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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! 🙌

Get Early Access To “Detective Liz Katz In A Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery” Alphas & Betas!
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Get Early Access To “Detective Liz Katz In A Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery” Alphas & Betas!

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Get Early Access To “Detective Liz Katz In A Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery” Alphas & Betas!

Want an early look at the House Party – Detective Liz Katz In A Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack?

If you’re excited to meet Liz Katz and solve a crazy murder mystery, you don’t need to sit on the edge of your seat waiting for the DLC to release!

We’ve gotten a ton of questions these past few months asking what the Liz Katz DLC will be like, but did you know you can get the best first inside looks right on our Patreon?

Curious what her character model looks like? Want to see her various outfits? Want to know what teasers are on the way? Want to know the inside scoop behind certain House Party posts? Wondering where we’re at in development? Unsure what the gameplay will be like? Or just want faster and more frequent news updates?

We share all of the above and more on our Patreon. It’s the first place we drop progress check-ins, teasers, screenshots of assets we’re working on, and, best of all, early playable builds!

Seriously. Did you know there are actually 5 Alpha Builds (and 4 Beta Versions) on our Patreon right now, where we’ve released portions of the Liz Katz DLC for early testing?

Whether you just want to meet Liz for the first time in-game (“Look What The Cat Dragged In” Beta), or you want to see the party get a little darker with a taste of mystery (“Blackout” Beta), there’s something for you to check out! More interested in a bit of shock value? Check out “Stop It Step Bro.” Like it hot? Playtest “Too Hot To Handle.” Or check out the most recent content in “Will & Testament” and put your decoding skills to the test!

To playtest early versions of House Party, be sure to subscribe to the corresponding Beta or Alpha supporter tier. Or, if you just want to stay updated on news (yes, that includes Office Party news, too), supporting at the lowest tier is also always appreciated! 🤘

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!

Our Most Gruesome Murder Mystery Teaser Yet!
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Our Most Gruesome Murder Mystery Teaser Yet!

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Our Most Gruesome Murder Mystery Teaser Yet!

We’ve got another exciting (and messy) teaser ready for you to watch, dudes!

…Ready to take a look?

It seems like something strange is going on with Madison’s microwave… Is it malfunctioning on its own, or is that something you’re responsible for? 👀

Either way, the old thing is sparking up a storm, and seems pretty dangerous! Seriously, does that atrocious appliance EVER work properly? You ought to step in and stop that thing before someone gets hurt!

Plus, it looks like someone is cooking tomato soup in there…or something. Yuck, it smells. And it looks like they left it in for a little too long… What a mess! 💥

Eager to learn more about the shocking stuff coming in the Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack? Summer’s coming up fast, but we know the suspense is probably killer. 🔪

We’ve tried to share teasers and sneak peaks to give you an idea of what to expect, without giving away too many spoiler-y details, but here’s some confirmed stuff coming to get hyped about:

- THE SEXY LIZ KATZ: Meet a fun & flirty cosplayer in a hilarious new original storyline!
- HOTTER THAN THE DOJA CAT DLC: Nothing’s held back in Liz Katz’s intimacy scene!
- A SHOCKING MURDER MYSTERY: A new flavor of House Party storytelling with a wild plot!
- SENSUAL COSPLAY COSTUMES: See Liz dressed in a variety of cute and sultry signature outfits!
- NEW DRUNK & DISORDERLY: Get steamy and bubbly in a crazy new cutscene!
- CONSOLE COMMANDS: Use your favorite console commands on Liz’s character!
- 🌶️ and much more…! 🌶️

For those of you who are looking for more specifics, we also have some new information about the DLC coming – including first looks at some of Liz’s in-game outfits and maybe even some quick peeks of early alpha gameplay! 🎉

For those of you that have been wanting the Halloween and Winter holiday packs to return, they’ll both be available to play very soon – and we have exciting news to share soon about some awesome features we have planned for them, too!

Don’t forget that the recently announced New Content Pack will also drop later this year (bringing two new original characters from the House Party universe to the party)! If you’ve been looking for more original House Party characters and content, we’ve got you covered, brah!

There’s so much exciting stuff coming to House Party in 2023, and we can’t wait to share it all with you. We’re curious to know what you’re most excited for from all the new things coming, so let us know below! Until next time, party people!

Ready To Meet House Party’s Next Guest?
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Ready To Meet House Party’s Next Guest?

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Ready To Meet House Party’s Next Guest?

Ready to meet House Party’s next guest?

Get ready to meet the hot new real-life guest in the official title and identity reveal below!

The wait is over doods and lady-doods! Check out the video below, and find out who’s joining the party in the upcoming expansion!

One of the world’s sexiest cosplayers (according to Playboy and For Him Magazine), Liz Katz, is coming to House Party!

Get up close and personal with Liz in a hot and thrilling new adventure that doesn’t hold back, and is full of mysterious and sensual surprises. Be prepared for the lights to go out, fear to reign, and unsolved mysteries to come to light in this wild new comedy-noir DLC!

Iconic for her petite and pretty style, high energy, quirky personality, and snarky sense of humor, Liz Katz is the perfect guest to explore this crazy new story with, and she’s sure to steal your heart, make you laugh, and get you worked up with her sultry and playful personality.

So, who is Liz Katz? A total video game, fantasy game, comic book, and sci-fi fan, she began cosplaying professionally in 2012 after winning IGN’s Best Cosplay at WonderCon 2012. With that in mind, you can definitely expect Liz’s in-game persona to bring plenty of exciting props, costumes, and items to the party, too!

But she’s not just a major cosplay babe, you might also know her from her acting endeavors or as the voice of Bloodshine in Borderlands 3. And, yeah, brahs, she’ll be doing the full voice acting for her House Party story, as well.

She’s also a YouTuber and Twitch streamer, and she’s been a big House Party fan since she first played it in 2020. She knows the party, loves the party, and adores House Party’s players.

So, even if this is your first time hearing about Liz Katz, we’re sure you’ll be absolutely charmed by her once you get to know her – and we’re excited to see her bring a bit of mystery to the party!

Speaking of mysteries, we’re stoked to share that the official title of the new expansion is House Party – Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery.

Now that the Katz’s out of the bag, we’ve released a sweet new updated Steam Store Page with fresh screenshots, plus some exciting bonus details about the expansion pack.

We’ll share a few of them below, but check out the full page to learn more!

The doorbell’s ringing, and Liz Katz has arrived to give the party a full murder mystery experience. The only problem is, no one at the party invited her… so the whole murder mystery idea is put on hold (these things do cost extra, you know).

That is…until a shocking crime brings the party to a halt, and Liz Katz needs to use her detective roleplaying skills to solve this very real caper. Can you help her track down the culprit?

Explore new choices, cutscenes, story content, dialogue options, animations, Opportunities, Achievements, and, of course, the company of the sexy and hilarious Liz Katz – as you work together to solve a grisly murder!

Her storyline is full of plenty of Liz Katz flair, sweet outfits, shocking quests, fresh interactions with base game House Party characters (Game Grumps excluded), a Drunk and Disorderly starring Liz, and much more! All of the fun is centered around Liz as she personally joins the party with her own sexy new Liz Katz character model!

Best of all, you’ll have the ability to get down and dirty with Liz in a wild new intimacy scene! Console commands will work on her character, too!

So, get hyped, doods and lady-doods! It’s almost time to party with your favorite cosplayer!

Get ready for the House Party – Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack to release this Summer!