A new quality of life House PArty update will be dropping soon, doods! We're making good progress on some not-so-minor requested bug fixes as well as working on some major Custom Story improvements we hope you'll love!

But there's some neat little bonus easter eggs in the next update, too. While you ruN around Madison's place during your typical night of shenanigans and debauchery, you’ll notice two new objects in the game.

Take a peek at one of them below. Wondering about the other one? Well, you'll have to find it yourselves…

Note: This is early teaser footage and does not fully reflect how the item appears in-game. Anyway, it looks like there might be some electrical issues in the next guest DLC, right? What do you think's going on here?



This new item will be put to use in the upcoming guest DLC arriving this Summer 2023.

We see many of you asking who the next guest will be. We're not trying to keep any secrets (check out those leg tattoos!), but our special guest wants to introduce herself to you personally with a custom costume.

She's working on it noW, so we hope you're stoked for the official announcement and title reveal in March!



In the meantime, don't forget to wishlist the free Halloween and Winter Holiday Packs!

The packs will allow you to enjoy the Halloween and Winter seasonal events whenever you want year-round. We're still working on getting the toggle on/off feature ready, making some tweaks, and packaging everything into organized dLCs. They’ll both be ready within the next few months (ETA of Q1 2023 for Halloween and Q2 2023 for Winter)!

We know these holiday packs are coming out at kind of odd times of the year now. We didn't expect to prep them for perManency and add the toggle feature, but we hope you're still glad we listened to your requests to toggle the content and for the limited-time events to come back permanently!

P.S. Hold onto those codes you deciphered from the last guest teaser. Combining them with the secret code you find in this post might get you closer to that future benefit we mentioned...

If you loved the Halloween event, you might also love what we have in store!

The Winter Holiday Pack is available for wishlisting now, and FREE for all players.

If you enjoyed the Winter Update (or didn’t get the chance to play it while it was around during the holidays), be sure to grab this so you can enjoy the content year-round!

Just like Halloween, it’ll have a toggle on/off feature, so you can enjoy the holiday-themed party whenever you’re feeling the Christmas spirit.

Check out the trailer below, brahs:



Already played the update last holiday season? Don’t worry - there’s plenty more awesome stuff planned for both this and the Halloween Holiday Pack in the future!

In the meantime, your favorite holidays will be back soon. We’re still on track with getting the toggle on/off feature into internal beta testing within the next month or two and releasing the Halloween Holiday Pack permanently this Q1 2023.

The Winter Holiday Pack will follow closely behind on Santa Frank’s sleigh: releasing in Q2 2023!



What’s gonna be in the House Party - Winter Holiday Pack?

Festive seasonal decorations, like:
⭐ Ornaments
☃️ A Snowman
🎄 Pine Garlands
✨ Hanging Lights
🍬 Glowing Candy Canes
🌟 Star-Shaped Lights
❄️ Snowflake Window Decals
🌨️ Lightly Falling Snow Outside
👏 …And Many More To Come!

There will also be cheery Christmas outfits such as:
🎅 Santa & Elf Hats
👕 A Festive Sweater
🎁 …And Many More Costumes & Accessories On The Way!

Plus, you can throw snowballs at other partiers and explore a short seasonal Frank side-quest (with a special holiday achievement)!



Add the DLC to your wishlist, doods and lady-doods, and get ready to enjoy merry and bright decorations, festive outfits, and falling snow all year at the House Party!

Cheers to permanent free holiday content, doods!

Wishlist the Winter Holiday Pack here.

The sexy and hilarious party you know and love will flirt with a bit of blood and darkness this SuMmer. Are you ready, dooDs?

Our next guest wilL ramp up the party with the wildest eXplicit intimacy thus far and most jaw-droppIng story yet!

Get ready for Summer 2023, partiers.


Are you feeling more zen and creative than Madison painting her spirit animals? Or do you just enjoy having the power to create alternate video game universes where Frank isn't typecast as some weird, druggy skinhead and Katherine isn't a stuck-up know-it-all?

This patch isn't live quite yet, but our next update will contain some not-so-minor bug fixes, game optimizations, story and engine improvements, and - best of all - major Custom Story Creator additions. If you're the type of partier who gets creamy about creating personalized House Party stories, you're going to love what we're working on.

This upcoming quality of life update will make it so creators can work faster and more effectively to create more complex stories than ever before. This should make it so more varied custom stories can be created by new and experienced story creators alike. We're hyped to see what kind of party experiences you create!


We're also currently taking steps toward improving Steam Deck performance. Right now, House Party is Playable on the Steam Deck, but we are slowly working toward getting it Verified. We're excited that everyone will be able to enjoy a smoother play experience on the Deck soon!


Also, brahs, did you see Smosh Games made a House Party video? Freaking awesome!

Check out the hilarious video to find out if Ian’s very real parents will let him buy House Party:

Also, we hid something in this announcement that might come in handy in the future, if you're observant enough to find it...

What would the holidays be without our favorite brahs? Thanks so much for booting up House Party and choosing to celebrate winter with us, partiers!

