There are whispers from all corners of the village and clouds looming over a shadowed figure. They hold in their hands a cursed doll and a witchy presence. Careful villagers, this new character likes to exchange one life for another and will drain yours if you are not careful. Tread carefully with our latest update.
The Ritualist’s ultimate goal is survival at any cost, and they’re armed with a variety of sneaky abilities to see that they do! As a student of the dark arts, The Ritualist has the ability to craft a cursed doll which can be used to inflict chaos in multiple ways.
In addition to the new role, we’d also like to tell you about two new items included in this update: Something for the living… and something for the dead…
Conspirator ghosts, take note, because Poltergeist is here! This handy item summons a noisy ghost that deals damage to nearby living players until it’s removed by a villager ghost. Well, not all living players, mind you. Conspirators do not take damage. A haunting revelation!
Low on health and there’s no Medic around? Perhaps an Herbal Tea is the cure for what ails you. Purchase one from the vendor and drink to restore 50 health points over a 60-second period. Don’t worry, the ingredients are alllll natural...
The teams at VestGames & Versus Evil have been reviewing all your feedback and bug reports, and working hard to keep improving the game. With this update, you’ll also find many fixes, balances, and quality of life changes. There’s too many to cover here, so please follow us on Discord and social media for links to the full update notes.
That’s all for now! Thanks so much for reading and we look forward to seeing you in Eville.
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New Features
Ritualist Role Introducing the 2nd neutral role - the Ritualist can link their life to other players and cause chaos by having others die instead. They need to survive as the very last player to win the game. - Craft Cursed Doll: Select a player and craft a cursed doll, binding their life to it. The doll can be used for rituals. - Steal Life Essence: Sacrifice a Cursed Doll to steal part of another player's life and increase your maximum health. - Dark Idol: Sacrifice a Cursed Doll to build a Dark Idol, linking your life to that of another player. Dark Idols can be destroyed. - Shared Fate: Any damage you take is split between you and each player affected by a Dark Idol. Executions are exempt from this.
Ghost Item Poltergeist - Summons a Poltergeist that deals damage to everyone around themselves until it's removed by a ghost. It follows any nearby living player, but Conspirators do not take damage. Context: Finally more useful ghost items for conspirators - Vendor Item: Herbal Tea - Drink to restore 50 health over a period of 60 seconds.: A great healing item for the ritualist
MISC. Features - Quests can now be abandoned - Trapper's Traps that have been activated can now be picked up by any player and be sold to vendors as scrap metal - In-game HUD rework with new visuals
Changes / Quality of Life
- Agreements can be accessed and read from the main menu (under Additional Options) - Credits can be viewed from the main menu (under Additional Options) - Added Whitelist of Words that will be ignored by the profanity filter - Citizen Barricade: Building a barricade has a visual indicator - User Name can be seen in the main menu that can help for support requests (under Additional Options)
Balance Changes:
- Black Powder price was increased from 25 to 45 Bronze Crowns, but both are now available on the first day. - Tome of Death and Barricade items now have unlimited stock to allow for more claim space - Lockpick is no longer available at the smith with the Quest abandonment feature now available - Pass Inheritance (Ghost Ability) is now only usable at night, because of possible exploiting of Conspirator identities. We have further altered the Ghost's Pass Inheritance Ability: "Select a living player of your choice who should receive 10 Coins from you." changed to "Give 20 Coins to a random living villager." - Greedy Ghost (Ghost Ability) is no longer usable during meetings.
Bugfixes (since 1.1.2)
- Fixed almost 40 areas with collision issues, trap placements and places you could get stuck in on the Eville Map - Fixed the 5 previously unobtainable achievements: The Eville inside, Stick 'em with the pointy end!, Preparation is key, This is mine, First Responder - [UI] Role Card texts weren't readable in Russian, Chinese, Korean or Japanese (Tome of Death, Detective, etc.) - [UI] Progression Screen sound kept playing if you were at the maximum level - [UI] HUD - Quest Short description text was shown even after a quest was completed - Thief: Pickpocket error message is now shown when the target owns no money. - Accessory items were clipping for some characters
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Check out our newest release, Eville! Eville is a new take on the social deduction concept with realtime gameplay and interaction. You find yourself in a village riddled by a series of murders. Some say it might have been you - or was it? Convince others you're not a murderer to stay alive! Best of luck, villagers!
Want more multiplayer mayhem? First Class Trouble is available! In First Class Trouble, players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. You either deceive or deduce your way to victory in a charming, yet unsettling and often mischievous environment. Whether you do it sober or with a slight buzz, First Class Trouble will serve you a dangerous cocktail of difficult decisions and wacky possibilities!
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The Halloween Event has concluded in Eville & we hope you enjoy your new cosmetics! We have a lovely handful of bug fixes & optimizations come to you today as this update goes live.
