- You're invited to die! Try out 'The Masquerade' Demo - 10 October 2024
The Masquerade Demo is now available on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2595530/The_Masquerade/ The Masquerade is a murder party game from 2 to 8 players where you're simultaneously a target and a hunter. Impersonate NPCs to hide from your hunter, while completing tasks to unmask and eliminate your target. https://i.imgur.com/DqdvhQM.gif Demo content Play the standard gamemode on the manor map without limits Customize your games: Experiment with various scoring options and other parameters. Open up your own private server and play with a group of friends, or join public servers. The final game will include: Additional game modes (including team-based game modes) Additional maps, each with their own set of tasks & quirks. Additional game options Cosmetics unlockable with in-game coins, earned at the end of each round. Quickmatch functionality Gamepad support French, German, Kor…
- New Update! Proximity Voice Chat, Matriarch Skins + Steam Daily Deal - 21 April 2024
Hey Sinners, V11 is live! What’s new? Proximity voice chat Experience a whole new way to play The Matriarch with the proximity voice and text chat. This game option can be activated by the host in the lobby. When activated, players are only able to communicate with other players in their field of vision (both with the vocal & text chat). Be careful though, the Matriarch can hear you if she’s nearby! For other players to hear you, make sure to activate your microphone in the player options (turned off by default). You can lower the volume of the music / sound if the volume of other player voices is too low. https://i.imgur.com/pQQwpgz.png Matriarch skins It was time for our dear matriarch to renew her wardrobe. Go to mephisto’s workshop and shop for accessories to personalize your Matriarch. New ones will be added over time! https://i.imgur.com/VYEvHZY.png Minor improvements Game setting…
- New map, new skin, new...GAME !!! - 6 October 2023
Hey Sinners, V10 is live! What's new? New map ‘Windmill’, with 5 pillars, new tasks and unique interactions, this new map is aimed at more experienced players (I recommend to play it with tiles x1) New sacrifice device ‘The Pit’: Make sinners fall to their death for 900coins! New game option ‘random code visibility’: Spice up your games by making the code more unpredictable to uncover. New statistics screen: You think Bertha is always a sinner? Time to fact check! (unfortunately the data is not collected retroactively) Next, I will investigate proximity chat, matriarch skins and more game customization options. I'm also thrilled to announce ‘The Masquerade’ ! In this murder party game, you impersonate BOTs to hide from your hunter, while gathering enough clues to unmask & eliminate your target. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2595530/The_Masquerade/ If you enjoyed The Matriarch, ther…
- New Map with 2 Matriarchs, Spectator Mode, 한국어 and more! - 23 May 2023
Hey Sinners, Patch 9 is now live! This is the biggest update so far, and it contains a lot of exciting stuff! https://i.imgur.com/MlO8oct.png New Cemetery Map with 2 Matriarchs The cemetery is only playable with 2 matriarchs, thus recommended for 6-8 players. The initial plan was to have 2 votes per night, but it made the matriarchs too powerful, instead each matriarch player gets to vote once every alternative night. The cemetery is the largest map, featuring 6 new tasks, 22 Nuns and even some hidden secrets (croak)! Spectator mode You can now join on-going games and spectate them, at the end of the game, all spectators automatically join the lobby. The main intention is to make it easier for players to find games, rather than having to wait for an active lobby. 한국어 / Korean language 이렇게 많은 한국 선수들이 게임을 즐기는 모습을 보니 반갑습니다. 번역 도구를 사용하여 게임에 한국어를 추가했습니다. 번역이 이상하거나 정확하지 않은 경우 디스코드에 가입하여 알려주세요…
- 50 000 Sinners, Thank you! + patch 0.8 is live - 10 March 2023
The Matriarch gathered 50 000 Sinners around the world! When I started developing the Matriarch as a side project 1.5 years ago, I couldn't imagine it would one day reach this milestone. To all the streamers, players, and everyone who helped making and growing this game, THANK YOU! It has been pure joy seeing people from all over the world playing it, for the occasion I made a reactions compilation, enjoy! v0.8 is live! This update mainly makes the game more intuitive / accessible for new players. I've added visual feedback to help communicating the goals & progress when playing as a Sinner. Interfaces have also been reworked / polished (position & states of buttons) so it all feels more smooth. https://i.imgur.com/RMTVeGz.png I'm aware that the lack of players is a problem to find games at all time, by making the game more accessible for new players and by reaching out to more content…
- 0.7 is live! New Traitor Role, dig as Ghosts, save game options and more! - 31 January 2023
Hey Sinners, The new traitor role is here! https://i.imgur.com/sqciXEE.png What's New? New traitor role & achievement. Betray other sinners by locking trapdoors and slowing down their progress, be the last Sinner alive and kill the matriarch to win! If at least 3 sinners (including the traitor) are alive, Sinners have a chance to vote and neutralize the traitor before a sacrifice occurs. Ghost can now dig (spook over tiles)! Remember that you can select the dig cooldown in the game options if you want to make it more or less effective. Change: It's not possible for Ghosts to see the code and communicate it to their peers anymore Steam cards have been added earlier this month, along with community badges and emojis A new button in the game options menu allows you to set the settings back to what they were in the previous round With more things to buy in Mephisto's workshop, I've decided…
