Come Home News

[p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]Hey everybody! The Update 19 trailer is here. It's available on Youtube and it's in the Steam store, if you'd rather watch it that way. [/p][p][/p][p]It's a very different kind of trailer for a very different kind of update. Let me know what you think. [/p][p][/p][p]I finished all the content for Update 19 earlier this week. Now I'm in playtest and polish mode, trying to make sure everything is working well for the release next month. [/p][p][/p][p]So close! Hope you're excited! Thanks for supporting![/p]

Hey everybody! It's been a long road on this update! I've had some comments of "Oh this game is dead" -- no no no. I've been working on it non-stop. This update is just enormous!

I think this is going to be a love-it or hate-it update. You're going to be like "RJ is a genius!" or you're going to be like "RJ has jumped the shark!" Either way, I'm excited for you to play it and I think there will be something in it for you to enjoy.

I'm about 95% done with the content at this point, so there's just a little bit left for me to make, then it's all testing and polishing and making sure everything is good for release.

So, with that said, I think I can announce the release dates:

• Beta - July 4th (This is for high level patrons, who always get access a week before everybody else to give me feedback and help try to iron out any bugs.)
  
• PREMIUM RELEASE DATE - July 11th
  
• FREE RELEASE DATE - August 8th
  

If you are currently a Free player, the Steam Summer Sale is coming up right before the release date - the Premium Edition will be on sale. It's the perfect time to upgrade, so you don't have to wait that month for the Free version.

The premium version of Update 19 will have three sexy bonus scenes in it as well that won't be in the free version.

I'm expecting to finish the content over the next couple of weeks. I'll have a trailer out sometime in June. Then release is very soon. It's almost there, just hold on a little longer.

I'm really excited (and a little scared) to finally get this Update out. Over on my Patreon and in Discord I've been talking for literally years about this Update and how nervous I was about it. I knew a long time ago that this was going to be a big one and was going to be difficult in a lot of ways, and it has been. I really hope you all love it.

Thanks for sticking with me. Love ya!

Hey everybody! I know it's been a little while, but I've been working very hard on Update 19 and I wanted to give you a little bit of a progress report on how things are going.

The update has been very challenging as expected. If you saw my last news post back in December, I said that this Update is very different than previous ones and also is much bigger than previous updates.

I've been gradually making my way through all the work and right now we're at a little over 60% and I'm starting to see the end in sight.

I don't have too much else to share here, as I'm still trying my best to keep the story under wraps, but it had been a while since I'd posted any news here and I wanted to keep you all updated on how it's going. I haven't forgotten about you and I'm working just as fast as I possibly can and things are looking good right now.

Release date still seems to be sometime in the May/June area, but I can't give an exact date yet. I'm hoping next time I make one of these posts, I'll be able to do that.

That's all I got! Thank you all so much for continuing to support the game. If you want to chat or have any questions, I'm usually hanging around the Discord during my work days (the link to the Discord channel is in the main menu of the game). Love ya!

Hey everybody! It's been a little bit since Update 18 came out now and I wanted to let you all know how the next Update is coming along.

Update 19 is a different beast than anything that I've made so far. If you've seen the end of Update 18, you probably have some idea of where things are going in Update 19. It's very different than anything that has happened so far in the game. Most updates, I'm just adding more story and more content - dates, sex, major scenes, that's about it. This update, I'm having to write a lot more code and develop a lot of things from the ground up, because it's so different.

All that to say, this update is going to take a while. It's going to take longer than any of the previous updates have taken. But it's very big, it's very complex, and I think you're going to like it.


I don't want to spoil too much about Update 19. Unlike previous updates, I haven't really been releasing preview images or teasing content. Because of the nature of the update, I want to keep as much under wraps as possible. I will reveal this though:

- The conclusion of the "Where is Dad?" storyline.

- Sex scenes with many different new characters.

- A very different style of gameplay.



Right now, I am about 25% of the way through completing the update. I can't give an official release date, but I think it's going to be somewhere around May 2025. This is *not* an official release date though, and it could end up taking longer than I expect.

I realize that is still a long ways away. I'm sorry I can't do it quicker. I'm working as hard as I can, it is just a very big, complicated update.



No, Update 19 is not the end. Update 19 is a *big* part of ending the story of the game, but there will be one more major update afterwards.

Update 20 I do not think will take me near as long as Update 19 will. It will be the conclusion of the game and wrap up all the stories for the different characters. It's going to have somewhere around 17 endings, but not much content outside of those endings.

And finally, I do plan on doing another update after Update 20. I'm not going to call it the *final* update, because who knows if I'll wake up and feel like adding more content to Come Home that day? But the intention of this update is to sort of smooth out all the unpolished areas that I can easily smooth out and to add in options that make all the characters a little more even - make sure all the characters have around the same amount of dates/sex/conversation content. A lot of this update will likely be Premium-only content.

So, right now the plan is Update 19 in May 2025, Update 20 probably Fall 2025, then polish the game out into it's final completed version towards the end of 2025/beginning of 2026.


Thanks for sticking with me through all of this! The support for the game has been great. I'm glad you all seem to have enjoyed the last update. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to get to them. The discord is always open as well to answer questions - I hang around there a lot as well. The link is on the main menu of the game.

That's all I got for you right now! Hope you're all have an amazing holiday! Love ya!

Hey everybody! Just wanted to let you free players know that Update 18 is now available for you! I hope you love it and have a lot of fun and let me know what you think when you're finished. Check the changelog on the main menu for everything that's been added.

As always, if you hit any bugs or have any issues, feel free to report those in the forums here on Steam, or go onto the Discord and report in the help & bugs channel.

And consider the Premium version, if you're able. There's a pretty good amount of bonus content in there now, including some fun exclusive sex scenes (like a scene where you meat Troutsmell, from Brandi's chat). I understand if you're not able to though, and I hope you have a great time playing!