Hello fellow Villains! Every victim stays at home. No one to rob, no one to kill, no fun. Our evil minions were sad... So we needed to do something!

That's why our team has decided to donate all of Wild Factor's May 2020 profits from the sale of Machiavillain to organizations fighting Covid!

And with that,

the plague update:

We added the survival kit during this difficult time: Toilet paper.
Always have one at hand when you cut yourself while shaving. Medical mask
Looks cool on you when you do evil stuff. Hand sanitizer
And: - The virus event has been deactivated. - You can get food poisoning now if you eat food that went bad. Keep your human flesh fresh! Bug fix: - Fix enemy spam to map border sometimes blocked. - Fix pathway can no longer replace the regular floor (unless you demolish it first). - Fix dig rock not working on a particular rock position. - Fix food go bad level transfer during a split. - Fix load save bug (electricity build on map border). - Fix load save bug (task not init). If you find any bug, please send us a message with the ingame feedback button on the lower right of the screen. Don't forget to fill at least the title. Thanks! Stay safe and enjoy Machiavillain at home :)

[ 2020-05-07 22:01:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow Villains,

the survival update is here!

A new character: the Bee Queen

New defensive structures

Laser tower, wolf trap, and a new defensive tower.

New furnitures:

A skeleton lamp and a newluxuryshelf (two spaces on a single tile).

New weapons and items:

- Staff of Death:A Thousand souls have been imprisoned in this cristal. Almost always kills instantly the target, but can only be used a few times. Choose your target wisely. - Astropistol: Found on a planet with 3 suns. Fast and powerful. Don't try to stop it with your hand. It only works in movies. - Bathroom sink: ridiculous, heavy, slow, but brutal. - Crowbar: A classic! - Sniper rifle:Stay far from your target. Good for killer apprentices. - Rusty sword: I hope you're vaccinated against tetanus. - Sabre: Light and fast. - lumberjack shirt: Timeless fashion.







Fork:The actual fork used by a famous killer to eat brains. PLUS Peasant hat,Cursed chest,Head nail,Cheerleader pompom... Also: - New enemies wave system (more group of enemies). You will have to survive! - Better attack system (UI improved and friendly fire system) - Better UI for electricity. (get info on your electric network) - You can recycle weapons, items, and tombstones to keep your mansion clean. - Tombstones spread evilness now. - Many bug fixes and quality of life improvement. (full list of bugfixes on the steam forum soon) If you find any bug, please send us a message with the ingame feedback button on the lower right of the screen. Don't forget to fill at least the title. Thanks!

[ 2019-10-31 12:53:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow Villains, Electrocution update is here! Update Trailer Electric Features - The impressive Finger of Evil! A machine that gives you the power to generate lightning! You can zap victims, heroes or even your own minion to make them go faster.
- Batteries, wood generators, treadmill generators, wires. - Tesla coils to electrocute your enemies. - Alarm and Presence sensors (to activate/deactivate alarm). - Lightning rod (to get electricity from thunder and protect your mansion) - Mobile phone jammer. Don't let your victim call for help! - Electric door (closed when powered by electricity).






