The Clown's Forest — patch notes and updates
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| The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood - Out now in Early Access! | 2026-10-07 | Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood is now officially out in Early Access!The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood is an anthology game, with four episodes. (Separate storylines). Currently, only Episode One is out now which follows a Police Officer from The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows. You will get to revisit a familiar location as you find out what happened to the poor police officer before Ethan comes across his corpse in The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows - Chapter Three. Episodes Two - Four will be released in episodic/free instalments over the course of the next year.The price will also in |
| The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood - Coming 2027! | 2026-08-04 | Hello Everyone!Today I would like to announce The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood It is a game set concurrently alongside The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows. So what is Shadows of Blood? Well, Shadows of Blood focuses on Officer Dragon, set after the events of Chapter 0 of The Clown's Forest 2. Officer Dragon was kidnapped by Chester, and taken to a familiar location. But, unfortunately... Blitzo isn't too keen on letting you escape. Officer Dragon needs to try and escape from Blitzo, while you meet familiar and unfamiliar faces.This game initially started development as a Bonus Campaign for The Clown's Forest 2. The reason I turned it int |
| The Clown's Forest - Update 1.4.9 - Final/German Update | 2026-06-17 | Hello everyone! I would like to announce that the final update for The Clown's Forest is out now! This update brings the much awaited German Localization, as well as other fixes! Before we get to the change notes, I would like to thank you all for your support with this game. The Clown's Forest has been a major part of my life, and I am excited to bring more experiences to you all soon. The Clown's Forest was my first serious attempt at game development, after dabbling with it between 2015 and 2021.2022 marked a major change in my life, which was this series, and all of your support. I cannot thank you all enough. I still have a few more surp |
| What is happening with The Clown's Forest 3? | 2026-05-17 | Hello everyone!Today I want to tell you all the truth on what is ongoing with The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act, and The Clown's Forest series as a whole. As you know, I originally announced The Clown's Forest 3's Demo to release on May 15th, unfortunately, RPG Maker started giving me a lot of issues regarding the development such as unfixable bugs, crashes, corruptions, etc. I effectively lost 3 years of progress on The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act. I will be transparent that I have discovered the reasoning behind this. When I started working on The Clown's Forest back in 2022, the engine crashed, corrupting the whole project. Because o |
| The Clown's Forest (Version 1.4.8) - Japanese Localization Update! | 2026-05-08 | Hello everyone!I have got a new and exciting update here which adds the Japanese Localization to The Clown's Forest. This only includes text in-game such as Dialogue and Narration, but not the voice acting. German is still in development. Here is the change log: Added - Japanese LocalizationsChanged - Width of the text boxesChanged - made all narration boxes dimmed.Temporarily removed - Some interactions are gone until I have got the German versions in This is all in this mini-update! Thank you for your continued support. |
| The Clown's Forest (Version 1.4.6) | 2026-03-30 | Hello everyone. As I was working on a translation update for The Clown's Forest, I discovered some issues such as a softlock in one of the maps. Making it impossible to complete the game. I have fixed a few other issues.Here is the full list of changes in this small patch:Added - Extra interactionsChanged - Some text in the stage directionsRemoved - Some voice lines and dialogueFixed - Punctuation issues in the textFixed - The wrong face icons on display on certain interactionsFixed - Softlock outside the cabin after finding Diane.I will keep you updated on the upcoming translation update!Hope you are all well. |
