- Our new game Wander Stars is coming out August 1st! - 7 June 2025
Hi there! It's been a while, huh?We've been working quietly for the last few years developing our newest game Wander Stars.We're happy to announce that it will launch on August 1st!If you're itching to give the game a try before launch, we have two options for you:Option #1 - Try the episode 1 demo right now! We've just updated it with a ton of improvements and new features. And don't worry, it will stay available even after launch. (Plus, your save file will carry over to the full game.)Option #2 - Sign up here to join the Wander Stars BETA! This version of the game is an early taste of the first 3 episodes of the game. You'll get to experience the complete gameplay loop and peek a sneak of more story, characters, words, rivals and more~ Make sure to wishlist and get ready for a SUPER! ANIME! RPG! ADVENTURE!Lots of love,Paper Castle devshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1575810/Wander…
- Our new game Wander Stars has a Steam page now! - 27 October 2021
Hey there! Ready to get your first look at the next Paper Castle game? Check out Wander Stars on Steam! A 90s anime RPG where you make your own crazy attacks by combining words. If you like what you see, help us out by following and adding Wander Stars to your wishlist! We're working hard to make another cool game, and we hope those of you that enjoyed Underhero will love this one as well
- Underhero merch & week long deal - 27 August 2021
Visit the Paper Castle Shop! That’s right! A lot of you have been asking for official Underhero merch, so we decided to put together a small selection of products we hope you'll enjoy. We’re also looking forward to some Wander Stars (our new game) merch in the future. ALSO! Underhero is currently 50% off! Let us know what you think and join us on Discord. ❤️
- Underhero OST is finallly OUT!! - 31 March 2021
We are happy to announce that after two years since Underhero released, the soundtrack is now available on Steam! We're launching with a 40% discount that will be available for a week! This soundtrack includes bonus tracks and a developer commentary where we talk about our favorites songs from the OST. If you wish to know why we couldn't have done this before, read here. Stay updated on what we're working on, join our newsletter back at our shiny new website ;)
- Winter sale almost over! - 5 January 2021
Heyo! Just a friendly reminder that the sale will end in just a couple of hours. If you've been on the fence, now is your chance since it won't be this cheap for a long while! Thank you, and we hope you had a good holiday (and also happy new year
- Halloween Sale & Underhero physical release! - 29 October 2020
It's Spooky Month™ That means Underhero is running a special sale to celebrate the frights and the thrills! We have enough scary moments to qualify as a horror game? What was the scariest part of Underhero for you anyway? // The other bit of news is that we've partnered up with First Press Games to release a physical version of Underhero! Just look a these :O Pre-orders are open now for the standard edition and a collectors edition (which includes the amazing soundtrack Stijn composed, and the hardcover version of the art book!). For more info go here. // That would be it for today, we keep working on our new game Wander Stars by the by. You can follow our progress back at our discord! Take care
- 2nd anniversary sale! - 19 September 2020
Heyo! Today marks 2 years since Underhero released on Steam, to celebrate we have a 40% off special sale. It will last for just three days, so better be quick! Thank you all for playing, drawing, sharing, laughing, and just for being so awesome with us and our little game. These have been two crazy years, huh 💦 Happy birthday Masked Kid, Ellie, Stitches and everyone in Underhero. Maybe one day we will see you all again 💜
- Summer sale almost over! Last day to get Underhero 50% off - 9 July 2020
Friendly reminder to let you know that today is the end of the summer sale. ːsteamboredː Underhero will be 50% Off for only a couple of more hours. If you're interested, you can still try to get it for half the price, so fair warning! We recently updated the game, and had some cool news about our new game. You can read all about it here: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/573320/view/2498884002716102190 Enjoy your summer, and see you in the next announcement!
- SUMMER SALE & Underhero 4.1.3 Patch notes! - 26 June 2020
Beautiful cover art courtesy of @Yunicorn_corn Hi there! Today is the start of the summer sale and Underhero is 50% OFF for the first time ever! If you still haven't tried it yet, this is the perfect chance to jump into the metaphorical pool known as Underhero. The water is cool, clean, and all your friends are here drinking smoothies and floating carelessly while you play videogames... in the pool? We're not particularly sure where we're going with this, so here's the bug fixes for patch 1.4.3 Bug fixes: The song "Fighting until the very end" was not unlocking for some players. Left shift key was not working by default for the shield. Shield default key also not working during the shield tutorial. Game over menu had a repeating key input that was causing issues with the menu. Movement keys not working during the ice skating competition by default or with rebinding. Level up menu couldn…
- Underhero 4.1.2 Patch notes - 21 April 2020
Hello! Today we have a more by the numbers update, we mostly fixed some bugs and adjusted a few things. Bug fixes: Swimming bug where the character would jump repeatedly when holding down the jump button with keyboard. Certain lava switch doing a disappearing act. Buying things with keyboard unintentionally bought many items at once with one key press. HUD appearing with every jump when it shouldn't. Couldn't delete files with keyboard because the "d" key was now back. Whoops. It was impossible to hide inside the hiding spots in World 5 with keyboard. Some Elizabeth dialogue prompts not working with keyboard in World 5. Trying to type a name for a file with a controller connected would cause the "s" and "d" key to respond during typing, and would accept or close respectively. Issue where drawing tablets were being detected as gamepads, which meant keyboard players would have play with X…
- Underhero 4.1.1 Patch notes (Key binding update!) - 1 April 2020
Hello there! We’re happy to say that with this new update Underhero now has controller remapping and key binding. It took us more work than we originally anticipated, but hopefully it improves the game for more people. What's new: Completely redone controller menu. Edit inputs for both keyboards and controllers on the main menu, or during play through the pause menu. Inputs are saved after the game is closed. For quick access press "F12" to open the new menu, and "F11" to reset to default inputs. Most gamepads will be compatible with the game now (no more Xbox exclusivity :P). This update will also be available for Mac and Linux users. Quicker saving times, initial loading times slightly faster too. New force resolution option* (More on this below). Unfortunately we were not able to make it so icons update during play with new inputs, or new icons for different controller types. Regardl…
