House Party News

This is a pre-patch, for the Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery coming shortly!

Winter is here, brahs!

Download the completely free House Party - Winter Holiday Pack to keep your party merry and bright all year long!

Party in a festive, Christmas-themed version of Madison's house full of holiday cheer - with snowflakes falling outside, opportunities for snowball-throwing, a hysterical new short Frank side-story quest, and your favorite party-goers bundled up in themed Santa, elf, and reindeer hats and ugly sweaters!



Much like the House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack, the House Party - Winter Holiday Pack is a permanent, year-round version of the limited-time 2022 seasonal winter update.

Unlike the haunting vibes from the Halloween DLC, the Winter DLC introduces pine garlands, hanging lights, glowing candy canes, star-shaped lights, ornaments, a snowman, and snowflake window decals to the party space.

There's plenty to explore with the return of this fun-filled holiday. Armed with a bucket of snowballs at your side, get ready to pelt your favorite NPCs with snowballs to see their hysterical reactions and collect Frank's special holiday steam achievement in his funny seasonal side quest!



Thank you for waiting while our team worked hard to get this event permanently prepared for you!

If you missed our post on the House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack, we explained that we hadn't expected either of these seasonal events to be so loved by players. But, many of you requested for us to keep them around permanently, and we wanted to do that for you!

Since these events weren't originally built to be in the game full dash time, we had to essentially completely rebuild both of them so they could be in the game permanently.

We didn't want to compromise our normal development, so we tried to keep up our original planned pace and prepare these two seasonal DLCs alongside our original plans. Of course, this took a bit longer than we expected, and these events have permanently dropped at an odd time of the year, but we hope you're happy to finally see them back for good!

What did the full restructuring of these two seasonal DLCs include?
The DLCs are optional and won't bloat your base game if you never plan to play or install them
You can toggle on and off the DLCs if you ever don't feel like playing the Halloween or Winter content
We insured that merging the DLCs with house party wouldn't create any major bugs or issues that would impact the short or long-term health of the base game
And, most exciting, we future-proofed the DLC so more content can be added in future updates!



As we mentioned with the House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack, you won't see any gameplay or content changes or new cosmetics in this DLC yet, but we have plenty more planned to come in the future.

We've also laid down a framework while restructuring both of these DLCs that will allow us to add a brand new free feature for all players. It is super exciting, and something many of you requested in our Future Of House Party Feedback Form. We can't wait to share it with you!

And, speaking of, now that both of these awesome seasonal DLCs are finally released, we have so much on the horizon.

The release of the House Party - Detective Liz Catz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack is right around the corner, there are exciting new updates feature updates coming in our roadmap, and, toward the end of the year, we plan to release the House Party - New Content Pack, featuring two new characters from the House Party Universe!

For now, just look forward to everything cool that's on the way, and enjoy the winter-themed party!

This is a pre-patch for the Winter Holiday Pack coming at 1PM EST.
- The in-game DLC Settings have been adjusted and the Winter option will be available after adding the Winter Holiday Pack to your library.

If you follow Liz Katz on her socials, you may have seen an intriguing picture a few weeks ago showing off her monday mood.

And, if you had your detective hats on and magnifying glasses out, you may have noticed some articles of clothing strewn about with the House Party logo on them…

So, what was going on here? Well, let's just say Liz took some time recently to put together a special video for you brahs - to help you get to know her a little better ahead of her upcoming DLC. You can check out the new trailer here!

If you weren’t familiar with Liz before this trailer, we hope that you feel like you know her a little better now! We definitely think that this video shows off her personality, and gives you an idea of what she’ll be like in the House Party - Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Muder Mystery expansion pack. Let us know what you thought of the trailer, doods!

Speaking of the new DLC. In case you missed our recent 2023 Development Roadmap post a couple weeks ago, we’ll be releasing the Liz Katz DLC before the end of June! If you want to get a preview of what the new content will be like, you can check out our website to learn how to get access to the Alpha and Beta builds!



The new expansion isn’t the only new content coming to House Party in the near future! Following the recent release of our free Halloween Holiday Pack DLC will be the House Party - Winter Holiday Pack which brings the popular 2022 Winter event back as another permanent free DLC!

With much of the framework for the DLC having been created for the Halloween Holiday Pack, we think we should be able to get the Winter Holiday content ready for release soon - and maybe imminently soon if all goes well. Stay tuned, doods! The party’s about to get real festive again in the near future.

As a reminder, just like the Halloween Holiday Pack, the Winter Holiday pack only contains the content from the 2022 event last winter, but we have plans to add more content to it in future holiday updates!

That’s all we have for this week, brahs! We’re so excited to be able to give those of you who aren’t familiar with Liz an introduction, and we’re also stoked for the new content that’s coming your way in the near future. Until next time, partiers!