- v0.6 is live! Ghost skins, new game options, christmas event... - 10 December 2022
Hey Sinners, v0.6 is finally out, thanks for your patience! What's new? Ghost skins are available to purchase in Mephisto's workshop, they're purely cosmetic, but they will give you some achievements! The spooking area has been changed from a rectangle to a circle shape To celebrate the Christmas spirit and the end of the year, you'll get x2 coins during the month of December! 2 new music tracks have been added (in the lobby and the monastery) 2 new game options: Spook cooldown & Sabotage timer Bug fix Text doesn't wrap appropriately in chat Chinese and Spanish languages are not appropriately saved when restarting the game The Matriarch hint game option is not working properly with the new 'signal' feature Matriarch sound playing when loading the game Some achievements are unlocked when the matriarch quits the game Ghosts being able to escape and dig on the monastery map Various localiz…
- Network optimization, new achievements, new 'signal Matriarch' feature and more! - 13 November 2022
Hey Sinners, Patch 0.5 is live! What's new? Network Latency shouldn't impact Sinners' movement when they perform their tasks anymore. As a Matriarch, differentiating bots from laggy sinners was sometimes too easy because their movements were not as smooth, hopefully, this should be fixed! If the Matriarch is nearby, Sinners can now press 'space' to signal the matriarch's location to other sinners. When concepting the game, I imagined that sinners communicating the matriarch's location to each other would be necessary to time when to go underground. While this could be achieved with chat or voice chat, this new functionality should make it more practical. During the round, Sinners can now see the number of tiles that have been cleared. 3 new achievements! Bug fix: not being able to go through walls as a ghost in the monastery / wrong collision in the monastery / Chinese loca fix Coming u…
- New map, 中文 - 31 October 2022
Hey Sinners, You can now diversify your sessions by playing on the New Map: The Monastery With 5 tasks and 18 nuns, the Monastery is a bigger map, ideal for 5-8 players The tasks are more complex, often combining movement with interactions The underground area is divided into 2 parts The codes are scattered on the map I’m looking forward to your feedback, I’ll keep an eye on potential issues and hotfix them asap! What’s next? Improve network stability to reduce visible lag, I have a solution in mind that will hopefully reduce this issue by a lot. Give sinners the ability to signal the matriarch’s position to other sinners when she comes in a range Add custom graves to the shop that you can buy with coins (maybe ghost skin?) Add more game options (like the possibility to kill more than 1 nun per night, or disable the bell) Many of you suggested smaller cool ideas that would be quick to i…
- Patch 0.03 is live! Exit rework, bell sabotage, spanish loca, green/black bug... - 8 October 2022
Hey Sinners, What's new? The exit has been reworked to prevent sinners from guessing the 3rd number or force-brut the code. Even if the 3 numbers are correct, Sinners still have to unlock the exit manually, if the code is wrong there is a 10s cooldown until you can try another code Do you like to play risky? As a Sinner, you can now sabotage the bell! This won't be easy as it takes some looong seconds before it breaks. In the future, I would like to give players the option to play with or without this feature or decide the number of seconds it takes to sabotage it. Black / Green screen bug is hopefully fixed, this bug happens when you try to join an ongoing game. I'm not sure yet why ongoing games are shown in the server browser, but now you'll get kicked back to the main menu with an error message. Spanish loca has been added, and Ukrainian will be next, after that I'll stop adding new…
- Hotfix: Black/green screen, full lobbies, golden shovel... - 1 October 2022
Hi Sinners, I just pushed a small hotfix -> Attempt to fix the black / green screen bug, my guess is that it happens when joining a full lobby or because of pirated versions. I added a validation to ensure only the servers with updated versions of the game are shown in the game browser and another one to ensure full servers are not shown. Please let me know if and when you still encounter this issue. -> Bug fix: You shouldnt be able to move before the loading screen disappears -> Bug fix: The golden shovel now has the desired effect (dig speed x2) regardless of who finds it
- 1.1 Patch: Iron Maiden, bug fixes.. - 29 September 2022
Hi Sinners, I just pushed an update with the following changes: -> The Iron Maiden device is now available for 750 coins! -> Bug fix: Sinners should not be peeling potatoes or turned in the wrong way when teleported to the church anymore -> Lobby names can be slightly longer -> Lobbies should display the correct number of players in the server browser -> Minor loca fix I know that a lot of you are not able to find public servers, the reason is that I'm using the steam API to host/find servers and this is region locked by default to avoid too much lag, so your region might not have a lot of servers available at any time. I don't have an in-built solution yet, but you can try to change your region in steam directly: Steam/settings/downloads -> download region and try to find servers in a different region. I don't have the capacity to react to every feedback/change but I'm trying to read t…
- The Matriarch is now available! - 26 September 2022
