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Game
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Adios
Developer Mischief
A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer. From the Steam store page
293 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
77
LovedLoved
137 positive · 42 negative
95% range 70–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 137 | 42 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 55 | 0 | 58 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,169 of 1,284 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
77% recommend · 137 yes, 41 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 178 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,233 of 1,360 positive).
Players praise the game's emotional storytelling and writing. [1][2][3] Some find it boring and overpriced for its short length. [4][5][6] The voice acting is widely commended as excellent. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [5]
Good voice acting, but that's about it. The game is boring and slow, and the minigames aren't very interesting, they feel like filler content just to stretch out the playtime. If you got it as part of a Humble Bundle like I did, it might be worth checking out for some people. But paying $20 for this? Way too expensive.
- [1]
Adios is one of those rare games that stays with you long after the credits roll, not because of spectacular set pieces or innovative gameplay, but because of its unflinching look at a simple, devastating human choice. At its core, Adios tells the story of a pig farmer who's decided to stop disposing of bodies for the mob. The game unfolds over a single day as a hitman (who's also become a friend over the years) …
- [4]
maybe i was in the minority here but i was so bored playing it i couldn't finish it, and i love slow burns but jesus ill still reccomend because i can see its good just not for me
- [3]
Adios – Review 10/10 One of the best games I’ve ever played. In just around 75 minutes, it managed to move and impact me more than most AAA titles ever did. The story feels poetic — surreal at times, almost Tarantino-like in its setup — but constantly drenched in a quiet, lingering sadness that never lets go. It's short and brutal, but it stays with you long after the credits roll. A masterclass in storytelling …
- [2]
Wow. Short but one of the best stories in any game I've ever played. So much tension building through a series of otherwise mundane events. The voice acting really sells it, too, and the environment, the pacing... small details like the dialogue options you can't pick. Things you wish you could have said. I need to go think on this for a while
Summarised from 34 of the 277 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
77% of the 178 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Adios. The complaint that keeps coming up: very little gameplay, mostly walking and listening. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 293 · most liked firsthey, nerds, ADIOS, my CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED video game about a man who decides to stop disposing of human bodies for the mob, is the LOWEST DISCOUNT it will EVER GO! 45% off! less than the cost of a wendy's mushroom burger meal! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...
positive · AI labelView post →In case you missed it, Mischief just announced our first game since Adios!!!!!! It's in a city @pabastien.bsky.social and I have been dreaming about for years, and is a postmodern pastiche of... all the games we didn't make! And there will be a shotgun in it. ;)
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, everybody! Adios is 45% off! That's the lowest it's ever gonna go! If you want to play a game that 94% of people love, you should definitely check it out! It's just $10! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...
positive · AI labelView post →Adios is 45% off on Steam! That's the lowest it's ever going to go!!! If you a game about a pig farmer choosing to give up disposing of bodies for the mob, check it out! If you love it, please leave a review! We're 1% away from Overwhelmingly Positive. store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...
positive · AI labelView post →Hey, if you want a great, short, sweet game with fantastic voice acting, you should definitely check out my game Adios. it's 45% off, the lowest it will ever go!! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...
positive · AI labelView post →Hey look it's my game Adios, which made people cry!! If you like it, please leave a review so other people can check it out and because I read all the reviews and they make me very happy
positive · AI labelView post →www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-... You should buy this bundle and get every game! Yes, my game Adios is in it. It's $13 for the entire collection; it would mean the world to us if you picked it up. You have about two days to do it!
positive · AI labelView post →30. Adios You play as a pig farmer who doesn't want to work for the mob any more. It's a short game, you can easily finish it in an evening, but it's incredibly tightly paced and I've compared it before to a Coen Brothers movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Games I'll never make: an Adios-style game about people reminiscing at a funeral about a guy who died too soon and they're all trying to talk around the fact that his death was extremely funny and stupid. He deserves dignity, but it's hard not to laugh
neutral · AI labelView post →Adios was very difficult to write because I had to write a game that situates you in the character's head even though the character is not you. Some people wanted to roleplay, to make decisions. They couldn't empathize with the character--to embody him even though he isn't them
neutral · AI labelView post →I recommend everyone play Adios, a game I wrote about a person choosing to leave a bad situation. I'm fascinated by characters who do not possess power. Can't wait for people to see what we got coming next, since that's a game where the player character is _decidedly_ less powerful than most.
positive · AI labelView post →my theory is that the most interesting innovation Ive ever seen comes entirely from people who want to create moments in time they've never seen before in a video game, and the shit that blows us away is those moments, and I tested that with things like Adios and the experiments with dialogue
neutral · AI labelView post →you all should buy this bundle to play my game Adios
positive · AI labelView post →the reason? the actors fucking struggled with it. this is also a guy who wanted to voice characters in the game and name them after himself apparently he's gone around telling people he actually created Adios, even tried to sneakily change his credit to a role he didn't have to 'prove' that
neutral · AI labelView post →this endorsement of Adios by @brendaromero.bsky.social remains one of the kindest things anyone's ever said about the game. @krisknigge.bsky.social and I are back for our next game pretty soonish Anyone here know if I can get in touch with Brenda for a possible game consult?
