Hi everyone! Recently Vote 4 Holt published an essay style video about mystery games and featured The Painscreek Killings as his case study. He invited 4 players to play The Painscreek Killings and compiled their approach to the game and what route they took. If you already played TPK but want to experience it once again, it is very enjoyable to watch and gives a chance to revisit the town of P…
Hi everyone! We have released The Making of The Painscreek Killings to be available for purchase! To celebrate launch week, it will also be 10% off. The Making of The Painscreek Killings is a 206-page digital book for fans of the game. The purpose of this book is to provide a look into EQ Studios' journey in designing a detective walking simulator. The book includes an introduction, the history…
Hi everyone, Indiegogo reached out to us and we have decided to continue the Scene Investigators Kickstarter campaign on their platform. For those who have missed the Kickstarter campaign, The Making of The Painscreek Killings will be available again as part of a perk or an add-on. Indiegogo page: ('The Making of The Painscreek Killings' is only in English and as a digital download in PDF forma…
Hi everyone, We are currently developing 'The Making of The Painscreek Killings', a 90+ pages jam-packed information on how TPK was created from beginning to end. It is currently available on Scene Investigators' Kickstarter page as part of a pledge or an add-on item. ('The Making of The Painscreek Killings' is only in English and as a digital download in PDF format.) EQ Studios
Hi everyone! We would like to inform you that a Kickstarter launch for Scene Investigators is well underway. It has been approved and a pre-launch page is up. Scene Investigators has been entirely self-funded from the start of its development and is currently in its last stretch of development. However, to substantialize our vision of Scene Investigators to the quality and level that we and our…
Hi everyone! It's been a while since we posted news other than patch notes. Today, we'd like to share with you the interview video our game director had with Arc Xcala from Kyber Cave Productions about how The Painscreek Killings was developed. Hope you'll enjoy and have a happy Halloween! EQ Studios
7/6/2022: 1. Added 3840x1600 and 5120x2160 resolutions. 2. Made Controller Settings scale better to different aspect ratios. Let us know if you face any scaling issues with specific resolutions.
1/10/2022: 1. Fixed 3840x2160 resolution. 2. Enabled Sprint Toggle and Subtitles on by default. 3. Fixed an issue where if you delete saveoptionsData.txt, the game changes your Brightness to 0.1 and Master Volume to 0. 1/18/2022: 1. Fixed a bug in the Portuguese (Brazil) translation.
6/28/2021: 1. Fixed an issue with 2560x1600 resolution. 6/14/2021: 1. Added 2560x1600 resolution. 2. Fixed a bug where if you complete the game without saving even once (ex. leave the Village instantly), and go to the Start Menu and click Continue, the save data will corrupt, as there is no save data to begin with. Now instead there will be no Continue button.
2/3/2021: 1. Fixed one more error in a Diary entry in the Italian localization. 2. Fixed a few mistranslated dates (Spain Spanish, Latin America Spanish, Italian, and Polish).
12/4/2020: 1. Fixed some incorrect dates. 2. Fixed a bug where if you Save and Quit while in the animation for crouching, your crouching speed and walking speed would be reversed. 3. Fixed some Japanese translation errors
Hi everyone! We've just launched Scene Investigators store page on Steam. Although the game is set for release sometime in 2021, we're excited to share a demo of the game with you right now! To check out Scene Investigators on Steam, click here . To sign-up and receive a download link for the demo, click here . Thank you, hope to see you around! - EQS
9/15/2020: 1. Added Spain Spanish, Latin America Spanish, Italian, and Polish languages. (Reminder that you can find them in Steam>Library>Games>The Painscreek Killings>Right Click>Properties>Language or in-game under Language Options)
Hi everyone! Spain Spanish, Latin America Spanish, Italian, and Polish are now available in The Painscreek Killings! We're thrilled to bring this to our game and we hope that all our international fans can enjoy the game in their own language. Localization was done by Level Up Translation!
Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce that we are releasing 4 new localizations for TPK in the near future! Latin American Spanish, Spain Spanish, Italian and Polish are now in the works! We don’t have a release date yet but we will keep you posted. We really hope you can enjoy our game in your native language!
June 17, 2020 Note that these patch notes are kept vague to avoid spoilers. - Fixed an issue with the reload function. - Fixed some logic issues concerning the time of deaths of certain characters being inconsistent among a few sources.
Hi everyone! Korean is now available in The Painscreek Killings! We're thrilled to bring this to our game and we hope that all our Korean fans can enjoy the game in their own language.
Recently a small group of users have faced an issue where the game would freeze on startup after the Unity logo. We aren't quite sure of why this issue occurs, and are currently looking into it. However, we do have a workaround so that you can still play the game. First disable cloud syncing for The Painscreek Killings. (Right Click TPK in Steam, Properties, Updates, Uncheck Enable Steam Cloud)…
November 1, 2019 - Fixed a collider issue in the Hunting Cabin. November 9, 2019 - Fixed a issue where the background transparency setting of the localization pages would not save. November 11, 2019 - Fixed a bug where the outputlog was not being produced on crash sometimes.
October 26, 2019 - Fixed a bug in certain languages where you'd be unable to delete photos. October 30, 2019 - Added the ability to download and switch between languages in-game. - Made a few internal changes to try to fix issues with falling through the world.
Hello everyone! We're very excited to announce our next game, Scene Investigators ! We are currently working very hard on it and hope to show more very soon. Subscribe to our mailing list for more information about Scene Investigators. Please check out our social media too! Twitter - Facebook - YouTube -
Hi Everyone! We're very excited to announce that that we've begun work on an additional localization for The Painscreek Killings. Korean will be coming soon! We don't have a definite release window for it, but we'll roll the translation out as soon as it is finished.
Hi everyone! Hungarian is now available in The Painscreek Killings! We're thrilled to bring this to our game and we hope that all our Hungarian fans can enjoy the game in their own language.
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