- Messy Christmas Slayers! - 20 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2Ffb288d3fb0fbca4438f2ed949763a4833d14686f.png Greetings Slayers, We are pleased to announce that our haunted mansion will be getting a fresh lick of paint for the holidays. The latest update will bring with it some Christmas and New Year themed-content alongside a 25% discount as part of the Steam Winter Sale. It seems, due to an unfortunate accident, Santa's elves have been left with no choice but to reanimate him in the Phantom Hall's laboratory in the hope that he still might manage his Christmas rounds. But that's all gone awry and now zombie Santa and his not-so-merry elves are roaming the mansion devouring anything in sight. That's where you come in slayers - time to stop Santa and his killer elves and bring the Festive spirit back to the mansion in our Xmas update, which will be landing Christmas Eve. Achi…
- Dressed to Kill! - 11 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2Fef5594f8acd91bfc8971b8ac144d23a5ba828570.jpg Greetings Slayers, Costumes aren't just for Halloween! Our plucky gang of heroes are ready to change outfits in a flash with the new unlockable outfits included in our latest update. Battle your way through the undead hordes and you'll get access to looks inspired by Carrie, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters and Nightmare on Elm Street. As I'm sure you're all aware, zombie brains are hard to wash out, so an alternate outfit could come in handy for all your monster hunting needs. So, scour our haunted mansion for all the materials required to put together these funky outfits. It's all in the numbers https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F09223a3713c61ba44e0e443c370d6e79ae122b93.png For all you number nerds out there we now have a stats page…
- Turkey Shoot - 21 November 2018
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- OUT NOW! - 31 October 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F2a1ca61910d9e0280bf058f261cb7325fc1af254.jpg Today is the day Slayers - Happy to announce our V1 release! We're dead happy to finally announce the full release of Phantom Halls this Halloween! We couldn't think of a better time to reveal our spooky survival horror to the world. It's been one hell of a journey taking Phantom Halls from Early Access all the way to full release. Thanks to those of you who have followed along with us in our ambition to create a fun and challenging comedy horror that pays homage to the classics. So, squad up and survive the night, but remember Slayers, don't forget to bring a flashlight! Also, please let us know your thoughts on the game and leave us a review. You'll have our eternal gratitude! Your opinion matters to us Community feedback over our Early Access period has really help…
- The Dead are rising this Halloween! - 24 October 2018
They're Here The Phantoms Halls mansion has filled to capacity and the undead horde within are spilling out, eager for blood. There's only one thing standing in their way this Halloween - and that’s you, slayers, and the brave souls of the Occult Studies Club! House party https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F036233c6853f0128a1f35cc9faf06ebcb9a9c3ae.jpg Only a fool would venture into the Phantom Halls alone. Phantom Halls is a squad-based survival comedy-horror adventure. In either single-player mode, or with drop-in/drop-out local co-op, you’ll need to team up with your classmates to survive. Play as all your favourite horror movie archetypes, including a clueless cheerleader, a brain-dead jock, and a frightened nerd. They really are quite the team - but don't take our word for it, the gaming press has also had some lovely things to say about us. "…
- Spooktober is upon us - 12 October 2018
The year's spookiest month is finally upon us and there's plenty happening in the Phantom Halls slayers. In the build-up to our V1 release on 31st October, we've been bringing some huge updates to the game. Our creepy crawly residents never looked so good, not to forget our gang and they're new RV. Everyone's ready for one hell of a launch night! Whether you're jumping on social to join in on all the Halloween festivities we've got going on or staking vampires and vanquishing ghosts in the Phantom Halls we're glad to have you here with us for such a momentous occasion. Let's help Ash and the rest of the gang send this undead horde back to Hell once and for all! We're ready, are you? Follow us on Twitter @PhantomHalls https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F2a1ca61910d9e0280bf058f261cb7325fc1af254.jpg If looks could kill! Ol' Vlad has decided to give t…
- Halloween Survival Guide - 12 September 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F2236bc8f48a3dbda9415c69367f8a78b77035216.jpg Greetings mortals, With Halloween creeping ever closer we thought we'd share some of our ancient and essential survival tips for exploring Phantom Halls. This occult knowledge should serve as a guide to help you in your eternal battle against the undead. It's basic stuff, I mean seriously, who forgets to bring a flashlight? That’s like the first thing you should think to bring to a haunted house, talk about amateur hour! But, we’re here to help not judge... ok maybe a little... but mostly help. Here are some of the secrets you guys need to know to take on everything Phantom Halls has to throw at you, sometimes literally. Nailed it - Headshots A headshot, as you’ll know from being an avid gamer or just a big horror movie buff, is a sure way to take something creepy dow…
