Jan 19, 2022

House Party Stable Release (0.21.1) Steam Update

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You remember all those fixes we said we wanted to get done before we added the much-awaited female playable character? Well, they're DONE, doods! January's polish update is complete and Stable Release 0.21.1 is officially here, brahs!

We added several new cutscenes, a ton of polish, fixed a bunch of bugs, and laid out the preliminary framework for controller support. There isn’t a bunch of new story content, but we took care of quality of life changes and crucial fixes - particularly with the new input system.

With the framework in place, we’ve been able to expand controller support to a basic state that we should have fully functional by the time we release our female playthrough first look. Controllers that will work will be most XInput controllers (which includes Xbox), as well as the Logitech F301 and Playstation 4 (Dual Shock) controllers. Soon you guys can play one-handed if you want to, y'know...um, eat a burrito or something. Yeah...that.

Speaking of controllers, part of the reason why we are working so hard to implement controller support is because Valve's Steam Deck will release this February. Not only have you brahs been asking for controller support a lot recently, but we know several of you are getting Steam Decks and we thought it'd be awesome for you to be able to enjoy the party as soon as you've got the Deck in your hands...er, hand.

You’re wondering about those new cutscenes, too, aren’t you? We added a cool new Original Story intro cutscene, cutscenes for Derek and Ashley's finales, and an absolutely ludicrous Lety cutscene! Be sure to check them out the next time you explore the party.

Awesome! So…what’s coming next? Our update after this one will introduce character selection and the highly anticipated female player. She'll have some exciting new story content for you to explore soon. Oh, yes. It's time, doods. Onward to working on the female playable character!

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- Eek! Team

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

Dec 3, 2021

House Party 2021: Huge Pre-Release Content Updates

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As of October 2021, over a million people have bought House Party, and we've done 20 public updates!

Has it been a while since you last played? We've introduced loads of content, including updated and new storylines for our 15 Original Story NPCs and cameos of LetyDoesStuff and the Game Grumps. We're also getting damn close to House Party's full release in March 2022. That’s right! You heard correctly. House Party will be leaving Early Access very soon! Let’s take a look at all the things we updated in the last two years.

10 Awesome New Cutscenes with Many More Coming
Dan Avidan and Arin Hanson (The Game Grumps) are now in the game
Wardrobe reworks for Derek, Patrick, Vickie, Katherine, Amy, and Brittney
Derek's romance storyline
Frank's romance storyline
New radial menu for player choices
New loading screens, better save/load system, and autosaving
New hidden items and more collectible booze
Compubrah can now scan Frank and Katherine, and has new ways of scanning Rachael
In-game Tutorials and a Memories tab for navigating Opportunities
Updated Main Menu with language selection, translations, and Character Selection
The ability to challenge Derek to a dance-off
Load and loads of background chatter
The ability to uh...relieve your bladder, should you feel the need
Vickie's ultra-hot finale...with threesomes
Over 10 new achievements
The ability to download Custom Stories from the Title Screen
Increased House Party’s total story content by nearly 57%

And that doesn't even touch on all the awesome shit coming soon!

Release from Early Access
Controller & Steam Deck support
Female playable character
In-game player rewards merch store
Mystery Guest DLC
...and more!

That’s not all! The game looks a hell of a lot different than it did two years ago. In addition to all of these content updates, the game has undergone a HUGE graphics revamp. If you haven’t played in a while, kick back, crack open a cold one, and check out the party to see what’s new!

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for the latest brah-some game updates and announcements. Be sure to join our after party on Discord too!

- Eek Team

Nov 19, 2021

House Party Vickie Stable Release (0.20.3) Steam Update

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Boots on the ground, troopers! The long-awaited Vickie ending (House Party version 0.20.3) is here. Thanks for your patience as our team worked to put together and polish her steamy new content!

Unless you’ve been living deep inside your man-cave for the past couple of months, you already know that Vickie’s update brings sexalicious threesomes to the party. Complete Vickie’s Training and she’ll now give you the opportunity to convince another NPC to join you and her in a scorching hot ménage à trois.