- Mac and Linux now available! Underhero 4.1.0 - 7 February 2020
Underhero 4.1.0 is here! What's new: Mac support Linux support Windows 32-bit support Cloud saves! Bug fixes: Itormon enemy disappearing after being defeated. This meant the player couldn't talk to it and learn important passwords. Hilarious bug where Yanijo had a coconut bikini the wrong sprite between being rescued from the volcano, and giving the reward to the player. Some W5 Masked Kids had inconsistent names through dialogues. Blowie enemy wouldn't turn off sleeping particle system if they were bribed while sleeping Opening and closing the items menu with the B button or the D key wouldn't let the player open the menu again until it was pressed twice. Attention prompts would still appear on the main menu after quitting the game. What's Cloning On wouldn't spawn. And other smaller issues. What's up with the new controller options: We are currently still working out the kinks of key…
- Underhero on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release dates! - 29 January 2020
Rejoice my dear underlings! Underhero will be available for Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and Xbox One on these dates: Playstation 4 on Feb. 11th for the US and Feb. 12th for EU. Nintendo Switch on Feb. 27th for both US and EU. Xbox One on Feb. 14th for US & EU. **EDIT 02/11/20** For technical reasons, Underhero for Nintendo Switch has been delayed to February 27. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope you're looking forward to it nonetheless. **** You can now wish list the game on your favorite console, and wait patiently to play Underhero the way it was meant to be played, on a couch with a controller in hand
- Underhero winter sale ending soon! And Other News! - 2 January 2020
This is a friendly reminder to anyone following Underhero that the 40% discount will end in just a couple of hours. Get it while you can! IN OTHER NEWS! We are working on a few things to improve Underhero a little bit more: Mac and Linux versions! Since the new update, 32 bit users have been unable to play the game so we'll be making 32 bit versions as well soon. We are testing and working on key binding options and re-mapping controllers for Underhero! Finally. Small bug fixes We are also happy to announce that Underhero will release on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One very very soon! No specific dates yet but we will definitely yell that from the rooftops as soon as we know. We hope you had fun holidays and we wish you a happy new year as well :)
- Underhero's 1st Anniversary Promo! - 19 September 2019
Underhero was released a year ago, time sure flies! To celebrate we're doing a week-long 30% discount. AND from now on, the Underhero Art Book is completely free!! You can get it on itch.io and Gamejolt, have a fun read
- Underhero 4.0 is here! - 16 June 2019
Hello again! We've been hard at work porting the Underhero source code to a newer version of the Unity engine as to make console ports possible and improve the game on PC as well. This brought a great deal of new bugs and things that needed to be adapted to the new version, needless to say it took a lot of time, but... We are happy to announce that the update is now live! There are way too many changes and improvements to the overall performance of the game to count, so here's a general idea of the things that we have fixed: - Resolution options are back and (hopefully) working as intended this time. - We have added a V-Sync toggle in the options menu. - Improved collisions and character controls. - The bugged achievements "Almost untouchable" and "Key finding master" have been fixed, now "Employee of the month!" can be completed 100%. - On that note, those who completed these achieveme…
- Paper Castle Games has moved to Spain! - 2 April 2019
Hey there! After working and living for so long in Venezuela (which was incredibly stressful and a daily struggle) we made the tough decision of moving out of our country and we are now in Spain! Our plan right now is to stablish ourselves here and find our stability, while we work on smaller games/projects. We have been set back with the Underhero console ports because of the move and other priorities that needed our attention, but we have resumed work on updating the game and we are now slowly but surely working towards porting the game to consoles. We will make a proper announcement when we are ready. Aside from that, thank you to all of you who have played and enjoyed Underhero so far, we literally wouldn't be where we are right now without you, and we can't wait to start making new games! From the Paper Castle Games team we thank you for playing and for being there for us. 'Til nex…
- Art Book & Updates 2019 - 10 January 2019
Happy new year everyone! It's been a while since our last update so we wanted to let you know what we've been up to lately and what are our plans for the future. - Underhero Art Book: https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28916049%2Fc1726c4d29534a30fa2fa9643d79ace63249dc7c.png That's right, we made a book that collects all the concept art and design for Underhero, it has more than 70 pages of sketches, designs, unseen art and more! We are currently running a give-away for the book on our twitter, head over there for a chance to win a key for the book and the game! It's also available for purchase on these sites: Itchio Gumroad - Underhero Soundtrack: You may have noticed that the soundtrack is not yet available on Steam, we did all we could to have everything ready for launch but because of complications with the publisher of the Underhero Soundtrack we haven'…
- Halloween Key Giveaway! - 28 October 2018
Win 1 of 5 keys we'll be gifting on October 30! You just have to like and retweet the tweet below ;) https://twitter.com/Underherodevs/status/1056553310126256128 https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28916049%2Fa8e3c5b2a15017c11df11d47b83e5b2fd8605b4a.png Good luck!
- Fanart gallery update! - 15 October 2018
Hello everyone! We are happy to announce that the fanart contest submissions have been added to the secret in-game gallery with the latest update! If you wish to see the art, head to the 6th floor in the castle ;) This room is also available for the demo now! Aside from that we have fixed many reported bugs and typos, for a more detailed list head to our now verified discord server and check the #fixed-bugs channel. We are currently evaluating our options before we announce any news regarding ports /new features /languages. Hopefully we'll have good news soon! If you have any problems we are active with the Steam forums and in our discord server. Thank you and see you later!
