters who have held off the infected became one of them. Major examples include Doggy, Bunny, and Zizzy.
  • Anti-Frustration Features: If you got both the Survivor and Savior badges, you can toggle between the two in the options menu. This is useful for getting the badges in "Lab", where the endings change depending on whether you got either the Savior or Survivor ending in Chapter 6.
  • Anyone Can Die: And if they aren't dead, they're infected.
  • Ascended Extra: The Silver Paw was only mentioned in some notes in Book 1 under their acronym T.S.P. In Book 2, they're the Arc Villain for the first half of Book 2.
  • Autobots, Rock Out!:
    • Willow’s theme absolutely slaps, and in order to escape "Factory", the player needs to give Pony three wooden swords to defeat her.
    • Let Go from "Lab", which just note is a banger, plays during the final parts of the chapter (minus the cutscenes). A Triumphant Reprise version that includes the vocals plays during the final phase of TIO's boss fight.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: The ??? skin. On one hand, it looks quite cool and serves as a nice trophy for anyone who's gotten the Hidden Ending. On the other hand, its massive size means players can see you coming very easily, and its hitbox isn't as massive as it is, leading to confusion about when you will and won't be able to catch a player. It also has one of the longest killing animations of any skin, meaning that there's quite a bit of down time for group kills.
  • Big Bad: TIO eventually takes center stage as the main antagonist of the last chapter of Book 2 once Mr. P and Willow are dealt with, and will likely appear as so in Piggy: Intercity.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Mr. P and Willow both serve as the main antagonists of the game.
  • Bookends: Penny is the bot of both the first chapter of Book 1 and the last chapter of Book 2.
  • Christmas Episode: The Winter Holiday Hunt Event involves the player finding the gifts for Georgie, Giraffy, Zizzy, Zee, Zuzy, Mimi and Pony in the non-canon map "Winter Holiday".
  • Color-Coded Eyes: Those colored pupils you see on the infected are said to reflect their personality before their infection. Among the ones known so far:
    • MiniToon says that yellow eyes mean that the individual used to help their community prior to their infection.
    • Green eyes mean that the infected was "very independent."
    • Infected with orange eyes have supernatural powers such as Teleportation and are often found traveling in hordes.
  • Cutting Off the Branches: The worst ending of "Factory" is a non-canon outcome, as it ends with Willow killing the player and Chapter 7, Book 2 has the player arrive at the port to find a boat after Tigry took the last of Willow's boats. This is Enforced by TIO, who wants them alive for his own plans.
  • Darker and Edgier: Book 2 is significantly darker than Book 1, both figuratively as various character's pasts are expanded upon, not to mention a major loss and The Insolence haunting the world, but literally as well due to various areas being hard to see without a light.
  • Despair Event Horizon: The main character seems to have one after the loss of Doggy in Chapter 4, as implied by the journal entries.
  • Dragon Ascendant: Tigry in Book 2 becomes the main antagonist of the second half after Willow’s Heel–Face Turn in "Factory".
  • Dual Boss: The "Player + Bot" mode not just has the players face off against a player-controlled Piggy, but also against a bot as well.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: "House", "Station", and "Gallery" originally lacked escape cutscenes, likely because there wasn't any meaningful plot aside from "escape from crazed animal person". Later updates would add cutscenes to these chapters.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Getting the best outcome for "Factory" requires you to save all the trapped Silver Paw members, which ends with instead of Mimi helping Giraffy, the remaining members of the Silver Paw offer to help him.
  • Freudian Excuse: Most of the main antagonists in the game have one.
    • Mr. P: Before the infection, his wife, Ms. P, got sick and Mr. P tried developing a cure for her. He wasn't sure if it would work or not so The Piggy Family (minus Georgie) volunteered as test subjects. Days Later he heard News that they've become infected. He tried One Cure after the other but nothing would work. The last time he saw Ms. P, she had red eyes.
    • Willow: As a child, her parents were arrested, and she and her brother William were adopted by Daisy. When the infection broke out, Daisy needed to leave for military service, then her brother William left, presumably to find Daisy, and finally she got arrested for stealing food in order to feed her family. Despite how evil she is, it’s kind of hard to not feel bad for her considering everything she went through.
    • Tigry: As revealed in notes in the Refinery, he wasn’t loved by his parents. He was also frequently bullied by other members of the Silver Paw, outside of Rash, who he states was a friend.