Relationships matter when it comes to schmoozing your favorite partygoers, so be sure to get on good terms with NPCs before you try to flirt their pants off. Some sexaholics like your good ol’ brah Pat and Vickie-obsessed fanboy Frank won’t turn you down even if they hate your guts, but other NPCs (like lovable southern belle Brittney and domineering sexy genius Katherine) won’t even consider you if you haven’t been intimate with them. Most of the other partiers will reject a threesome offer unless you’re a charismatic god. If you work for it, though, you'll be in for a spicy new array of intimacy rewards, animations, and cutscenes.

Vickie’s crotch-melting story content aside, we also listened to feedback from all of you awesome doods about how you’ve been hearing a lot of the same ambient NPC conversations around the house. We get it. We know you’re playing for a while chasing those achievements, so we freshened up the background chatter with a variety of clues about hidden items, NPC backstories, and endgame story content.

Not only that, but we heard your requests for more guidance around the party. We know with House Party being such an open sandbox game, it’s sometimes difficult to know how to perform certain actions or approach various in-game Opportunities. In previous updates, we added an awesome new Opportunity menu, but alongside Vickie’s finale we introduced a variety of in-game Tutorials to help, too. Opt into these by clicking the check box in the Main Menu or Title Screen UI. They’ll show up one time while playing, and you can reset them manually in the Main Menu. Here’s hoping this helps all of our brahs have an easier time exploring the party!

For those of you who follow our social media and testing update posts, you’re well aware that our team took longer than expected to release this update. Did we mention how amazing you dudes are for being so supportive and patient? Anyway, this was because we added a fuckton of polish to Vickie’s content and House Party overall. With each passing day, we’re getting closer to releasing the game from Early Access, and it’s important to us that we release a quality final version of House Party that our community is happy with. If you’re curious about every little thing we fixed and spruced up, check out the patch notes below.

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for the latest brah-some game updates and announcements. Be sure to join our after party on Discord too!

Anyway, fuck reading! What you really want to do is go check out the threesomes, right? Enjoy, dudes, and be sure to let us know what you think about Vickie’s finale!

Note: French is the only updated translation at the moment but we will be adding more as we move along dudes!

- Eek Team

Oct 29, 2021

House Party Early Access Steam Update

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After a long and incredible journey, we are getting ready to pull House Party out of Early Access!

After our stable build of the latest update goes live in the coming weeks, there will only be one more content update before we officially leave Early Access. Vickie’s finale coming to a close marks the completion of all of the content we have planned for our male protagonist, and the next couple of updates are going to be mostly polish, alongside the long-awaited ability to play as a female main character.

We’re sure you have questions, but we have answers! So strap in. Here we go!

When is House Party leaving Early Access?

We’re glad you asked! Here’s our tentative timeline of what we currently have planned:

November 2021 – Vickie Finale Update
December 2021 – Polish Update and Full Controller Support
February 2022 – Female Playthrough First Public Look
March 2022 – Polish Update and Final Implementation of Female Playthrough
March 2022 – House Party Exits Early Access
May 2022 – Mystery Guest DLC

That said, we want to thank everyone who has purchased, played, and supported House Party throughout these years of development. We can’t stress enough how none of this would have been possible without you. The biggest thing that kept us going through all of the journalist negativity and attempted censorship we’ve had to deal with over the years, was our overly positive player review scores and feedback. Today, House Party has supportive press reviews, a steady player base, and is accepted in both censored and uncensored forms across various streaming platforms. Additionally, if you’ve been paying any attention to our latest teasers, you’ll know that we’re about to take things to a whole other level, all thanks to your support, feedback and encouragement. House Party’s graphics have been improved. We’ve added globalization and translation. We fleshed out the storyline and even added extra things we never planned for like the combat system, cutscenes and controller support. We’ve taken your suggestions to heart throughout this whole process, and we’re always trying to make House Party the best it can be for all players.

What’s going to change now that House Party is leaving Early Access?