We had an amazing time celebrating the holidays with you, and, although the House Party Winter Event is officially over (for now), you’ll see it again soon.

Just like the House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack, the Winter Event will return as a FREE permanent DLC in the coming months (with a new toggle on/off feature) and receive future content updates! We’ll share more details on this soon.



Adding the holidays was a spur-of-the-moment passion-and-booze-fueled decision, and we didn’t expect the response to be so positive - or for you doods to want permanent versions of the holidays and a toggle feature!

It’s awesome that you enjoyed it so much, and we plan on bringing those things to you as soon as possible! For now, though, we probably need to slow down on creating new holiday content until around Halloween just so we can keep bringing you more House Party updates alongside the holiday stuff!

However, thanks to your feedback, we have tons of awesome plans for future holidays that we can't wait to get started on! While we work on keeping pace with House Party development and polishing Halloween and Winter as permanent DLCs, we'll also try to confirm some of next year's planned holidays so you can give us extra suggestions on content you might like to see!



We also wanted to take a second to showcase these sweet tattoos some of our Discord community members created recently! Tenag made an awesome flower-themed tattoo for fan-favorite girl Ashley, and Nightimeglobe7 created a sick back tattoo for party host Madison.

It’s always super cool to see you guys getting creative and modding the game to how you envision it with reskinning and custom stories. If you want to see more cool community content or learn how to make your own custom tattoos for House Party characters, come hang out on our Discord!

January 2023 is here, doods, and it's officially time for another year of partying!

Thanks for your supportive comments and New Year's wishes! It's awesome so many of you are hyped for Office Party. It's still in very early stages right now, but we'll keep you updated when we have cool progress to share!



We hope you're all enjoying the Winter Holiday Update!

The event ends this January 9th, but it'll be back permanently in a free DLC after we polish it and add a toggle on/off feature. That way you'll be able to activate and deactivate the seasonal content whenever you want to - all year long!


Speaking of holiday DLC, you can wishlist House Party's FREE Halloween Holiday Pack now to get notified when it becomes permanently available for download. We're making good progress on having it ready this Q1 2023. Want a recap of what’s in the pack? Check out the awesome new trailer we made above!

If you missed it, this is a free permanent DLC version of our 2022 limited-time Halloween Event that we're putting together due to community requests! Remember, it was a small event, and the DLC will not have any new content right away (besides the toggle feature in the main menu), but we do plan to add more free updates to it in the future!

If you missed our Halloween event, are excited for the limited-time content to be permanent, or want access to future free seasonal updates, this DLC is for you! Wishlist it so you don't miss it when it drops and get ready to get spooky, doods!

Statue of Patrick Fitted T-Shirt:


Thank you to everyone who participated in our House Party merch design contest! It was a blast seeing all the funny and cool ideas you had!

Congratulations to our winner, pek², who will have their concept featured in our official merch store! They created an absolute masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture that really highlights the brahvado of Michelangelo's David.

This past year has been incredible. It has been awesome reaching so many milestones this year, and we're stoked that you've been on this wild ride with us!



This year, we shared the female player with everyone, and it's been amazing seeing you welcome her to the party with open arms.

It was especially cool to see in our Holiday Feedback Form that so many of you like her, and we've had a lot of fun updating the game to react to a female protagonist and improving House Party's intimacy system to better support her content.



Exiting Early Access this year was unreal.

We poured our hearts into building House Party from the ground up for years, so much so that it doesn't even look like the same game it did when it was first created. We've added so many items, stories, characters, and gameplay mechanics that it's really been a labor of love, and we're finally at a point where we feel proud to call it an out-of-early-access title!



And, wow, the Doja Cat Expansion Pack was a huge task and major learning experience for us.

It was wild making our first DLC, especially with such a popular celebrity right from the start, but we worked really hard on it, and we hope you've found something charming about the content!



Plus, we started delving into seasonal updates this year! Next year, we hope to have the DLCs ready for you, so you can enjoy them all year long!

Thanks so much for supporting us through 2022, and cheers to kicking off another awesome year of partying!

This winter season, we hope your eggnog is strong, your parties are wild, and you get plenty of time under the mistletoe. Be sure to stay on the naughty list this year, partiers!

We love you brahs. Have an awesome holiday season, and we hope you have been enjoying playing the winter update we put together for you!



Speaking of the winter update, have you played Frank's hilarious holiday sidequest yet?

We won't share any spoilers (just in case you've been busy this holiday season), but we put together a House Party picture frame overlay for you to make your own seasonal Christmas Card this holiday should the ideal presentation, uhh, present itself during your holiday partying!

Whether it's a picture of you, your favorite moment in House Party, your favorite House Party meme, or something else entirely - feel free to have some fun with creating your own party-themed holiday card this year, and don't forget to show us the awesome, funny, or ridiculous cards you create!