- Some furniture now need electricity. Candles need to be lit by your minion. - Reduce the cost of things that need electricity. New Minion - Succubus: Sucks the life out of your enemies.
Customisations: - Custom map: configure a map to your will.
- Difficulty level: normal, hard very hard, so you can play casual, or scream all the way.
Environment - You can dig graves to get ancient artefacts or wake up more-or-less friendly monsters! - Dead monsters leave a grave behind.
Improvements - Better sounds: more than 100 new sound FX. - Click on an item in the inventory to select it and focus on it (finding weapon). - Improved sound spatialization. - Be able to reorder the crafting queue. - Be able to configure your minion IA (Aggressive, Defend, Neutral) - Be able to change sleep and feed priorities (in the Task manager) - Double click on the monster list, make the camera follow him. - Display zone covered by lights. - Reduce game size (-80 mo download size). Bug fixes - Bug: Achievement: killing a hero not counted correctly. ACHIEVEMENT_KILL_HEROES_LEVEL1 - Bug: Event "give brain" doesnt come back. - Bug: music volume not 0 when restart game. - Bug: hypnotized people should still be able to be attacked by minions - Bug: skeleton turrets shoot at victims even when a wall is blocking line of sight. - Bug: dogs seem to be ignoring the fire hydrant. - Bug: if you have 2 rows of minion portraits, their portraits will cover the popup notifications on the screen. - Bug: if you have enough minions to scroll down in the job board, the lowest minion is difficult to see coz they're covered by the menu graphics. - Bug: heroes seem to have stopped spawning when I reached high suspicion. it says "villagers are aware of my murderous activities!" but no angry village mob is showing up, no heroes are showing up either. - Bug: Activate. dr. frankenstein just humps the targeted minion but nothing happens. - Bug: Remove the Evilium in gold storage containers. - Bug: hypnotized minions (ie: hypnotized by the vampire in vacation event) are taken out of the roster, but you can "hire" them again to stop the hypnosis, although they give everyone else the "saw a minion die" loyalty debuff. - Bug: I'm still not getting the "kill virgin last" bonus, I only get a reward for "kill them when alone" bonus. - Bug: When a monster is blocked (surrounded by walls), other monsters stop working. - Bug: Lamps light the room even when not yet plug to electricity done - Bug: AutoSave doesnt seem to work (need to test it in standalone build). - Bug: Detector switch needs to be white when not built (configure gamespritecolor) - When the alarm is not built, the flag should not be displayed. - Bug: Fog of war setting loaded at the wrong time. - Bug: Fix treadmill display bug. - Bug: Fix maintain craft stop after a load. - Bug: Build several object Energy on each other. - Bug: Fix when resource to craft are not accessible. - Bug: Victim saw the minions through the wall or closed door - Bug: Victims are scared because there is no light - Bug: Phone jammer active even when not powered, - Bug: Moving rotating wall, erasing wall build preview. - Bug: Remove afraid no light on door map cell. - Bug: Fix light for candle or after some loading. - Bug: Electric door bug, when in front of a victim door. - Bug: Victims could see twice a trap from other room and get stuck. - Bug: Dog barking sound doesn't stop. - Bug: Bug TV bad cooldown and more

[ 2019-01-28 18:41:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

From all the Team of MachiaVillain, we wish you to say: "Happy Halloween"!

[ 2018-10-31 10:23:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow villains, lots of news:

• We are in the official selection of the Ping Awards! One of the most prestigious award in France.
  
• Some of you have noticed that a new beta version is up. with bug fixes (and probably new bugs for the new features :) ). In addition to Electricity related features, there are new ones like you can dig Tombstone now etc.
• We also wish to share with you this fantastic fan art from Nicole G. Torio
  Nicole G. Torio (fair warning: some mature content)
• And we will be on vacation for the next week so don't worry if we don't answer right away!.

[ 2018-10-24 15:38:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi fellow villains, v2.0 beta branch is up (select "development" branch in steam game property) Beta branch with a preview of the coming ELECTRICITY feature. We've uploaded a new build than those who get access earlier from the steam forum link with bug fixes from your feedback, not yet listed here. Guide to play a steam beta: https://steamcommunity.com/app/290080/discussions/4/365163686066965426/ DISCLAIMER: This has not been fully tested or polish. It's rough around the edge :) Give us your feedback, so we can fix it before the official update release. Feature - Batteries, wood generators, treadmill generators, wires. - Alarm and Presence sensors (to activate/deactivate alarm). - Lightning rod. (to get electricity from thunder and protect your mansion) - Mobile phone jammer. - Electric door (close when powered by electricity). - The impressive finger of evil!. A machine that gives you the power to generate lightning! You can zap victims, heroes or even your own minion to make them go faster. - Some furniture now needs electricity. Candle needs to be light by your minion. - Reduce the cost of things that need electricity. - Custom map, configure a map to your will. - Difficulty level, normal, hard very hard, so you can play casual, or scream all way. Improvements - Click on an item in the inventory select it and focus on it (finding weapon). - Reduce game size (-80 mo download size). - improved sound spatialization. - Be able to reorder crafting queue. - Be able to configure your minion IA (attack, defend, neutral) - Be able to change sleep and fedd priorities. Bugs fixed - Bug: Achievement: killing a hero are not count correctly ACHIEVEMENT_KILL_HEROES_LEVEL1. - Bug Event, give brain, don’t come back. - hypnotized people should still be able to be attacked by minions. - Bug: dogs seem to be ignoring the fire hydrant Medium done Alexandre. - Bug: if you have 2 rows of minion portraits, their portraits will cover the popup notifications on the screen. - Bug: if you have enough minions to scroll down in the job board, the lowest minion is difficult to see coz they're covered by the menu graphics. - Bug: heroes seem to have stopped spawning when I reached high suspicion. it says "villagers are aware of my murderous activities!" but no angry village mob is showing up, no heroes are showing up either. - Bug: dr. frankenstein heal dart doesn't activate after successfully using it a few times. even after waiting a few days to recover stamina. dart still doesn't activate. dr. frankenstein just humps the targeted minion but nothing happens. - Remove the evilium in gold storage containers. hypnotized minions (ie : hypnotized by the vampire in vacation event) are taken out of roster, but - you can "hire" them again to stop the hypnosis, although they give everyone else the "saw a minion die" loyalty debuff. - I'm still not getting the "kill virgin last" bonus, I only get the reward for "kill them when alone" bonus. - Victims could see twice a trap from other room and get stuck. - Dog barking sound doesn't stop. - Bug TV bad cooldown