Part of this process involved making changes to the game, the most significant of which, is that we now have a base game with a Steam “Mature” rating, and we have a Steam “Adult Only” rated DLC patch. Initially, the DLC patch’s purpose was simply to uncensor any nudity or sexual content in the game, but since then a lot of the mature content has been moved from the base game to the Explicit DLC patch. We are also now developing bigger, longer, and explicit cutscenes specifically for that content patch.

Because of this, and because we plan to add more content specifically to the Explicit DLC patch, we will soon be adding a small charge for the DLC patch. We wanted to let you know ahead of time, since if you already own the game, you can still (at the time of this writing) download the patch for free, and if you downloaded it at any point while it is free, it will remain free permanently. This price increase will only affect new players, and the base game price will remain unchanged even after we exit Early Access.

We will continue to maintain this optional AO rated patch as a counter to the changes the “powers that be” require us to make to allow the base game to maintain an “M” rating. It’s a necessary thing so that this game and our future games can continue to thrive both in and out of the mainstream, ensuring the stability of our company, which in turn means much more cool stuff to come down the line! House Party is all about choice, and we are committed to delivering the choice of adult content to our 18+ players, and to combat the regulations surrounding this type of content in video games as opposed to gratuitous violence, and exposing the hypocrisy and discrimination of creators of this type of content by the people who make these silly rules.

What happens after House Party leaves Early Access?

Even though we’re ready to call the base game “finished”, this is only the beginning for House Party. We have some wild stuff planned post release! We will continue releasing “quality of life” updates after the game leaves Early Access, and we have plans for exciting DLC packs in the future to add more content to the game, and to give players more options. We’ve already hinted at what the first one will be. Shortly after House Party’s full release and exit from Early Access, we will drop our first-ever DLC pack featuring the “mystery character” we’ve been teasing! We think your minds will be blown when we drop our full reveal on that. It’s coming soon!

Other than that, we will also be working on porting House Party to a VR version, as well as shifting more of our staff to working on our sequel game, Office Party. Expect to see a lot more of Eek! Games in the future!

It’s an exciting time for us and we’re happy to be sharing it with all of you. We’re so thankful you all have come on this development journey with us, and we’re stoked for everything in store for the future!

'Til next time!

-Eek Team

Oct 28, 2021

Steam Announcement - Testing Update 0.20.1

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You guys are f-ing rockstars! You playtested the hell out of our last testing update and gave us a huge amount of community feedback.

It may have buried our programmers under a mountain of tweaks and bug fixes but hey, that's the point of testing! We've worked our asses off these past weeks dousing those bugs in heavy doses of Raid and adding further polish to Vickie's ending, and now we have a fresh testing update to see what needs to be focused on next.

If you have nothing else to do, and your eyes like to bleed from reading long lists of minor changes, check out the patch notes we're gonna link below. If you have a house party to get back to and only want to get a quick run-down, just know that most of this patch is important bug fixes from the previous Testing Update and general update polish.

Here are some of the most notable changes included in Testing Update 0.20.1:

- We've greatly increased the rewards granted by Ashley after having completed the "Mission Impawsible" Opportunity by lying to Derek. Without burning down the house, of course.
- Many of the previously pending and unwritten dialogues have been cleaned up.
- Emotive behaviors during conversations and cutscenes have been improved.
- We took care of issues with characters remaining clothed throughout entire cutscenes and gave the Player limited control over certain clothing items worn during POV intimacy scenes.

Read our patch notes in full here.

As always, releasing content updates that are as quality as possible is our main priority, so we're testing vigorously to iron out bugs and make Vickie's ending as close to perfect as it can be. With that said, we have a lot of awesome shit planned to drop after it's completed, and we'll be trying to push this update out as cleanly and quickly as possible.

With a hot-as-sin female playable character, the ability to play House Party in VR, and more exciting mystery DLC character announcements coming soon, there's so much we're looking forward to working on and sharing with you all!

Note: All Testing Updates contain unfinished and untested content. Placeholders may be present for dialogue and assets, and language translations may be incomplete. Older save files may also not be compatible and custom stories may no longer function as intended.

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-Eek Team