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General Bugfixes: - Standing on the chair while holding the 'Fishing Rod' causes a hard lock 🎣 - Ghost - Invisibility Ability could be activated at night and then used on players during the day - If a player disconnected while they we're voted into the cage the game would soft-lock - Medic - Health Check: Ability was not activating - Cosmetic Item: Guide Book (Accessory) was not equippable, making equipment changes impossible if that item was selected
Item Fixes: - Sleeping Powder: If used during the night on a player that is awake at night it would cause them to fall asleep. Now it keeps them asleep in the FOLLOWING night 😴 - Barricades: Could not be used inside player homes on Easy Difficulty
UI: - Max level screen lock - Time zone issues within in-game store
Misc.: - Improved Networking on Minecart movements
Thank you so much for your continued support! We cannot wait to release the next update which includes the brand new role - The Ritualist, as well as the new Ghost Item. Stay tuned for more details.
Eville Bugfix Update 1.1.1
We have some bugfixes live now on Steam and Consoles with Update 1.1.1!
After the latest Halloween patch we finally bring you another small bugfix update that is also launching on consoles at this time! Hope you're all enjoying your time in the Halloween themed Eville! Here's a list of all changes.
Fixes: - Increasing stability for cross-platform play and console lobbies - Duplicate lobbies of the same players are now prevented - [Slanderer] Face Morph ability did not change the selected players badge - [Challenge] Survive a night awakened only awarded 500 XP instead of 750 XP - [Item] Antidote was not working (console) - More roles than players were distributed in Advanced Games (also fixed now for 12 player lobbies) - Duplicate items no longer show up in your inventory (Equipment) - Fixed Halloween Emergency Bell sounds not being affected by Audio settings - Fixed a collision by the Town Square, blocking some interactions - Fixed a timezone issue on the Store - [UI] Pressing ESC removed the cursor in the End-Screen - [UI] Opening the pause menu while the Progression is shown removed your cursor completely - [UI] Opening the pause menu while the match starts (lobby) caused the menu to stay during gameplay - [UI] Opening the pause menu while the match starts (in-game) removed your cursor - [UI] Fixed showing wrong currencies in the Store - [UI] Shape-Shifter role text has been updated - [UI] Player Accusation Menu had unclickable spots
Make sure to update your game! We'll be working on more bug fixes and deliver them as soon as possible.
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Eville - Halloween Event
Good Evening Villagers
With Halloween just around the corner, we wanted to give you a quick update on our Halloween event. The village of evil has prepared for the spookiest day of the year by decorating for the occasion. But with the coming fog in the rise of the Red Moon. Terrible creatures have risen from their grave. Zombies! Zombie Acora to be exact.
These once breathing characters shamble their way for you to play in this update, along with a new candy pouch accessory and jack o lantern sticker. And that's not all. We have a neat little event in store for you.
Spread across the village or a series of jack o lanterns. But one stands out from the rest. Find the right pumpkin and use it to be awarded a haunting decoration for your home.
If you've already found it, you can also find and drop it for other players to help them out. Happy Halloween. Villagers and we'll see you in evil.
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Eville Bugfix Update 1.0.5
We have quite some bugfixes live now on Steam with Update 1.0.5!
Hope you're all enjoying your time in Eville! Here's a list of all changes.
Fixes: - [Seer][Watchful Eye] Cooldown was reset after each meeting, making it possible to place multiple Eyes per day - [Exploit] Items could be used while being sold at a vendor - [Item] Poison did not work - [Item] Barricades cannot be placed on top of each other anymore - Some abilities now work when used while destroying a Barricade, such as Sprint, not soft-locking your character anymore (we're aware it's bugged with Role Claims still) - More roles than players were distributed in Advanced Games - [UI] Custom Mode roles were not saved when Applying changes in the Role selection menu - [UI] Custom Mode UI Buttons were overlapping with many roles in the menu - [UI] Inventory was not scrollable with the controller - [UI] Slots are now always shown in the expression menu - [UI] Spamming leave game caused multiple warnings to stack - [UI] Spamming close in the pause menu and some other menus caused some errors - [UI] Confirming warnings was spammable as well
Make sure to update your game! We'll be working on more bug fixes and deliver them as soon as possible.
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Eville Bugfix Update 1.0.4
We have quite some bugfixes live now on Steam with Update 1.0.4!
After listening to your feedback we have adjusted how match experience reward limits are handled and fixed quite some bugs since the hotfix last week.
Hope you're all enjoying your time in Eville! Here's a list of all changes.