[ 2018-09-29 16:15:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear fellow Villains, the electricity is not yet ready, but we made a lot of bug fixes and some improvement based on your feedback :) So we thought it would be nice to release it before the next content update.

Improvement:

- Buttons to demolish/cancel action (with shortcut). - Autosave limit the quantity and frequency. - Add [select all] button. - Increase gold storage capacity from 500 to 700 Increase Wood normal/evil capacity from 600 to 800. - Every monster can get a weapon and to compensate psychopath cooldown for weapon is divided in half. - Esc key bring the setting menu. - Button to start/stop tasks (Fight/working mod) on individual monster. - New event manager (virus events shouldn't be close). - Post office closing during the night (your minion won't bring letter and cross a victim path). - Clown reworks (don't scare victims).

Bug fixes:

- Victims enter map with bleeding status. - Victims appears at the bottom left corner after a load. - Victims not arriving after load. - Day counter blocked after a load. - Some mobs respawn after a load. - Monsters don't bring letters to storage. - A Push trap placed next to a rotatable wall trap will not push the human when he passed the rotatable wall. - Mad scientist Achievement unlocks retro compatibility old save. - Spam email counter is displayed in reverse. - Rat of the event mystical chest fight each other. - Dogs can use phones. - Victims get costume cook after a load. - Time /day stops increasing. - Dog increase suspicion when they leave the map. - Esc key bug on fight skill points distribution screen. - Hypnotize victim don't phone and are not scared. - Minion's face doesn't change after recruiting it. - Music change when food merchants. - Body part going through walls (and may scare victims). - Weapons added back to the enemy after a load. - Hero doesn't drop weapons. - Victim sometimes sees minions through the walls. - Can't attack when the target is on a bed. - Poison of the gaz master doesn't work on victims. - Merchant sound on arrival can't be heard from far. - Feedback messages when victims are scared overlay when there is more than one. Thank you so much for your support, feedback and patience! Alex & Zimra

[ 2018-07-26 19:11:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear fellow Villains, As always we want to thank you for your continued support!

We are announcing the first feature and content update!

It will be the electricity 
What will be new: - Batteries, generators, wires. - Presence sensors (to activate/deactivate). - Lightning rod. - Mobile phone jammer. - Electric door (closed when powered by electricity). - The finger of evil! It will be a machine that recharges with quite a lot of electricity, but will give you the power to generate lightning! You will be able to zap victims, heroes or even your own minion to make them go faster. What will change: - Some furniture (like fridge, light,...) will need electricity to work now. (we will readjust the balancing) We will release this update for the end of July/ beginning of August. And we will continue fixing bugs of course. As always, if you find a bug, we would appreciate it if you could click on "Send Feedback" (bottom right) and add a short description. It will send us useful game data and it will help us fix them quicker, thank you! Thank you so much for your support, feedback and patience! Alex & Zimra

