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This article lists April Fools' pranks posted by Young Horses, related to Bugsnax.

• 2021
• 2022
• 2023
• 2024
• 2025

Talkin' bout snacks!

Snacks is a fake version of Bugsnax that was the subject of the 2021 April Fool's joke by Young Horses Games. The prank affected both the official Twitter account and Discord server.

Snacks was framed as a total rebranding of the game, replacing all Bugsnax with normal, non-bug, non-living snacks.

Snacks was introduced through a Twitter post announcing that, since bugs are commonly considered off-putting, Bugsnax would be un-bugged to maximize their appeal. The post includes a trailer showing footage of the "update", including:

• The player scanning a Burger with the SnaxScope
• The player catching a Strawberry with the Snak Trap
• The player launching a Snak Trap at a Cheese Puff
• A Donut rolling toward the Snak Trap and falling on its side
• Wambus yelling at a Burger in his garden, with Filbo covered in ketchup
• The player deploying the Trip Shot in front of a submarine sandwich
• The player attempting to direct a strawberry in a ball, with a kiwi, pineapple, and apple nearby

In addition to the trailer, the Twitter's name and description replaced "Bugsnax" with "Snacks", and its Strabby icon was replaced with one of a Strawberry.

Similar to the Twitter account, the icon of the Discord server changed to the Strawberry icon. Additionally, any instance of "bugsnax" in channel names was replaced with "snacks". Four new emojis were added: :Strawberry:, :Burger:, :CheesePuff:, and :Donut:.

Snax:

• The Snacks seen in the trailer are:
  • Strawberry (Strabby)
  • Burger (Bunger)
  • Cheese Puff (Cheepoof)
  • Donut (Sprinklepede)
  • Submarine Sandwich (Sandopede and Sub Sandopede)
  • Kiwi (Kweeble)
  • Pineapple (Pineantula)
  • Apple (Crapple)

• Burger's description when scanned is "A beef patty on a bun".
  • Burger is seen in Flavor Falls in the trailer, while Bunger is found in Garden Grove.
• The models of the Snacks in the trailer come from those used for Snakifications in the actual game.
• The logo of Snacks is un-bugged, lacking any eyes or antennae like the Bugsnax logo has.
• The tool icon for the Buggy Ball still has eyes, but the one shown above the ball itself dosen't.
• When the player caught the Cheese Puff in a trap, its nacho "wings" weren't caught, still lying outside.

A burger being scanned

A strawberry under a snaktrap

"You caught Strawberry"

Launching a snaktrap at a cheesepoof

A donut rolling short of the snaktrap

Ditto, but stopped

Wambus yelling at a burger

Shooting a tripshot in front of a sandwich

Pineapple, kiwi, strawberry ball, and apple

The Isle of smallSnax

The Isle of Smallsnax was posted shortly after the reveal of The Isle of BIGsnax. It was Young Horses' April Fools' joke for 2022.

On April 1, 2022, Young Horses announced that there would be a "second FREE update", The Isle of Smallsnax. It was said that "Those darn Bugsnax" are becoming too big and it was time to "[cut] them down to size." However the next day Young Horses posted a follow-up about how they weren't going to release the update. In the afternoon of the same day, they made another post with Cromdo being snakified with smallsnax.

This is currently the only April Fools' prank consisting of more than one post.

The banner

The 'apology' letter

OctoSnax

Octodad 3: Bugsnax 2 is the 2023 April Fools joke of Young Horses PR showcasing a teaser trailer for a crossover between Octodad: Dadliest Catch and Bugsnax and their union sprouting the sequel to both games.

The trailer is composed of scenes showcasing Octodad doing Bugsnax things, the journalist interviewing Octodad character and Grumpses/Bugsnax interacting with Octodad characters.

All scenes in chronological order:

• Camera hovering over the scene of Snaxburg Gets Spooked with Shelda replacing the spot of the Journalist.
• Octodad taking a tie from Cromdo's hut.
• Octodad running across the Simmering Springs.
• Octodad running in Garden Grove.
• Wambus interacting with Scarlet. Cactriffy is visible in the garden outside the window.
• Floofty standing with a scientist.
• Chandlo playing mini basketball.
• Snakified Octodad cavorting around Sugarpine Woods.
• The Journalist interviewing Scarlet asking if she realizes her husband is an octopus, which is the "mystery" plot/plot twist of Octodad, to which she answers: "Do YOU realize Bugnax are parasites?, which is the "mystery" plot/plot twist of Bugsnax.
• Stacy calling the Journalist a "GIANT TALKING PLUSHY!!"
• Tommy conversing with the Journalist, retorting an unshown exchange with": "Wow! And Mom told me journalists were smart..." (His mother, Scarlet, is a Journalist.)
• Chef Fujimoto, a sushi chef, ducking away from Megamaki, a being made of sushi.
• Octodad opening a BBQ grill with a Bunger inside.
• Stacy and Tommy on top of the canyon alongside Cromdo, dancing along with him to promote Cromdo Mart.
• After the title is displayed, the scene cuts to a submerged saddened Filbo; a reference to the scene in Octodad: Dadliest Catch where Octodad is looking into an aquarium, missing his life as a usual octopus.

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Discord icon change, combining the Strabby sticker with a horse from Snakedate

Strabby dressed as a horse. Used for the discord icon on April fools 2025