    • Subverted with TIO in Book 2, as while it may have initially seemed he had one (being extremely lonely as a child and getting banished by his friend after becoming more and more like them), he says that he’s “more than he ever once was”, showing he doesn’t care about his backstory and it likely isn’t his motive for being evil.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: TIO is this, as he was behind the hallucinations throughout the series, is likely the founder of the Insolence, and the diary entry for the Mr. P’s Lab event implies that he is directly responsible for the infection, as it’s implied that he convinced Mr. P to test Substance-128.
  • Hello, [Insert Name Here]: All characters will call the player character by whatever the player's username is, including any spelling mistakes and numbers. Characters, while calling the player this, don't actually react to whatever the name is, and will say it with complete seriousness.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: TIO’s main weapon is using people’s memories against them as a form of psychological torment. In the True Ending, the player uses this to defeat him by summoning memories of Doggy, Bunny and Zizzy.
  • Humanoid Abomination: TIO seems to appear human, but is capable of somehow interacting with the characters' fates, such as talking to Zizzy while she is almost succumbing to the infection just before she is taken away, implying her symbolism into (possibly) becoming of the infected. He also has a stitched face for some reason. It's implied he was like that because of a betrayal of a former friend who he came to resemble and got exiled to another dimension for. His form as the True Final Boss is more of an Eldritch Abomination.
  • Interface Spoiler: A good sign a character is about to get infected is if you check the Shop for skins. While played straight for Doggy and Bunny, this is Zig-zagged with Mimi, Pony, Giraffy, Tigry, Zizzy, Budgey and Pandy, while they were not infected in the events of Book 1, Zizzy does get infected in Refinery, making it possible that they could get infected at a later date. Subverted with Mr. P, however: You have to unlock the true ending to even view it.
  • Kudzu Plot: The first couple of chapters are pretty simple. The player goes to investigate the disappearance of Georgie Piggy and gets knocked out by Piggy, escapes the House, warns the station, escapes the station, rinse and repeat for the rest of the maps up until Chapter 10, where’s it’s revealed that Georgie is still alive, and then from there, Mr. P now has cybernetic implants which prevent him from being infected, Georgie’s family volunteered as test subjects for Mr. P’s experiment, that the mysterious “T.S.P.” leaving notes across the game is a group formed out of pre-established characters like Tigry, Pandy, Kitty and Willow, Poley is infected and Zizzy gets scratched. Then once the Insolence is introduced the entire thing starts going out of control, where Pony is revealed to have given Doggy the potion, the Player is immune to the infection, green eyed infected used to be very independent, Mr. Stitchy is truly canon, Tigry used to be in the military, Pony’s father is infected, and of course the reveal that the hallucinations happening to the player and other characters throughout the series have been caused by a mysterious entity who is also possibly responsible for the entire infection, and this is all before Intercity has even been released.
  • Multiple Endings:
    • "Plant" has three of them depending on whether they attempt to leave Mr. P behind or attempt to assist him, and depending on if they obtained all the badges or not, on top of getting a secret item that players must carry in "City" in the "Player + Bot" mode.
      • Good Ending: The player and Georgie Piggy escape from the Plant after Mr. P holds the other infected back from them. Both Zizzy and Pony are revealed to been uninfected and successfully held off the infected troops. As they leave, the player wonders what to do next, and Georgie decides to Find the Cure! for the infection.
      • Bad Ending: The player attempts to help Mr. P, but is attacked by Badgy.
      • True Ending: Same as the Good Ending, but further context on Mr. P's motivations is revealed. He was desperately trying to develop a cure for his wife, and while he developed a sample, it was unstable, but Mr. P ignored the doctor's suggestion and searched for volunteers, with the Piggy family (minus Georgie) being one of those. It seemed to work for them, so he tried the cure on his wife. However, the "cured" people later began showing signs of aggression, including Mr. P's wife, and developed red eyes. While Mr. P attempted to put her out of her misery, his love for her prevented him from doing so. He later tried to develop more cures for the infection, but later found the player, who had signs of the infection. While the player was taken to the hospital for more research, it was raided by the infected, so Mr. P rushed the cure to Bunny, but Mr. P instantly recognized that the cure he made had the same defects as the original cure, and left them both behind. The player then thanks Mr. P for the information, and the Good Ending then plays out.
    • "Factory" also features some endings depending on whether you saved members of the Silver Paw or not.
