Dead Estate — patch notes and updates
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| Console ports! | 2026-03-26 | Those of you who follow us on Twitter or kept up with some of our Steam posts may recall that we confirmed console ports for Dead Estate shortly after the release of the Goodnight update. While I can't announce a solid release date for those ports right now, I wanted to write provide some updates on them because we very recently hit a milestone in their development: we've pretty much wrapped up working on the Nintendo Switch port!I anticipate some questions regarding this post, so I'll do my best to answer the big ones:What platforms will Dead Estate be ported to?In addition to the aforementioned Nintendo Switch port, we've also nearly finish |
| 2026 Publisher Sale | 2026-02-07 | Today kicks off the big 2 Left Thumbs Publisher Sale!Explore the full event page to scope out loads of discounts, free games, bundles and more! Dead Estate is 66% off!Be sure to check the Bundle List for any additional discounts that may be available to you NEW RELEASEYesterday saw the release of Underboard, a new team-based tactical roguelike autobattler!(The lead artist of which did the awesome custom art for this sale!) COMING SOON 4 more games have received official release dates! Each of which offers a public demo. Dice A Million - Dice-rolling Deckbuilder Roguelike - February 25thCrawling Angels - Physics-based Puzzle Horror - March 13t |
| 4th Anniversary Daily Deal | 2025-10-19 | Dead Estate is 66% off ALL WEEK!!This is an all-time-low discount. Don't miss out!It's hard to believe it's already been four whole years since the full release of Dead Estate, and that we're already coming up on a year since the final update!Every one of us at Milkbar Lads is happy to know that people are still enjoying this game that we devoted years of our lives to working on and we hope that you guys continue enjoying it well into the future! :) Console ports are still underway and I've been working on them pretty much all year. I'd be lying if I said that there hasn't been lots of headaches involved with developing these things, but the |
| Steam Zombies vs Vampires Fest 2025 | 2025-05-26 | For the next week, 100s of ghoulish games are on sale around Steam! Dead Estate is 50% off for this time. Or it's 50% on, depending on your perspective. Buy the game in a bundle with its OST for additional savings! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23453/Dead_Estate__OST/ Or maybe you're in the mood for more general action roguelike excitement? Check out this bundle of highly variable action-heavy roguelike games, 3/4 of which are also discounted this week! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/44737/Ultimate_Action_Roguelike_Variety/ More Zombies and Vampires? Ok ok, calm down there Van Helsing! There's enough undead to go around for eve |
| Schism v1.0 🔹 OUT NOW ♦️ | 2025-03-07 | After 16 months in Early Access, Schism is now in v1.0! You can read this post from the developer if you want a fall breakdown of everything added during that time. KEY FEATURES Switch Frequencies to dodge through a red/blue bullet hell 230+ Relics to power up with 60+ Weapons with 40+ Mods and "Meta-Mods" 26 gods to worship, which serve in place of Classes 8 Main Stats to customize as you level up Too many secondary stats to count A pool of 12 Floors, mixed together for each new run 17 bosses each offering unique challenges MANY more layers to discover as you play! 30% OFF ALL WEEK https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51187/Schism__OST/ Tha |
| 2025 Publisher Sale | 2025-02-07 | Today kicks off the big 2 Left Thumbs Publisher Sale! Explore the full event page to scope out loads of discounts, free games, bundles and more! How about a FREE game?! Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre launched TODAY, and is available 100% for free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2997920/Croak_Crusader_Spawn_of_the_Spore_Spectre/ This free title introduces the general gameplay, protagonist and antagonists of the upcoming (paid) release, Croak Crusader: the Champion of Canada. Be sure to add that to your Wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152060/Croak_Crusader_the_Champion_of_Canada/ COMING SOON Very VERY soon! Novus O |
