Psychosis

Released: Dec 20, 2022
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 19:10 GMT

Updates & announcements

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24 May 2025Developer post
Daughter Alpha milestone release is LIVE!
Good news everyone! After five and a half months of hard work, I am very pleased to announce that the Daughter chapter's Alpha milestone has finally been released! This is a huge release for us and we are very eager to get everyone's feedback from it. After completing the Daughte
Good news everyone!
After five and a half months of hard work, I am very pleased to announce that the Daughter chapter's Alpha milestone has finally been released! This is a huge release for us and we are very eager to get everyone's feedback from it.
After completing the Daughter chapter, I invite you to please complete the feedback survey that'll automatically open after the boss is defeated. This is also accessible from the main menu. Please note that this is a new survey, different from the survey in the last release.
Please report bugs in this Steam discussion thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1922550/discussions/0/634541741925543240/
Due to changes in checkpoints and save file structure, your save file will be reset. Apologies for any inconvenience.
(The following update notes are largely a rehash of the last announcement that was posted a couple weeks ago.)
Here's some of the biggest changes:

Almost all of the temporary prototype art in the Daughter chapter has been replaced with phase one art! That means no more ugly, grey, placeholder grid textures :D
All of the Daughter chapter's enemies have new, beautiful art and animations thanks to our wonderful new character artist Luca!
Lots of narrative-related improvements, including a much improved Camera mechanic, a new Tape Recorder mechanic, and - finally - proper dialogue! (Using placeholder TTS voices for now)
A short, new Prologue chapter to replace the old demo prologue. Please note this new Prologue still has a fair bit of temporary art, including the art for the new NPC characters.
Tutorialization has been greatly improved across the board.
The user interface across the game has received a big visual facelift, and many outstanding UI bugs have finally been fixed.
Lots of various improvements to the melee system.
Gamepad support has been improved greatly, though proper button glyphs are still not in yet.
Audio mixing and spatialization has been overhauled across the board.
As always, please feel free to join the Discord server and follow us on Twitter (links below) for more frequent updates and a quicker/better way to provide feedback to us about the game.
Thanks for sticking with us throughout the year!
Aaron
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14 May 2025Developer post
Upcoming Update: Daughter Chapter Alpha Milestone
Hello! I hope you've all been enjoying the sunny spring weather. I am very pleased to announce the upcoming release of the Daughter chapter's Alpha milestone! This is a very big release and we are very eager to get everyone's feedback from it. Here's some of the biggest changes:
Hello!
I hope you've all been enjoying the sunny spring weather. I am very pleased to announce the upcoming release of the Daughter chapter's Alpha milestone! This is a very big release and we are very eager to get everyone's feedback from it.
Here's some of the biggest changes:

Almost all of the temporary prototype art in the Daughter chapter has been replaced with phase one art! That means no more ugly, grey, placeholder grid textures :D
All of the Daughter chapter's enemies have new, beautiful art and animations thanks to our wonderful new character artist Luca!
Lots of narrative-related improvements, including a much improved Camera mechanic, a new Tape Recorder mechanic, and - finally - proper dialogue! (Using placeholder TTS voices for now)
A short, new Prologue chapter to replace the old demo prologue. Please note this new Prologue still has a fair bit of temporary art, including the art for the new NPC characters.
Tutorialization has been greatly improved across the board.
The user interface across the game has received a big visual facelift, and many outstanding UI bugs have finally been fixed.
Lots of various improvements to the melee system.
Gamepad support has been improved greatly, though proper button glyphs are still not in yet.
Audio mixing and spatialization has been overhauled across the board.
This update is scheduled to release on May 24th.
As always, please feel free to join the Discord server and follow us on Twitter (links below) for more frequent updates and a quicker/better way to provide feedback to us about the game.
Thanks for sticking with us throughout the year!
Aaron
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15 Dec 2024Developer post
Daughter v1.3.1 Small Patch
Change starting text for Son chapter Add descriptive temp text above toy trail Remove duplicate flashlight tutorial from Son level Fix incorrect button prompt for Inventory tutorial Chapter 3 button should be disabled
Change starting text for Son chapter
Add descriptive temp text above toy trail
Remove duplicate flashlight tutorial from Son level
Fix incorrect button prompt for Inventory tutorial
Chapter 3 button should be disabled
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14 Dec 2024Developer post
New Chapter: Daughter Prototype
Good news everyone! The prototype for the new Daughter chapter has finally been released! This new chapter is playable through the Play Game button after resetting your save progress (Game Options menu), or in the chapter select menu After completing the new chapter, I invite you
Good news everyone! The prototype for the new Daughter chapter has finally been released!
This new chapter is playable through the Play Game button after resetting your save progress (Game Options menu), or in the chapter select menu
After completing the new chapter, I invite you to please complete the feedback survey that'll automatically open after the boss is defeated. This is also accessible from the main menu.
Please report bugs in this Steam discussion thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1922550/discussions/0/634541741925543240/
Release notes are below.
ADDED

