Hog Ate

Hog Ate is a side-scrolling pixel-art kingdom builder where your purse is your armour: a hit spills coins before it draws blood. Pay vagrants to take up tools and weapons, raise walls, hold the line through nights that only get worse. Fight back and build a boat.

Beyond your shore lie more islands, each with its own kingdom to raise and its own troubles. There are dungeons to brave and old statues to wake. Play alone, in split-screen for two on one screen, or with up to four players over a network: on the same local network, or online by joining the host's IP address. For online play the host opens TCP port 47801 on their router, or everyone joins a virtual LAN such as ZeroTier or Tailscale.

The free demo is single-player and split-screen only. Network play, on a LAN or online, is in the full game.

Windows, Linux and macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), nothing to install; Mac builds are unsigned, expect a Gatekeeper warning. English only(for now at least).

Join the Hog Ate Discord for questions, bug reports, co-op partners and news: discord.gg/d7CVDdcFU8

Early access: the game is playable from start to finish today. Bug fixes, new features and content will be coming out regularly.

Backer tier. Pay $20 or more and you also get the developer Android build (an APK delivered through itch, updated alongside the desktop builds), You can also suggest a name for the pool the game names its hero soldiers from, and a line in the credits.
IMPORTANT!
itch cannot upgrade a purchase later, so if you buy the basic version, and later want to upgrade to Backer tier, itch.io won't let you do this, in this case you'd have to message me directly (by email or in discord) and we can sort it out.
The README that comes with the Backer tier explains how you can submit your hero name.