Spooky season is here!
We're pleased to finally share with you what we've been working on these past few months.

This update has:

• A new 'stage map' that shows an overhead view of your current stage
  
• Ability to teleport between discovered checkpoints
  
• An brand new Autumn-themed stage
  
• New hauntable creature

Additionally we've done some minor bug fixes and audio tweaks.

Here's a little preview of what's new:
Happy Hauntober!

Golden Joystick has selected Hauntii as one of the nominees for Best Soundtrack!

I'm pretty biased about this and of course I think Hauntii deserves to win. Our composer, Michael Kirby Ward, absolutely poured his soul into the music, as did our live performers. Hauntii has live music for many of the tracks and a full performance by the Lyris Quartet for the ending theme. But ultimately it's about the end result - If you feel that Hauntii deserves to win best soundtrack, vote to help us out!

The website is a bit confusing so I added steps below:
Click here to begin voting[www.gamesradar.com] and scroll down until you see the 'start voting' button
Vote or skip until you get to the Best Soundtrack category.
Click this button to vote! But that won't submit yet, be sure to complete step 4!
Continue through the categories until the end, then click this button to submit.
And that's it! We really appreciate if you're able to take a few minutes to support our little team and game. Hauntii is going up against some pretty heavy hitters ( Final Fantasy 7???) and obviously we don't have the resources of Square Enix, but with a strong community presence we can still win this!

Thanks again for playing Hauntii and for reading this message.

Sincerely,
-Leo

The Hauntii plush has arrived!
It's only available for a limited time, so visit the storepage [www.makeship.com]to grab one while you can!

• added shop, star pedestal, and various icons to the map
  
• added star hint text to the map (for stars you haven't collected yet)
  
• improved in-game cursor
  
• added toggle for windowed mode
  
• added accessibility setting for disabling camera lens / distortion effects
  
• balance Eternian turrets
  
• balance fireworks gun
  
• added skip button to intro cutscene

• can un-haunt while map is open
  
• some funky UI behavior when in window mode and window is stretched to non 16:9 ratio

You can preview these changes now by switching to the beta branch. We'll continue testing and move it over to the main branch once it's ready!

Welcome, new souls!

It's now been just over a month since Hauntii's release, and we've been overwhelmed by the sincere love and support we've had from this community. It honestly makes our day every time someone rocks up in our Discord to share their 100% achievement run, so feel free to keep those coming 👻

To mark the occasion, we're matching our launch discount in the Steam Summer Sale - the game is 20% off from now until 11th July.

And that's not all - we've updated the game's original demo with a brand new save data transfer system, which will let new souls try out the demo and then carry over their progress to the full game to explore the rest of Eternia.

For full details please check the Steam demo post in our forum, here. If you've already played Hauntii, we'd love it if you shared the demo with your friends.

If you'd like to join our community to hunt down missing stars, share fan art, or philosophize about the meaning of life, you can join our Discord here[discord.gg].

Now, we'd better get out of here before Sporeo starts taking chunks out of this post...

Lots of love,
Moonloop Games & Firestoke

• show collected/total tokens per stage on map
  
• add an option in the crystal menu for unequipping your hat
  
• add missing hats
  
• fix various guidance and map issues
  
• tune bells to be easier to ring, especially on Steam Deck
  
• fix various character animation issues
  
• fix camera and balance on various boss battles
  
• fix some achievement issues
  
• fix star in Crashed Sandship stage that was unachievable after a certain point in the story
  
• make sure stars in the shop show on the map

Here's a preview of the new Token counter Sporeo added to your map! Now you can see exactly how many are remaining in each stage.

• add an option in the crystal menu for unequipping your hat
  
• add missing hats
  
• fix various guidance and map issues
  
• tune bells to be easier to ring, especially on Steam Deck
  
• fix various character animation issues
  
• fix camera and balance on various boss battles

With most updates, we will keep them in the open beta branch for a day or two before setting it live. If you'd like to get an early preview (and help us identify issues!), you can use the following steps:

1. right click on Hauntii in your library
   
2. click properties
   
3. select Betas
   
4. in the Beta Participation dropdown, choose open_beta
   
5. then close that and allow the game to update