| The Clown's Forest (Version 1.4.5) - The Final Update | 2025-12-13 | Hello everyone! I hope you are all having an amazing December! (And amazing holidays for those who celebrate it!) Today, I wanted to get a little sentimental with you all and confirm the patch notes for The Clown's Forest (Version 1.4.5).The Clown's Forest was a project I originally had no faith in. I never intended it to be a commercial product, or for anyone to play it other than myself and a few friends. However that all changed when I released this game on steam. I am blown away by all of the support I've been given since I've started development on this game back in March 2022.I released the game on July 19th 2022 as a one-off title. Nev |
| The Clown's Forest Soundtrack now out! | 2025-05-16 | Hello everyone! Happy Friday! I can confirm that The Clown's Forest Official Soundtrack is now out on steam! It requires you to own The Clown's Forest before you can access the soundtrack. The soundtrack has been bundled with the base game as well as part of a 'The Clown's Forest: Deluxe Edition' which is also out now. Please note that this Music cannot be used for any other game projects not made in association with Viper Interactive. I hope you enjoy the soundtrack! |
| The Clown's Forest 1.4.3 Patch Notes | 2025-05-09 | Hello everyone, The Clown's Forest Update 1.4.3 is live now. Some changes include: Added - More Interactions in the Prologue Changed - Main menu theme to The Clown's Forest Theme Song Fixed - Wrong voice lines playing Fixed - Statue Puzzle not killing the Player when getting puzzle wrong Fixed - Spelling Mistakes Fixed - Medpack Duplication Bug Fixed - Asset Overlap This concludes the patch notes for update 1.4.3! See you all soon! |
| The Clown's Forest Update 1.4.1 Patch Notes | 2025-04-25 | The Clown's Forest Update 1.4.1 Patch - Fixed some of the endings bugging out and softlocking. - Fixed Michael's Speed not resetting in those endings. |
| The Clown's Forest 1.4.0 Patch Notes | 2025-04-24 | Hello everyone! Today I have released The Clown's Forest Update 1.4.0! Exciting new content is here and I will run through some of the major ones. Update 1.4.0 Patch Notes: Prologue - I have expanded the Prologue to feature a flashback sequence. New Locations - I have added some new locations such as a Medical Room and a Study to the game New Puzzle - I made a new puzzle for the newly added Study location. Get that brain ready! New Characters - New characters enter the fray to prepare for an upcoming spin-off title! Cody and Amelia Fox, Michael's adopted older siblings are now officially in the game. Two new endings - I have added two new end |
| The Clown's Forest Update 1.4.0 Release Date Trailer! | 2025-04-03 | Hope you are all well! Today I can confirm that The Clown's Forest's 1.4.0 Update drops on April 25th 2025! This update contains a ton of new lore, characters, locations, puzzles, and more. View this trailer to see a little bit about the update! Hope to see you all in Hartown Park very soon! (Console Edition News to come later on) |
| The Clown's Forest 1.4.0 Demo Surprise Release! | 2025-03-28 | Hello everyone! Today I want to announce that I have officially released The Clown's Forest's 1.4.0 Demo! This demo features some new dialogue, and brand new voice acting! It will give you a feel for the upcoming update before it releases in April. I am excited to see what people think of this upcoming update, and I confirm that you won't need to wait much longer for this! Thank you all for your continued support. -SilentWraith |
| The Clown's Forest Update 1.4.0 Announcement & Achievements being deleted | 2025-02-19 | Happy February everyone! I apologise for the radio silence for the past few months, in relation to The Clown's Forest news that is. I promise you though it is for a fantastic reason. The Clown's Forest: Update 1.4.0 This Update will include a ton of new features that I am very excited to share with you today before it releases in Q2 2025! I will only tell you about some of the major changes I have done in this update, why this update came to be despite me saying the previous content update was the last one, and what is going on with the future of the series. So here is the changelog for the upcoming content update! Update 1.4.0 New Locations |
| The Clown's Forest - Update 1.3.6 Patch Notes - FINAL UPDATE | 2024-08-20 | The Clown's Forest - Update 1.3.6 - Patch Notes This update fixes some audio unbalances and changes a few things Patch List: Fixed - Unbalanced Audio for Carl and Paul Changed - Some text after Paul's Death (If you don't save him) Changed - The game's font has been updated to be clearer to read Changed - System Window Font has been updated to a custom design to replace the previous one. I want to thank everyone for their support on this game. Without you all, none of this would have been possible. This will be the last update for The Clown's Forest, excluding any potential game breaking bug patches if ever needed. Thanks! - SilentWraith |