positive · AI labelView post →Adios was a game about dealing with some of the worst pain I'd ever felt. Waifu Death Squad (I almost typed the real name, oops! not yet! NOT YET!) is about figuring out where you belong and facing fascism. I _really_ want to make this game about picking up the pieces and building a community next.
neutral · AI labelView post →and on my old twitter account, I pitched a game about a guy selling spam musubi from a food cart getting approached by someone who said "hey, I know you. you used to kill people. i want you to kill someone for me." and it turned into a very johnnie to style video game that's about Hitman from Adios
neutral · AI labelView post →There was someone who said they didn't like my game Adios because the characters never outright state "I want to quit helping you dispose of bodies for the mob" even though the entire game is them talking about this without saying it aloud. Some people only want stories to be direct messaging.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, I'm adapting Adios, the video game.
neutral · AI labelView post →44. Adios Short narrative focused game where you play a pig farmer who disposes of bodies for the mob, who decides he doesn't wanna do that any more. I compared this to a Coen Brothers film at the time I played it, and I stand that, it's very well written. store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...
neutral · AI labelView post →i want you to note that he's sending me edits telling me how amazing the scripts are in December 2019 we started production on Adios in August I wrote the entire game, solo, while dealing with jaw surgeries and severe pain, from about mid-september to December. And this wasn't fast enough for him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thread: Just played Adios, by Doc Buford. A really short, beautiful game about a pig farmer who's been letting the mob use his pigs to dispose of bodies for quite awhile. You've decided you don't want to do it anymore. @docseuss.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm thinking about writing a complete and comprehensive history of the development of Adios, complete with a ton of logs since the game was developed mostly in text. Would people be interested in that kind of thing? Just tons of stuff you've never seen before, early drafts and documents, etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →If Adios wasn't a video game, I couldn't have hauled all of Farmer's record collection outside, one by one, to frisbee them shits into the duck pond.
positive · AI labelView post →the "nice try" achievement is literally that in Adios; I set the game up so that you would point the gun at the guy, and most players do, and they get the achievement, which is me winking at them and going "yes I know what you're doing to do because I designed it that way"
neutral · AI labelView post →Left a review for Adios. Narrative that hit some close to home heart strings unexpectedly. A handful of mini game esque chores but the narrative is the important part. I'd play a sequel.
neutral · AI labelView post →"one of the things I provide as a publisher is telling people their game names won't translate well if they're too long" I laughed cause this is the guy who wanted me to name Adios "a game about two men who have to put aside their differences or one will have to kill the other"
neutral · AI labelView post →A very boring work. I honestly don’t understand why it has such high ratings…The voice acting is quite good, but I still think it would have been better to remove the walking-simulator elements altogether and make it a purer VN. A walking simulator should not merely be a game in which the player is allowed to walk. It ought to be built around spatial exploration, environmental storytelling, and emotional progression, allowing the scene itself to become a narrative vessel for memory. Rooms,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →oh my god this is the fucking asshole who introduced the chestnut blight to the united states, resulting in the climactic emotional moment in hit game Adios
neutral · AI labelView post →don't worry Farmer from Hit Video Game Adios, Hazel from Hit Video Game South of Midnight got revenge for your ass
neutral · AI labelView post →Adios is in some great company here. Also if the game made you cry you should tell me about the experience
neutral · AI labelView post →That moment in my game Adios, where you get to read the lines the farmer thinks but can't say, is reflective of my experience discovering my grandmother's Alzheimer's, an incident where she nearly killed herself
positive · AI labelView post →I did not expect myself to be haunted by a game. I shared a post by @docseuss.bsky.social a few days ago. In it, he mentioned his game "Adios". It was one of the many, many games in my Pile of Shame, thanks to an Epic giveaway, so I pulled it out and played it through. Maybe it played me.
positive · AI labelView post →The sequel to Adios is about a lot of things. One of the catgirls shows up in it. Horse Game, which is about the horse from Adios and the murders he commits after Adios, features at least two more catgirls. Before Laur passed, she created a 'nyanbinary' one who works at a Waffle House postwar
neutral · AI labelView post →How can I master Chess?. Just got beaten the 4th time in a row. This time in just **13** total moves despite my slow 'calculated' moves. I've been playing for over a month now on a Chess game software Where can I learn and master chess. Which worked for you --- edit: Thanks for the replies. I'm surprised to know that one cannot truly master it. Oh well, I might as well keep playing and having fun Adios
neutral · AI labelView post →Just added to the Video Game Soda Machine Project: Adios. The game's protagonist, a pig farmer with mob ties, repairs and restores soda machines in his spare time. Truly a noble hobby! Thanks, @docseuss.bsky.social!
