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Check Out Our 2023 Development Roadmap!
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Check Out Our 2023 Development Roadmap!

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Check Out Our 2023 Development Roadmap!

The rest of this year is gonna be BIG for House Party, doods and lady-doods!

Since there’s so much coming soon to the party, we wanted to share our current development timeline with you, so you know exactly what’s on the way, and when!

Keep in mind this is an estimated timeline and some plans may change – especially as we begin working more on Office Party – but hopefully this will give you a good general idea of what we’re currently hoping to bring to the game next.

So, check out the roadmap above (and read more details below) to get a better idea on timelines for all the rad stuff that we hope to add to House Party throughout the rest of 2023!

House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack

Been waiting for the party to get spooky again?

The House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack will be the first of our seasonal holiday packs to release, and we should have it ready to play within the next few weeks! 👻

While it’s taken a bit longer than expected to completely rebuild the event and get the DLC toggle feature ready (you can read more about that here), everything is looking good for the Halloween vibes to return to the party very soon! 🎃

Also, thanks to your patience, we’ve been able to work on preparing the holiday packs without sacrificing development time on the other big and exciting things coming to House Party later this year! Awesome news and cheers to you, brahs!

House Party – Winter Holiday Pack

Following hot on the heels of the permanent return of the Halloween content will be the House Party – Winter Holiday Pack! 🎅Once we have the toggle feature done for Halloween, we should be able to get everything quickly situated for the next seasonal DLC – so, expect to see this pack ready sometime next month. When it releases, you’ll be able to get into the winter holiday spirit all year long! ⛄

Please keep in mind that neither of these holidays will have any additional content compared to what was in their original 2022 events, but we have plans to add plenty more to them in future updates!

House Party – Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery

Now, here’s the big news: the awesome murder mystery DLC featuring the sexy, hilarious, and amazing cosplay heartthrob Liz Catz will be coming this Summer! But…when exactly? A lot of you’ve been asking, so here’s an update on the release window for the mysterious new expansion. 🕵️We are hoping to have the DLC ready for you to play as soon as late May or June this year! We’ll keep you all updated on the specific timing as we get closer to the release, and we’ll provide you with an official launch date as soon as we can. 🤘

In the meantime, we hope you’re stoked to solve this exciting whodunnit (and maybe get dirty along the way, too). If you want to get a preview of what’s coming ahead of time, you can always check out this blog to learn how to get access to early Alpha and Beta builds.

House Party – Base Game Feature Updates

Wait…there are new features coming to the original House Party experience? Say what?!While we haven’t shared too much about this yet, we’re planning to release some awesome new free feature updates for the base game – implementing some of the feedback we got from you brahs in our Future Of House Party Feedback Form! 🎉

This won’t be any sort of big new character, story, or content patch, but we think you’re going to love what we’re planning on adding. More details coming soon! 👀

House Party – New Content Pack

Around the end of the year, we also plan to release a sweet new DLC set entirely in the House Party universe! It’ll include a cool new side story (separate from the original story), two brand new characters to interact with (one female, one male), and a couple new clothing items! 🔥The theme of this DLC and much of the story inspiration will be drawn directly from your responses in the Future of House Party Feedback Form! We’re still in the conceptualization phase on this, so this means that we’ll announce what the winning clothing and story themes are for the DLC as soon as we can! 🍻

What’s even cooler is that this DLC will be enriched by the free House Party base game feature updates that we release just before the expansion drops. If you’ve been wanting more of that original House Party goodness, this one’s for you!

What about the future? And Office Party?

As shown in the timeline, the estimates for when some of these things will launch depends a lot on Office Party (House Party’s sequel).

While near-future releases are less likely to change, the stuff shown further out on our timeline could be shifted, delayed, or removed for the sake of working more on Office Party sooner. That’s why we avoided putting exact dates on the image itself.

Where are we at with developing Office Party? Right now, we’re still planning, concepting, and laying out the early framework for it in the background, though it will be a while before we share anything new. But Office Party is coming, brahs, and it’s gonna be awesome! 😱

And what about VR? Although we don’t have any new updates for you right now, we still plan to add it in the future! Anyway, that’s all for now, partiers. We hope you’re excited to see what the rest of 2023 has in store for House Party! 🙌

Winter & Halloween: Limited-Time Events vs. Permanent DLCs
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Winter & Halloween: Limited-Time Events vs. Permanent DLCs

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Winter & Halloween: Limited-Time Events vs. Permanent DLCs

We’re nearing the end of a long road of development with turning the 2022 Halloween and Winter limited-time events into permanent House Party seasonal DLCs!

