November 2025 Monthly Update (Patreon)

Hello lovely patrons!

Welcome to our newest monthly update where we update you on all things Two and a Half Studios. As always, these will come out every month on the 6th (AEST).

We're back from PAX Australia, and we had a great time showcasing an early look at Willowmist (plus, A Date with Death!). We're now full steam ahead trying to lock in some releases and announcements ahead of the holiday period.

December is set to be a very busy month for us, so this month will be dedicated to making that as smooth as possible. More on that below!

A Date with Death

Japanese Translation

We released the Japanese localization of A Date with Death around two weeks ago now! We've had lots of super positive feedback, and it's made the last 12 months of back and forth editing and fixes 100% worth it to know we have a super high quality translation.

This is likely the end of our localization for A Date with Death. The format of the game makes translation incredibly hands on and, though we'd love to localize to more languages, we need time to work on our other projects now. Maybe we'll revisit some day in the future!

Voice ActingOur editor C.L is currently testing the English voice acting in game! Once it's fully tested, we'll nearly be ready for release, though that's looking like it'll be December now at the earliest. We still have 5012's lines that need recording, but we hope to lock that down very soon.

New Plushie...?

This is still unannounced, but we have a new plushie coming soon... of Rowan! My favorite thing is his telescope kinda looks like a bottle of wine, and fair enough he'd get into drinking after everything we put him through.

The Willowmist Emporium of Antiques and Curiosities

Beta

Thank you to everyone who has been playing through the beta for Willowmist and reporting any issues, crashes or bugs. We've spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks combing through the demo build and polishing it up, and it's looking amazing!

We plan to release it as soon as the final CG and background are complete, hopefully this month.

You can find the beta here if you want to give it a try!

Art

We finished up with a new PJ outfit for Sage, a couple of new expressions for Lucille and the blinking for Kael last month. Here's a little look at Sage's PJs:

We've now moved onto the final CG, here's a little teaser:

Outlining

The biggest task I've been working on in the last month is outlining and planning! Though we had a very solid plan for the demo, everything after that was thoughts and ideas - nothing down on paper.

I'm happy to say that so far, we've planned out the entirety of Florian and Lucille's character routes, as well as partially planned Quinn and Vivi's. On top of that, we also planned out the second week of the game, and got a better sense of the general story for some important but unannounced characters.

This is great, because we can get Anzai, our lead artist, to work on the route CGs now that they're planned properly. It's good to hit the ground running with art and not leave too many gaps - art is by far the slowest part of game development (for good reason!!!).

We'll next be moving onto Eden's route and designing two new characters you'll meet in week 2 of the game.

Once all the major characters have their routes outlined, we'll move onto writing week 2 of the game, and then keep planning out each week at a time as we go.

A Date with Death 2: REMNANTS

A Date with Death 2: REMNANTS is a sequel to A Date with Death we've been working on this year.

A quick reminder: this announcement is for patrons only. This will not be announced outside of Patreon until December. If we see news leaking about this game to the wider community before then, we will not be able to show previews here, and that would be disappointing for everyone. Please keep your excitement to our Patreon or the Patreon channels in our Discord for now.

Writing

We've finished the full editing pass of day 3, and day 4 is now in it's final stages of writing. The first three days is what will make up the public demo, so we're excited to get those complete and in game. We'll then work directly in the engine to add in extra choices and branches where we see fit.

Sorry for giving you another terrible person to deal with, 5012...

Programming

As of yesterday, all of the screen programming for A Date with Death 2 is complete! Though we still have some placeholders here and there, we've added:

Gallery

Music room

Credits

Profile

History

Day/chapter titles

Here's a look at a few of them:

The player comes with a profile description, but you can edit it whenever you'd like, too :)

With the final screens being complete, we are about ready to release the first day as a beta for Patreon. Keep in mind that one day of the game isn't too long, but it should give you a little taste of where we're going with the story, and there's a few surprises you might like, too <3

On top of that, we've started programming the script for day 3 in game too. We hope to be able to share some screenshots next month!

Art

Fuyuure is currently working on the key/poster are for ADWD2 - how about a little preview?

We're excited to see this one come together. We'll be using it for promotion, as well as on Steam for capsule art.

On top of that, we're so happy to say we're working with the very talented Momon again on an opening animation for ADWD2. While we can't share it just yet, here's another little preview:

We're aiming for something very trendy and cool - reminiscent of A Date with Death 1's opening animations, with a focus on limited color and interesting imagery. We plan to have it complete for the game's announcement in December!

Music

Our amazing composer Flehmann has completed three brand new tracks for ADWD2! We'll have this in the beta/demo build, and he'll be releasing them on streaming sites when the demo releases.

Steam Page

We've started setting up the Steam page for ADWD2... but it looks like this right now, haha:

We plan to spend the next couple of days bringing it up to scratch so we can send it off for approval early and be ready for it to release early next month. Then, our aim is as many wishlist as possible! We hope to overtake A Date with Death's 68,000 at launch, so please help us share it when the time comes :D

Astralis Publishing Title - The Inn Between

Events

The Inn Between ALSO showed at PAX Australia! We were so happy to be showcasing alongside one of our dearest friends (plus, an awesome game!!!)

Art

A few little previews this month of a certain goat man:

Support the Game

You can support the The Inn Between by wishlisting on Steam, following the team on Patreon, or following them on Twitter!

Focus for the next month

Willowmist - Outlining character routes, writing week 2, hopefully releasing demo

A Date with Death 2: REMNANTS - Writing, beta release, testing day 2