- Dracs After Dusk Bonanza Announcement - 24 August 2026
Howdy Sheriffs! We are excited to announce the first Dracs After Dusk Bonanza, a special competitive leaderboard event. The competition will begin at 12:00 am PST August 31st, 2026 and conclude 12:00 am PST September 1st, 2026 a 24-hour event. The top three scores on the Tournament Leaderboard will receive cash prizes payout via Venmo or alternate payment method agreed between parties: First Place: $100Second Place: $50Third Place: $25 All communication regarding payouts and submission of recorded run (optional) will be conducted over email. The official email for this event is [email protected]. The top three runs will be announced across our socials. If you record your run, we will do a live broadcast! See you at Dusk. -Olive Hill Studios Official Rules & Terms can be found on our Discord in the #welcome-and-rules channel Olive Hill Studios Discord
- Small Quality of Life Patch - 23 August 2026
Howdy Folks,It was high time we released our first update/patch for Dracs After Dusk. While a small one, we wanted to address the most common quality of life requests from our players.Larger CursorBy default, the game cursor is larger. There is an option to switch back to the original cursor in the Game Options menu. This should help when lining up a key shot in a boss battle or when you are one rooster crow away from dawn.End Run ButtonPlayers that are gunning for high scores often know early on if they have placed themselves for a chance to top the leaderboard. If a player missed a Penta-kill Jackpot in wave 3, they wanted a quick way to restart their run. The Quit Button in the Pause Menu has been replaced with an End Run Button. This allows players to get back to the Main Menu fast and kick off another high score attempt.That's it for now but if you would like to join our Discord to…
- Dracs After Dusk 1.0 Released! - 29 June 2026
Dracs After Dusk 1.0 Released!Howdy Y'All, We are beyond excited to release Dracs After Dusk 1.0! We hope you have a rootin' tootin' fun time exploring different ways to go down as the most legendary sheriff that ever did holster a six shooter. Y'all are welcome to join our Discord if you have any feedback, want to brag about your high score, or want to talk to the development team.May Your Garlic Infused Bullet Fly Straight,Olive Hill Studios
- Release Date Confirmed June 30th, 2026 - 21 June 2026
Release Date Confirmed June 30th, 2026Howdy Y'All,We are hootin' and hollerin' to tell ya that the release date for the rootin' tootin' shootin' Dracs After Dusk is confirmed, dadgummit you read that right confirmed, for June 30th, 2026. If you don't mark your calendars for that date and get ready to saddle up with your six shooter fully loaded, then I fear these bloodsuckers will just 'bout overrun us.Looking forward to seeing which one of y'all's names will be at the top of the tombstone....errr I mean Leaderboard as the greatest sheriff our town has ever seen!Happy Vamp Huntin',Olive Hill Studios
- Demo Update - Player Feedback Changes - 3 May 2026
Dracs After Dusk Demo UpdateHowdy Partners!We just released a demo update with the following:Badge Loadout Game State Flow We saw several demo players unlock sheriff badges and never find where to equip them for their next run. Now players are shown their badge loadout at the start of every run so no more missing out on equipping your upgrades!Armory Boss Receives the Nerf HammerWe had originally designed the Armory Boss to be a challenging but rewarding boss encounter inspired by some of our favorite boss moments from games like Cuphead and World of Warcraft. Unfortunately, a repeated adjective we heard from our demo players was "this boss is unfair." We implemented three specific nerfs in an attempt to retain the core flavor and mechanics of the fight but move the needle closer towards fairness. We'll let experienced players try to figure out what the nerfs are....and if you are new t…
- Release Date Postponement Q2 2026 - 11 February 2026
Release Date Postponement Q2 2026Howdy Folks,The team is currently working on a rootin' tootin' couple of boss encounters that will curl even the most impressive of mustaches. However, to ensure the quality of these encounters achieves what we want to provide for our brave badge bearing sheriff gunslingers, we are postponing the full release of Dracs After Dusk to Quarter 2, 2026. In the meantime, we invite you to chase the sharp shootin' sheriffs at the top of the leaderboard in the demo as well as work to unlock all the badges. One badge is unlocked every 5 runs or after a boss takedown and will help power up your runs with more bang than a stick of the prospector's dynamite! As always, we welcome feedback left either on our community page or our Discord server which you can find the link for in the demo.Happy Vamp Huntin',Olive Hill Studios
