Citizens of Forest Hills, Undaunted Games here speaking from the Nightmare!
We're still hard at work on Forest Hills to enhance its maps, fiends, and displaced while also filling it to the brim with new content for both Steam and Console editions. Today, we are excited to share & confirm what we will be launching with the Full Release of Forest Hills.
Forest Hills will be launching with:
● Seven maps, including the maps from the original Last Year with updated lighting objects, bug-fixes, skybox & weather improvements (The Library, The Belltower, The Gym, The Sawmill, The Mine, The Forest, and The Cemetery).
● Six Fiends with new skins, emotes, and more (The Slasher, The Strangler, The Giant, The Spider, The Warlock, and The Dryad).
● Seven Displaced with new skins, emotes, and more (Sam, Nick, Troy, Chad, Raj, Amber, and Abigail).
● A brand new ability system for Fiends and a revamped Arcanum system.
● New dialogue for the Fiends & Displaced.
● New Music and SFX from our wonderful partners at Pixel Audio.
Undaunted Games has always taken quality as our number one priority alongside your
enjoyment playing our games. Porting Forest Hills and all of its content to Unreal Engine 5.4 has been a massive undertaking. The team had to rebuild many systems from scratch to work within this version of the engine. We are proud of the work we have done so far and are eager to share it with you. That said, all of us at the studio have collectively decided to move our release date of Forest Hills to October 22, 2024, to ensure that the content coming meets our quality standards and yours as well. We're going to be further improving and future-proofing the game as we go, and we have so much content coming up after release that we can’t wait to share it all with you.
Additionally, we're working on something nice for those who previously purchased the
game; we’ll have news to share soon on that front! We’ll also be revealing our post-launch content roadmap in the coming weeks, including more Fiends, Maps, and more to expand the Forest Hills to its full horror glory.
We know this may be a disappointment to some who have eagerly awaited our early access release. We sincerely appreciate everyone who was excited to play the new entry in the Forest Hills franchise. We want our first impression to be our best and show how much we love this franchise, which is why this is the best release date for the game. We hope you understand.
In the meantime, here is a sneak peek of what is to come in Forest Hills.
Take care, and see you in The Nightmare.
Undaunted Games.