- Phantom Halls has a new resident... and it's an RV! - 28 August 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2Fd40db19840d79504fa767696f2bdbb7124e6129a.png MEALS ON WHEELS You may have noticed Phantom Halls has a new addition to the menu screen, an RV that will serve as the gang's headquarters. The new base of operations for the Occult Studies Club will serve as your one-stop shop for everything Phantom Halls, including the many case files you've gathered on this mysterious mansion and the spoils you'll have collected along the way. You'll now find all your favourite characters hanging out in the RV on the title screen as Jock and Nerd alike have come together to form the Occult Studies Club, a team of high school undead slayers dedicated to eradicating the ancient evil that resides in the Phantom Halls! Join us this Halloween for our full V1 release! What better way to celebrate this year's spooky day than with this yea…
- Patch Notes! v0.6 - Time for a tune up! Mega content drop \m/ - 26 June 2018
Greetings Mortals! This one has been a long time coming, and we have even more exciting news for July, but here's a now fully playable peek at what we've been up to the last few months as we draw ever closer to our Halloween retail release: Changelog: Features! We've introduced the Mechanic, who can use his skill as a repairman to fix the party's weapons. Complete Ash's new quest "Handyman, Handyman, Handyman!" to unlock the Mechanic and his starter quest. Next up, please welcome the Herbalist, an alternative medicine practitioner who can buff the party's healing abilities. Complete the LARPer's new quest "A Cure For The Common Curse" to unlock the Herbalist and her starter quest. There's a new, visual-novel style dialogue system which is used when lots of text chat should be displayed to players without the distraction of real time play. Not all of the previous quests have been retrofi…
- We're cancelling our Kickstarter - but Phantom Halls V1 is still coming this Halloween! - 4 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F7a0fe08fd0ea7a988749dbb8432f722515cb2602.jpg Greetings, slayers! It’s with a heavy heart today that we’re here to tell you we’re going to be cancelling our Kickstarter campaign today. Despite our best efforts -- and all your amazing support -- things haven’t quite worked in the way that we hoped, and we’ve realised we’d be better off pouring our money and efforts into making the game as good as it possibly can be ahead of its Halloween 2018 release. What does this mean for the game? In many ways, not much! It’s still going to hit V1 this Halloween. We already have the people and resources to make this happen. The features we’ve been promising throughout Early Access will all be present and correct, and we’re confident that the game will be delivered to a high quality. Our hopes for the Kickstarter campaign were…
- We're cancelling our Kickstarter - but Phantom Halls V1 is still coming this Halloween! - 4 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28057588%2F7a0fe08fd0ea7a988749dbb8432f722515cb2602.jpg Greetings, slayers! It’s with a heavy heart today that we’re here to tell you we’re going to be cancelling our Kickstarter campaign today. Despite our best efforts -- and all your amazing support -- things haven’t quite worked in the way that we hoped, and we’ve realised we’d be better off pouring our money and efforts into making the game as good as it possibly can be ahead of its Halloween 2018 release. What does this mean for the game? In many ways, not much! It’s still going to hit V1 this Halloween. We already have the people and resources to make this happen. The features we’ve been promising throughout Early Access will all be present and correct, and we’re confident that the game will be delivered to a high quality. Our hopes for the Kickstarter campaign were…
- Phantom Halls Kickstarter is GO! - 13 March 2018
Greetings, slayers! In the darkness, at midnight last night, we snuck into Kickstarter Halls and started our campaign. It's live! Phantom Halls Kickstarter Why are we on Kickstarter? You guys have been a phenomenal help during Early Access. You've given us some great insight into what we should be doing, improvements you'd like us to make, and features you want to see. And it's helped us craft a brilliant vision of what V1 of Phantom Halls should look like when we hit Halloween 2018. We have the resources to get our original vision wrapped up by that time, but we want to make Phantom Halls even better than that. We're perfectionists. And so, we're asking for a little help. We're trying to raise an extra £30,000 so that V1.0 of Phantom Halls is truly awesome. If you'd like to help us out, head over to the Kickstarter page and get pledging. We know many of you reading this will already ow…
- Phantom Halls Kickstarter is GO! - 13 March 2018
Greetings, slayers! In the darkness, at midnight last night, we snuck into Kickstarter Halls and started our campaign. It's live! Phantom Halls Kickstarter Why are we on Kickstarter? You guys have been a phenomenal help during Early Access. You've given us some great insight into what we should be doing, improvements you'd like us to make, and features you want to see. And it's helped us craft a brilliant vision of what V1 of Phantom Halls should look like when we hit Halloween 2018. We have the resources to get our original vision wrapped up by that time, but we want to make Phantom Halls even better than that. We're perfectionists. And so, we're asking for a little help. We're trying to raise an extra £30,000 so that V1.0 of Phantom Halls is truly awesome. If you'd like to help us out, head over to the Kickstarter page and get pledging. We know many of you reading this will already ow…
- Phantom Halls is coming to Kickstarter next week! - 8 March 2018
Greetings, slayers! Phantom Halls has now been in Early Access for almost a year, and we're dead pleased with what we've managed to achieve in that time. The game available today is almost unrecognisable from the bare-bones game loop we unleashed onto Steam on March 13th last year - and so much of that is down to you guys, for all your feedback and suggestions. Thanks so much! We've always been aiming for a Halloween 2018 V1 release, and that's still the case - we're on-track to achieve that. And we believe we could release something pretty good by that time too. But we're perfectionists. We think you deserve better than 'pretty good'. That's why, to mark our one-year Early Access anniversary next week, we're going to be launching a Kickstarter campaign - to try to raise a little bit of extra cash to go that extra mile, and make the game as good as it possibly can be. It's going to be a…