      • Unnamed bad ending: Willow shoots the player just as they are about to escape from the factory.
      • Survivor Ending: Just before Willow decides to kill the player, Zee and Zuzy warn the player. However, their resemblance towards Zizzy causes Willow to realize that she ended up she caused both Zee and Zuzy to suffer Parental Abandonment, not unlike what the police did to both her parents. Tigry manages to disarm Willow by throwing his knife at her gun, and she later apologizes for what she had done to Zizzy, though some of them are skeptical of her apology. As Mimi cares for Giraffy, Willow reveals that the military is beginning to develop a cure to the virus thanks to a radio call she heard, and while they are suspicious at first, all of them agree to put aside their differences to find the place where the military is developing the cure. As they prepare to head to the location of the military base, flashbacks of Willow's past emerge.
      • Savior Ending: Same as above, but all the surviving Silver Paw members offer to take care of Giraffy instead of Mimi.
    • Book 2 also features five of them, depending on which ending you got in Factory and chose whether to help Tigry or Willow, and if you got all the badges, performed some secret actions.
      • Tigry Ending - Survivor: After helping Tigry fight against Willow, Tigry decides to repay the player by giving them the cure, and goes his own way afterwards. However the player is infected by Mary, who ambushes them. In order to convince the player to save themselves by using the cure on them, Pony is forced to reveal that not only he was infected by Markus in "Docks", he also was forced to infect Doggy by The Silver Paw, and his disgust over their actions caused him to defect and feels that his actions have finally caught up to him in the present day. The player apologizes for his situation and leaves with the cure afterwards, feeling conflicted about the situation.
      • Tigry Ending - Savior: Same as above, except Tigry's explosives detonate, trapping Tigry, Pony and the player as well, who loses the cure in the process. Pony reveals that he was infected by Markus in "Docks", much to the despair of the player. Finding no way out, the player ultimately accepts TIO's offer.
      • Willow Ending - Survivor: After helping Willow fight against Tigry, Willow thanks the player for their assistance even though she didn't need it, and both of them come out of the Lab, with Willow taking the cure. As the player exits, Pony reveals that he was infected by Markus in "Docks". When the player tries to ask for Willow for help because she has the cure with her, Pony responds that she won't come for them. As the player is forced to leave Pony behind, he tells him to take care of the kids, and knows that he will miss the player, but not Zizzy as he'll be infected soon.
      • Willow Ending - Savior: Same as above, but this time Willow does actually help Pony out by giving him the cure, even acknowledging that it might be the sole cure in the area. After Pony is cured, they make up a cover story that it was destroyed in the rubble, so to prevent knowledge of what truly happened leaking out, but Kona's research of the infected may help in reproducing the cure, and the player notes that this cycle will continue until the cure is mass-produced.
      • True Ending: After Pony avoids getting infected by Markus, the player has Mimi call for assistance via the radio while they successfully convince that Willow and Tigry's fighting is pointless, with Tigry noting that both him and Willow lost their friends and family, and that she was willing to listen him, and that he wishes to get their relationship back to where it started. Mimi then radios the player that something is approaching them, and that something happened to be military forces, with Sgt. Monroe arriving as well. After the player reveals they have the cure, a group of infected suddenly rise from the ground, and Sgt. Monroe orders to fire at them. As they are about to, the mysterious entity suddenly traps The Safe Place group, Tigry and Willow, revealing his true identify as TIO, The Iniquitous One ranting on how free will has caused conflict among them, and that introducing the cure to the world will make things worse. The player disagrees, and TIO transforms into his distorted form to stop the player. Eventually realizing that they are trapped within their own memories, the player uses them against TIO by summoning apparitions of his friends, assisting them in the process. After defeating TIO, Willow and Tigry reconcile, but due to their status as a criminal and a deserter, are forced to part ways with The Safe Place group, who board the chopper to mass-produce the cure. Later, what may be a memory or a future event, in Kona's lab, Pony can be seen complaining about the price spike in carrots, while Zizzy looks on. A distorted doorway later appears as the camera zooms out.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: TIO, who uses the R15 rig for his model and looks more like an Rthro pack than other characters.
  • Obvious Rule Patch: Traitors cannot wield guns, likely to prevent them from suddenly swiping them from the purple safe/whatever location it may be and shooting other player or stabbing them.
