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!
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.
What's up, totally cool-muy bueno-fellow party persons? We just wrapped up House Party version 0.21.2, which is a fairly small but much-needed maintenance update that brings the party closer to our ultimate goal of being...dope sickness...on fleek...lit…
Alright, we'll keep it together and give you a quick rundown: We're making good progress toward getting full controller support and an initial version of the female player beta ready for you guys to check out in our next big stable release, so it won't be much longer until you can officially play as House Party's female protagonist! We know you're stoked to test the waters of muy caliente girl-on-girl love gameplay, so we're working hard to get her into the party as soon as possible!
Speaking of hotness at the party, you may have realized your favorite sultry Spanish teacher has been looking a little...well, covered in black bars for the last couple of updates. Unfortunately, Steam updated the rules policy regarding depicting real people in video games, which raised some concerns about Lety's content. To stay on the safe side and not risk having the game or any major part of it completely removed, we were forced to censor her for a short time while we got everything figured out and learned more about the new rules.
If you've read House Party's title screen or any of our interviews, you already know we're not fans of censorship. We weren't happy to censor Lety's content all of the sudden on you guys, so we prioritized getting this fixed as soon as we could. Thankfully, we were able to discuss the content directly with Steam's team and made adjustments to get Lety uncensored again! In this update, she's no longer restricted by those ugly black bars so, as long as you own the Explicit Content DLC, you can now see her again in all of her sexy cool kid extraordinaire glory with this update!
We also have some bonus good news on the anti-censorship side of things. Before this update, we had to censor everything body-wise, at all times, in the non-explicit version of the game. However, in this update, we'll no longer have upper body mosaic censors on characters regardless of explicit DLC ownership or installation. This is a huge win for House Party!
We hope you're looking forward to these changes and thanks for being patient while we fixed this, dudes. We know it was probably shocking and frustrating to have her content unexpectedly blacked out, and we weren't expecting the rules to change on us like that. As a mature game we always have to tread carefully with our content, and as a small development team we appreciate you guys allowing us extra time to get it fixed.
Anyway, onward to the next update! We're running a bit behind on our original timeline estimate, so we've gotta cruise. In the meantime, enjoy the maintenance changes and having your passionate times with Lety back to normal. Remember...no grabbing, guys, NO GRABBING!
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Note: Older save files may no longer be compatible. Custom stories may no longer function as intended. Note on Controller Support: Controller support is still not yet fully complete in its current state. If you run into significant trouble while using a controller, you may need to temporarily use your keyboard/mouse. Sorry for any inconveniences, doods!
As a lot of you already know, Steam recently changed their rules around real people being depicted in video games that they sell on their platform. After reading about the changes, we took the liberty to make some changes to our Lety character in the game to bring her to a state where we felt she fell into compliance with these albeit vague new regulations.
We weren't sure whether or not Lety's character would be considered in violation of the new rules, but we didn't want to risk possibly having the game removed from Steam (been there, done that), especially as we are right on the verge of some amazing things happening like coming out of early access, the female player, and Doja Cat's arrival later this fall. Our first order of action needed to be to react, and ask questions later, which is exactly what we did.
We are always listening to our community though, and we heard your feedback loud and clear after we made the changes. We took the issue up directly with Steam to get a clear answer, and that answer is that as long as we don't use real images or body scans, we are able to restore Lety's original textures in the Explicit Content patch.
That being said, and since Lety's textures are not real images or based on scans, we are excited to announce that in an upcoming update coming very soon, we will restore Lety's full textures to their original form and she will be completely uncensored if you have the Explicit Content DLC pack installed.
Thank you guys for your patience while we sorted this one out!
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This Fall, after House Party leaves Early Access, Doja Cat is joining the cast of House Party, starring in her very own DLC expansion pack, adding tons of new content to the House Party base game and Original Story!
It's time, doods! We're uncovering the identity of our upcoming post-release DLC Mystery Guest next week with an exciting full character reveal!
Thanks for your patience. We know we teased this a long time ago, but this announcement is gonna be BIG, and there were a lot of details we had to get set in place before we were able to let the cat out of the bag. But now everything's coming together, and we're getting ready to share our awesome news with you!
Many of you have already put your sleuthing skills to use to deduce who the Mystery Guest may be. We're really impressed how much you all worked together and scoured the internet to put all of the pieces together.
We're excited to welcome this talented, funny, awesome superstar into House Party! They will join the party in an optional purchasable DLC pack after the base game exits Early Access, and 10% of the proceeds will be going to a charity of our mystery guest’s choice.
We can't wait for next week! It's been a long time coming, and we're dying to share the secret identity with everyone. Get excited, dudes! It's gonna be sick!!
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Curious about House Party's development progress? Here's an updated road map showing you guys what we'll be working on moving forward! We're working hard to get everything wrapped up, and we’re hyped to be so close to releasing House Party from Early Access, doods! 🤘
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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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!
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