American Venom
A cozy-turned-thriller point-and-click game about building a scorpion venom farm in Arizona.
▶ Play in browserBest on a computer with a mouse and keyboard. Your progress saves in your browser.
From a garage to something much bigger
A viral headline claims scorpion venom is worth "$39 million a gallon," so you quit your job. Your mentor Walt sets you straight: nobody buys a gallon, and labs buy milligrams. You start in a garage with two bark scorpions and a laptop.
Each day you have a handful of hours. Click around the garage, kitchen and bedroom to tend your terrariums, milk venom in a timing minigame, breed your scorpions, read the news and clip facts you can use later, and make a deal with a lab buyer. New systems open about one a week, so the first days stay simple. Further in, the business grows, a rival shows up, the law takes an interest and the stakes climb.
The playtest starts with Act 1, your first 90 days. The title screen's Jump In menu also lets you try later acts and minigames.
Stage of development
American Venom is early. The current build is v0.12.1, and it's the first one you can play in a browser. The art is placeholder pixel art and there's no sound yet. Expect rough edges, balance that changes from build to build, and the occasional bug. That's exactly why we're sharing it now.
What we hope you'll tell us
Press F8 in the game, or click Feedback in the corner, to send a note straight to us. It attaches the build, the day and the room you're in, and you can include a screenshot if you like.
Short notes are perfect. Longer thoughts are welcome at play@outlinepress.com.
Versions
From time to time we'll keep a few selected builds playable side by side, so you can compare how the game changes. Not every build, just the ones worth comparing.
| Build | Date | What's different | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.12.1 Current | Oct 2026 | First browser build. A reworked, hand-paced first week, a simpler end-of-day report, a morning feed, one phone for everyone you've met, and in-game feedback (F8). | Play |
| v0.1 Prototype 1 | Oct 2026 | The original Arizona garage venom farm: a cold open, morning briefings with Walt and the newspaper, the garage and kitchen, buying terrariums on the laptop, and an end-of-day report. No in-game feedback. | Play |