Silver Pines — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Silver Pines Hotfix 2 out now on Steam | 2026-10-16 | The second patch for Silver Pines is now live on Steam. This patch fixes some of the softlock situations some players have experienced, increases the max photo count, tweaks the Nightmare mode balance, and more! Read the full patch notes below.Thank you for all your feedback over the last week. It's very useful for us.Patch Notes (Beware Spoilers!) FixesFixed various interactable objects no longer functioning if the player is interrupted when opening them.Fixes to help with a bug that sometimes can cause the Sheriff Department boss fight to not progress correctly.Fixes for several Riverside locations where you could get stuck if you entered t |
| Silver Pines has passed 100,000 units sold across all platforms! | 2026-10-15 | Silver Pines has passed another major milestone as we reach 100,000 units sold!Thank you again for all of your support for Silver Pines. We're so happy that our little five person team has managed to create a game that has resonated with so many.We're also nearly at 1.8k Steam reviews and are the edge of reaching Overwhelmingly Positive status! If you've played Silver Pines, please consider leaving a review and sharing your feedback with us. It helps a lot! |
| Silver Pines Hotfix 1 out now on Steam | 2026-10-09 | We hope you're all enjoying your time in Silver Pines so far! We've been listening to player feedback over the last 24 hours and have put together a hotfix to primarily address the performance and optimization issues some players are experiencing.To help performance, we have introduced a new DirectX 11 launcher option when you boot up Silver Pines. If you are experiencing performance issues, especially on Steam Deck, please launch the game in DirectX 11 and see if that improves your performance.Patch NotesAdded new DirectX 11 launcher option to help improve performanceFixed a few specific scenarios that could cause softlocksFixed an issue wit |
| Silver Pines is Out Now! 🌲 | 2026-10-08 | Find Eddie Velvet. Uncover the mysteries of this town. Survive the nightmares. The search begins now.Silver Pines is Out Now on Steam 🌲Watch the Launch Trailer above!Click here to purchase Silver Pines with a 10% off launch discountIt's been a long road to Silver Pines, but the whole team at Wych Elm and team17 are very excited to welcome you all to our strange little town today as the game goes live on Steam!The hunt for the enigmatic missing musician, Eddie Velvet bought you to this town. But Silver Pines is a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten, somewhere on the edge of a dream and the waking world. You may be successful in your search f |
| Silver Pines pre-orders are now live on Steam! 🌲 | 2026-10-01 | The road to Silver Pines is open. The town waits for you.Pre-order Silver Pines now on Steam and save 10%! 🌲Click here to pre-order Silver PinesPrivate investigator Red Walker finds himself in Silver Pines, a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten, on a job to track down the mysterious musician, Eddie Velvet. As the case begins to reveal the town's dark secrets, Walker soon slips into a strange and nightmarish descent beyond his control.Silver Pines combines classic survival-horror puzzle solving and resource management with metroidvania style exploration. Uncover locked doors and hidden paths, and fight to survive against the nightmarish horr |
| Silver Pines Pricing and Pre-order Information | 2026-09-24 | Silver Pines releases on PC and consoles in just under two weeks. We can’t wait to welcome you all to our quiet little town this fall! As the horrors of Silver Pines creep closer day by day, we have two pieces of news to share with you.🌲 Silver Pines Launch PricingFirst, we can now confirm that Silver Pines will be priced at £21.99/$24.99/€24.99 on Steam and consoles, with an additional 10% launch discount on Steam.Additionally, the Silver Pines Deluxe Edition will be priced at £27.99/$31.99/€31.99 and includes a copy of the game, plus the artbook and official soundtrack.We wanted to get this out there early so there are no surprises ahead o |
| Silver Pines has passed 300k wishlists across all platforms! | 2026-09-22 | Another milestone passed as Silver Pines hits 300k wishlists across Steam and consoles!What a great milestone to hit two weeks out from launch! Thank you for all of your support so far, it means so much to the whole team.And of course, we can't wait to see you all in Silver Pines on October 8th 🌲Wishlist Silver Pines and play the demo ahead of launch: |
| Silver Pines is Steam Deck Verified ahead of its launch on October 8th! | 2026-09-08 | We're excited to announce that Silver Pines is now Steam Deck Verified!An abandoned motel, a cable car, the Rabbit Hole Bar - play Silver Pines on-the-go wherever you are on October 8th! Just one month to go! 🌲Wishlist Silver Pines and play the demo now:Want to see more from Silver Pines?Follow on XFollow on InstagramFollow on TikTokJoin the official Discord |
| Behind the Pines Dev Blog 1: Animation and Rotoscoping | 2026-09-03 | Welcome to Silver PinesWelcome to the first of our Behind the Pines Dev Blogs! We're aiming to share more of these behind-the-scenes blogs in the lead up to Silver Pines' release on October 8th, covering a variety of different topics including the game's worldbuilding, inspirations, and metroidvania elements. But today we wanted to peel back the curtain on Silver Pines' animation and more specifically, the rotoscoping process.This is a topic that we've been asked about a lot, so grab a cup of black coffee and settle in! It's time to head Behind the Pines.What is Rotoscoping?All of the character animation in Silver Pines uses an old-school pro |
| Check out the IGN Preview of Silver Pines! | 2026-08-20 | "The pixelated art is surprisingly fluid and expressive, the voice acting is off-putting and eerie, and every part of the small town you find yourself in is just so ominous and filled with little hair-raising details all over. It’s utterly Lynchian stuff if I ever saw it."Read the full IGN preview of Silver Pines:https://www.ign.com/articles/silver-pines-preview-it-plays-and-looks-like-if-alan-wake-were-made-in-the-90sWishlist Silver Pines on Steam:Click here to join the Silver Pines DiscordKeep up to date with Silver Pines:Follow Silver Pines on XFollow Silver Pines on TikTokFollow Silver Pines on Instagram |
