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Steam announcementView the game on SifterOctober 3, 2026

Update: Private Play Again, Easy Mode and launch fixes

Fixes

  • Mansion: you can no longer get trapped inside the stair wall.
  • Multiplayer search no longer gets stuck on "Searching…".
  • Windows: Alt-Tab no longer leaves extra "Fickle Allies" windows behind.
  • Right-clicking at a player just out of Steal reach no longer turns you around.

Private Play Again

  • Play Again keeps your group together in the same room, with the same code.
  • Friends wait up to 12 minutes for the host to reopen the room.
  • Create Room always makes a new room; Rejoin brings back your last one.

New

  • Easy Mode for your first matches: no kills, no Groups, less XP.
  • Private rooms: choose your own scare settings.
  • Final minute: every crystal not yet deposited is shown on everyone's map.
  • A Steal now tells its victim who took their crystals.
  • Turning around can bring a surprise: a failing lamp, and something standing at the end of the light.
  • First-match hints explain Kill, Steal and Groups.
  • The Jump-Scare Warning now shows at every game start.
  • The game starts in your Steam language, and new players start at 30% volume.

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