Hey Panda Peeps!
You may have seen that we recently teased the Crush Crush artbook as part of our 10th Anniversary celebration. Well, we're here to let you know that the artbook has officially LAUNCHED! Yes, you can now own 1300 pages of high-resolution digital illustrations from the past decade of Crush Crush, including full-body character sprites (yes! You can see their feet!), sketches and concept art, backgrounds, pinups, and even scrapped designs! You can check out the Store Page HERE.
But wait, there's more!
One thing you may have noticed recently is that Cassie's looking much nicer in her in-game CGs. That's right, we've updated Cassie's intro, friendship, kiss, and final CG art to be cleaner, crisper, and generally prettier! We plan to give the same treatment to several more of the early-game girls, so keep your eyes peeled. This is part of an overall art and user experience "refresh" that will include better early-game balancing, a smoother tutorial, and even some UI updates.
As for exciting stuff happening outside of the game, we're doing a giveaway of 10 plushies on Twitter/X in honor of our 10th Anniversary! By participating, you could win a Mio, Quill, Bonnibel, Elle, Iro, or Peanut plush. Oh, and there's one more reason you might want to keep an eye on our social media - soon, we'll be sharing a few more 10th Anniversary Crush Crush surprises. Like this anniversary music video! For this song, we commissioned Scarlet Moon, who worked closely with our writing team to craft a cute and catchy Crush Crush song we really hope you'll love.
If you're still reading, wow! Thanks! How about we leave you with some fun Crush Crush facts? In the past ten years, we've released 82 fully-dateable girls! (That's counting Ginger & Wasabi as two individuals, by the way.) We've also released 47 pinups, 46 Phone Flings, and run 46 Parallel Events and 295 Limited Time Events! Over the past decade, 5.37 million people have played Crush Crush on PC (and 7.5 million on mobile) for a total active play time of 55 million hours. Wow, our minds are blown!
We’re not really sure how to end this, so we’ll just say that we are so so so so so SO grateful to all of you who have made 10 years of Crush Crush possible. We love you SO. HARD.
~The Pandas