Hello all! Thanks for all the support you've given Demonschool so far. It's been lovely to hear from folks who see themselves in these characters, people who vibe with the battle mechanics, and folks who just like hanging out in this world. As we hinted in our last update, there were a few more things we had wanted to do with the game if we had extra time. So we decided to reward everyone with a nice update. We want to be clear about what this is and isn't - this is a quality of life update with a bunch of extra interactive details, not a major story update. But there's enough here that we hope folks will get something out of it.
Here's what you'll find.
New game plus
You can now start a New Game+ from your completed save file. This allows you to play through the game from the start with all abilities, opals, credits, relationships, clubhouse styles, clubhouse upgrades and fish gained through past playthroughs.
All characters are playable from the first point at which you have a full team (late week 10). This means you can use characters in battles where they weren't meant to be.
Narrative:
Faye mentions in the early game that there's a pretzel she wants to buy in the alley. We promised that if we hit 500 reviews, we'd let Faye buy one. And so: now Faye can buy a pretzel from the alley starting week 9 on Mondays.
Forming connections between non-Faye characters now prompts short, two-line dialog interactions (around the clubhouse). There are 182 of these interactions, two per character combination. These connections are formed (as mentioned in the help menu) by completing battles with the characters between whom you want to form a bond. They just need to be in the same battle together. These interactions are just a short little extra bit of color.
There are now more than double the number of character lines in the clubhouse. Previously, our characters would only have something new to say when something happened in that particular week. Now they also react to whatever clubhouse style they're in, depending on the action they're doing. So, essentially, more goofy lines of text in the clubhouse.
Fulfilling another big request, we've added a text log for those that want to read over older conversations. The last 20 lines of dialog will be available.
We have sped up and improved the cutscene actions and character sprite movements in several weeks, focusing especially on some of the slower weeks pacing-wise.
We've gone through and done a grammar check through the main story and NPCs. In particular we checked for comma and period usage. Sidequests and connections may get this treatment at a later time.
Gameplay additions and fixes:
We've added mouse-only control for the game. You can now play the entire game with just the mouse. You can left-click and Faye will run to that location, or you can right-click and drag, and she'll follow the cursor around.
There are tons of fixes to minigames, battles, achievements, abilities, et cetera.
You can see the full list of changes below:
Patchnotes -v1.10 - 7ACC2E37F8 \[2026/05/23]
Updates
Added New Game+ mode
Added a dialogue history log (finally!)
Added in full overworld mouse movement
Added the Pretzel store
Added Friendship dialogues around the clubhouse
Week 0: Updated character acting & SFX on Monday
Week 1: Updated dialogue portrait, animation timings, added more vfx and sound fx throughout the week.
Week 2: Updated dialogue portrait, animation timings, added more vfx and sound fx throughout the week.
Week 4: Corrected typos
Week 5: Updated character acting
Week 7: Updated character acting & SFX during Thursday Night, Friday Evening
Week 8: Updated background extras to fix some dialogue displaying too early in the week. Updated some Character acting
Wk11 extras dialogue, and position edits
Endings: Improved fadeout effect used on most endings
Grammar pass on all weeks and npc lines (outside of clubhouse)
Primrose Connections: Updated some portraits
Aina Connections: Updated availability & character acting
Namako Connections: Updated availability & character acting
Pangxie Connections: Updated availability & character acting
Ti Connections: Updated some character acting
Destin Connections: Updated some character acting & availability
Knute Connections: Updated some character acting & availability
Ocean Connections: Updated some character acting
Varka Connections: Updated some character acting & availability
Connections: Corrected typos in Aina, Destin, Jem & Knute’s connection quests.
Optimised gangster sprite atlases
Fixes
Fixed characters with only 3 levels of relationship ending on "Friend" rather than "Soulmate"
Week 2: Tuesday Night and Friday Evening - moved quest start triggers so they are easier to activate
Week 2: Fixed map location availability during the week
Week 4: Wednesday Evening - Fixed the gangster in the harbour not being interactable
Fixed the south exit in the Town Alley not being visible during the riot state
Fixed a full-screen flash when opening the newspaper
Fixed an exploit in Beetle Racing
Fixed softlock if you cheat and win/lose at the Beetle Race at the same time
made big buttons on the party invite screen for minigames mouse-clickable
Fixed some mouse interaction issues when equipping techniques in the profile menu
Made the error screen work with mouse
Improved the clubhouse style selection screen’s mouse interactions
Fixed background glitching caused by selecting Planner or Profile from the tab buttons with a mouse whilst on the map screen
Fixed the map screen sometimes breaking overworld lighting
Fixed selection sound playing when it shouldn’t be in dialogues
Fixed Faye able to walk through a wall on the rightmost side of Bunker Room #10
Fixed layering issue in the Mansion Entrance, where you could see characters clip through the stairs
Fixed clipping into pipes in the bunker hospital
Fixed the cancel button (escape/b/circle) not selecting exit on the main menu after navigating to a different sub menu
Improved default screen resolution detection
Fixed a rare crash when primrose is missing in the clubhouse
Battle
Aina: Fixed some availability/unlock issues during week 7
Fixed a crash to title when performing a phaser move that both hits something impassable and pulls a target into the crowd in Harbour crowd battles
Fix for an error kicking the player back to title when doing a multi-target knockback attack against a stunned enemy and then attacking and killing that same enemy with another character if that enemy has no death animation (e.g. Unfinished Being)
Updated Ganger AI: gangsters will still attack desks, but not explosives, which would damage them
Fixed grunts clipping through the floor in the Queen boss battle
Fixed exception during the boiler boss lava column attack when the team is wiped but faye has Immortal equipped
Fixed incorrect Game Over when Faye has an Immortal equipped and dies with no surviving teammates on her side in a double field battle
Henk items crushed by the skeleton finger attack now show the proper death effect instead of a blood geyser
Henk items are now affected by boiler boss lava waves
Henk items are now affected by lamprey boss push attack and can properly fall into death pits
Fixed Henk receiving 1 healing when placing an item when Self Heal is not equipped
There's inevitably going to be a little weirdness and narrative dissonance in New Game+. Some of that is to be expected since the game was built to work in a certain order. But if you see any actual crashes or bugs, do let us know!
Thank you for playing Demonschool, both new players and old! And if you've never reviewed the game, please do! Negative reviews have a huge amount of power on Steam, and they increase whenever we do a sale, as we're doing right now. We need many positive reviews to lift us above them. We hope you enjoy the updates!
