Hey Partiers!

The Office Party Tech Demo is now FREE for everyone! The public demo is available right now on GOG and on Patreon. We're expecting the Steam demo to be available for Steam Next Fest, but it isn't live there yet. No Alpha or Beta tier required. If you've been following along and waiting for a chance to try it, clock in!

The Patreon version includes the Explicit Content Pack, so it's a little spicier than the Steam and GOG demos, which don't include the pack. Before anybody gets too excited: there still aren't any sex scenes in this build. Our new interactive intimacy system is still in development. This is a tech demo: an early taste of Office Party's gameplay, characters, graphics, and technology, with plenty more to come.

Welcome to the neighborhood. Try to behave.

Create your character, explore Vista Del Brah, meet your neighbors, and see how your choices affect your relationships. There's a pool to hang around, a phone full of people to bother, attributes to work on, and Roxy's sunscreen minigame to put your very serious sun-safety skills to the test.

Whether you're coming from House Party or meeting us for the first time, this is a chance to get a feel for the world we're building. It isn't the full game or its complete story yet, so expect unfinished systems and a few things that still need our attention.

What's new since the last Beta?

For everyone who's already been testing, we've kept busy since 0.1.3191. A few highlights:

• More ways to chat. Optional AI conversations now support your own typed responses, with clearer Items, Things to Do, Topics, and Chit-chat menus. Push-to-talk microphone dictation can turn your speech into text for AI conversations and phone replies.
• A little help reading the room. Rapport-based hints offer guidance on relationship-changing dialogue choices, including scripted responses. The more Rapport you have, the more confident those hints become.
• More character. We've expanded dialogue, greetings, reactions, and voice recordings, with more facial-performance work and refinements to Roxy's sunscreen interactions.
• A better-looking neighborhood. There are improvements to hair movement, character and clothing deformation, customization controls, nighttime surroundings, swimming, underwater effects, and plenty of household items and gifts.
• More fixes and polish. We've improved pickups, pool ladders, save/load restoration, graphics settings, and support diagnostics, alongside performance and stability work.

AI is still completely optional. You can play through the demo without it. If you want to experiment, the optional features give you another way to interact with the characters while we continue building them out.

What does this mean for Alpha and Beta Patrons?

More Alpha Office Party builds are coming in October! We'll keep releasing new Alpha and Beta content for their respective patron tiers as development continues. This free Tech Demo build gives everyone a preview while our patrons keep helping us shape what comes next.

A huge thank-you to everyone who's been testing, opening Discord tickets, sharing feedback, and helping other players. You've helped us get the demo ready for a much bigger crowd, and we really appreciate it.

Grab the free Tech Demo

Download the free Patreon build · Wishlist on Steam (demo expected for Next Fest) · Find it on GOG

Wishlist Office Party on your storefront of choice!

If something gets weird, please open a ticket on our Discord. Your build number, PC specs, graphics settings, and screenshots or a short video help us track things down.

Thanks for clocking in!

— The Eek! Team