Soon, we’ll share an official roadmap with the exciting news that both of our seasonal DLCs should (fingers crossed!) be releasing by the end of May to all players! These are free DLCs made to enrich the base game experience with holiday themes, so we hope you pick them up and enjoy the seasonal aesthetics!

We want to thank everybody for being so patient. These took longer than expected to get ready, but, thanks to moving a bit slower on getting them ready, we’ve actually been able to work on them these past few months without sacrificing too much time on our regular development schedule – which is awesome for those of you who are excited about the big things (like Liz Katz) coming soon to the party!

So, what took so long, anyway, Eek? Weren’t these events pretty much done already?

To really answer this question, we have to look back at last year. We decided, right before Halloween, to drop a couple of fun things into the game with the intention that they would be removed after the event. They weren’t built to stay in the game long-term, both because of base game bloat and because there was no framework in place to actually support their existence.

When you doods loved the Halloween event, we decided to try to squeeze in some Winter content, too. Winter was even bigger, since we tried to fit in more of your feedback from the Holiday Feedback Form, and it also wasn’t built to be in the game long-term. Instead of just cosmetics, we added in a snowball throwing mechanic, voice line reactions for characters being hit by snowballs, new shirts, new headbands, falling snow, new decorations, an achievement, and an entire Frank side-quest.

And that was awesome! So awesome that a bunch of you wanted both the Halloween and Winter holiday content to be permanent, which we definitely weren’t prepared for. But we thought that was a great idea, and we really wanted to make that happen for everyone – but we wanted to make sure we were doing that the right way.

What IS the right way? And will these events look any different?

Both the Halloween and Winter permanent DLCs will look exactly like the seasonal events you remember from 2022, but they are actually very different on the inside.

We know this isn’t super exciting from a player standpoint, but we hope that you’re excited for the future: Since we built these events properly for permanent use as DLCs, we’ll be able to add more content to them easier, and it’ll bring you a better gameplay experience long-term!

So, what’s been restructured, exactly?

We made it so the event won’t bloat your base game if you don’t want it added!
We made it so you can toggle the DLC on and off if you don’t feel like seeing the Halloween (or Winter) aesthetic during a certain play session!
We made it so the content won’t cause any foreseeable major bugs/issues with the base game long-term by being added!
And, best of all, we future-proofed this baby! 🤘

What does “future-proofed” mean?

First, it means we made it so we can add extra content (cosmetics, decorations, side-quests, achievements, etc.) to the Halloween (or Winter) Holiday Pack as time permits!

They’re built to support more content updates, brahs! But, even better, it means we can add some exciting new features to the DLCs in the future.

While we don’t want to spoil everything, we’ve also started running an invisible framework beneath this DLC for something really exciting.

You shouldn’t see a difference, but it’s there. We’ll share more info on this soon!

In the meantime, remember, the permanent seasonal DLCs won’t “look” much different from the original limited time 2022 events (besides a toggle on/off DLC button)!

Still, we hope those of you who have been waiting for them to return again! Thanks a ton for your patience. You won’t have to wait much longer, partiers!

New clothing, a short side-story, and two original characters will join the party soon!

Get ready to party even harder with a brand new DLC featuring a variety of exciting and original content fresh from the minds of Eek! Games!

The DLC will include a uniquely themed House Party side-story, a set of clothing items that can be worn by the entire cast of characters and, the thing we’re most excited about: two new original characters specific to the additional storyline who will join the party later this year!

One of the upcoming guests will be female and the other will be male. That way, we can satisfy the overwhelming demand for more female characters, while also ensuring that male-preferring players have another partier to bond with!

We’ll be announcing an official DLC title and more info on the House Party – New Content Expansion Pack soon, so wishlist it now and keep an eye out for more updates!

Thank you to everyone who shared an opinion with us via our recent “Future of House Party” Feedback Form!

We’re taking your responses to heart so we can make the best possible House Party experience for as many players as we can! We’ve got a lot of information on possible directions to take future content for the game now, and we hope you’re looking forward to seeing us put your feedback into action!

The House Party – New Content Expansion Pack was actually created just for this purpose. It will bring loads of new content to satisfy players who want more original story, characters, and characters based on the House Party universe!