[ 2018-06-29 14:41:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear fellow Villains, Again we want to thank you for continues support. It really is amazing to see that so many of you enjoy the game so much on a daily basis! We do our best to improve the game every day. We have a new update for you that addresses the following issues: - Save/Load bugs: 93% fixed. - Lab XP gain doesn't work when monster wears glasses. - Rotating walls work on non attracted victims. - Monsters with increased health from lab return to default health after sleeping in special bed. - Turret just shoots sometimes at nothing. - Achievements "all research done" and "100 days "not always trigger. - Turret not always reloading. - Some Heroes Attack victims. - Dogs have wrong sound when die. - Sarcophagus increases the max hp but shows a -1hp icon. - Fire Hydrant can be placed on the road. - Saving a file and name it with something with " K " it will activate fight stance. - Fire can't be extinguished after a tv as been burned. Besides this, we have some exciting news for you! For the next big patch, that will be released end of july, we have planned a major content update that is all about electricity.
We will post more details about that next week. We said this before, but if you find a bug, we would appreciate it if you could click on "Send Feedback" (bottom right) and add a short description. It will send us useful game data and it will help us fix them, thank you! As always, we thank you so much for your support, feedback and patience! Alex & Zimra

[ 2018-06-22 20:27:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow Villains, Thank you for your support! It's amazing to see the mansions you come up with! Here is a new patch including: Save/Load bugs: 90% fixed Monster not using the table All monsters idle when 1 room is fully enclosed 1 head appearing in 3 fridge items slot, blocking monster for working Victims escaping without entering a room that has no other door Victim not entering when fancy door is replaced by regular door After loading victims group don't follow the leader and are stuck Victims stuck in the doorframe between room (when low frame rate) Victims becoming transparent when scared + starving after load Victims using hidden door when first room only has hidden door and entry door Removing lamp after a load = victims act as if light still here (not scared) We also started balancing the advanced furnitures that require metal (metal, plates, cogs) following your feedbacks. We are working on the next bug fixes update for the 22nd. There might be another one after if needed. But after that we will be able to focus on adding content and features (while still fixing eventual minor bugs). We'll start discussing it with you on the Steam forum after the next patch. As usual, if you find a bug, we would appreciate it if you could click on "Send Feedback" (bottom right) and add a short description. It will send us useful game data and it will help us fix them, thank you! Thank you for your patience and support, Alex & Zimra

[ 2018-06-11 11:00:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you for the reports and the support. Seeing your creativity, thoughtful responses and feedback is very helpful as everyone works hard on updates. We also appreciate the patience as your comments are addressed and patches are tested and released. It's amazing to be a part of such a wonderful community! We have a new patch today: - Save/load (60% fixed) - Vampire burning indoor - 0HP forest creatures - 0HP victims - 0HP heroes - Virus event limited - Sitting on inactivated table bug - Chemistry bench display bug - Victims not scared of spikes - Workbench subpriority save - Vampire hypnosis not working - Invisible superior bed - Crypt problem with advanced clown (clown still has no power, to be fixed) (Some of this bugs might seem trivial, but they actually caused save and/or load issues) We haven't forgotten Mac specific issues, we are still looking for a coder who can help with them. On a personal note, Alex still can't see, we'll know more about it today. He thanks you for all your kind wishes, it's helping in this difficult time. Thank you again for your support and your understanding!

[ 2018-05-25 08:49:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

A big ‘thanks’ to all of you who helped us making an incredible launch of Machiavillain possible. We really are happy many of you enjoy the game so much! Besides the many positive messages we also received reports that our minions still need to fix some bugs. Thank you, that is very helpful. Joking aside, truth is some bugs would have already been patched, but Murphy's law struck. Some of you might already know, we are a team of 2, one dev/coder (Alexandre) and one artist (Zimra). After weeks of extremely hard work leading up to release, the day of the launch, Alexandre's eyes became extremely painful, and we had to go to the emergency room. He had to have a light surgery and he has trouble seeing for now. He is going to get better, but sadly in the meanwhile he can't code. But the good news is that we are bringing aboard help in form of a coder. Here are the bugs/issues we have started fixing with the current first emergency patch: - Save bugs (30% fixed) - Load bugs (30%fixed) - Trees growing on floor (fixed) - Minions stopping working when some rooms are completely closed - Adding/improving hotkeys - Proofreading the english version (done) - Virgin detector (done) - Rotating walls (done) We'll release patches as soon as possible. If you have any suggestions, you can send us a bug report with game data just by clicking on the "Send feedback" button (bottom right) with a short description in the title (so we can pinpoint the problem), it will help solving the issue, thank you! We are sorry for the delay and share your frustration. Thank you for your patience and understanding and your amazing support!

