StressOut

Released: Dec 10, 2020
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 15:45 GMT

Updates & announcements

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20 Jul 2022Developer post
Quality of Life & Bug fixes
Quality of life improvements When there are a bunch of items in front of you, then heavy items are pulled first . This should help you utilize your maximum destruction potential. Outdoor levels in arcade mode were slightly rebalanced so there is always a better ratio of ammo item
18 Jul 2022Developer post
Biggest Update Yet
Hey everyone we just released a new version of StressOut. This update brings new game mode, completely reimagined to fit our initial vision better - build the most chaotic relaxing experience that you can replay multiple times and is always somewhat different and always fun. Arca
Hey everyone we just released a new version of StressOut. This update brings new game mode, completely reimagined to fit our initial vision better - build the most chaotic relaxing experience that you can replay multiple times and is always somewhat different and always fun.
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Arcade mode
Get through 39 procedurally generated levels, farm the gold and unlock powerful upgrades. We built a brand new upgrade system that sets the foundation for future expansion - more spells, more variety, more destruction.
Win Rewards
Can you beat the developers? Look for Shavorich and Otiv on leaderboards. Get to top of leaderboards to win a free VR game. Join our Discord server to see the rules and other ways you can win
Score is simply calculated by looking at how much time you have left in the last room times 10. So if you have 320.1s on the clock when you finish the run, you will get 3201 points.
Procedural levels
A completely new system has been built from the ground up to allow us to generate all kinds of levels.
Currently there are only a few archetype levels:

Shop - indoor small scale destruction
Warehouse - Medium sized chaos
Outdoors - Full scale destruction
Ceramics - Juicy and full of cash for upgrades
Each of these archetype levels has tons of configurations that can spawn during arcade mode. There are even more configurations as you purchase special unlockable sections. Anyways there is a ton and it’s just going to get better.
What’s coming?
We feel like arcade mode is currently in really early stages of its development so we are planning to extend it with new super powers and greater variety of levels. This should come relatively soon.
We are also thinking of building systems for community such as daily challenges, different variants of arcade mode (melee only anyone?)… Let us know what you would like.
Asymmetric multiplayer we have an early version of asymmetric multiplayer (a mode where 1 player plays on flat screen and 1 in VR) version in the works and are looking for some testers. Let us know if you want to help.
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28 Jun 2021Developer post
First Summer Sale Ever?
Hey! It's been only a couple of days since our last major update and here is a next one already - a minor update with a couple of bug fixes, expanded new level from last update and added a beep sound when items fly over a checkout scanner. We've seen a few people scanning items a
22 Jun 2021Developer post
More Destruction!
Hello players of StressOut! We appreciate your support during Early Access. Update 4 is finally here! This update unfortunately took us longer but this is because we are already working on some exciting features coming later this year. We can't wait to show it to you. But first s
Hello players of StressOut! We appreciate your support during Early Access.
Update 4 is finally here! This update unfortunately took us longer but this is because we are already working on some exciting features coming later this year. We can't wait to show it to you. But first some of the new things...
Destructible Ceramics
We are adding a set of ceramic items in the game. There is a new level you can access by using the info point in every chapter that serves as a small demo for those new items. In a later update on we will expand the level and scatter the items throughout the game. Please let us know how it feels or if you encounter any issues in Steam Discussions.
Try it now - On Any Info Point
New Level 12
A new level that introduces a next few elements we want to use in the game: Portals and platforms. This will enable us to make bigger and more varied levels.
Level 12 also includes a room made just for explosive weapons we added in the previous update.
Improved Weapon Handling
Since we introduced physics based weapon handling we had some issues with it, specifically, it was hard to apply the power you wanted, because the weapons would lag behind. Might be ok in other games, but in our game it's the point to smash things with power.
The new and improved system reads your controllers' orientations and movements and applies extra forces in those directions. This way the system is still entirely physics-based, but it's way more responsive.
Another issue occurred when you teleported you could lose the orientation of the weapon you were holding. So over time, it would get in an annoyingly weird position. We fixed this.
Chapter Fillers
Humans and items will appear after every completed level.
Level Fillers
New objects for external levels and city skyline background.
Audio Improvements
Music lowers in volume correctly when voice overs are playing.
30+ different sound effects and variations added
Volume adjusted of majority of sound effects
We have a LOT to do on audio front before we will consider it finished.
Other Improvements
8 New Collectable puzzle pieces in levels 6 and on (full set cannot be complete yet)
Tutorial Improvements (tutorial 1 & 6)
Renamed Party to Quick Game
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13 Mar 2021Developer post
Explosive Tools, New Levels & QOL Improvements
Explosive Tools You can find the explosive tools in Level 2 and 4 in Chapter 1. Perfect for destroying annoying freezers. 2 New Levels We are introducing a next few experimental levels in the series - Level 7 and 13. Level 7 starts to pickup a warehouse theme and adds bunch of ne
15 Feb 2021Developer post
Improved Destruction, New Items and More
More destruction We've made several models fully destructible. No more giant shelves leftovers in the levels. Smash it all. Medium sized items were also added that allow bigger havoc to be made faster. Party Level Reworked Party mode has been there since early versions of StressO
More destruction
We've made several models fully destructible. No more giant shelves leftovers in the levels. Smash it all. Medium sized items were also added that allow bigger havoc to be made faster.
Party Level Reworked
Party mode has been there since early versions of StressOut and it hasn't seen much improvements since. This update changes this.
Our goal with party mode is to give you a level where you go from nothing to fully upgraded destruction machine while giving you bits and pieces of different levels. It's intended so you can challenge your friends. It has a separate upgrade system, starts with mini tutorial in the shop and scales up to large scale building destruction.
Level 11 Reworked
Before Level 11 served as a demo for building destruction, but it didn't play that well. Now we extended it with new buildings and new items. Hopefully making it more interesting.
New Destructible Buildings System
Before buildings were made of 2 parts: Hard solid blocks and glass floors that were easily breakable. Since we also added medium sized items in the game this update it felt like they were missing a purpose, so we re-worked the destructible system in a way that every item has its place now.
This new system also comes with performance improvements and we can now put up to 5x more buildings in a level.
Online Leaderboards
So far the leaderboards were accessible only from the game after you finished a level. Today we are introducing StressOut.net/leaderboards where you can check the current standings.
Keep in mind that new records and top places are being automatically posted in our Discord server. Come to StressOut Discord to join the discussion.
Improvements