| The Clown's Forest - Update 1.3.5 - Final Patch - Patch Notes | 2024-07-20 | The Clown's Forest - 1.3.5 - Final Patch Fixed - Additional missing voice lines Fixed - Spelling mistakes Fixed - True Ending saying 'To Be Continued' twice Fixed - Diane appears at the car park despite dying Fixed - Pickup sound being wrong on some difficulties Fixed - Some light sources still being visible in the DARKNESS Difficulty (Some stuff still has light depending on sprites) Removed - a name in the credits -- This is the final main update for The Clown's Forest. Any further updates would be to fix any game-breaking glitches that might arise. I have been supporting the game for 2 years now, and I should finally move on to the newer ga |
| The Clown's Forest - Version 1.3.2 | 2024-06-01 | This small patch adds in some missing voice lines from Hartown Park's car park. I have also done a few additional bug fixes that were present in the game. The update patch is now live! |
| The Clown's Forest Update 1.3.1 patch | 2024-04-29 | Small patch for The Clown's Forest, following the release of the 1.3.0 update. Fixed - Paul spawning in the car park even when not saved. Fixed - some lights being on in Darkness Difficulty Fixed - The first puzzle being impossible in Darkness Difficulty due to the 6th number you need to solve it. |
| The Clown's Forest Version 1.3.0 (Voice Acting Update) change log | 2024-04-29 | The final content update for The Clown's Forest is now out! Here is the change log on what is new in this update! Added: Voice Acting Added: Darkness Difficulty Added: a new achievement Added: new main menu Added: new map details Added: new title card Changed: Updated layouts of some rooms Changed: wall styles in the manor Changed: music to be more custom made Changed: item pick up sound to a custom made one Changed: footstep sounds to custom made ones Changed: dialog to fit voice lines Changed: replaced some splash screens Changed: changed game application icon Temporarily removed: true ending cutscene Fixed: fire being static in cutscenes F |
| The Clown's Forest: Fear of a Survivor - ANNOUNCEMENT | 2024-04-17 | The Clown's Forest: Fear of a Survivor is an upcoming spin-off title set just after The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows. You play as 17-year-old Sarah Baines as she wakes up in Hartown Amusement Park, more specifically, the House of Horrors! Sarah had just survived an indirect attack by Blitzo the Clown who had lured her to the basement of a fishing hut. Waking up, she finds herself scared and alone, and she needs to work out how to escape the hell she has found herself in. Unfortunately for her, Chester is not too far away, twisting the house of horrors to a literal death trap. Help Sarah try and escape Hartown Park alive! You can wishlist |
| The Clown's Forest - Update 3.0 - Official Soundtrack is now on YouTube! | 2024-04-17 | Hello everyone! It's been a while since I last updated here, but I wanted to let you know that I have now officially uploaded the official soundtrack for The Clown's Forest - Content Update 3.0 This OST includes 11 custom-made tracks made specifically for The Clown's Forest Which include: 1. The Nightmares Theme 2. Welcome to Hartown Park Theme 3. Manor Exploration Theme 4. Loss Theme 5. Oliver's Theme 6. Flashback Theme 7. Sinister Theme 8. Strange Place Theme 9. The Chase Theme 10. Game Over Theme 11. Credit's Theme This theme can be located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEH1GU4jNfw Also, regarding news of The Clown's Forest Content |
| The Clown's Forest Small Patch (October 16th) | 2023-10-16 | Hello Everyone! Just giving out a small patch here that fixes 3 Achievements of "Beat The Clown's Forest on " not unlocking on some endings. so now the achievements will unlock correctly! Thank you for your continued support! ~SilentWraith |
| The Clown's Forest Update Patch (15th October) | 2023-10-15 | Hey everyone! It was brought to my attention that the endings ended up not activating because of a coding bug. I have now fixed that so now the game is beatable again! Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused! Have a good weekend! ~ SilentWraith |
