House Party Stable Release 1.0.6 is ready to play - and it's packed with smoking hot new POV intimacy updates!
We’ve wanted to deliver an update focused on expanding the Explicit Add-On for a while now, so we’re hyped to share this with everyone and hope you’re stoked to explore the sweet stuff we added in this update!
So, what did we add? Check it out, doods:
Spicier Female Player Intimacy: The POV intimacy system will better correspond with the female player story. You can now access POV intimacy for the female content!
POV Intimacy Will Be More Gender-Accurate: Now female-female intimacy will prefer to use more gender-accurate pairing acts - like scissoring (yeah, that’s new!) rather than male-female or male-male acts.
New Female-Centric POV Intimacy Poses: Scissoring, fingering, and female-centric sixty-nine
A Newly-Implemented Frank Cutscene: We added a cutscene that was only available through console commands to the gameplay. Enjoy a blowjob featuring the male protagonist and your favorite booze-hating bald dude!
Top & Bottom M/M Position Swapping: During POV sex between the male player and male NPCs, you can now also swap between the top and bottom positions!
A New Main User Interface Sound Scheme: As you move and click around the menus in House Party, there are satisfying new sound effects that show when you’re hovering over and clicking on things.
Extra Polish For Custom Story Cosmetic Issues: Certain stories that made use of held drinks, or custom Character names, should see fewer immersion breaks. Additional small emotive, sound and cosmetic issues for POV intimacy have also been remedied, too (check our patch notes)!
Bug Fixes: Vickie's "Training Day", Compubrah-VR bugs, and several UI issues have now been fixed!
Enjoy the steamy new explicit update, brahs. Have fun playing it again. And again. And again. Please have mercy on your keyboards, though, and be sure to clean your hands after checking out the new content.
Thank you to the incredible number of players who took the time to fill out our Holiday Feedback Form! We've gotten amazing responses, and it's great to learn what you want most from our game.
We'll leave the form open for another two weeks so everyone has the chance to leave feedback. We'd also love to do more of these forms in the future. They really help us keep House Party on track so we're always taking the game in the best direction for our community!
We're so thankful for all the players who have played and enjoyed House Party through every step of its development. What started as a little indie passion project created by one person has grown to be a labor of love delivered from our small team to you.
We appreciate you brahs so much, and House Party has come so far thanks to your passion and feedback. Cheers to a happy turkey day and to keeping the party going!
In regards to our recently announced plans for free seasonal DLCs, thank you all for the incredible costume ideas you gave us for our Halloween event!
You guys know we're a small team, so thanks for having patience with us. Although we can’t currently commit to content that is super art-heavy, like every character having a unique full-body costume for every single event, it’s still amazing to hear your ideas for outfits!
We do plan on adding to the seasonal DLCs by releasing more holiday content over time, and we definitely want to create outfits for everyone, too! But it may take some time, as our current focus is working on House Party QoL updates, character DLCs, clothing DLCs, the VR DLC, Office Party, and more! But we’ll get there, one step at a time!
So, although we can’t promise a costume for every character for each holiday while still working on development (unless our team gets bigger), we will continue to do our best to bring you doods everything we can, as soon as we can!
With that said, we put together a quick feedback form to help us prioritize what we should focus on for future seasonal events! It would be great if you could take the time to answer, so we know what to focus on most, and so we can keep track of all your awesome seasonal ideas in one place.
Thanks again for the awesome feedback on our first seasonal event! Our team is working hard to get the Halloween content wrapped into a free DLC for everyone and to add an easy-access toggle feature to the main menu.
It’ll take us a bit to get it ready, but we'll create a Steam DLC Store Page ahead of time so you can wishlist it and add it to your library as soon as it's available!
After our last announcement, we got a few questions about other seasonal events, too, and let's just say we may be also working on something special for the upcoming winter holiday.
Wondering how House Party's overall development is going? Our next release (the saucy POV one we talked about in our last Steam News Post) just left alpha and entered beta testing, so we expect to have a stable release ready for everyone around the beginning of December!
We added a couple of extras to the upcoming update since we last chatted about it, too. If you enjoy POV intimacy but think the NPC's facial expressions look a bit "off" in certain poses, we're working on that! Select poses will be getting improvements to make the characters look more expressive and attentive at the moment.
For those of you who make Custom Stories for House Party (or are interested in trying to make them), we're improving stuff for you, as well! After the next stable update releases, it'll be a bit easier to create your own custom party experience!