Heavier items are shot first - very useful when different sized objects make different damage (breaking glass just became easier)
Throwing items is way easier now and should work more consistently, and you should be able to throw things further
Combo Indicator added
Smaller tweaks

Locomotion Movement speed increased
New pulling feeling & speed (makes it easier to shoot sideways)
Tools and Weapons weights and shooting powers adjusted
Major building destruction optimizations
Bug fixes

Game lagged when you shot a car
10+ other smaller bugs fixed
Pulling stops working randomly has finally been fixed!
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10 Dec 2020Developer post
Early Access is Live
The moment you have been waiting for has arrived: StressOut's Early Access is live and you can now cause painthem! Chaos. Havoc. Destruction. A race against time and evil, twisted, yet entertaining AI living in your wristwatch forces you to use weapons and incredible superpowers
The moment you have been waiting for has arrived: StressOut's Early Access is live and you can now cause painthem!
Chaos. Havoc. Destruction. A race against time and evil, twisted, yet entertaining AI living in your wristwatch forces you to use weapons and incredible superpowers to destroy a frozen-in-time shopping mall. Find out what happened to others before you and escape this mayhem!
We look forward to hearing your feedback from your intense play sessions. Feel free to start a new discussion in steam community. You are also welcome to join our Discord community so you can share your suggestions and feedback in order to help shape the development of the game!
What's coming?
We feel like we build the foundation on which we can build upon but is by no means complete. Over the next few months existing levels will receive additional polish and improvements to gameplay - from making new objects destructible to adding temporary power ups. This would help breaking the repetitiveness.
Over the duration of early access we plan to at least double the amount of content. This means adding several new levels to adding new core features and mechanics. It's hard to say exactly what these features will be, because we need the you to help us decide. Some of the things we've been thinking of: Level Editor (that would make it a proper sandbox no?), Infinite Procedural Mode, Daily New Challenges, etc...
We're offering a special -10% launch discount for Early Access release, which will last only for a couple of days. Unfortunately we made a mistake when releasing so we need to wait a day before discount will show up. We contacted Steam and we are hoping it will be available Today.
Patch notes

Windows Mixed Reality Support
New Levels 6 & 11
Explosive Crystals appear in levels 1-6 after you complete the game, making high score chasing more strategic and easier
New leaderboards This is a huge one. New leaderboards are integrated with Discord. So if you look for competition and you grind the global leaderboards, you need to join us. World records and top 10 plays are posted there automatically by a bot.
Fixed several issues with locomotion (thanks for reporting everyone!)
Various other bugfixes (100+ smaller issues)
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02 Oct 2020Developer post
Patch Notes - Beta Update 3
2 Bonus Levels Codename "WTF" levels, because they are nothing like the main game levels. Made purely to abuse the mechanics we built so far. Think no gravity, puzzles, explosions, wtf...? Human Ragdolls We implemented the core of human ragdolls, but only added a few to the game
27 Jun 2020Developer post
Beta Update 2
Over the course of last month we focused on improving experience for newer players. There are few smaller changes and improvements for existing players. A huge amount of time was also spent getting the music team and voice over ready. StressOut will get Adaptive Music as the time
Over the course of last month we focused on improving experience for newer players. There are few smaller changes and improvements for existing players.
A huge amount of time was also spent getting the music team and voice over ready. StressOut will get Adaptive Music as the time progresses. We are really satisfied with the team of 4 musicians and producers we got on board. Join Discord as we plan to share some samples soon!
Major improvement

A secret section - can you find it ;)?