| The 2024 Steam Awards are here 🎉 | 2024-11-29 | It has been 1 month since 'Goodnight' the final content update for Dead Estate launched. This came 3 years after our Steam launch, and 4 years since the original browser game was first released on Newgrounds. While Dead Estate has been a Labor of Love, we could never have supported the game this long without all the love you've shown in turn! What better way to celebrate the final expansion than to shoot for an official Steam Award? Competition is bound to be tough, so every vote counts! And while Dead Estate won't be receiving any more content updates, that doesn't mean the work has ended... We're pleased to announce that console ports are a |
| Full OST Now Available! | 2024-11-13 | THE COMPLETE OST Our apologies for the delay while final mastering was completed on all lossless (WAV) tracks. But the full OST is now available! If you already own it on Steam, it should update automatically. This includes all the new tracks added as a part of the Good Night Update (renaming a few tracks and reorganizing their order), as well as separating the Assignment Anya tracks into a Disc 2. This brings the total up to 79 tracks, totaling just shy of 2 hours! The decision was made to leave the price at just $5. Both newcomers and Dead Estate owners can use this "complete the set" bundle for additional savings! https://store.steampowere |
| Patch 1.7.5 change log | 2024-11-10 | - Fixed a crash caused by starting the game as certain characters (such as BOSS) with all curses enabled. - Fixed a crash which would sometimes occur while using the Boomerang or Record weapons. - Renamed "Camera-mouse focus" (in the game settings menu) to "Camera-crosshair focus." - Tweaked the descriptions of "Camera-crosshair focus" and "Camera-player focus." - Corrected typos with some medals. Small one with a couple crash fixes, that's all! |
| Patch 1.7.4 change log | 2024-11-09 | - (Hopefully) fixed a crash which would occur upon reaching the main menu for some players. This is another crash I had trouble recreating myself, so it could take multiple patches to get this one fully ironed out. - Added an option under audio settings that lets you disable weapon firing sound effects. - Added two more treasure rooms to the Shrine floor to encourage visiting it pre-loop (it *is* intended as a shortcut to the dream route, after all). - Boosted health for all phases of the new final boss. - Last phase of the new final boss's body segments now take slightly less damage than the head. The head still takes full damage. - Damage n |
| Hotfix 1.7.3a change log | 2024-11-02 | Last patch caused a new crash to emerge which would happen whenever you'd retry a run after dying. This hotfix SHOULD amend that issue. I wasn't really able to replicate the crash myself, but I removed the line of code that was causing it to happen. That should've done the trick! |
| Patch 1.7.3 change log | 2024-11-02 | - In the "No More Running" challenge, you can now move whenever enemies are not on screen. - Added an option to disable certain effects used by the new floors under Video settings > Effects settings. Disabling these may help improve performance on some hardware. - Decreased Oko's HP (both with and without wool). - Updated Cordelia's sprite on the Curse select screen to use her correct skin tone. - Corrected the name of the "Uselessness" challenge being wrong on "The Swimmer" achievement on Steam. - Increased the hitbox height for Fuji's gloves (and all glove-type weapons). - Fixed a bug which caused the wrong music track to be played on the m |
| Patch 1.7.2 change log | 2024-10-31 | - Added the new music video as a playable video from the movie gallery (unlocked by clearing the dream route with every character). - Optimized shader effects used on the new floors, this should hopefully boost performance a bit for people with lower-end hardware. - Hidden achievements now show up as a series of question marks in the challenge book. Should hopefully make it clearer how to unlock some of the new challenges. - Lowered the volume of explosions when multiple explosions are happening at once. - Fixed Axel's hidey hole not spawning in the Shrine, Dream, Mindscape, Nightmare, and Ruined Estate floors. - Fixed a bug which caused cult |
| Patch 1.7.1 change log | 2024-10-30 | - Increased Pierrot Deux's HP a slight amount. - Fixed the "Erase save data" and "Rebuild save file" options being invisible. - (Probably) fixed a crash which would sometimes occur during level transitions. I wasn't able to replicate this one, but I corrected a block of code that was likely causing it. - (Also probably) fixed the final boss's second phase sometimes getting stuck in walls. Again, I couldn't replicate this one either but I added some code that should prevent this from happening. - Fixed a number of new items not having a visible item description in shops. - Reduced some effects during the new final boss fight to hopefully boost |