- Phantom Halls is coming to Kickstarter next week! - 8 March 2018
Greetings, slayers! Phantom Halls has now been in Early Access for almost a year, and we're dead pleased with what we've managed to achieve in that time. The game available today is almost unrecognisable from the bare-bones game loop we unleashed onto Steam on March 13th last year - and so much of that is down to you guys, for all your feedback and suggestions. Thanks so much! We've always been aiming for a Halloween 2018 V1 release, and that's still the case - we're on-track to achieve that. And we believe we could release something pretty good by that time too. But we're perfectionists. We think you deserve better than 'pretty good'. That's why, to mark our one-year Early Access anniversary next week, we're going to be launching a Kickstarter campaign - to try to raise a little bit of extra cash to go that extra mile, and make the game as good as it possibly can be. It's going to be a…
- Patch Notes! v0.52 - We need guns... lots of guns! - 17 February 2018
Greetings slayers! For those of you out there who take your zombie hunting more seriously than the average meddling kids and are looking for a military grade assault solution, this is the update for you! - Added Tactical SMG, which boasts a fire rate of fire, but no knockback abilities compared to the regular SMG. - Added the Pump Shotgun, a shotgun with higher accuracy, but lower rate of fire than the regular shotgun - Added the Magnum, a handgun that sacrifices fire rate for a much higher knockback rate. - Added the Frying Pan, a flimsy melee weapon that's excellent for deflecting attacks. - Added the Bent Pipe, a durable melee weapon that's a bit unwieldy. - Added the Assault Rifle, a powerful rifle that fires rifle rounds in three round bursts. - Added the Guitar as the melee weapon that the Metalhead starts with by default! \m/ >.
- Patch Notes! v0.52 - We need guns... lots of guns! - 17 February 2018
Greetings slayers! For those of you out there who take your zombie hunting more seriously than the average meddling kids and are looking for a military grade assault solution, this is the update for you! - Added Tactical SMG, which boasts a fire rate of fire, but no knockback abilities compared to the regular SMG. - Added the Pump Shotgun, a shotgun with higher accuracy, but lower rate of fire than the regular shotgun - Added the Magnum, a handgun that sacrifices fire rate for a much higher knockback rate. - Added the Frying Pan, a flimsy melee weapon that's excellent for deflecting attacks. - Added the Bent Pipe, a durable melee weapon that's a bit unwieldy. - Added the Assault Rifle, a powerful rifle that fires rifle rounds in three round bursts. - Added the Guitar as the melee weapon that the Metalhead starts with by default! \m/ >.
- Patch Notes! v0.518 We're back in business ;) - 2 February 2018
Alright alright, I know it's been a little quiet around here over the holidays but we had a pretty nasty zombie outbreak and it's taken weeks to torch all the surfaces and eliminate the T-virus contamination... Fortunately the whole team made it out unscathed, so we've got a few minor bug fixes for you today along with new quests to fuel the skill tree rewards system. New weapons & characters will also be coming down the pipe in the coming months, and having kept a few vials of the zombie virus for study (what could go wrong?!) we've been messing around with the ability to turn player characters into enemies, so we can look forward to player character zombification in the near future too! For now, here's the patch list and we'll be back with more soon: - Added the Machine Pistol, a rare, automatic submachine gun that fires pistol rounds at a high rate. - Ash's model now properly holds i…
- Patch Notes! v0.518 We're back in business ;) - 2 February 2018
Alright alright, I know it's been a little quiet around here over the holidays but we had a pretty nasty zombie outbreak and it's taken weeks to torch all the surfaces and eliminate the T-virus contamination... Fortunately the whole team made it out unscathed, so we've got a few minor bug fixes for you today along with new quests to fuel the skill tree rewards system. New weapons & characters will also be coming down the pipe in the coming months, and having kept a few vials of the zombie virus for study (what could go wrong?!) we've been messing around with the ability to turn player characters into enemies, so we can look forward to player character zombification in the near future too! For now, here's the patch list and we'll be back with more soon: - Added the Machine Pistol, a rare, automatic submachine gun that fires pistol rounds at a high rate. - Ash's model now properly holds i…
- Patch Notes v0.5 - Player progression and character customization! - 20 November 2017
Seasons screamings, Slayers! (Sorry...) As fall finally comes to a close and the streets are chillingly littered with the dead (leaves, that is), we're happy to present the long awaited Progression update, just in time for Thanksgiving! With this update, you'll notice some of the characters that were previously unlocked to start have mysteriously disappeared from the character selection screen. But worry not! They'll soon be fighting by your side again should you be able to survive the horrors the Phantom Halls have to offer! The Progression update finally adds persistent save data to the game (with full Steam Cloud support!), allowing you to earn skill points by completing missions and to spend them in order to unlock abilities to give you the upper hand against the horde! As the game continues to grow, we'll be introducing new abilities into the characters' skill trees, eventually all…
