New

• Added new grueling solo Masochist mode (top-left door in Hub)
  
• Added some toys in the levels to mess around with. And a ball and hoop in the hub 😉
  
• Added beautiful environment art on all levels
  
• Overhauled much of the soundtrack and sfx. Twanging tunes and elderly grunts delight
  
• Added narrative cues so you can learn more about the weird world we're creating
  

Improvements

• You can now play the game on Steamdeck!
  
• Optimized the game for Steam Remote Play Together
  
• General design improvements to all the Esophaball levels
  
• Improved the ascension behaviour so players have a bit more control over it
  
• Added the first of many camera improvements so the level and players get framed more often
  
• Added audio settings so you can adjust volumes individually
  

FIXES

• Reworked the player spawning system. Players can now jump in and out of gameplay with more stability
  
• Adjust terrain a bit in some areas that were just out of reach
  
• Fixed some missing tutorials in the coop levels
  
• Fixed issues with the camera sometimes getting stuck on a checkpoint
  
• Fixed sometimes not dying or getting stuck in levels
  

We're always open to feedback. Don't hesitate to report bugs or make suggestions ⁠suggestions on our Discord server. Also we want to see your best masochist times in ⁠highlights! (if you dare to finish it!)

Hey Neck Folk!

Thanks for all your feedback from Friday, we've been working hard to get the fixes out to you. Which is exactly what this is about. We just pushed an update of our demo on Steam that you can go ahead and enjoy right away. Here's a quick list of the changes:

• All the current Esophaball levels. Some received a pretty significant rework. Go try them out and let us know what you think. Most of it is based on what we saw in Fridays little tourney.
  
• The Esophaball blowfish to have a max velocity of 200. No more blowfish go brrrrrrr.
  

• The geckos not quite eating their fruits too accurately
  
• Many issues with the player spawning systems. We identified about 4 cases where things went wrong, but it should be a lot more stable now.
  
• Some invisible trees in some levels.
  
• Character clothing sometimes clipping
  
• Some characters wearing the same clothes.
  
• Level ending doors not working
  
• Character and Blowfish not respawning for certain Esophaball levels.
  

• Still some cases where the Esophaball instruction panels refuse to fall down and start the countdown.