My biggest fear is the increased scale will harm the amazing community we’ve made, but I’m optimistic that it will be okay. I’m really proud of how it’s coming out, and it’s time to go on Steam and increase the accessibility. The press always came in with a “what’s been taking so long?” type question and left completely blown away by how much stuff is in this game.

I did a bunch of press for the announcement that hit this week, and when doing the interviews, I had to think about the game with a fresh eye and explain it from scratch, and there is just an incredible amount of stuff in there, not only a deeply competitive multiplayer game that supports thousands of hours of gameplay, an incredible community, a completely interactive fully voiced tutorial, a fancy professional user interface, a replay and spectation system that’s better than most AAA games, 20+ incredible bespoke animated characters, tons of different game modes, an active competitive scene with tournaments and leagues organized by the players and cast on the SpyParty twitch channel, and lots of plans to make it even better.

Even though we have an incredible community, sometimes you just want to dip in and play a few quick games! I need to finish up matchmaking, which I’ll write about more later, but early testing shows is going to be super cool and actually relieve a little bit of the stress of playing, at least the part that involves going to the lobby and inviting another human and chatting. I’m excited, but also terrified of what’s going to happen! I put the SpyParty Steam page up last November, with the admittedly slightly trollish release date of Soon™, but now we have a real date, and that date is Thursday, April 12th, 2018, also known as next Thursday.

We’ll talk about each of those in order… Steam Early Access I WILL POST MORE ABOUT HOW THIS WILL WORK SOON! ♥♥♥ ♥♥♥ YES YOU WILL GET IT ON STEAM IF YOU BUY IT ON SPYPARTY.COM,

You have until the Steam launch to get it at the current $15 price on, because we’re raising it then!.

The six (6!?!) amazing new venues that are available now in the latest build!.

The aforementioned Steam Early Access release date of April 12th, 2018!.

And that’s not all! There are actually three big pieces of news in this post:

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