While we have a moment, we'll answer a couple of other quick questions we saw floating around the comment section! Yes, we’re still slowly working on Office Party in the background, but you probably won’t start seeing too much initial development news on it until sometime next year at the soonest.
More info on our next guest is also coming soon, and their exciting DLC will take us back to the edgy roots House Party is known for! We’re stoked to work alongside a partner who has played (and loves) House Party and wants to explore making adult content with us. Get hyped, doods: Our next DLC will be packed with some of our wildest explicit scenes yet!
And just because we're doing these awesome guest partnerships doesn't mean we aren't keeping in mind possibilities for Original Story Expansion Packs in the future, too! We've got some really fun player suggestions so far about different areas of the original partier backstories we could explore further in the future.
So far, we’ve heard that partiers on social media liked the holiday decor slightly more than the costumes, but we want to know what our brahs on Steam think, too!
Comment below and let us know if you liked the seasonal house decorations or the outfits more, so we know what we should be focusing on when designing future events!
Didn’t make it to the Halloween party this year? -No worries, it'll be back!
In the meantime, check out these awesome community content images from our Discord member Lounger, The Creator! They colored Vickie and Patrick’s skin red and gave them awesome succubus and incubus looks. How saucy!
With the event wrapping up, you may be asking: What awesome new stuff is coming to the party in the near future?
Right now, we're working on a smoking hot new update for our Explicit Content DLC!
In this awesome upcoming build, POV (non-cutscene “legacy”) love scenes will fit the female player story better - like scissoring (yeah, that’s new!) or fingering, as well as female-centric sixty-nine POV intimacy poses. You will also be able to swap between dominant and submissive positions during male-male love scenes.
There’s also going to be a brand new cutscene featuring the male protagonist and the buff straightedge party-crasher we all love to hate. It’ll take place in the backyard and have someone kneeling. If you know, you know.
This update will also address some bugs in the base game, too. For example, you’ll no longer encounter some UI issues with Vickie's "Training Day", and Compubrah’s VR Frank and Katherine combat.
Keep in mind that none of this is live quite yet, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek at what's coming soon! Get excited, doods and lady-doods...the party's gonna get HOT!
Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce that the Chinese translation is now fully updated.
Please restart your game client to download this. If you use Steam, Epic, etc. and run into any additional problems, try verifying your game files if possible.
For best viewing of the Chinese translation, we suggest using the "Montserrat" font in the Gameplay Settings.
As for other languages, everyone associated with our localization efforts are working very hard, and we hope to have more languages updated in time. However, we do not currently have an estimate on when additional translations will be completed or added.
Been enjoying the Halloween Party, brahs? We’re stoked so many of you have checked it out and enjoyed the seasonal decorations and costumes!
We’ve been hearing that many of you like the event so much that you’d love to be able to keep using the Halloween assets even though the spooky season will be over soon. So, we plan to add the ability for players to toggle them on or off from the main menu. Although we can’t give an exact date on when this will be added to the game, this is definitely something we are working on implementing - stay tuned for more updates!
The Halloween event was a spur-of-the-moment decision for us, but we felt it was content worth sharing with all you doods! Supporting seasonal content has been something we’ve always wanted to do, but our focus on getting House Party out of Early Access kept us from being able to. Now that the game’s released, we have a ton of additional awesome content that we want to bring as free updates for everyone going forward!
While we’re definitely down to do more seasonal events, these won’t happen every holiday, since we don’t want to slow down development on full-fledged DLCs and Office Party. However, we’ll try our best to add them whenever we can.
We’ll also be looking into allowing you access to events once they’re over! One potential idea we’re heavily considering is creating a free seasonal DLC for our holiday event, like a Halloween DLC, and updating it with new content every Halloween!
This will allow players who want to skip the seasonal content to do so, while still giving them the option to download it at a later time! Those who have the free Halloween DLC in their libraries will be able to toggle the event content on and off in the House Party main menu at their leisure!
We hope this sounds exciting to everyone! Since the event has been so popular, we’ll keep it rolling for another week. After that, the Halloween content will briefly go away (for now), but, don’t worry, you’ll see the content again in the future once we implement the toggle feature and create the DLC!
If you’re curious how our development progress is coming along on the base game, we’re making good headway on the quality of life update we mentioned in our previous Steam roadmap post.
None of this is live quite yet, but the upcoming update will include some UI updates for the base game, and, if you have the Explicit Content Add-On installed, you’ll be able to access POV legacy intimacy for the female content and the new intimacy sequences and poses that are arriving very soon!
Thanks again for chilling with us this Halloween! We hope you had a spooky time and are excited for our next update!
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.
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!
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