Cabernet News

Hey vampires,

We have been super happy seeing all the wonderful comments talking positively about the Cabernet demo! We can’t wait to get the full release in your hands!

We have hit a huge milestone and it couldn’t have been reached without your amazing support! Cabernet has passed 30,000 wishlists!


Thank you all for the support!

- Riv Otter

Hey vampires,

It’s time for the second monthly dev log for Cabernet! This dev log dives into finishing up the final custom art and animations, voice overs, and more!

Party for Introverts, the developers of Cabernet, have also been posting some amazing videos on Tiktoks and I would recommend checking them out!

I talked with the amazing developers, Arseniy and Laura, about what they have been working on this month!

“Welcome back, little bats!

As the sun heats up, Party for Introverts is still busy in the darkness working away on Cabernet.
What is Arseniy not doing? As we are full-on in polishing stages, it’s a pretty diverse assortment of tasks on his plate. From implementing sounds to balancing skill points, Arseniy is being kept very busy with making sure you all have the best/smoothest player experience. And along with that comes fixing bugs, bugs, and more bugs.


June is all about custom art and animations for Liza. While most of the main art is already in the game, there are still some particular objects and character movements that are needed for certain story-specific scenes. So while she is checking these off the list, Laura is also working through the backlog of background characters needed to fully flesh out the world, both vampire and human.


Lastly, final VO recording for background/side characters is happening this month, and we are working with some very talented individuals to bring incredible vocal color to the game. We can’t wait for you to hear their work!

Thanks again to everyone for following along. See you next month with another update!
Party for Introverts”

Hey vampires,

Today, we reached 2,000 Steam followers for Cabernet!

I want to thank you all for your support and words do not describe how much it means to us.

As a treat, I thought I'd highlight a really cool behind the scenes segment that Laura, the co-founder of Party for Introverts, appeared in literally just today. In the Dames 4 Games 2024 Summer Showcase, she talks about Cabernet, voicing Liza, and other vampire secrets, which you can find here!
https://x.com/akuparagames/status/1800980729074958526


We are still hard at work on Cabernet and can’t wait to get the next dev log together at the end of the month!

- Riv Otter

Hey vampires,

Welcome to the first monthly dev log for Cabernet! Each month, I will talk with the Party for Introverts devs to see what they have worked on and how their progress has been going. I’ll forward the amazing work they have been working on to you all in a monthly dev log. These could be a general dev log or with a focus of gameplay, art, music, etc.

This month we announced that we are publishing Cabernet and we are excited to give more support to Party for Introverts. I talked with Laura and Arseniy, developers at Party for Introverts, about what they have been working on!

“Hello fellow vampire enthusiasts!

The Party for Introverts team is hard at work polishing away at Cabernet, but we wanted to pop up out of our coffins to share with you some fun behind-the-scenes morsels for our first-ever dev log installment.
Currently, Laura’s head is spinning (in the best possible way) from the final proofread of the entire game – all 1000 plus pages of it! No matter how many times you read a narrative game script, there’s always a maddening typo or two that eludes you…. Far more fun for her this week is the task of perfecting the final puzzle Liza will encounter on her journey. There’s no better excuse to continue avoiding the sun (which does occasionally make an appearance in England) than an amusing design challenge.

Arseniy has had a pretty intense past few months chipping away at programming all the side content and extras that will really help further enrich our characters– characters we hope you will love as much as we do!

We’ve also completed the initial music pass and can’t even begin to describe how incredible it is to now hear our custom-composed music fill our world with the perfect blend of melancholy, beauty, and more than a dash of dread. Be on the lookout for more info about our talented composer to come….
We will now leave you with both a serious and silly image to hopefully sate your bloodlust for the time being. Thanks to all of you for being on this journey with us– there's much more to come!

Till next time,
Party for Introverts"

Can’t wait for you to explore more of the world:

Programming bugs are a never-ending source of both amusement and frustration:

Hello vampires,

My name is Joseph and I am the community manager for Akupara Games. I’m so happy to reveal that Akupara Games is now the publisher for Cabernet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cNq_Ysn6o

I can’t wait to talk more about Cabernet but I have to keep that for next time… or the vampires will come for me. I’m going to be sleeping with garlic surrounding the bed just in case..

Til next time. Don’t let the vampires bite…

- Riv otter