  • Once More, with Clarity:
    • The True Ending of Book 1 is basically just the Good Ending but with an explanation as to how the infection started.
    • The ending shot of Heist is similar to where Willow looks at something, and it unnerves her, but tells the player to find that cure. Here, it's clarified who is she looking at: Her now-infected foster mother, Daisy.
  • One-Word Title: The game is simply titled Piggy.
  • Plot Armor: The player frequently survives several near death situations, like getting attacked by Piggy or being literally given a potion by Pony, which is explained in "Temple", where TIO reveals to the player that they are immune to the infection as a way to get them to accept his deal. Subverted in factory's Bad Ending, where Willow successfully shoots the player to death.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Mr. P's redesign has him resemble a sweet potato, and is the Final Boss of Book 1, alongside Badgy.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning:
    • The infected with the most lethal weapons (Beary, Sheepy, Robby, Dakoda, Doggy, Pandy (Uniform), Zizzy, Willow, Distorted Piggy) often have red eyes.
    • Downplayed with Insolence members, who while they don’t have completely red eyes, they have an eye color similar to red, in Orange.
  • Religion of Evil: The Insolence is this, as it is a cult which worships an entity known as The Eye, plus they are the main antagonistic faction of the second half of Book 2, with presumed members showing up in each chapter after their debut (Alfis, Kolie, Friend, Markus, the Crawling Trap/Umbra, TIO (confirmed member and possible leader), Delta, the rest of the military, the Sentinels, Distorted Piggy, Silzous (confirmed member)).
  • Removed Achilles' Heel: Normally, a gun can be used to kill the Traitor. However if said Traitor is carrying the way to the gun, this effectively removes their weakness, leaving them free to hunt players.
  • Secret A.I. Moves:
    • Both Mr. P and Willow possess unique Homing Projectiles, with the former being an energy ball that can instantly kill players, but can be blocked by any surface it touches, while the latter has unavoidable bullets that stuns the player for a few seconds.
    • Markus and Distorted Piggy are the only bots that are capable of teleporting without a teleporter trap, which can be nasty if you're expecting to play with a bot.
  • Token Human: The player, depending on how they dressed their Roblox avatar.
  • Trap Master: Piggy and Traitors can plant traps to hinder players.
  • True Final Boss: TIO is the final boss of the hidden true ending of Book 2, as he tries to prevent the player from introducing the cure to the world by trapping him into their own memories.
  • Wham Line:
    • Bunny drops a big one at the end of "Metro".
    Bunny: Mr. P gave me a potion. I drank it. I didn't know it would turn me into...
    • Pony drops one at the end of "Camp" on the Savior route, changing the context of "Forest" and "Carnival" with three lines:
    Pony: At the carnival, I thought you were infected because... well... I gave you the potion.
    Player: In the forest... that was you...?
    Pony: You, and your friend... it was me. I'm not proud of it, I had no choice. The Silver Paw made me do it.
    • And if the player didn't get the Savior ending but the Survivor ending, "Lab"'s Tigry Ending - Survivor also does that as well:
    Pony: I need to tell you something, and there's no real easy way of saying this... I infected your police friend.
    Player: Wait, wait, wait... slow down, you did what?!
    Pony: I don't... have much longer, so I have to get it off my chest as soon as I can. Back when I was in The Silver Paw. I was forced to give one of the faulty potions to a police officer named Doggy. I was reluctant to do it, but Willow threatened me to. I had no say. That is what made me leave.
  • White and Gray Morality: In the second half of Book 2, the antagonist is Tigry, who never commits any outright villainous acts, as everything he does is mostly morally gray. Downplayed however, as the second half also contains an actually evil villain in TIO and The Insolence.
  • A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The "Traitor" mode has a traitor who acts like other players and even can be targeted by Piggy, but unlike them can set traps and kill them with a knife, and if they escape or are the last player standing, they win the match.
  • World of Funny Animals: The game takes place in a world populated with anthropomorphic animals.
  • You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: After we flash forward to the present day in "Breakout," Willow tells Tigry that he looked like he saw a ghost. Given that the military recruitment poster reminded him of the time he unintentionally murdered his partner, Danny, it's not hard to see why she would assume such.
    Willow: Woah, you look like you've seen a ghost.
    Tigry: I guess you could say that.
  • Zombie Apocalypse: Revealed to be this in the intro cutscene of Chapter 3 of Book 1.

 
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