Feel free to @ us or #HousePartyGame on social media or post your images in our Discord #CommunityContent channel so we can see what you design! Get the picture frame here and start creating, doods: {LINK REMOVED}http://bit.ly/HouseParty_Christmas

The House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack, our first ever seasonal DLC, is available for wishlisting now (and completely free for all players)!

Thanks again to everyone who loved House Party's limited-time event and asked for it to become permanent! We were blown away by how much love you doods had for the seasonal update we added, and we're happy to officially say that House Party’s spooky season will be returning permanently!



As promised, we will also be adding a toggle on/off feature for the holiday content, so you'll be able to turn off the Halloween event in-game without having to uninstall or redownload your DLC! Our team is working hard on finalizing this feature and it's looking like we should move into internal private beta testing for it in early 2023!

This feature should make it super convenient for all of you to manage your seasonal DLC in a straightforward visual selection screen within the Main Menu of the game, so we hope you'll really like it!



What’s in the House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack?

Spooky seasonal decorations, like:
🎃 Pumpkins
👻 Spooky Ghosts
☠ A Cheap Skeleton
🕸 Lots Of Spiderwebs
🕷 One Giant Furry Spider
😱 And Many More To Come!

There’s also a chilling succubus/incubus outfit wearable by all “Halloween-minded” characters with the following accessory pieces:
😈 Scary Horns
🦇 Creepy Bat Wings
😉 And A Sexy, Spiky Tail!



We might even have a special surprise for you, too…

So be sure to add the DLC to your wishlist, doods, and get ready to enjoy petrifying decorations and sinister costumes all year at the House Party!

Love Halloween? Like free stuff? Wishlist it now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229630/House_Party__Halloween_Holiday_Pack/

Hi all,

A hotfix for the 1.0.7 Winter Update just went out. This updates the French translation of the game, and addresses the following two bugs:

• Fixed an issue that could cause objects to be un-interactable in certain areas of the game world
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause the Clothing ConsoleCommand to execute redundant Clothing GameEvents

Those of you that ran into issues with interacting with Derek on the roof, or the SprayPaintCan during Leah's content should no longer experience those problems.

Cheers!

This winter, there are plenty of exciting new decorations around the house! You'll find pine garlands, hanging lights, glowing candy canes, star-shaped lights, ornaments, a snowman, and snowflake window decals all around Madison's house.

The partygoers are dressed with holiday spirit, too; several of House Party's characters are wearing Santa hats, elf hats, and even a festive sweater!

In this cheery update, it will be snowing lightly outside, you'll be able to throw snowballs at other party guests, and Frank will be getting into the spirit of the holidays in a short new themed side-quest! It's a little bigger than our Halloween update was, so we hope you enjoy it!



Will the winter holiday update be a limited-time update like Halloween? Yes and no.

For now, the winter event will be a temporary base game patch. However, because we received such a positive response to our Halloween update, a permanent DLC version of both events will drop sometime early next year - and will be completely free to play! Halloween will be ready first and Winter will follow sometime after that.

Even better, they will also include a much-requested toggle on/off feature, so you will be able to activate or deactivate the seasonal content without uninstalling and reinstalling it!
Keep an eye out, because we'll be making them wishlistable fairly soon!



Just so everyone is aware, we are going to hold off on doing more holiday events in the short term after these ones (but more are still coming). So, while you probably won't see new events for the first half of next year, we are planning new content for Halloween and Winter in late 2023 and will introduce more exciting new holidays beyond that point!

The reason for this is we do need to take some time in early 2023 to work on finalizing the toggle on/off feature, packaging these events into permanent playable DLCs for you, and not get too distracted from focusing on other development that we need to do for the game (like our next mystery guest, VR, and planning Office Party). The holidays are amazing, but they have taken a bit more time than we expected from overall game development, so we do need to slow that timeline a bit!

Also, in the sake of transparency, we wanted to be up-front that things were going really well with PlayStation, but they drastically changed their stance and flipped to to a more Twitch-like position recently…but we’re used to this by now, and we are still discussing content guidelines with them and comparing those guidelines to what’s already on their store with what’s in our game. We have hope they'll come around and work with us on bringing House Party to console. We'll continue to keep you updated on this as time goes on!



Anyway, we have had so much fun doing these seasonal events so far, and we can't wait to expand on them more for you (and add new holidays to the mix)! You've given us amazing feedback to use for our 2023 Halloween and Winter Holiday updates, and now we're going to sit down as a team and plan the best way for us to incorporate this feedback alongside the rest of our development pipeline moving forward!

The winter update is live now...so what are you waiting for? Go play it, partiers! The event will be available to play until January 9th! Deck the balls, doods!

P.S. If you complete the new holiday achievement during the update, you will not have to redo it again when the winter content is a permanent DLC to get 100% completion. However, if you are not around to play during the winter update and you miss the achievement, the achievement will be on the Steam list but unable to complete until the House Party - Winter Holiday Pack is released permanently in Q1 2023.

P.P.S. If you're not feeling the holiday spirit and don't want to play the winter content, don't forget that you can swap back to the regular base game version of the game at any time! To do this, just go to the Steam beta branch and select the previous game version!