2025-11-26 03:01 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
We're happy to announce that Chapter 2 is in testing by our lovely beta testers and first players have already played through the whole chapter - it's finally happening! 🏁More details will come, we're trying to focus on development and we're really sorry about the silence around The Devourer! Despite some bugs here and there, all in all things are going well so far!We'll also inform you more often about The Devourer's progress in the near future. We're attaching screenshots below as a little teaser so you get a taste on the atmosphere. You might notice there are heavy changes to our previous
2025-02-01 01:10 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
Hello investigators! First off, we want to sincerely apologize for the long silence and delay in releasing Chapter 2. 2024 has been much wilder than we ever could have predicted, especially with the release of PANICORE as you might know. With this announcement we mainly want to tell you one thing: While being silent about it, we've worked on Chapter 2 and it will happen! Current Progress on Chapter 2 We're aiming for the next chapter to be better than anything we've been doing so far. Here’s what you should know right now: Estimated percentage of progress: We'd say around 70% of the chapter is
2024-03-19 22:51 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
Investigators! With this news announcement, we would like to give you an overview of what's happening with The Devourer & what else is happening around it. We'll be as transparent as possible with the informaton we're giving you. To start off, we would like to apologize for the long wait. For all players that have been around here since the demo's release, they might remember that the implementation of Chapter 1 took around 6-7 months. This being said, we assume around the same amount of time needed for Chapter 2 including playtesting and bug fixing. For you this would mean the expected update
2023-12-20 14:24 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.7) Date: December, 21st 2023 4pm CET Bug Fixes: Fixed a bug where your session was not in the session list when the session had no name typed in Fixed a bug where an important item did not spawn after a save Changed a few meshes' placement to avoid being softlocked in barn Fixed FSR bugs leading to crashes Known Issues: Introduction Video/Audio might appear just white Items can be stuck in your hip inventory without being accessible Character hair sometimes go crazy Incorrect collisions and clipping at different parts of the map Sometimes
2023-11-09 12:54 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.6) Date: November, 9th 2023 2pm CET Language: Added Polish language Optimization: Changed loading behaviour to increase performance Bug Fixes: Potential fix for language settings not being saved correctly Changed a few meshes' placement to avoid being softlocked Changed navigation in opera room that AI can’t get stuck there VR changes: Removed player collisions moving when moving in room-scale 3D Widgets are now in front of every object. Known Issues: Lobbies of different regions can’t be seen: To fix this, change the Download Region in y
2023-11-04 23:12 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.5) Date: November, 4nd 2023 0:10am CET General Changes: Removed Speech recognition from EMF Type Reader (will be added back after some fixes) Bug Fixes: Reduced number of crashes by removing speech recognition Setting FPS value to unlimited should work now Fixed a bug where you could be stuck in the intro cutscene by spamming space bar Known Issues: Lobbies of different regions can’t be seen: To fix this, change the Download Region in your Steam settings to your friend’s, use Steam’s invitation system or the invitation system inside the g
2023-11-03 02:41 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.4) Date: November, 3nd 2023 7pm CEST Gameplay Improvements: Added a map with a marker for starting players to know where to go right at the beginning Bug Fixes: Fixed a bug where you could jump out of bounds behind the piano in the mansion Fixed a bug that made it possible to skip the entire graveyard section Potential fix for voice chat causing FATAL ERROR crashes Known Issues: Lobbies of different regions can’t be seen: To fix this, change the Download Region in your Steam settings to your friend’s, use Steam’s invitation system or the
2023-11-02 00:00 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.3) Date: November, 2nd 2023 1am CEST Bug Fixes: Fixed a bug where you could clip through a wall in the graveyard Fixed a bug where the inventory wheel would never close when you used the clipboard at the same time At some points in the mansion you could get stuck and never get out, these places have been slightly changed to fix this Potential fix for proximity voice chat keeping to cause FATAL ERROR crashes Known Issues: Lobbies of different regions can’t be seen: To fix this, change the Download Region in your Steam settings to your frie
2023-11-01 23:14 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
Hello Investigators! We're sorry that so many of you are still experiencing crashes! Currently, we have been reported 3 different types of crashes: GPU crashes (include a message about D3D12 / DX12), for this one try out the other launch options (DX11 and Vulkan) FATAL ERROR (voice chat is causing this) Level loading crashes (short error message, but these only happen if you quit the game) We would like to invite you to try out the public beta branch if you encounter any of these crashes! We're updating the beta branch multiple times daily and would love to know if the fixes work out for you!
2023-10-31 14:53 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
Hello Investigators! We're pretty new to all of this, but we still wanted to do something small for Halloween! We would like to welcome you to the Pumpkin Hunt! What to do in the update: Find the happy looking pumpkin in the cabin at the spawn point and interact with it Find all other happy looking pumpkins in the FOREST Get your EMF and EMF Type Reader (Spirit Box looking gadget) Watch out for signals & the type "Paranormal Pumpkin" PRO TIP: The pumpkins are distributed around the forest, but are all easily reachable, you don't have to check all the boundaries of the map! After completing the
2023-10-29 21:45 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
Voice chat has been causing people to crash with a FATAL ERROR message. This issue should be fixed now!
2023-10-28 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
Hello Investigators! First, we would like to say thank you to anyone who has tried out the demo and the Early Access release! Also thank you so much for leaving a review on Steam, it helps a lot! We are really happy that a majority of you guys enjoy our game! As some of you might know, communication with our players is really really important to us and we have some things to say: We would like to apologize to our VR players as the Steam store page was set up incorrectly telling you VR is fully supported - the VR version is currently only experimental and may work fine for some people, but it i
2023-10-28 13:47 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.2) Date: October, 28th 2023, 7pm CEST Bugfixes - Fixed a bug where you could get stuck in the cave after loading a save, these saves should be able to continue - Potential fix for Master volume not loading the correct value after a restart - Potential fix for microphone input selection not saving Gameplay changes - Changed the feedback of the piano puzzle, it should be clearer now that it has been solved Known issues - The proximity voice chat seems to not work for everyone - Speech recognition seems to not work for everyone - Some people
2023-10-27 15:25 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Patch Notes (Version 0.4.1.1) Date: October, 27th 2023, 7pm CEST Bugfixes - Fixed a bug where hide & seek game saves would break after loading, the same saves should work now - Fixed a bug that made it hard to interact with Lisa's diary - Potential fix for bug where the door to Chapter 1 didn't open up Gameplay changes: - VR player's default setting to sprint is to toggle sprint now instead of holding the button
2023-10-26 17:04 UTC · Community Announcements · MysteryLol
The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Release Notes (Version 0.4.1) Date: October, 26th 2023 Bugfixes: - Fixed a bug where an AI in Chapter 1 could not move due to missing navigation data
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