| Silver Pines featured in the Convergence Showcase | 2026-07-16 | Silver Pines was featured in the Convergence Showcase tonight! Watch the video above, as Linus Larsson, designer and co-founder of Wych Elm Games, explains the set-up for Silver Pines and how your journey through our strange little town will begin.What starts as a traditional detective story quickly turns into something more dreamlike as you dive deeper into the secrets of Silver Pines!Wishlist Silver Pines on Steam:Click here to join the Silver Pines DiscordKeep up to date with Silver Pines:Follow Silver Pines on XFollow Silver Pines on TikTokFollow Silver Pines on Instagram |
| Silver Pines has passed 200k wishlists across all platforms! | 2026-06-19 | Silver Pines has passed 200k Wishlists across Steam and consoles! Thank you for all of your support so far!We look forward to seeing you all on October 8th as Silver Pines releases and the hunt for Eddie Velvet begins in earnest.Find out more about Silver Pines and play the demo now: |
| Play the Silver Pines Demo in Steam Next Fest 🌲 | 2026-06-15 | Play the Silver Pines demo this Steam Next Fest! Take your first steps into the mysterious town of Silver Pines, a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the dark secrets hidden in the shadows.Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Play the demo now!Game FeaturesAn experience of mystery and dread: Embark on a journey filled with dread and atmosphere. Haunted by shadows of the past, Silver Pines is waiting to reveal its dark secrets.Survival-horror gameplay: A love letter to classic survival-horror, from |
| Silver Pines Demo Patch 2 now live | 2026-06-12 | Hi everyone,We've just released another patch for the Silver Pines demo, ahead of Steam Next Fest on Monday. This patch adds in some quality of life improvements as well as several bug fixes.The biggest change in this demo patch is the added ability to destroy wooden barricades using the Shotgun. Please share your feedback with us on this change and how it affects backtracking!Read the full patch notes below for more information.Haven't played the demo yet? Download it now!Full Patch NotesAdded a few more hintsSmall UI tweaks to make some fonts more readable, such as in-world interact promptsVisuals update in a few scenes, mostly focusing on |
| Join the Silver Pines Dev AMA on r/Games now | 2026-06-08 | Get your questions in now for the r/Games Silver Pines AMA!Linus and Karl from the dev team at Wych Elm will be answering your questions on Reddit from 3pm BST/8am ET so make sure to get them in early! We're excited to talk to you all in more detail about Silver Pines, game development, our gaming journeys, and more!Check out the AMA and drop your questions in now:https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1u06s6u/ama_silver_pines_were_wych_elm_the_team_behind/ |
| Silver Pines Demo Patch out now | 2026-06-05 | A big thank you to everyone who has tried the Silver Pines demo and provided us with feedback in the Steam Forums or in the Silver Pines Discord. It's extremely helpful to hear what you all think at this stage.We've just put out a patch for the demo that introduces some bugfixes and changes requested by the community. This includes a fix for the performance issues some players have been experiencing when streaming the game.Read the full patch notes below for more information.Full Patch NotesDefault Display type updated to 'Exclusive Fullscreen', should provide improve performance especially while streaming*Added option to disable film grain e |
| Haven't visited Silver Pines yet? Try the demo now! 🌲 | 2026-06-04 | In case you missed it, the Silver Pines demo is available to play now on Steam! Try out our upcoming survival horror metroidvania and leave your feedback in our new Discord server.Private investigator Red Walker finds himself in Silver Pines, a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten, in the middle of nowhere on a job to track down Eddie Velvet. A musician who has vanished. As the case begins to reveal a dark past, Walker soon slips into a strange and nightmarish descent beyond his control.Embark on a journey filled with dread and atmosphere. Haunted by shadows of the past, Silver Pines is waiting to reveal its dark secrets.Silver Pines releases |
| Silver Pines releases on October 8th! Play the demo now! | 2026-06-01 | The show is about to start. I wouldn't want to miss this for the world.Silver Pines will release on Steam on October 8th! Play the demo now and step into the shoes of Red Walker as he slips into a strange and nightmarish descent beyond his control.Find Eddie Velvet. Unravel the mysteries of Silver Pines. Survive the nightmare.📼 Watch the new Silver Pines Release Date and Demo trailer featured in the Horror Game Awards Showcase:Silver Pines combines classic survival-horror puzzle solving and inventory management with disorientating, sprawling exploration of the dreamlike town. Begin a new descent into darkness as you slowly untangle the town' |
| Watch the first 12 minutes of Silver Pines Gameplay! | 2026-05-26 | Take your first steps into the mysterious town of Silver Pines with the exclusive 12 minute gameplay preview hosted on IGN. Check out the video below.And don't miss the Steam demo, live on June 1st! We look forward to welcoming you all to Silver Pines 🌲 Watch the Gameplay Preview:Silver Pines is launching on Steam in 2026!Find out more and wishlist Silver Pines now: |
| Watch the new Silver Pines Gameplay Trailer from the Future Games Show | 2026-03-12 | I don't remember going to this place. I thought I was somewhere else.Watch the new Silver Pines Gameplay trailer from the Future Games Show:Enter Silver Pines, a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten, somewhere on the cusp of the waking world and a bad dream.Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.🌲 Uncover the town's mysteries💀 Survive against nightmarish horrors🧰 Manage scarce resources🔦 Explore a haunting and surreal world🧩 Solve a variety of eng |