House Party News

"How's it going, dudes? Staying away from the alcohol?"

These past couple of months have been a blur for our team, and we know we’ve been a bit quiet lately.

But the good news is, we’ve been working like crazy on a bunch of really awesome milestones:

• Finalizing the female player’s story
  
• Getting ESRB and USK18 rated (so we’re available in Germany again)
  
• Getting House Party ready to exit Early Access
  
• Working with Doja Cat and her team to conceptualize her storyline so we can start developing it right after House Party launches
  

Still, we don’t like staying so quiet, so we’ve decided to do smaller, more frequent Steam news updates with more sneak peeks of bugs we’re fixing, exclusive access about content we’re working on, stories about the team, and more.

These will be smaller, bite-sized posts, and we hope they’ll serve as cool inside-look updates during times when we’re crunching on larger patches for longer periods of time.



Bring Your Brahsomest Community Content, Brahs!


As part of our more frequent updates, we thought it’d be really cool to start featuring community content in our Steam posts.

This is something we haven’t really done before, but you dudes post awesome House Party stuff all the time, and we’d like to show off some of that cool and funny stuff you create!

To kick this off and celebrate and just because we love you guys, we decided to do a free merch giveaway on our official Discord to the player who submits the most awesome fan content.

1st place will receive a Frank “How’s It Going, Dude?” t-shirt and 2nd & 3rd place will each receive a House Party mug of their favorite character.

The rules are that the content has to be SFW (so we can share it on Steam and social media), House Party related, and created or taken by you (please don’t steal other peoples’ stuff, dudes).

It can be…

• Fan art
  
• Screenshots
  
• Merch selfies
  
• Funny let's plays
  
• Character cosplays
  
• Memes
  
• …or anything else you can think of
  

Just post it in our Discord #community-content channel to participate!

Join here: https://discord.com/invite/eekgames

Don’t have Discord? Feel free to email us your content at [email protected] instead!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648810/House_Party__Doja_Cat_Expansion_Pack/

Did you know Office Party will be House Party’s sequel?

We’ll be transitioning to the HDRP pipeline to streamline some amazing graphics fidelity in our sequel game.

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For now, Madison works from home, but maybe she'll swing by the Office Party soon.

Buy House Party Now

Wishlist the Doja Cat DLC:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648810/House_Party__Doja_Cat_Expansion_Pack/

Join our live AMA and discussion with the Eek! Games founders today!

At 6:00 PM EST, the creators of House Party and founders of Eek! Games will be live on YouTube, Twitch, and Steam with some very special guests!

They'll reminisce on the awesome history of Eek! Games, give more details about House Party's upcoming Full launch, spill some secrets about the Doja Cat DLC dropping this Fall, share behind-the-scenes memories from past content, and much more!

They'll also be doing a live questionnaire segment where they'll answer some common questions we've been receiving. If there's anything you'd like to see answered, write it in the comment section below, and we'll try to add it to the list!

It's going to be an awesome time, so be sure to stop in to hang out, have some questions answered, meet the founders behind Eek! Games, and learn a little more about the exciting stuff to come for House Party!

Event Link Here: https://buff.ly/3G4pQNb

House Party's Full Launch is coming this summer!

The Eek! Founders are coming together for their first ever AMA and will be covering everything from the history of Eek! Games, House Party's Full Launch details, never before known info about the upcoming Doja Cat DLC, behind the scenes memories from the Lety and Game Grumps stories, and more.



This event is taking place on Wednesday, May 25th at 6:00 PM EST and everyone's invited!

In addition to a live questionnaire segment, we'd love to hear any questions you’d like us to cover in the comment section below 🙂

We look forward to updating you guys on all the new and exciting stuff going on behind the scenes at Eek!

Oh, and maybe we'll have some cool special guests joining us, too...

See you at 6pm on the 25th!

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Join us on Discord if you're up for some chat with Natty Lites and all.

[h2]The female player's first look is here, doods! [/h2]

Although we haven't prepared new Original Story content for her quite yet, you can now play as a female character (on the Steam testing branch, more below)! We've done a thorough first pass through the existing content and made a bunch of tone, pronoun, and wording tweaks to make you feel at home in the party as the female player! Unfortunately, we have not had the time to get voiced lines for much of this alternate content or fully convert all intimacy sequences, but bear with us! We’re working on it!

Since adding her is a huge task, this update will be a little different than what you're used to. We'll be splitting this update into two pieces: A live update for all users with fully functional controller support and quality of life fixes and a testing update containing controller support, quality of life fixes, and the female character first look.

This will give Steam players the opportunity to experiment with the female player and give us feedback as we work through adding more of her content! This also means that your game will automatically update to the version with controller support, but you will need to opt in to the Steam Testing Update if you would like to try the version with the female player first look.

We decided to do the update this way because we didn't want the female character to be unplayable the entire time we worked on her (since we'll probably be working on her until around the time we exit Early Access). Releasing the female player first look as a Steam Testing Update and gradually updating it from there will allow a big chunk of players to try her early and give us feedback as we work on bringing her full content into the game!

Controller support is also fully functional, and we added some general House Party polish and UI improvements to this update. You can play the game without any major hang-ups on all supported controllers and the Steam Deck. We still plan on adding some quality of life features and fixes in the future to fine-tune how everything feels, but, as it is now, it's completely playable.

If you're curious about the polish we added, some notable changes are that we adjusted the colors for most of the interactable UI elements so they're easier to see and fixed some cutscene issues that could cause them to get stuck. We also added a garage cutscene and a Frank mini oral scene in the yard.

Leading up to our release from Early Access later this year, we'll be adding some quality of life features to controller support, polishing and bug fixing the hell out of the base game, and adding a lot more Original Story content, voice acting, and intimacy-specific tweaks and fixes for the female player.

Thanks for being the coolest partiers ever and staying patient as we worked through the hurdle of uncensoring Lety's content in our last update. We're sorry for the delay, and we hope you have fun playing as a female! We're excited to add more of her story as we get closer to House Party's exit from Early Access!

Ready to try out the new update? Right-click House Party in your Steam Library, navigate to the “Betas” tab, use the drop-down menu to select the "Testing" option, and hit "Close!" You're all set! Be sure to report any bugs you find in the female player first look, and let us know if there are more quality of life fixes you'd like to see added to controller support. Enjoy the update, doods!

- Eek! Team

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

Note: Updates labelled as “Testing”, “Beta”, and/or “First Look” contain unfinished and untested content. Placeholders may be present for dialogue and various assets. Older save files may no longer be compatible. Custom stories may no longer function as intended. Translations may also be incomplete. Controller support is nearly finished, but if you do run into issues, you may need to temporarily use your keyboard/mouse to restore normal functionality.