| GOOD NIGHT!: Dead Estate's final update is here! | 2024-10-28 | Artwork by Hibachi! (@HibachiX1) Artwork by Pkettles! (@PitooKettles) THE FINAL UPDATE IS HERE! I had a LOT more written here originally, but for brevity’s sake I think all I really have to say here is thank you all for sticking with this project and seeing it through to its end with us. I’m sure that if you’re reading this you wanna know what’s in the update, so here it is! NEW STUFF, CHANGES, AND FIXES New ending route with 3 full floors! Includes three full-fledged new floors: the Dream, Mindscape, and Nightmare; including unique enemies, bosses, and environments along with a new final boss and ending cutscene. New optional floor: “The Shr |
| Update #6 will release on October 28th! | 2024-09-28 | Hey everyone, this is Jack! After about a year of work on this update, we're pleased to announce that we'll finally be able to share it with all of you on October 28th! The Goodnight Update is gonna be the final content update we release for Dead Estate EVER, so we really wanted to take some time and go all-out on this one. We ended up working on this update for almost as long as the game's initial Steam release and we ended up with a lot of content. I know it's been a while since Assignment Anya came out, so at least a few of you are probably eager to find out what, exactly, is in this update. In short, Goodnight includes four new full-size |
| Steam Summer Sale 2024 | 2024-06-27 | The annual Steam Summer Sale is here!! Thousands of games are on sale across Steam, including a 50% discount on Dead Estate! Consider grabbing the game bundled with 5 other unique and very positively received roguelikes for additional savings (or scope out one of the other bundles offered this sale). https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34319/We_Like_Roguelikes/ The entire 2 Left Thumbs publishing catalog is on sale. Be sure to browser that selection to see what other quality games might tickle your fancy. UPDATE? We don't have much to share at this time for Update 6 since last month's post. Progress has been steady, and things are really co |
| Update #6 status! (AKA first update on the final update) | 2024-05-13 | It's been almost five months since Assignment Anya now and I'm sure that at least a few of you are wondering what the status is on the final update which we first promised in August of 2022. Originally, we gave that update an estimated release period of summer 2023, which we've obviously blown waaaay past now due to how much the previous update ballooned in size. Finally, we're prepared to share some info about this long-delayed update. I'm not going to offer an exact release date for the update as I think that'd be jumping the gun, but I CAN say that at the moment, our work on the update is somewhere between halfway and two-thirds of the way |
| Publisher Sale (Jan 19-22nd) || Up to 75% OFF | 2024-01-19 | 3 YEARS A little over 3 years ago, I announced publicly that 2 Left Thumbs would be entering the indie game scene as a publisher, helping to bring Dead Estate to Steam! Never could I have guess what a smash hit this game would be. Using that as a proper jumping off point, I worked hard to find promising new indies in need of some extra support. And as of today, there are 8 released titles in that catalog, with many more to come! It's my greatest privilege to be able to herald these great developers and their games, and to help them reach new audiences. PUBLISHER SALE To celebrate this amazing milestone, the entire 2 Left Thumbs catalog is dis |
| Patch 1.6.1h quick change log | 2023-12-28 | This one is just a little patch to fix some stuff I missed in the big one that I posted earlier. - Added an option to toggle v-sync on and off in the video settings menu. It's set to off by default (although it was enabled by default in the previous patch). - Fixed an issue where the game still wasn't displaying properly on ultra-widescreen displays. Enabling v-sync should give you a small performance boost in most cases, although there are some hardware situations where it can actually worsen your performance. I enabled v-sync by default in the previous patch (and completely forgot to add an option to toggle it) and that seemed to cause issu |