Daughter Chapter: This is playable through the Play Game button after resetting your save progress, or in the chapter select menu
Early Access disclaimer on game startup
Camera mechanic (only used in Daughter levels for now)
Mechanics to charge and throw pickupable objects (with temporary UI)
Daughter chapter feedback survey link in main menu
Son levels: New architecture geometry (much more optimized)
Melee system: Melee weapons now support charged attacks as well as chained consecutive swings (except the Baseball Bat, which has a single swing)
CHANGED

Updated textures of the school flyers for variation
Edited front door windows so that they're not so bright
Complete refactor of save system
Pickupable items (like the Basketball) should be dropped if an object gets in the way
Enable hierarchical z-buffer occlusion to improve issues with meshes popping
Player health heart icon should be filled based on remaining health
Tab key should now successfully open/close the Inventory
Esc key should close the Inventory
Inventory containers (like Dark Room Photo Basin) should have descriptive text in their UI
Reduce flashlight brightness
Only play 'landed' foley sfx if landing velocity is above a certain amount
Don't let health items be consumed while at full health
Son Journal entries have been rewritten
Health items have been rebalanced
FIXED

Issue where melee weapons' non-backup hit collision detection wouldn't do any damage
Issue where grenade collision doesn't get disabled after exploding
Issues with enemies' near and ranged attack checks competing with each other
Issue where ranged weapons wouldn't register hits with Destructible/DestructibleObstacle objects
Issue where Handgun can be refired in really quick succession
Issue where if the player finishes a melee swing close to a wall, they won't be able to swing again
Issues where the incorrect physical material can be detected for playing footstep sounds when walking on static meshes
Issue where in packaged game, certain levels can appear as a black screen
KNOWN ISSUES

Frame rate is terrible for some users with Shadows set to Very High and 4K resolution. This is an especially odd one, as nothing has changed about the maps or lighting since the initial Steam or Itch.io releases. In any regard, this is avoidable by either changing the setting to High or lowering the resolution to around 1080p. Most likely cause seems to be GPU drivers but we’re still investigating this.
Menu sliders don't reload their saved value upon reloading a menu; this isn't game breaking, but it does mean that when you enter a menu the sliders will reset.
Crawlers can attack too quickly.
There is a piece of missing geometry in the post-boss garage.
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03 Nov 2024Developer post
Important Game Update
Hi everybody! We've got some exciting news to share with you all: After careful consideration of our business model, we have decided to make Psychosis into freeware! This means that everybody on Steam will be able to add it to their Steam library and play it and all of its conten
01 Feb 2024Developer post
February 2024 Patch Notes
ADDED - Gamepad camera input acceleration and associated setting in Game Options - Screamers should flee and flank the player when wounded enough - More elegant enemy despawning - Interactable objects should be visually highlighted when hovered over - Screamer head grenade foley
21 Nov 2023Developer post
Project Update (November 2023)
Hello all, long time no see! Apologies for the long silence. It's been a rather timultuous year for me - all is good now, but it caused quite a long delay in getting any sort of Psychosis work done. (I was also admittedly quite burnt out on Psychosis for a while after the initial
23 Jan 2023Developer post
January Status Update
Happy belated new year everyone! Apologies for radio silence over the last bit, we've been taking a much needed break from everything. Just wanted to let y'all know that as of today we've started developing the outlines for the rest of the game, and it's going quite well. Hope to
22 Dec 2022Developer post
Day One Hotfix Patch
Hi all! This is just a small patch to address a couple issues noticed in the build. Fixed issue where ammo doesn't drop from spit attacks Fixed item save id issue in boss dark room
Hi all! This is just a small patch to address a couple issues noticed in the build.

Fixed issue where ammo doesn't drop from spit attacks
Fixed item save id issue in boss dark room
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