Developer posts and news about this game.
The Masquerade Demo is now available on Steam! The Masquerade is a murder party game from 2 to 8 players where you're simultaneously a target and a hunter. Impersonate NPCs to hide from your hunter, while completing tasks to unmask and eliminate your target. Demo content Play the
Hey Sinners, V11 is live! What’s new? Proximity voice chat Experience a whole new way to play The Matriarch with the proximity voice and text chat. This game option can be activated by the host in the lobby. When activated, players are only able to communicate with other players
Hey Sinners, V10 is live! What's new? New map ‘Windmill’, with 5 pillars, new tasks and unique interactions, this new map is aimed at more experienced players (I recommend to play it with tiles x1) New sacrifice device ‘The Pit’: Make sinners fall to their death for 900coins! New
Hey Sinners, Patch 9 is now live! This is the biggest update so far, and it contains a lot of exciting stuff! New Cemetery Map with 2 Matriarchs The cemetery is only playable with 2 matriarchs, thus recommended for 6-8 players. The initial plan was to have 2 votes per night, but
The Matriarch gathered 50 000 Sinners around the world! When I started developing the Matriarch as a side project 1.5 years ago, I couldn't imagine it would one day reach this milestone. To all the streamers, players, and everyone who helped making and growing this game, THANK YO
Hey Sinners, The new traitor role is here! What's New? New traitor role & achievement. Betray other sinners by locking trapdoors and slowing down their progress, be the last Sinner alive and kill the matriarch to win! If at least 3 sinners (including the traitor) are alive, S
Hey Sinners, v0.6 is finally out, thanks for your patience! What's new? Ghost skins are available to purchase in Mephisto's workshop, they're purely cosmetic, but they will give you some achievements! The spooking area has been changed from a rectangle to a circle shape To celebr
Hey Sinners, Patch 0.5 is live! What's new? Network Latency shouldn't impact Sinners' movement when they perform their tasks anymore. As a Matriarch, differentiating bots from laggy sinners was sometimes too easy because their movements were not as smooth, hopefully, this should
Hey Sinners, You can now diversify your sessions by playing on the New Map: The Monastery With 5 tasks and 18 nuns, the Monastery is a bigger map, ideal for 5-8 players The tasks are more complex, often combining movement with interactions The underground area is divided into 2 p
Hey Sinners, What's new? The exit has been reworked to prevent sinners from guessing the 3rd number or force-brut the code. Even if the 3 numbers are correct, Sinners still have to unlock the exit manually, if the code is wrong there is a 10s cooldown until you can try another co
Hi Sinners, I just pushed a small hotfix -> Attempt to fix the black / green screen bug, my guess is that it happens when joining a full lobby or because of pirated versions. I added a validation to ensure only the servers with updated versions of the game are shown in the gam
Hi Sinners, I just pushed an update with the following changes: -> The Iron Maiden device is now available for 750 coins! -> Bug fix: Sinners should not be peeling potatoes or turned in the wrong way when teleported to the church anymore -> Lobby names can be slightly lo
Hey SInners, The time has come! I’m thrilled to finally announce that The Matriarch is now available! First of all, thanks to everyone who has helped me make that day happen, from the players who have been involved since the early betas, the discord members to the friends & f
Hey Sinners, I'm super thrilled to announce that the Matriarch will be released on the 26th of September. And this is only the beginning! New content such as maps, sacrifice devices, game options, and steam achievements will be added regularly for free, I started to work on a new
Hey Sinners, I spent the past couple of weeks implementing a lot of feedback you provided during and after the beta. New Features The big new thing is the rework of the lever system, in an effort to prevent the sinners from instantly going underground to dig and win too fast, wit
Hey Sinners, First and foremost, thanks to everyone who participated in the beta, it was a quite big achievement, the demo was in the top 5 steam demo in term of concurent players (which peaked at 400!) and there were tens of thousands of players over just a few days! I'm thankfu
Hey Sinners, hope you're doing well! I've been a bit less active on social media recently, that's because I've been busy fixing bugs reported during the recent Beta and there wasn't much to show, but in the past few couples of weeks, I've also worked on the second map, which I am
It's been a while since the last devlog here! After the Steam Festival in February and a short break in March, I've been working on a mix of big and small new features. Scoring and shop systems: At the end of each game, earn a number of coins that depend on if you won, lost, or d
Hey Sisters, I'll be playing The Matriarch with some friends, come chill with us! Ask me anything, I'll be happy to talk about the development or the future of the game.
Hey everyone, I pushed a fix for the loading issue (stuck on the lobby screen when launching a game from the lobby), this might also have fixed this issue of nuns sometimes having the matriarch book and not being able to go underground. Hopefully, that's fixed but please let me k