Changes: - Re-balancing of match experience rewards since the beta the limits had to be changed. It will now take longer play-time to reach it. Also we have vastly increased the current hard daily experience cap and replaced it with a soft cap. - [ShapeShifter] Is now asleep at night and double poisons their correct target - Showing now a temporary ban-message on startup if you are banned - Added an NPC to the Tavern to allow spending your Silver Crowns without leaving the lobby - Shape Shifter - Can no longer visit the underground - Warning if the amount players in the lobby exceed the intended amount of players (for example when switching from Normal to Easy) - More prominent cross-play messaging
Fixes: - [Seer][Watchful Eye] At night time if you are using your Watchful Eye ability and somebody wakes you up as a Ghost, you could no longer turn your camera - Custom mode should be working now - It showed "Leave Party" in the main menu, even if you're just by yourself - Prevent players from buying an Avatar-Style, if they don't have the associated Avatar yet - blocking the purchase in Store - Shape Shifter - Solved camera issues at night - Shape Shifter - Solved issues with the Watchful Eye ability of the Seer - Shape Shifter - No longer poisons a ghost when selecting a dead body with the correct role - Using a Protection Potion while carrying multiple would remove all Potions from your inventory - Barricades could be placed inside player homes to block entering it completely - Refreshing the lobby list quickly caused a crash - The Voting Window was below the quest info, making it impossible to click the X - The customization menu could be closed in the lobby by running away, causing the camera to be stuck in the wrong view - Host status in lobby was shown incorrectly - Player Option menu is now larger, making it easier to read - The store had a negative timer and did not update if you did not restart your game when a new set of items went live - Fixed an issue when leaving parties - Custom mode has been fixed (really this time) - Slanderer's Fake Emergency Bell had the timer stuck at 0:00 - Profanity warnings were shown to the host, not to the player sending it ingame
Make sure to update your game! We'll be working on more bug fixes and deliver them as soon as possible.
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Eville Hotfix 1
We have small hotfix live now on Steam!
Hope you're all enjoying your time in Eville! Here's a list of quick fixes we've done in the first 24 hours!
New: - Search box for lobbies by name - Lobbies in progress sorted to the bottom of the list - Added a profanity filter for lobby names
Fixed: - Lobby list is now properly scrollable with a controller - Full lobbies cannot be joined - Items with unlimited stock could not be bought from vendors - Voting Area edges launched player standing on it up, cause a likely fall to their death - Kick functionality for hosts now works properly (including a message for the kicked person) - Weekly timer in the Store was shown wrong - Traps could be placed inside player's homes - Players could not destroy barricades (only the host) - Season Pass purchase buttons fixed
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Eville Has Officially Launched!
THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME
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THE WAIT IS OVER
It’s been three years. Three years long nights, bug fighting and building but the time is finally here. Eville has officially launched on Steam and Xbox Consoles! We’re excited to see you all make new friends in our chaotic Village!
Gearing up for launch the team has been putting most of our efforts into squashing as many bugs as possible. That being said, we do have some new features to share! Let’s jump in!
MAKE IT YOUR HOME
Homes have been something we’ve recently reworked in past updates. Now we want players to be able to make their home interiors stand out from the rest. Homes can now be customized by changing materials and trophies. At the moment you can unlock materials with earnable silver crowns on the store page.
SOMEONE STRANGE HAS APPEARED
The Strangers make their way into Eville. Strangers are neither Villagers or Conspirators and can side with either one, but don’t always have to. Being a stranger means you pursue your own goals. Our first role to break in the Stranger Faction is none other than the long anticipated Shape Shifter.
The Shape Shifter will at random take on roles currently in game with the personal goal to take on a specific role in that game. For example, you have to find a player for that specific role. If you pick a player with the wrong role however you’ll feel the effect of being poisoned. On the other hand, if you select the right player you’ll have successfully fulfilled your goal and they’ll be poisoned as a side effect instead!
BUG FIXES AND CHANGES
We have our long list of defeated bugs that you can check out below
-item stock no longer goes negative when buying items with controller. -Medic aura no longer stays visible after death. -Party leader can now leave party. -Season tier level was off by one. -pets won't despawn after player leaves lobby. -Players can no longer block home entrance with barricades -ShapeeShifter role could not complete quest when if targeted role died -Skip day hidden on release. -Players were laying oddly in bed. -Joining full lobbies showed double error messages. -Some animations broke interactions such as digging/ paint quest. -Season avatar rewards showed avatar and avatar-style. -Selling items as a ghost would grant no money and keep item in inventory. -ESC key should back you out of a menu in Store & Season and other menus in the main menu (menus menus menus).
For a small team we’ve put so much love into making Eville what it is today and have so much in store for all who enter our village. Thank you to everyone who’s followed our journey leading to this day and we’ll see you in Eville.
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EVILLE NOW HAS A RELEASE DATE!
ATTENTION VILLAGERS
The time is drawing near. We can finally spill the beans. Eville will be available on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, Steam, The Humble Store on October 11th.
We can't wait to see everyone officially join our Village and hear all the stories of chaos and deception!
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