It will also feature a new type of clothing that was most highly requested from the feedback form and incorporate a handful of written suggestions that were sent in at the bottom of the survey. It was made for you, brahs, so we hope you enjoy it!

For those of you who are looking forward to more real-life guests joining the fun (instead of more House Party universe content), the House Party – Murder Mystery Expansion Pack will still be releasing this summer, as originally planned.

As mentioned in previous news posts, our next real-life guest is excited to personally introduce herself to you…in a special custom-made costume. Everything is being finalized for this, and we’re preparing to share the big announcement with you within a couple of weeks!

We hope you’re looking forward to officially meeting the new guest! We’re sure she’s going to, like, totally steal your heart, brahs!

The House Party – Murder Mystery Expansion Pack is Wishlistable Now!
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The House Party – Murder Mystery Expansion Pack is Wishlistable Now!

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The House Party – Murder Mystery Expansion Pack is Wishlistable Now!

A cosplayer, streaMer, and actress comes to the party this Summer in House Party’s next guest expansion pack, and she’s working with us to create some of House Party’s sexiest, silliest, and most surprising explicit content yet.

Help the new guest solve a grisly murDer mystery. Witness a shocking crime, track down cLues, catch the culprit, and maybe you’ll grow clXse enough for the new guest to absolutely rock your world.

(The guest is bringing a trunk full of exciting new items to the party! What do you think will be inside…?)

The DLC will add hours of jaw-droppIng content unlike Anything the party has seeN before. The lights Will go out, terror will break out, anD unsolved Mysteries Will come to light In a thrilling new branching OriJinal Story addition focuSed on and fully voice-acted by the exciting new guest!

The House Party – Murder Mystery Expansion Pack is wishlistable on Steam and GOG now, and it will launch on other major download websites this Summer 2023!

What does everyone know about the guest DLc so far?

We’ve shared four big teasers, and hid secret codes in our social media and Steam news posts. But, since you’re here, we decided to make thinqs a little easier – so we hid the code inside this blog post so you don’t haVe to go Rummaging around to find it!

Keep an Eye out for anything out of place and type in the code you find here to unlock a secret early bonus teaser!

(The first 50 partiers to crack the code will get access the early teaser! If you missed it, don’t worry – it’ll go live for all partiers at a later date!)

(Madison looks a little spooked when she opens the new House Party fridge! What do you think she saw inside?)

Miss any of our other guest DLC teasers? Click here to take a look at the new Bloody Knife Item coming to the party and watch the lights go out in our Breaker Panel Teaser Video!

Get hyped for the next DLC, partiers! It’s going to be like nothing the party’s ever seen before!

P.S. Don’t forget that the House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack and House Party – Winter Holiday Pack, will be releasing across all major platforms soon, too! We’re making good progress on getting these ready and can’t wait to share the permanent holidays with you soon!

Our free House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack is available for wishlisting now!
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Our free House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack is available for wishlisting now!

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Our free House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack is available for wishlisting now!

The House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack, our first ever seasonal DLC, is available for wishlisting now (and completely free for all players)! Click here!

Thanks again to everyone who loved House Party’s limited-time event and asked for it to become permanent! We were blown away by how much love you doods had for the seasonal update we added, and we’re happy to officially say that House Party’s spooky season will be returning permanently!

As promised, we will also be adding a toggle on/off feature for the holiday content, so you’ll be able to turn off the Halloween event in-game without having to uninstall or redownload your DLC! Our team is working hard on finalizing this feature and it’s looking like we should move into internal private beta testing for it in early 2023!

This feature should make it super convenient for all of you to manage your seasonal DLC in a straightforward visual selection screen within the Main Menu of the game, so we hope you’ll really like it!

What’s in the House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack?

Spooky seasonal decorations, like:

🎃 Pumpkins

👻 Spooky Ghosts

☠ A Cheap Skeleton

🕸 Lots Of Spiderwebs

🕷 One Giant Furry Spider

😱 And Many More To Come!

There’s also a chilling succubus/incubus outfit wearable by all “Halloween-minded” characters with the following accessory pieces:

😈 Scary Horns

🦇 Creepy Bat Wings

😉 And A Sexy, Spiky Tail!

We might even have a special surprise for you, too…

So be sure to add the DLC to your wishlist, doods, and get ready to enjoy petrifying decorations and sinister costumes all year at the House Party!

Love Halloween? Like free stuff? Click here to wishlist it now!