Hey SInners, The time has come! I’m thrilled to finally announce that The Matriarch is now available! First of all, thanks to everyone who has helped me make that day happen, from the players who have been involved since the early betas, the discord members to the friends & family, thank you! We have a long journey ahead together, and I can’t wait to dive into it. What’s next? My priority is to ensure a stable launch, I will keep an eye on the bug reports, feedback and address the urgent ones as quickly as possible. Then I will continue working on adding more content to the game, starting with a new map and a new sacrifice device which should come out a couple of months from now. The new map ‘The Monastery’ will bring a lot of novelty elements, such as new & more complex activities, the ability for The Matriarch to sacrifice 2 BOTs per round, an underground area that is not all connecte…
- Release Date on September 26th - 12 September 2022
Hey Sinners, I'm super thrilled to announce that the Matriarch will be released on the 26th of September. And this is only the beginning! New content such as maps, sacrifice devices, game options, and steam achievements will be added regularly for free, I started to work on a new, bigger map ‘The Monastery’ which will add a lot of novelties. We organized a fanart competition on discord to win Steam keys, Congrats to the winners! 1st: Skye https://i.imgur.com/qL5c4qb.jpg 2nd: Anthea https://i.imgur.com/MHAhgqV.jpg 3rd: Moth/Crow https://i.imgur.com/DWOPymf.jpg 4th: Aylix https://i.imgur.com/81YnGjL.jpg 5th: Fleur https://i.imgur.com/5LvcNIb.png Cheers,
- Devlog #7: July update, new lever system & various improvements - 28 July 2022
Hey Sinners, I spent the past couple of weeks implementing a lot of feedback you provided during and after the beta. New Features The big new thing is the rework of the lever system, in an effort to prevent the sinners from instantly going underground to dig and win too fast, without having to cooperate much, I replaced the previous lever with new ones which not only require to be found but also set on the right number. The combination that opens the exit is progressively revealed each round, and someone will have to take some risk to find it! https://i.imgur.com/rj6Wo3C.png https://i.imgur.com/Er7siI9.png More timer options (45s & 75s) Nun names are sorted alphabetically in the book The interacting / reporting UI has been reworked New menu for controls The names of Sinner are now green When you're sent back to the main menu after the Host disconnected, you now receive a message 'Lost c…
- Devlog #6: Beta wrap-up & next steps - 13 July 2022
Hey Sinners, First and foremost, thanks to everyone who participated in the beta, it was a quite big achievement, the demo was in the top 5 steam demo in term of concurent players (which peaked at 400!) and there were tens of thousands of players over just a few days! I'm thankful for all the feedback you shared and I can't wait to continue improving and preparing the game for the next phases. Here is a quick update on what will be my focus in the upcoming weeks: The most frequent feedback was that as a Sinner, you spend too much digging and not enough time pretending, which I agree is an issue, ideally I would like it to be 50/50, but currently rushing to dig seem to be the most efficient strategy to win (it's even more problematic when The Matriarch is inexperienced). There were some great ideas to counter it, like adding constrains to when you can use the trapdoors or limiting how ma…
- Devlog #5: OTK Expo, New Map, Bug fixes and more - 28 May 2022
Hey Sinners, hope you're doing well! I've been a bit less active on social media recently, that's because I've been busy fixing bugs reported during the recent Beta and there wasn't much to show, but in the past few couples of weeks, I've also worked on the second map, which I am happy to share now. I also have nice news that I'll keep for the end of the devlog https://i.ibb.co/mSFpCyY/mapbarn.png Bug fixed: - Not being able to use the chat - Character that doesn't turn / can't use their capacity - Invisible character - Stuck on a black/green screen - BOTs are not correctly marked as 'dead' in the book - Players being able to join a game that already started - Game doesn't end when Matriarch leaves New Map: The Barn - The map is designed for shorter games & fewer players, (2-4 players ideally), it's much smaller than the first map and has only 3 activities - New activities such as shear…
- Devlog #04: Beta-test dates, new killing devices, golden shovel and more! - 22 April 2022
It's been a while since the last devlog here! After the Steam Festival in February and a short break in March, I've been working on a mix of big and small new features. Scoring and shop systems: At the end of each game, earn a number of coins that depend on if you won, lost, or died. Use these coins in Mephisto's workshop to buy new exciting killing devices! My plan is to regularly update the workshop with flavorful cosmetics. The Golden Shovel feature! At the beginning of each game, a special shovel is hidden somewhere on the map, if a sinner finds it, they will be able to dig 2x faster Sinners now have bigger names than BOTs (for sinners only), making it easier for players to identify their allies. The Matriarch now has a 'reset all' button in the journal, changing all the checkmarks or crosses to '?' I slightly reworked the first map (adding some flavorful decor elements) and started…
- Developer Q&A and Livestream - 15 February 2022
Hey Sisters, I'll be playing The Matriarch with some friends, come chill with us! Ask me anything, I'll be happy to talk about the development or the future of the game.
- Loading issues fix & next bugs - 10 February 2022
Hey everyone, I pushed a fix for the loading issue (stuck on the lobby screen when launching a game from the lobby), this might also have fixed this issue of nuns sometimes having the matriarch book and not being able to go underground. Hopefully, that's fixed but please let me know if you still encounter it after updating the game. There are a bunch of other bugs, but I will focus on the ones that prevent the Matriarch from selecting nuns during the sacrifice. Thanks for your patience! - Chewa