- Demo Update - Badge System & Scoring - 10 December 2025
Dracs After Dusk Demo UpdateBadge SystemWe've wanted to introduce a way for players to unlock power upgrades as they play the game that they will be able to carry into later runs. Introducing the Sheriff Badge system, YEEHAW! Badges are unlocked through defeating bosses or by completing a certain number of runs. Each badge can be equipped in the newly added Badge Menu with one badge being equipped after rounds 3,5,7 and 9 respectively. That prevents the early rounds from being too easy if you started the game with four of your unlocked badges equipped. We'll leave it to you to find out all the different upgrades!Scoring System ChangesWe wanted to reward players who are sniping multi-kills while also spice up the scoring. To that end, players that score a double, triple, quadra or pentakill will trigger a 4 second score multiplier that is based on the multi-kill. For example, a double ki…
- Release Date Postponement Q1 2026 - 14 October 2025
Release Date Postponement Q1 2026Howdy Rootin' Tootin' Sheriffs, While y'all have been doing a dandy job keepin' those pesky vamps at bay in the demo, our small posse of three brothers development team regrets to inform y'all we need more time to make the full release of the game worthy of your precious doubloons. We are anticipating having the full game with shiny sheriff badge upgrades and more mustache pulling boss encounters ready by what you business folks call Quarter 1, 2026. In the meantime, keep chasing the leaderboard on the demo version to crown yourself the mightiest mustachioed law enforcement in them thar hills! Thank y'all kindly for your continued support. Dutifully,Olive Hill Studios
- Quality of Life Update to Demo - 3 September 2025
August ReportWe spent the majority of August working on implementing requested changes based on the feedback we have been gathering. While we weren't able to accommodate all of the requests, we did try to address the most common complaints. There will be more improvements to come but for now, we felt like we had a big enough group of changes to warrant an update. The following are some of the highlights.Vendor Item Carousel ImprovementsOur vendor UI (the UI that players use to interact with the turrets, soul doctor, and armory merchant) has long been one of the biggest sources of complaints for players. We definitely admit it has been an awkward interface and we have tried to address some of the most common frustrations.Vendor UI can now accommodate one or two item vendors. When I originally built the vendor UI, I did not consider the possibility of vendors who offered less than three i…
- Hotfixes - 1 August 2025
BugsFixed issue where two cowboys would spawn after playing the tutorial for the first time ever.Fixed issue where hints that already showed up were showing up again.GameplayPlayers now start the game with three souls (lives). This helps alleviative some of the initial difficulty and also helps players onboard to the concept of purchasing extra lives from the Soul Doctor Vendor.More fixes coming soon!We have more fixes coming soon but OliveHillStudios is currently participating in GMTK Jam 2025 so we will get to more Dracs fixes as soon as that wraps up. Thanks to everyone who has played and continues to play!
- Updated Start Screen - 28 July 2025
This is just a small update to put a Play Button on the Start Screen.
- Dracs After Dusk Demo Update - 21 July 2025
There are quite a few changes in this latest update so we will do our best to enumerate them and explain our thinking behind them! If you have feedback feel free to let us know in the OliveHillStudios Discord server. New CameraCamera view has been zoomed out a bit and will now follow player rather than being tied down to discrete room locations.One of the consistent areas we got feedback on was that players were feeling a bit cramped and couldn't see where they wanted to. By zooming out a bit and letting the camera follow the player, players can now see vampires from much further away and can plan out their defenses better. The exception to this is boss fights which will still feature a locked down camera, as the fights were largely designed around this and when testing boss fights with a player-follow style camera, the result proved to be quite unsatisfactory.New OnboardingContext sens…
