House Party News

Warning: There are spooky elements and creepy critters in this limited-time mini-update. If that makes the party too scary, read the instructions at the end of this post on how to not play the event and enjoy the original version of the game.

Happy Halloween, partiers!

The house looks a little different this Halloween, and so do some of your fellow partygoers!

Madison's decked the place out with a few chilling decorations, and some of the more Halloween-minded guests have put on a sinister special accessory to celebrate. Be sure to fully explore the party, as you’ll encounter spine-chilling seasonal decor and a petrifying new limited-time cosmetic item!



This mini-update comes as a free temporary patch that’s available to all Steam players. The eerie visuals will revert back to normal on November 11th, so enjoy them while you can!

Not in a Halloween mood? Are the new decorations too harrowing? To swap back to the regular base version of the game, go to the Properties for House Party in Steam, select "Betas", and then choose either the "1.0.3" or "testing" beta branches to play the regular version! Feel free to do this at any time to get rid of the spooky seasonal appearance!

Note: At this time, the seasonal accessory and household decorations will be visible in all custom stories. To revert to the normal world aesthetics, please swap to the "1.0.3" or "testing" beta branches which host the regular version of the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/611790/House_Party/

How’s it going, partiers? Cheers to everyone who saw last week’s teaser and already guessed the identity of House Party’s next mystery guest. We figured anyone who saw the picture who was already familiar with them would recognize who it was almost instantly - that tattoo is iconic!

We’re excited to share more details on this awesome guest soon, and we’ll also drop an updated roadmap with tentative release dates in the future! But, in the meantime, here’s some info to keep everyone in the loop about what’s next for House Party.



House Party’s Next Mystery Guest DLC

Since we’ve officially solidified our partnership with House Party’s next mystery guest, we’ll be moving forward with planning their storyline very soon. There’s a bunch of work to be done, but our mystery guest is stoked to join House Party, and we couldn’t be more excited to start working with them to create their DLC!

Quality of Life Updates

When House Party released from Early Access, we promised more base game quality-of-life updates, and we don’t plan on stopping anytime soon! Our team is constantly working on fixing bugs, fine-tuning gameplay, and optimizing your party experience - and we appreciate everyone who has helped us so far by reporting bugs on our Discord server!

But, what’s more exciting is that, in addition to tweaking the overall game, we plan on doing some small continuity updates down the road for the female player character which will add new minor content and story changes so the female playthrough experience will feel even smoother!

Specifically, in our next quality-of-life update (which we're working on right now), we have some UI tweaks and POV legacy intimacy system updates on the way. Explicit content owners will now be able to access POV legacy intimacy for the new female content and new sequences and poses will be coming soon!

PlayStation

If you follow us on social media, you’ve probably seen that we’ve been looking into porting House Party to PlayStation. We’re glad to announce that those plans are finally solidifying, and we’ll be taking some more concrete steps to bring the party to console!

A few of you have also asked about the availability of explicit, adult-only intimacy content on the console version, and we want to be as transparent as possible about this. While we always try our best to push the boundaries of content as much as we can with our game, we do need to take care to adjust our content to align with what is allowed on specific platforms.

Virtual Reality

Who hasn’t fantasized about playing House Party in VR? We are hard at work bringing the party into virtual reality (we wonder if Rachael will know), and just recently took some big initial steps to make this possible. There’s a lot of work involved with this process, but we can’t wait to share more updates on the VR version of House Party soon!

House Party’s Sequel: Office Party

We haven’t forgotten about House Party’s sequel game, Office Party, either! Alongside everything else keeping our dev team crazy busy, we're also slowly planning, conceptualizing, and laying out the framework for our next game. We can’t wait to share more with everyone!

House Party Clothing DLCs

Last but definitely not least, we haven’t forgotten about all of the community requests we’ve gotten asking for us to add ways for players to customize the appearances of the base game NPCs. We’ve had a number of people asking if we can create different optional Clothing DLCs for the OG House Party characters, and the answer is yeah, brahs, we’d love to do that!

If you have any ideas for outfits you’d like to see in House Party, we’d really appreciate your feedback. Comment below and let us know!

Hey everyone, just released an update to 1.0.3 that addresses the following:

• Fixed an issue that was preventing save games from being loaded or deleted within the Load Game UI if using a non-English language
  
• When saves are deleted, ToolTipData will be updated to reflect the removal of the corresponding save data to prevent bloating of the ToolTipData over time
  

Sorry for any inconvenience, and we'll be on the lookout for more feedback. Cheers!

-The Eek! Team

Hey everyone! Fresh on the heels of the French translation that came out with 1.0.3, we are pleased to announce that the Italian and Russian translations are now fully updated. We are also getting close to finishing the Chinese translation; it should be done within roughly one week.

Please restart your game client to download these. If you use Steam, Epic, etc. and run into any additional problems, try verifying your game files if possible.

We will continue making improvements and additions to the translations over time. For best viewing of the Russian and Chinese translations, we suggest using the "Montserrat" font in the Gameplay Settings.

As for the other languages, we know that the delay, and seeing other languages completed first, can be frustrating. Everyone associated with our localization efforts is working very hard, and we hope to have more languages completed in the coming weeks.

Unfortunately, the Turkish translation has hit a snag. It was a community-translated project, and recently very little progress has been made. We do not currently have an ETA on its completion. If you are fluent in Turkish and would like to contribute, please come on over to our Discord and let us know! https://discord.gg/K5hfSQXE

Hey everybody, we've got a small update for the base game, the Doja Cat DLC, and the addition of an updated French translation for the Original Story and Doja Cat DLC. Oh, and there's a teensy new thing to find and unlock. ... Rawr?

The bugs that were fixed included some big ones that uh...someone...should totally get a spanking for letting through. One such example: being unable to progress with the Doja DLC content once Katherine needed to get involved. We also addressed some minor things like some silly ol' nails and other pesky items being left behind after the party at Madison's in A Vickie Vixen Valentine. A similar fix was added to prevent said items from somehow mysteriously migrating over to Brittney's house in Date Night with Brittney.

Other fixes include addressing an issue that would cause Amala to be unintentionally censored at times, even though she was clearly wearing a beautiful, leafy ensemble, as well as inconsistencies with the new "meet everybody!" Opportunities that were recently introduced. Finally, on top of all this we added a slew of general stability improvements, increased the amount of cloud saves you could store via Steam, and added a few QOL tweaks. Check out the full release notes for all the details.

And one more thing! For those of you still waiting on localization of the Doja Cat DLC for your language, we're working on them. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

As always thanks for your ongoing support, and we'll have some even juicier morsels for you in the coming weeks.

-The Eek! Team

CHANGE LOG:

https://housepartygame.com/release-notes/

Note: Custom stories may no longer function as intended, until updated by their owner/author.