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Genre: Adventure, Indie

Press X to Not Die

2022 Patch 3


  • New feature: Press Backspace to skip the current clip.
  • Fixes for bug in Patch #1: Two fonts not displaying Russian characters.

2022 Patch 2: The Big One

It's the Big One!

Game updates:

  • PlayStation button prompts option. By popular demand!
  • We went into George Lucas mode and made minor changes to 10 clips to smooth out some remaining editing issues.
  • Global Stats detailed breakdowns:
  • Ever wanted to know how many other people also tried to watch Christina shower today? Now you can find out!
  • See how much you’ve contributed to the Global Stats! Note that it has only been recording properly for the last two weeks.

Steam updates:

  • The Soundtrack DLC has been updated to Steam’s new Soundtrack format.
  • New images added to fully support Steam’s new Library view. Our Library page is all spiffy looking now!




2022 Patch 1

A Press X to Not Die update in 2022? It’s true!

We’re working on cough something new cough and taking the opportunity to port some of the new features we're developing back into Press X to Not Die. This patch is happening now cause we wanted to get recording Global Stats out ASAP, with cooler stuff coming later on.

In this patch:

  • As part of modernizing our dev tools, we’ve migrated the game engine from an FNA/XNA hybrid to an FNA/MonoGame hybrid. This fundamentally changes how the game handles all text and art assets so please let us know if you notice anything amiss!
  • Global Stats: We never got these working consistently before but now they are. Ever wanted to know just how many times people have died or tried to watch Christina shower? Well, unfortunately, we were only able to record those numbers about 9% of the time before but we’ll be recording them 100% of the time from now on!
  • Mouse makes more sense now. Ever click on one menu item and then the game opened a different menu item instead? Yeah, the old mouse code was weird and just kind of simulated a gamepad controlling the menus. Now it actually functions like how you’d expect a mouse to work!
  • 1994 Mode: Now pixelates absolutely everything, including pop-ups.
  • Other bug fixes.

Mac and Linux support for DLC!

We noticed today that our DLC were still listed as Windows-only when in fact they work perfectly fine on Mac and Linux! We've updated their store pages!

Launch Day!

Press X to Not Die's Full Release is upon us! Buy it! Buy it now! Buy it for yourself! Buy it for your friends! Buy it for strangers!

To reiterate, here's just some of the largest additions to the game since our early days of Early Access:
  • (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
  • Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
  • Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!) and the brand new Blooper Reel.
  • Localization into 7 languages!
  • Mac and Linux support!

With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/402330/Press_X_to_Not_Die/

Launch Day!

Press X to Not Die's Full Release is upon us! Buy it! Buy it now! Buy it for yourself! Buy it for your friends! Buy it for strangers!

To reiterate, here's just some of the largest additions to the game since our early days of Early Access:
  • (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
  • Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
  • Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!) and the brand new Blooper Reel.
  • Localization into 7 languages!
  • Mac and Linux support!

With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/402330/Press_X_to_Not_Die/

Enter Juggalo, Exit Early Access

Our final and largest Early Access content update is upon us!

What do you get?

  • (Spoiler Free Description) A new scene featuring 30 new clips! There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2. You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content.
  • Blooper Reel – finish the game on Hard to unlock!
  • Last playthrough stats – An overview of everything that happened in your last playthrough.
  • Expanded Twitter functionality – Now the game can construct a custom tweet describing the details of your particular playthrough.


Press X to Not Die will be exiting Early Access on Friday October 6, 2017.

Here's a look back at just some of the things we've added to the game since those first days of Early Access:

  • Play the prototype (DLC)! Because it's even better when it's stuffed animals trying to kill you.
  • Virtually all the bonus features, including the Death Galleries (inspired by user feedback!).
  • Subtitles! An entire subtitle system had to be implemented, which then paved the way for localization into an eventual 7 languages.
  • The switchover from the XNA Framework to the FNA Framework proved to be a huge undertaking but necessary to resolve many compatibility issues players had encountered. Who knew playing video had so many compatibility problems! The switchover also paved the way for releasing Press X to Not Die on Mac and Linux!

With a 93% Steam user rating and over 1000 positive reviews, we are truly humbled by the response to Press X to Not Die. Thank you to all our fans for your support. We are certain that the best is yet to come!

Enter the Juggalo (Beta)! 

The Beta is now over and the "Juggalo" branch retired. All new content is now in the game's main branch.


Our final and largest Early Access content update is (almost) upon us!  We encourage adventurous players to try out the new content by switching to the "Juggalo" branch of the game using the steps below: 
 
How to switch to the "Juggalo" Branch:  

  1. Right-click on the game in Steam and select Properties.  
  2. Switch to the Betas tab.  
  3. In the drop down, select "juggalo" and close the window.  
  4. Allow Steam to download a game update to switch to the "juggalo" branch of Press X to Not Die.  The update will be small as the new content is already preloaded into the main branch of the game. 
  5. You will know you have switched successfully if it says [juggalo] next to the game's title in Steam after the update.  
  6. Once completed, run the game!  
     
What do you get? 
  • (Spoiler Free Description) There is a new decision point at the end of Chapter 2.  You will need to play through the game from at least this point to see the new content. 
  • Blooper Reel – finish the game on Hard to unlock! 
  • Last playthrough stats – An overview of everything that happened in your last playthrough  

As of Sept 29th, the new content is now available in all of our supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
 
Please let us know below if you encounter any issues! 

SteamOS and Linux support!

Press X to Not Die is now available on SteamOS and Linux!

If you have any issues on SteamOS or Linux, please report them here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/402330/discussions/0/2592234299528296577/

Mac Support!

And on the 8th day, there was Mac support.

It is a very new build and we have limited Mac testing resources (Macs are expensive!) so if you have any issues, please discuss in our Mac discussion thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/402330/discussions/0/2592234299528296577/