Demo Patch Notes

What the demo contained

The demo introduced the main characters, the Labyrinth, and the Scarlet Church. Combat, crafting, and puzzles were all in that build. It was a playable slice, with fights you could finish. App id 5184670 is the demo. App id 1551980 is the full game that followed on 8 October 2026.

Doug Bradley voices Pinhead in the demo. Marlowe's church is the cult you meet in that slice. The box is already part of play: throws, fire, chains, and puzzle shifts are the same three powers as the full game, limited to what the demo included.

• Realm and faction: Labyrinth and Scarlet Church.
• Systems: combat, crafting, and puzzles.
• People: the main characters, including the player character Aidan and Sunny.

Patch notes from 21 September 2026

The 21 September 2026 patch has six groups: Gameplay and Movement, Combat and Enemies, Puzzles and Progression, UI and HUD, Audio and Music, and Visuals and Lighting. Each line below is one of those fixes.

Gameplay & Movement

• Fixed several cases where the player could become stuck or softlocked during movement, combat, and environmental interactions.
• Fixed an issue where player input was permanently frozen when combining certain actions simultaneously.
• Fixed Quick Turn proximity trigger conditions.
• Fixed aim state persisting after rebinding the Aim key.

Combat & Enemies

• Fixed multiple enemy behaviour issues, including incorrect animation loops, combat state triggers, and VFX playing after death.
• Fixed cultist audio lines overlapping during encounters.

Puzzles & Progression

• Fixed incorrect tutorial hints.
• Adjusted Leviathan Puzzle shadow rendering.

UI & HUD

• Fixed Tutorial messages and Objectives disappearing from the HUD after changing settings mid-gameplay.
• Fixed Journal Collections not updating after reading entries or listening to dictaphone recordings.

Audio & Music

• Multiple mixing and volume adjustments.
• Fixed several audio triggers firing incorrectly or missing entirely.

Visuals & Lighting

• Fixed multiple lighting issues across Prologue and Episode 1.
• Fixed graphical artifacts on character models and book textures.
• Fixed physics and collision issues on environmental objects.

What to retest after 21 September 2026

Demo app 5184670 opened on 17 September 2026. The patch landed four days later. The full game, app 1551980, followed on 8 October 2026. The slice already had Aidan, Sunny, the Labyrinth, the Scarlet Church, combat, crafting, and puzzles. Doug Bradley voices Pinhead in the demo, and Marlowe's cult is the church you meet. The patch repairs that slice. It does not introduce a new faction.

• Movement: stuck or softlocked cases, frozen input from combined actions, Quick Turn proximity, Aim sticking after a rebind.
• Combat: enemy animation loops, combat state triggers, VFX after death, overlapping cultist lines.
• Puzzles: wrong tutorial hints, Leviathan Puzzle shadow rendering.
• HUD: tutorial and Objectives vanishing after a mid-game settings change. Journal Collections failing to update after a read or a dictaphone.
• Audio: mixing, volume, triggers that fired wrong or never fired.
• Visuals: lighting in the Prologue and Episode 1, artifacts on character models and book textures, physics and collision on environmental objects.

Gameplay and Movement is four fixes. Combat and Enemies is two. Puzzles and Progression is two, and the only puzzle named there is the Leviathan Puzzle. UI and HUD is two, covering both the vanishing Objectives and the Journal Collections that ignored a dictaphone recording. Audio and Music is two. Visuals and Lighting is three, and the only chapter names in that group are the Prologue and Episode 1.

Those six groups are the whole patch. Cultists are the only foe named in the audio fix. Use the six groups as the retest order: move and fight, then a cultist encounter, then a tutorial plus the Leviathan Puzzle, then the HUD after you change a setting, then a journal entry and a dictaphone, then volume, then a look at Prologue and Episode 1 lighting and at book textures.

App 5184670 is the demo and app 1551980 is the full Windows release. Keep those ids apart when a save, a stuck camera, or a missing journal line shows up. The 21 September 2026 patch is the last demo patch before launch. The 8 October 2026 release is the build on sale at $39.99.

Sources

• +Demo app details+
• +Steam news+