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm discovering that VGEN has a "Indie game" category in the shop now and a lot of artists publish BL games made with their bare hands there. I'm gonna loose so much money. I'm lost. Adios.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Adios is fun. It's a game where you tell your dead dog to take care of your wife while you're burning in hell
positive · AI labelView post →"how does doc plan out a game?" well here's how I mapped out Adios early on 6-11-2019
neutral · AI labelView post →Would you click the "Adios is 45 off" post and share it with a quote tweet and your review of the game?
neutral · AI labelView post →Got this as part of a dozen-or-so game humble bundle, which was cheaper than the asking price (an asking price that is admittedly steep, too). I like Adios. Apologies for the tangent, but last night, I watched First Blood (1982), better known as the first Rambo movie / Rambo 1. In a way, Adios felt pretty similar. A lot of people might not remember, but Rambo 1 is frankly melancholic, somber, slow, and painful. Rambo is a man tortured by his past and forgotten by society, degraded and pushed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having people find out why Tactics stands tall in the pantheon of phenomenal rpg writing is always so wondeful to see especially from one of my favorite writers and game devs! (BTW Adios is great please play it)
positive · AI labelView post →Adios is ten bucks, and it's the kind of game that is worth ten times that
positive · AI labelView post →the phone call scene in Adios was the first time in my adult life that a game made me cry play Adios
positive · AI labelView post →I will preface this review by stating that I got this from a humble bundle, I did not pay for this directly. As well as that this 'game' is closer to an interactive story than a game, id call it an experience. So, overall I think this game is alright. its not the best, but its certainly not as bad as some people are saying. Yeah, a lot of the story puts you in positions where you cant really do anything but listen. Like after grabbing the manure to spread it out, you kinda just stand around…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Damn... My plan to make Adios, a game about talking to your dead dog about why one day you'll make a better game than xevious, has been called out
neutral · AI labelView post →Adios is an excellent game, and you really should give it the, what... two hours? it's two top-notch hours
positive · AI labelView post →I personally think we're likely to do the latter the next time we have a self-published game, or if our publisher is cool with us bundling Waifu Death Squad with Adios
neutral · AI labelView post →Adios is one of those rare games that stays with you long after the credits roll, not because of spectacular set pieces or innovative gameplay, but because of its unflinching look at a simple, devastating human choice. At its core, Adios tells the story of a pig farmer who's decided to stop disposing of bodies for the mob. The game unfolds over a single day as a hitman (who's also become a friend over the years) tries to talk the farmer out of this decision - knowing that if he can't, he'll…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Adios is really fucking good you should all buy it How many times have I told you to buy a game It's like, this and Outer Wilds that I do this for lmfao
positive · AI labelView post →Adios is a special game to me because like a few of my favorite games, it takes away your player agency at just the right time for maximum impact.
positive · AI labelView post →You're paying how much for an hour of lazy, cliche dialogue between a proto†ypical old man farmer with regrets he can never make up for and another somewhat interested but largely disaffected conversation partner. Like being stuck in a cutscene you're forced to sit through without being able to move but for an hour, and the game does its best to keep you from doing anything. Really a shame because there was a lot of care and detail put into the farm and home that ultimately add up to nothing.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play ADIOS. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST. PLAY. THE. GAME.
positive · AI labelView post →Adios remains the one game where I just kinda sat looking at once it ended, trying to process what the hell just happened. Do highly recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →yeah I'm quite literally telling you the secret that makes Adios work. Right here. This is why my game is rated 95% on steam.
positive · AI labelView post →Played Adios again. Cried again. Recommend 100%. The animation could use a little work, sure. But the dialog... It's not so much a video game as it is a masterwork short story. www.gog.com/en/game/adios @docseuss.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →Adios was "a melancholy game" after Doc's previous project, a horror game. Doc figured "look, if you can make a horror game, you can make a genre with any emotion, so let's make a melancholy game." Adios is 94% positive on Steam with over 1000 reviews, so it seems like we did it right.
positive · AI labelView post →the achievement pops if you think to try to kill the hitman. since Adios is theatre, and the whole game is getting you to play in the role, I nod at you for trying to improvise and the achievement says "nice try." I think it's fun to do shit like that lmao
positive · AI labelView post →Fantastic story, not much of a game but storytelling is on point. voice actors are incredible good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good voice acting, but that's about it. The game is boring and slow, and the minigames aren't very interesting, they feel like filler content just to stretch out the playtime. If you got it as part of a Humble Bundle like I did, it might be worth checking out for some people. But paying $20 for this? Way too expensive.
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