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As we mentioned in our last update, we’re providing an expanded demo to everyone who backed Early Access.  Emails have just gone out with instructions for how to access the demo. 

If you haven’t received that email and you did back any tier that comes with beta access, please get in touch with us at [email protected] and we’ll make sure you to send you the demo download instructions. 

Thanks everyone who backed the project! We’re planning some exciting updates to our current demo, so even if you didn’t back early access, there’s still more coming down the line that we’re excited to share with you all. 

Enjoy, 

The Drowned Lake Team

We know how important it is to be able to save your progress, even for a short demo. You don’t want to lose your place in the story and have to start over just because a package arrived downstairs, or your cat demanded pets right now, or dinner was burning on the stove. That’s why we’ve added a save/load system, out now!

Play the Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake demo at your leisure, and it will autosave right where you left off.

We’re also hard at work on controller support (thanks to your incredible patronage!). Once controller support is complete, everyone who backed the beta tier or higher will also gain access to our previously streamer-only longer demo created for the Games That Ace It event (running Oct 25 to Nov 1)! So keep your eyes on your emails for future updates. 

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy keeping your progress in our current demo🩸🔮

Hi Monsters! We've been hard at work fulfilling orders. We're waiting on one backer to pick their letterman jacket colours (and if you see this, please check your spam folder!), but other than those, all physical rewards have shipped! 

If you ordered physical rewards, you'll have received an email from us with your link to collect your stickers and patches, and/or a shipping notification that your t-shirt/jacket is on the way. If anything is missing, please email us at [email protected] and we'll get it sorted out asap!

We're hard at work on the game, and things are moving ahead at a pace we're happy with. All of our narrative writing is done, and we're just editing and getting the Spanish EU translation done. Spanish LATAM is on the way, and we've got our translator lined up. Our main focus now is programming. We're looking forward to welcoming everyone with beta keys sometime in the late fall, and we'll keep you all posted as we get closer to that goalpost. We're also moving ahead with casting this week, so keep an eye on our socials for that casting call for voice efforts!

Thanks again for your support.

Orders are locked and cards are charged, and that means one thing... physical rewards are heading your way! We're processing orders this week and getting all of our physical rewards shipped. We've never done this before, so we're not sure exactly what the process will look like, but we'll send you another update when all of the physical rewards are sent. 

Programming is coming along well! We're working on our NPCs and portraits, and animations are in progress. We've got a list of our voice efforts, and we'll be auditioning voice actors once physical rewards are shipped. We can't wait to get you all playing Drowned Lake!

We’ve got 85% of our surveys back, and we’ll be locking orders on Tuesday afternoon. Once we lock, backers will have a final 48 hours to get any remaining surveys in. That means you have 3 full days to pick up any add-ons you didn’t choose during the campaign!

The Monsterhearts 2 Welcome to Drowned Lake TTRPG supplement has been a really popular post-campaign add-on. You can check out that, and all the other add-ons we have in the survey. Be sure to get yours in soon if you haven’t yet!

Thank you🦇🩸

Hi everyone! Backer surveys are ready, and we've sent out our "Smoke Test" (a process where BackerKit sends surveys to 5% of backers, to identity any potential problems before the bulk of the surveys go out).

To make sure that we're at our computers and ready to help with any problems, the rest of the surveys will go out first thing Monday morning (Pacific time). Have a great weekend, and looking forward to connecting with everyone on Monday!