Since launching last week we’ve had some fantastic success with the game being enjoyed by many players. We’ve had 70,000 downloads and our peak concurrent players was over 500. Lots of you really seem to enjoy the game.

There have been some complaints about our business model. We want to do a shareware like model, where everyone can always play with their friends. Then if you want you can unlock the rest of the content with a one time purchase. We didn’t want to do crates and keys and turn the game into a hat store. ːcrateː ːcleankeyː

Making money was not our primary motivation for making Never Split the Party. But we would like to make enough to justify continued investment. We have many plans to expand the content of the game.

We are making the Cleric class free! ːsteamhappyː Playing as a Cleric makes the game easier because she is focused on defense. You don’t die as easily and your team will survive longer with a Cleric on the team.

We’re planning on adding more classes to the Fellowship Full Game Unlock, as well as adding challenge modes for additional replayability and increased difficulty. The challenge modes are planned to require the Fellowship Full Game Unlock for the host of the game.

Most of our negative reviews are from non-english languages, so we’ve also been working hard to improve our localization support. We apologize to those that have experience bugs. Please be patient with us as Never Split the Party is in early access.

-= Full Release Notes =-

Fixed errors relating to upgrades.
Delay item flavor text more.
Don't carry store upgrades.
Upgrades don't go thru walls anymore.
Cleric class is now free to play.
Fixed upgrades being picked up.
Shrank pot hit box.
Fixed level change while NPC dialog open.
Updated enemy send rates.
Automatically show steam invite screen.
Increased player movement braking speed.
Stop facing down when movement stopped.
More bug fixes on carriables.
Stop carrying when bomb explodes in your hands.
Fixed bombs not triggering on client.
Fixed NPC dialogs triggering only on server.
Fixed mouse cursor on NPC dialog window.
Updated localizations.
Networked carrying.
Network sync bomb explosions since they are movable now.
Fixed NPCs over network.
Buffed Cleric and Mercenary Damage Renamed armor to shield.
Fixed The Stash for Carlos.
Made bombs carriable.
Throwing pots does double damage to whatever it hits.
Added NPCs back to start room.
Changed throw action key.
Worked on making pots carriable and throwable.
Updated localizations.
Increased update rate for enemies.
Fixed cross platform versioning.
Updated localizations.
Added confirm dialog for host quitting the game.
Started adding initial language select menu.
Scrollable server browser.
Started working on language select menu on first time run.
Updated input library to try to fix mouse issues.