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Month End Post: October 2026 Wrap-Up (Patreon)

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We meet again, on the scariest day of Scary Season itself: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🦇

But, fear not! There’s nothing nerve-racking about this update. In fact, we’ve got nothing but good news and surprises as we head into the Early Access release of Our Life: Now & Forever.

So sit back, grab your treat of choice, and read all about the tricks we’ve got up our sleeves. 🎃

Monthly Content Summary

Let’s start off with The Big One™️. Earlier this month, we revealed the official release date for our Early Access launch! On Friday, November 27th at 6am US MT/8am EST (that’s Black Friday for folks who are familiar), access to Steps 1 and 2 of Our Life: Now & Forever will open. You’ll be able to play both Steps for free, with an option to purchase DLCs for each Step (at $5.99 USD).

During that announcement, we also debuted a brand new animated trailer, created by dreamty_draw. You can check it out here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4q0jsBOSxk

Next up, we announced the first ever Our Life: Now & Forever official merchandise! We’re producing a hoodie in collaboration with Makeship. Four mock-up designs were created and the community voted on their favorite. Thank you to the 3,780 players who took part in the poll! We’re very pleased to announce that the winner (by a MASSIVE margin at 64%) is Option 1, seen here. Please note that this final design may be adjusted as we move toward production.

To wrap up our big three events this month: OLNF was featured in the 2026 Steam Next Fest! This festival showcased nearly 8,000 demos of games that are releasing within the next year. Outputlag ranked the top performing demos and we are pleased to share that, as of writing, OLNF peaked at #13 in the Story-Rich genre and sits in the top 250 of demos! It’s all thanks to you, fam.

Development Progress

Let’s jump into our development progress! This month, GB and the team are working on programming the Fall Ended section of Step 2. That’s the final set of scenes for this Step, and it’ll soon be shipped out for players to enjoy. The last pieces of art for S2 are also being wrapped up.

Shawna reports several new checked-off tasks, as well. This month, the team released “Mid-Autumn” (a Step 2 Moment) into the beta. They finished scripting logic for the second-to-last Step 2 script, and similarly, the final script is nearing completion.

New sprite layers were added and updates to your phone’s style were introduced. Shawna reports that this’ll make for a smoother group chat experience! More on phones: New styling was added for phone choice screens to allow for non-phone choices on occasion (such as deciding not to reply).

We released TWO betas this month, 1.5.14 and 1.5.15. They included:

1.5.14

Mid-Autumn Parts 1 & 2
Added backgrounds that were missing in prior build
Fixes to typos/errors from the prior build

1.5.15

Homecoming Parts 1, 2, & 3
Added backgrounds that were missing in prior build
Fixes to typos/errors from the prior build

Finally, it was a month full of bug squashing (sorry bugs, you stand no chance here). Shawna and I have been working on a brand new bug reporting system and have released it in the Patreon server. It’ll make its way to the public server soon.

Important Dates

November 1st: Month Start Blog

November 2nd: Cove’s Birthday

November 13th: Public Patreon Q&A Transcript Release
November 15th: GB Public Tumblr Q&A + Mid-Month Update

November 16th: OLBA 6th Anniversary

November 27th: Our Life: Now & Forever Early Access Release

November 30th: Month-End Blog

Important Links

We’ve gathered all public Q&A transcripts and placed them in a handy doc for you! We’ll share it alongside a new transcript each month.

Conclusion

WHEW, that was a big one. Thanks for being with us throughout our massive journey. We’ve almost reached this milestone, and next time we have an end of month update, we’ll have already checked it off!

If you celebrate, I hope you have a blast today! If not, the neighborhood kids would encourage you to have a bit of candy just for fun. (Or, don’t! The parents would recommend something more productive, probably. 😅)

Have fun and stay safe 👻
Claire