[ 2018-05-21 17:48:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

MachiaVillain is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!*

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

*Offer ends May 23 at 10AM Pacific Time

[ 2018-05-17 06:10:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there again fellow Evil Realtors, We're incredibly proud to announce that MachiaVillain is now officially available! It's been quite the long adventure getting to this point, so words cannot describe how amazing it has been to see the game show-up on Steam and to have all of you playing it. So from everyone on the team, we just wanted to say a sincere THANK YOU to everyone who has supported the game since its KS campaign, and everyone who has put their faith in us by picking it up on launch day! We're all completely dedicated to ensuring that the game will have a long and eventful life, so everyone involved considers today as Day 1 of a longer journey. Our goal is to continue to improve- and add to the experience that the game has to offer. To this end, we greatly value all of your feedback and we're going to be closely monitoring the forums to take note of everything that we can improve on. So please feel free to share any thoughts or ideas that you might have to make the game better. Thanks a lot for joining us on this Spooktacular adventure everyone, and here's to building a legendary monster mansion together!

[ 2018-05-16 20:05:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Muahahaha!!!!

[ 2018-05-16 16:16:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there again fellow devious masterminds, We just wanted to let everyone know that MachiaVillain will be officially available in just two hours! So please keep an eye out for it at 10AM PDT/7PM CEST. It's been a very long spooky journey to get to this point, so we can't wait to finally share the game with all of you. In the meantime, we already wanted to share the new launch trailer with all you. So please feast your haunting eyes on our latest evil video creation! https://youtu.be/1jljSlSyi8I

[ 2018-05-16 15:20:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Villains, We are excited to announce that MachiaVillains, the evil mansion management and strategy game, will release its terrors upon the world on May 16, 2018, on Windows PC, Mac and Linux for $19.99. You can take a Look at the MachiaVillain Announcement Trailer.

[ 2018-05-02 21:57:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you for playing the beta, we hope you enjoyed this preview of MachiaVillain. And thank you for your feedbacks, they help a lot! We're doing our best to incorporate as much as possible in game. Thanks again,

[ 2018-04-23 22:25:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow villain, PC Gamer is organizing a beta key giveaway: https://www.pcgamer.com/machiavillain-beta/

WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK

We are eager to get your feedbacks. So don't hesitate to post on the steam forum https://steamcommunity.com/app/555510/discussions/, or you can also use the Feedback button directly into the game (low left of the screen), that will send us a message directly to us :)








Alpha 7: New monster category: Psychopaths ! - They have a lovely smile, they're good cooks, eat brain, and can use any weapon (chainsaw, machete, a stone etc..). - Special attack : bloody ear bite and disarm opponent. New Research system. - Research tree and two research bench. Equipment: your monsters can now carry different types of equipment (over 60 different objects for now). - Potions: improve your monster health - Items: a number of more-or-less disgusting jewelry, shields or artefacts that will enhance your monster’s abilities - Weapons: specific to Psychopath monsters. Enjoy stealing and using your enemies weapon against them. Example: Dead Frog, Hangman Noose Necklace, cursing Polaroid, chainsaw, football helmet etc.. New crafting furniture: the potion bench. New enemies: dangerous hunters who know what’s up with your mansion. - Horror movie survivors (armed with whatever they found : vinyl disk, golf club...) - Angry rednecks (armed with dynamite, shotgun, etc) - Spiritual team (priests, templar knights,...) Fighting AI: improved, added movement in group formation system 4 new events: food poisoning, surprise delivery, mysterious chest and loot box. New loyalty traits: making taking care of some monsters easier or more difficult. Shopkeeper: Items, food, and monster. Change in the Suspicion system. - If the suspicion increases the number of victims you can lure inside your mansion decrease. Monster hunter attack is not linked to suspicion (exception villager attack) Detection tower, and virgin detection tower. These towers remove fog of war, and detect virgin (to follow the kill the virgin last rules) Training room, that makes your minion gain XP. When a furniture is too much Destructed it can't be used. - Basic table and chair. And the usual GUI improvement and bug hunting

[ 2018-04-06 15:45:32 CET ] [ Original post ]