| The Clown's Forest - Small Patch (Oct 13th) | 2023-10-13 | Hello everyone! Today I am bringing quite a small patch today, where I fixed some major stuttering in one of the last chases in the game. It isn't perfect (I tried optimizing it as much as I can but it oddly doesn't seem to want to run the smoothest) I tried everything to get it to run perfectly like making the chase span 2 maps, removing a lot of light sources, cutting down the map sides, removing unused/unseen tiles and even making Blitzo's Pathing as basic as possible, unfortunately, it just doesn't seem like the chase wants to run smoothly, I don't know why, I don't know if the weather system is affecting it or what. It's been a problem s |
| Small Patch for The Clown's Forest | 2023-09-28 | Hello everyone! Today I can announce the official release of the Steam Achievements for The Clown's Forest! I have added support for 33 Achievements that you can obtain throughout your playthroughs! I hope this adds replay value to the game! I have also added a brand new A.I to the enemies in this update for a better experience without the enemies glitching out and making the game TOO easy! Hoping to have more news on upcoming projects soon! And thank you for your support! -SilentWraith |
| The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows OUT NOW! | 2023-09-07 | Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that YES... The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows - IS NOW OUT! You can go over and purchase it now! It has been a hard 8 months of development for this game, even having to entirely restart development as I wasn't satisfied with the overall product I was developing earlier in the year. I hope everyone is just as excited as I am about this release! Buy the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2340330/The_Clowns_Forest_2_Waking_Shadows/ Thank you everyone for being part of this journey so far! Looking forward to the future! -SilentWraith |
| The Clown's Forest (Update 2.5) | 2023-09-07 | Hello everyone! I can confirm the 2.5 Update for The Clown's Forest! Changes include! Added - Injured Michael Sprite Added - Injured Michael Facesets Added - Brand new Game Over screen Added - Dynamic Footstep Sounds Added - More door opening animations Removed - Collectables Removed - MP Bar Changed - Doors opening when interacting above them Changed - True Ending Details Changed - Added some barriers to stop players getting stuck in the final chase Changed - Blitzo's name from "Blitzo the Clown" to just "Blitzo" Fixed - Boathouse Puzzle Riddle being wrong on Normal Fixed - Collisions Fixed - Blitzo's A.I Fixed - Tileset Issues Fixed - Micha |
| The Clown's Forest - 1 Year Anniversary! | 2023-07-19 | Hello everyone! I hope you are well on this fine Wednesday! Today is a day for celebration as 1 year ago today, I released this game officially! I have some announcements I would like to confirm for you all! The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows Trailer! The Trailer for the 2nd game in the series is now out on the Viper Interactive YouTube channel! The game is due for release in early 2024! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KExk207aVhs The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows Progress! I can confirm today that The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows has finished its main development! All that is left to do is the music, which my friend is currently wor |
| What's happening to The Clown's Forest 2? | 2023-05-21 | Hello Everyone! I hope you are all having a fantastic Sunday so far! So I will need to clear up a few things about The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows to you all as I have been silently doing edits to the page behind the scenes. So what gives? Well, I will explain everything. On Saturday 13th May, I told some of my close friends I was struggling with a hard choice. I wasn't happy with the initial direction of The Clown's Forest 2, but I couldn't fix the current version as it would have taken longer to fix it than making the game from scratch. My biggest issue with it was that it was a step back from the first game. There were no puzzles, bar |
| What happened to The Demos? | 2023-04-19 | Hello everyone! Now this is a different post than I usually would make. First off, The Clown's Forest: Waking Shadows is now "The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows" as I felt it would work better as a named instalment as it is important for later entries in the series, and if you miss out on this game, you might not understand stuff for the later games. Now let's get on to the news about the Demos for the first game and the sequel. So as you were aware, I uploaded the Demo to The Clown's Forest last year, 1 month before the game's release. Recently I accidentally took it down. Upon trying to re-upload the Demo, I came across an issue that I ca |