House Party News

Welcome back, Chinese party goers!

We’re delighted to announce that the recent in-game language error has been identified and fixed by House Party HQ! This will address the mismatched or “out of order” translation entries that many of you encountered and will offer minor improvements to translation quality and a few missing translations.

Please do keep in mind that none of these translations are currently fully complete.

There is also NOT a Steam update for these localization changes. To update the game, restart the House Party application and the new translations will download once you reach the Title Screen. It is possible that some brahs and babes with regional ISP blocks or other internet issues will not receive the update automatically.

If you have difficulties getting the localization to work, visit our Steam Discussions FAQ, the Bug Reports section, or our Discord server for more support and information: https://discord.gg/EAA9V2FtQH

Huzzah! You can confidently walk through the House Party doors once again, so come join Steph in the lounge for a celebratory dance, and don’t forget to open a bottle or two! ...When Frank isn’t looking, of course.

See you there!

The Eek Games team

We’ve noticed a lot of you have been asking about the details of the playable female character and how it ties in with us leaving Early Access. We have already made some strides toward implementation, and we thought since there was so much interest, we could share some behind the scenes peeks and information about where we’re at.

So first off, we’ll just leave this small teaser here.

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Now that that’s out of the way, here’s a wall of text and some things to note for those of you hungry for more details :)

1. The playable female character will NOT be a DLC, and WILL be included in the base House Party game.

2. The female playable character and the new mystery guest we have planned for next year are NOT the same thing. The mystery guest will be a new non-player character that can be added to the game via DLC after we exit Early Access. We’ll have more news on that later on.

3. After our next update (Vickie Vixen’s end game content), which is estimated to be finished in the next few months, the playable female character will be our main priority, alongside full controller support, and various other tweaks and polish as we head toward exiting Early Access.

4. The female playthrough will be similar to the male playthrough in many ways, but there will be new core game mechanics, and exclusive content that will only be available if playing as a female.

5. We are aiming to get the playable female character out BEFORE we leave Early Access, which is tentatively scheduled for March of 2022. We are working diligently to hit those goals, but of course as you know, things can spring up unexpectedly, and our main priority is putting out a great player experience first and foremost, so everything is potentially subject to change.

6. Just because we are exiting Early Access doesn’t mean we are going to stop working on House Party. We feel that the game has come a long way and is finally in a state where the content will be finalized, but that doesn’t mean we won’t continue to polish it up or fix bugs or release quality of life updates in the future. We also have a lot of ideas of things to add to House Party, but we will be transitioning to doing so in the form of DLC after we leave Early Access, as the core game mechanics that we originally envisioned for the game have already been added, and we also added a bunch of stuff along the way that we never intended to originally, like combat, cutscenes, controller support, and localization to list a few.

7. Our pricing may change as we transition to leave Early Access. Though this is pretty typical for most games, for us, it’s because we have a LOT in the works for the future of House Party, and our studio in general, some of which we have just been starting to hint at. Things are evolving rather quickly, and some of you might be very surprised to see what we have in store for you. That being said, part of that process involves continually taking inventory of what we need and who we need to reach our goals, and as the scope of this project has changed over the years, so has our need to continually expand our team. We aren’t talking about any major changes to pricing here, but probably small tweaks and reassessment to make sure we can continue to bring new content to this game and future games consistently.

We’re working hard on all of these things, and we appreciate all of your support and patience as we figure all this stuff out. We have more exciting announcements coming soon. Enjoy!

After House Party leaves Early Access in March 2022, a new mystery guest arrives in our first ever DLC pack!

Great guesses so far. And it's not the female player; she'll be added to the base game before or around our exit from Early Access.

We'll announce who the guest is soon!

Have you figured it out yet?

Hey party goers! Eek! Games here. A member of the Chinese community has notified us of an error with the recent Chinese language addition. For anyone who has experienced this, we sincerely apologize.

Rest assured, House Party HQ are doing all they can to get the party started again as soon as possible. So relax, grab a drink and you’ll be dancing again in no time!

If you would like more information or direct support, moderators and players are available to talk to, in the Chinese channel of our Discord server.

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

We will update the community here on Steam and on Discord, as soon as we have more to share with you.

Thanks for your patience!

The Eek! Games team

嘿 派对爱好者们！这里是Eek！游戏。一位中文社区的玩家向我们反馈了一个关于近期更新的中文语言支持存在的漏洞。 对于经历过这种情况的玩家们，我们深表歉意。

请放心，House Party HQ 正在竭尽全力让派对尽快重新开始。所以放松，喝一杯，你很快就会再次Party！

如果您想获得更多信息或直接支持，可以在我们 Discord 服务器的中文频道中与版主和玩家们交流。
点此加入： https://discord.com/invite/eekgames

我们有新的进展后会马上在Steam社区和Discord上通知你们。

感谢你们的耐心！

The Eek! Games Team