Bad Piggies

A sandbox mode, which allows the player to freely build any vehicle, is also featured. Initially released on September 27, 2012, being ported to multiple mobile devices and personal computers. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised its differences from other Angry Birds games but criticised its high difficulty, and has been downloaded 100million times. A sequel, titled Bad Piggies 2, was soft launched in 2023.

• Platform — * Android • iOS • OS X • Windows • Windows Phone • Developer — Rovio Entertainment • Publisher — Rovio Entertainment Focus Multimedia (PC) • Producer — Petri Järvilehto Mikael Hed Jaakko Haapasalo • Designer — Markus Tuppurainen Peter Urbanics • Programmer — Marco Rapino Miika Virpioja Mauricio Hollando Jussi Markkanen • Composer — Ilmari Hakkola • Engine — Unity 3D • Genre — Puzzle, sandbox • Series — Angry Birds • Released — September 27, 2012 Windows Phone: April 2014 • Modes — Single-player

• Illustration — A screenshot of gameplay depicting a vehicle with two fans on each end, with the left one active. The player character is riding the vehicle from the middle crate. Bad Piggies is a physics-based puzzle game revolving around the green pigs from previous Angry Birds games. The pigs aim to steal the Angry Birds' eggs, but their plans are shredded in a fan and become scattered. Thus, the pieces must be recovered by finding them in areas divided into levels. In each level, the player is provided with a set of attachable objects such as crates, wheels, bellows, balloons, umbrellas, soft drink bottles, and coil springs, with more being unlocked as the game progresses. The objects provided must be arranged on a square grid to construct a custom vehicle that can guide the pig to the finish line and recover pieces of the plan. There is no set solution for each level, so the player must come up with one themself. Alternatively, the player can press a "Hire a Mechanic" button to have a mechanic pig build a vehicle for them. Each object comes with different behaviours that can be triggered by the player; for instance, fans can be toggled, boxes of TNT can be detonated, and balloons can be popped to decrease height. Vehicles can break apart while active, and the pig will be ejected if it does; levels must be manually restarted if the player gets stuck. Levels have three goals that can be achieved to earn stars; the first is achieved by clearing the level, while the latter two vary from reaching the finish line within a time limit, collecting crates, or excluding a select object from the vehicle. Bad Piggies additionally includes a sandbox mode, which contains large open environments where players can freely build any custom vehicle. An extra sandbox level can be unlocked by collecting skulls hidden throughout other levels. More content was introduced to Bad Piggies after its launch via updates; in February 2015, a sandbox level featuring icy surfaces titled "Little Pig Adventure" was added alongside the gearbox, which allows vehicles to travel backwards. Bad Piggies is compatible with the Everyplay mobile app, which allows players to record and watch replays of their previous gameplay. The iOS version is compatible with Apple Inc.'s Game Center service, which is used for achievements and to compare progress with friends.

Bad Piggies was released for Android, iOS, and OS X on September 27, 2012. Ports for Windows 8, Windows Phone, and personal computers followed after; the Windows and computer versions were published by Focus Multimedia in October for, while Rovio Entertainment released the Windows Phone version in April 2014. In February 2015, Bad Piggies reached 100million downloads. A counterfeit app titled Bad Pigs was released on May 25, 2013, and received over 10,000 downloads. On June 12, it was delisted from Google Play for containing malware.

A sequel to Bad Piggies was conceptualised between 2018 and 2019. In the latter year, concept art for a sequel titled Bad Piggies 2 was uploaded by one of Rovio's artists. It depicted an outer space setting and a playing card system also seen in Angry Birds 2 (2015), but the concept was quickly abandoned altogether. In 2021, Bad Piggies 2 was announced via three advertisements on TikTok. In 2023, it was soft launched in select European countries for Android and iOS devices.