You have been invited to move to the Underworld on October 1st, 2024

Greetings, creatures of the night.

As you can probably reasonably assume from the title and the accompanying image, the new Release Date for HorrorVale has been revealed!

HorrorVale, the complete and full experience will release on Steam, Itch, and Gamejolt on October 1st, 2024.

"Oh... So the delay ended up just being about a year after all"

And... Yeah. Kinda.

Last year as we got closer to our original release date of October 10th, the reality of just how much left we had to do really set in, and we had no choice but to announce the game's delay.

We promised that we would not reveal a new release date until we could be absolutely confident in a new one.

And now we are.

In previous Progress Reports we have thrown around "potential" windows of when it might release. Q1 2024, then Q2 2024, and ultimately this is the date we've decided on.

In truth, it is actually more time than we need to finish it.

At our current pace, it's almost without question that the game will be complete at the end of June or in early July.

"But...", we thought...

Does that mean it should release then?

Sure, all of the content would be done. You could jump in, 100% the game, and probably have a fun time...

But "Done" doesn't necessarily mean "Fully Tested", "Well balanced", or "Satisfying".

So we've decided the best course of action would be to give us a window of around 2-3 months after the game's completion so we can focus entirely on polish, testing, marketing, and putting together that "Webs Prequel Comic" we've talked about before.

With this in mind, October 1st is just the ideal time. Not just because of "Halloween", but also to give us that window.

As for the day, we thought it made the most sense to give folks the entire month to chip away at the game (Or just play through the entire thing in a few days if you're an insane person) before Halloween, because very few people are probably gonna wanna play this kind of game in November.

So yeah, there's very little else to say about it. This is the new Release Date, we are fully committed to it, and everyone on the team are feeling good and comfortable about it.

We know it's been a very long wait as we've worked on this game for the past few years. 5 Years if you hopped on the HorrorVale train in 2019 like many people did.

We can hardly wait to see what everyone thinks about it. Everyone who has worked on this and played it themselves is very, very excited for you all to experience it yourselves.

Please use this time to make your final preparations, make amends with people you have wronged, write your wills, and get ready to be welcomed into the Underworld October 1st, 2024!

Until then...

Fare thee well...

-Dustin Andrews

Lead Designer, Batworks Software