The wait is over! The enhanced update to Dark Deception Chapters 1-3 and the (brand new) 4th chapter are officially released! Get it now while it's on sale!
It's finally almost time! Dark Deception Enhanced is finished (you can watch it on YouTube) and Chapter 4 is almost done! Dark Deception CH4 will release on September 28th. The enhanced versions of CH 1-3 will release at the same time. Thank you to all of our supportive fans for your positivity & patience! You all are the reason that we make games!
Hey everyone! We have just pushed a patch that includes new languages and difficulty adjustments. School will now be quite a bit harder! Malak's Phantom Form has also been buffed globally. The languages (and their respective contributors) included in this update are: German - Max Gehre Russian - Anna Funtime Chinese Traditional - Pen Livings Chinese Simplified - Pen Livings French - Louis Bress…
Hey everyone! The past few days Vince and I have been working on fixing the most important bugs still left from the launch of Chapter 3. Thank you all for the feedback and bug hunting! Here are the most important fixes/changes: · Teleport Exploits There has been many people using the teleport power to try and get out of bounds in both the Sewer and Circus. I have tried fixing the most important…
The wait is finally over! Chapter 3 will be out on June 24th at 8PM PST (midnight EST). Get ready to run for your life from dread duckies & clown gremlins! As usual, we will continue to improve the chapter even after release based on feedback we receive from our community. In addition, we will also be expanding our available languages after launch - adding simplified & traditional Chinese. Japa…
Chapter 3 is nearing completion and I plan to announce a release date over the next 2 weeks as well as launch the coming soon page for Chapter 3. It won't be much longer now! We also have some other DD related big news that we may or may not announce with the Chapter 3 release date. On a side note, Dark Deception's merch store for apparel & home items just launched on Theespring. You can find i…
Hey everybody, There's been many reports of the game crashing on startup after the 1.4 update. We've tracked down the issue to the launcher that starts up before the game, it has now been removed. I'd appreciate to hear if this issue has been resolved (for the people who had the game crash) Other than that, update also has a few minor bug-fixes.
Hey everyone, We've been hard at work on Dark Deception the past few days. This is a pretty big update, full of bug fixes and quality of life changes and features! The additions: Tablet Map Zoom You can now zoom out the map by pressing M to make finding shards or escape points easier. Launcher We have brought back the launcher from Chapter 1, here you can change your keybinds and stuff like res…
Hey everyone! We've been working very hard to find and fix as many bugs as we can. Fixes · Opening the ring altar after beating the Hotel erases save file. · Secrets not unlocking in the Extras Menu. · Watchers moving while being in camera view. · Replay mode not unlocking properly. · Other minor fixes. Some of the bugs that are harder to catch are the ones we can't reproduce ourselves, so we'r…
Hey everyone, I'm trying to address the black screen issue after school, as well as the resume button disappearing after beating school and hotel not showing up in the replayable levels list. I pushed a patch that tries to fix all of these. Apologies once again for the inconvenience, and thank you for your support! EDIT: Patch 1.3.3 is now out, this should fully fix the black screen after schoo…
Hey everyone, We would like to apologize for any inconveniences caused by the bugs that came with the new Chapter 2 release. Save Corruption I have tracked down the save corruption bug, it was present in the Hotel level and is now patched. I advise everyone to start a new game to make sure that your save won't get corrupted. School End Cutscene A bug was also present at the end of the school le…
Hey Everyone! Dark Deception Chapter 2 is only a few days away. The Chapter 2 release was delayed from Jan 4th to make some fixes. We have not announced an official launch date yet, but barring a last minute catastrophe, it should be on Steam by the 21st or sooner. In the meantime, to help tide you over Devlog #4 is now up on Youtube! Enjoy and thanks for your patience as we prepare to launch C…
Hey everyone, we've released an update for Chapter 1 that adds Achievements and a custom mouse cursor. If you already got S rank for Hotel before this update, the achievement should unlock as soon as you get to the title screen. Please let us know if the achievements unlock correctly, we've briefly tested them, but it's my first time implementing achievements for Steam :)
Hello everyone! Many have asked about Chapter 2's release date and I've delayed on a response until I had a more accurate answer. However, I can now say that Dark Deception Chapter 2 will release on January 4th, 2019. About 3 months for each Chapter will likely be the normal amount of required development time. If we finish earlier, we might release a bit sooner than that date. However, first w…
There's a a lot of excitement building up for Chapter 2, which is great :). Nikson and I are hard at work on wrapping it up and making improvements based on feedback from Chapter 1. That said, we are targeting a late November/early December release for Chapter 2 and it will retail for $6.25 USD. You will also have the option to buy the full game in advance at the discounted price of $19.99. If…
Hey everyone, we've seen a lot of people complain about the mouse smoothing present in the game. I just pushed a quick patch adding a toggle setting in the options menu, for all of you who want that accuracy and precision :)
Good news! I've heard the feedback and I understand your concerns that Dark Deception is way too easy ;). Nikson and I have updated the monkeys and their AI to provide a more robust and fair gameplay experience for Chapter 1! Here's what's new: 1. Improved Monkey AI - the monkeys no longer chain together and will each actively seek out different paths to reach you. This means you can get cut of…
Dark Deception has passed 10k units in 4 days! It's a great start and a big thanks from myself (Vinny) and Nikson to everyone who has given our silly little horror game a try. Keep helping us share the game with other gamers and Youtubers that love horror :)!
Good news! We have an update with some bug fixes and improvements incoming. Stay tuned! Here's a list of some of the changes that will be in the update: - Map now has a detector that points to remaining shards and level objectives once the shard count is reduced a certain amount. - Death restart now goes to the last save point. It no longer restarts the entire level. - Bug fixed where upon game…
Hello everyone! Let me take a moment to breath a long and weary sigh of relief. Dark Deception is the effort of myself (Vinny)and Nikson (creator of TJOC: Story Mode). As everyone who has been following DD since the original Unity demo (back in 2014) knows, it has been a really long and painful journey. However, every journey worth taking starts with a single step and this release is ours. I ca…
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