10 new models and items to interact with

New Practice level that comes after a tutorial

Sound system:

50+ voice lines integrated

10+ new impact sound effects

Added better spatial awareness to loads of sounds

Overhauled watch voice over sound emitter
Smaller Improvements

Increased max pickup distance - items can now be pulled from roughly 30% further.

Decreased minimum pickup distance (it should be possible to pull items that are on the floor just next to you)

When going to recording mode you can now just press F1 instead of needing to press F1 (enable screen camera) then 1 (select FPS camera)

Improved lift UI

Made rating 1,2,3 easier (loads of people struggled with Level 1 so it was obviously too hard)

Prevent shooting when item would hit the wall immediately after launch. This was mainly done so we can build proper user intrefaces. For example, if you wanted to interact with lift interface and extended your index finger it would shoot pressing wrong buttons. Now it won't shoot until the path is clear.

Bug fixes

Counter works correctly

5+ other smaller bugfixes that probably nobody noticed yet :D

Sometimes items stay stuck in the hand and you cannot get them out until you restart the game.
Known bugs
HTC teleportation is still working badly
What's next?
We just started the work on two new major features:

Bringing human ragdolls into the game (so you can throw people around with telekinesis)
Collectibles (hidden objects, that will give you achievements and maybe some other stuff in the future)

But don't worry, that's not all, we have 5 new levels in the pipeline as well that should come out with Early Access release that we are hoping to do in roughly 2 months.
You can read more about the next update here and about the future plans here.
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11 May 2020Developer post
Patch Notes - Beta Update 1
First Week of Beta Thank you all for helping us test StressOut. We have received some invaluable feedback and we worked on it! First update is mostly focused on making improvements and bug fixes to the core of the game. Physics Reworked Several people noted that some items are ov
First Week of Beta
Thank you all for helping us test StressOut. We have received some invaluable feedback and we worked on it! First update is mostly focused on making improvements and bug fixes to the core of the game.
Physics Reworked
Several people noted that some items are over powered when you hold them in the hand. The reason for this is the fact that items were fixed to your hands when you picked them up, now the items are attached using a "spring". Attaching the items via the spring gives us multiple benefits:
1. Items will not be moved around by unstoppable force so they will react properly to environment
2. Adjusting the spring strength gives us the ability to give weight to the items (really similar to Half Life Alyx)
We also added physics to several game objects as you can see at the end of the gif below:
Score System Update
So far the game would finish after you activated all items. Looking for last few items at the end can be really annoying, so we decided to change this and finish the game after you reach rank 4. Time left when achiving the rank 4 will be converted to extra score points.
To achieve a specific rank you have to:
Rank 1 - Activate 50% of the items
Rank 2 - Activate 70% of the items
Rank 3 - Activate 80% of the items
Rank 4 - Activate 90% of the items
Other improvements:
Hands now colour items on touch
Prevent teleporting when hand is inside the wall
Improved calculation that determines whether the glass should break or not
Increased spell sizes:
Level 1: 4 → 13 items
Level 2: 13 → 21 items
Level 3: 21 → 29 items
Fixed
Staff room now opens after completing level 5
Leaderboards long names should be properly shown
Leaderboards should correctly show players around your rank
Small Spell Cast fix where it would trigger sound and visual effects even if it wasn't casted
Reduced glass volume
Disable teleportation during level loading (this caused some players to start outside of a level)
Known bugs
HTC Vive teleportation has to be reworked (we are aiming to fix this before end of the month)
Voice lines are triggering when they are not supposed to (reworked voice line system is going to replace this one soon and it should get fixed at that point, until then, sorry!)
Especially thanks to all the beta testers who provided feedback 💙: @Kcam99, @Aero, @SteveZero, @PatchPatch, @SammyJspodge, @VirtuallyHealthy, @Phillip (Zilchmasta), @Ms. Switch, @tommy, @Wrarv, @poopendecken.
If you haven't signed up for beta yet, please do it here, we would love your feedback.
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22 Apr 2020Developer post
Closed Beta Announcement
We are proud to announce our Closed Beta for StressOut, the game we've been working on hard for just about a year now. We believe it's the time we move beyond internal testing phase and give it out to the people. How to join? Simply visit stressout.net/beta, enter your email on t

Updates & announcements

Quality of life improvements

Bug fixes

Arcade mode

Procedural levels

What’s coming?

Destructible Ceramics

Try it now - On Any Info Point

New Level 12

Improved Weapon Handling

Audio Improvements

Other Improvements

Explosive Tools

2 New Levels

New Vehicles

Quality of Life Improvements

Walk through any doors

Explore after the level finishes

Hand Objectives

Bug Fixes

More destruction

Party Level Reworked

Level 11 Reworked

New Destructible Buildings System

Online Leaderboards

Improvements

Smaller tweaks

Bug fixes

Patch notes

2 Bonus Levels

Human Ragdolls

Explosive Crystals

Collectables

Music

General Improvements

Settings panel

Loads of other upgrades

Major improvement

Smaller Improvements

Bug fixes

Known bugs

What's next?

First Week of Beta

Physics Reworked

Score System Update

Other improvements:

Fixed

Known bugs