Howdy Neighbors!

It's been a week since we closed down the free Open Beta, and boy has that felt a bit empty! 😃

You certainly seemed to think so, we have been flooded with messages about the possibility to run another one before we hit Early Access on April 17th.

So we thought - what the heck, let's do it! 🥳 Starting on Thursday April 3 at 6PM CEST, we re-open the free Open Beta, and run it until Sunday April 6 at noon CEST.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! 😮 We mean literally, there's more content. In addition to everything in the first Open Beta, you can enjoy our second level, the Snowy Serenity Summit. We're even unlocking the full character roster that we have up until now, meaning that Louie, P-A and Mary-Jean will be playable - so expect new strategies and likely even more hilarious mayhem...

So if you haven't already, head over to our store page and hit "Request Access", to get in on the fun later this week!

Oh, and if you missed it during the first Open Beta, here is the Q&A with our dear animator Katarina, where she answers all your questions, while also animating the latest emote in the game!

Check out the full video on our Youtube, and keep an eye out for two more Q&As landing there soon:

Thanks again for all the love, and all the feedback you give us, it's immensely important for us when developing the game into a truly great experience.

See you in the game in just a few days! 😍

Howdy Neighbors!

🛑 THE OPEN BETA IS CLOSED

The Open Beta for Neighbors is now over, and boy has it been a lovely time! 🤩 Almost 200.000 of you have played the game, and given us so, so much!

We are very happy to see so much excitement surrounding Neighbors be it here in Discord, but also across all our social media channels, on Twitch and also YouTube. 🥳

It was so cool to play the games with you and also to see other people play the game and have discussions about strategies or the pro and cons of certain neighbors.

After our weekly team meeting this morning it is clear: We are just so thankful for everyone playing. 💛🩵💚

WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

I think I'm not reaching, when I say we got a shitton of feedback, recommendations and bugreports to go through and we are grateful, that we got pointers on how to make game even better. 🫡

Community-wise we are currently preparing a bigger report on the Open Beta with some interesting numbers like e.g. most played neighbors, average match length and item usage. We will try to get this done before the end of the week.

On the development side we will look at balance changes, fixes and general polishing of the game so we are ready for the Early Access Release April 17th. BTW don't forget to wishlist Neighbors to get notified when EA goes live.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1732430/Neighbors_Suburban_Warfare/

📝 Localization of Neighbors

Neighbors reached international waters and the language of the game needs more input! If you are not aware of it yet, we are translating the game together with the help of the community!

For this we are using Crowdin - a service enabling collaborative work on translations. We are always on the lookout for more support and voluntary translators. Especially looking at French, Portuguese or Spanish we seem to lack a bit. :/ After reaching a certain amount of words translated you will earn a spot in our credits and a also receive a limited digital reward, which we are currently figuring out. 🙂

Click this link[crowdin.com] to join.
A detailed breakdown on how the translation process works can be found in one of our previous Steam post here.

Neighbors MEME Templates, Sticker & Emotes

We LOVE to seeing so many new users in the Discord and how engaged everyone is. This is why we decided to pull the trigger and release the first batch of Emotes and Stickers. We plan to add more of these as we go along and feel free to recommend some you would love to see and use. Check them out on our Discord server!

[discord.gg]Much love,
Artjom & Jesper