Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition news & patch notes

The new update is here! Check out the early parts of the adventure!

Hello Beautiful Bastards!!!

After nine months of hard work and sleepless nights, we finally did it—Cookie Cutter OVERK1LL EDITION is here! This expansion isn’t just about bug fixes (though we squashed every single one flagged by the community - Thanks ❤️). It’s about delivering all of our hopes and dreams and things we wanted the game to be at launch! Now you can experience our unique, violent, and beautiful game with FULL VOICE ACTING across the entire story. We’ve also added new cutscenes before boss fights and brought back some that were cut from the original release to better foreshadow future events. We had a blast sneaking in more silly Easter eggs—some will make certain players very mad, while the most stylish, cool, and smart among you will love them. Getting all this to work with the old version was a huge task, but we did it for you—for all the love you’ve shown us, and for the passion we share for this f-ed up masterpiece. So please, keep supporting us and be louder than the haters, because we need you. We need your voices to preserve our beauty, our vision, and our love for this project—the one that lets us express ourselves and grow in this cursed art of game-making.

This FREE UPDATE includes:

Full voice acting for every character in the game

New NPCs added

New cutscenes before every boss fight

New cutscene after beating Bakasura

New combat ability: “Combat Frogs”

New languages: Turkish & Ukrainian

Animated portraits added for Headless Denzel, Jacko, Stonic, and Foby Tox

Improved art & sound FX in the entire E.T. Foundry area

Map updates and more hidden Easter eggs

Upgraded backgrounds across the entire game

Respawn counter added to the slot menu

Massive game optimizations

Fixed map icons disappearing.

Smoother transitions between light attacks, weapons, and combat abilities.

Fixed the “reappearing flying crate” bug in Diesel Lagoon and Golden Tower—100% completion is now possible.

Better menu navigation.

Smoother weapon combo loops.

Combat abilities now execute instantly in mid-combo.

Brutals now trigger immediately when prompted, even in the middle of a combo.

Fixed completion counter bugs.

Improved Slingshot Ability mechanics.

Removed respawnable flying robot that broke the completion counter in Diesel Lagoon and Golden Tower.

FIXED the MAP CANCELLING BUG.

Fixed teleport bug in the Bloody Den area. Enjoy, have fun, BRUTALIZE, and let us know what you think by reviewing the game and giving us a thumbs up ❤️ Subcult Joint

Hello Beautiful Bastards!

HUGE THANKS for all of the support we have been receiving for Cookie Cutter since we launched the game in December! Our hard work continues, improving the experience for every single one of you – yes, even you, the ones that have completed the game to perfection! We can't say too much right now, but new things are coming…ːsteamhappyː And what a great time to put the game on sale for 30% off! Tell your friends or buy a copy for your nerdy little brother, he will love it! And when you do have your pals play it, poke 'em to tell us what they think! A review goes a long, long way…and we're hoping to hit our next goal of 1000 reviews! Please help us get there! We see all of your comments and suggestions and it pushes us to work hard on making Cookie Cutter even better! Got suggestions? Don’t hesitate to reach out on the Steam forums if you’d like to get in touch.ːsteamhappyː We love all of you bastards! The Subcult team

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This thing is on, yeah? Sorry for the silence but we've finally locked down our first real patch for Cookie Cutter! Your patience is hugely appreciated and a big wet kiss to everyone who's been asking, commenting, and silently waiting for some new goodies to tinker with. This is only the first round for patching Cookie Cutter! We're still working on some additional non-specific stuff and things for a future release, but we got this together for you now so you can finish your adventure, start over again, and/or recommend it to your friends, family, and neighbors down the street.

Here's what we got cooking for this patch, available now:

• New item tracker has been added to the map! Great for those perfectionists that love to find every little treat hidden in the Megastructure. This required a bit of Cookie Cutter re-engineering to get it right, so you'll need to start a brand spankin' new game save to see it in your map.

• Improved performance and updated art! Saving the game is now smooth as butter, and you'll find some new visual treats like activated fast travel points having a fresh coat of digital paint.

• Four new languages! Players can now experience Cookie Cutter in Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Russian. Best if you can read those languages, but a fun, new mysterious way to play if you can't. Plus some people might enjoy seeing the "F-bomb" dropped in 9 different languages.

• New accessibility options and settings! Subtitles can now be resized and colors changed. You can adjust the volume of the voice over dialogue, turn off some visual effects like damage numbers and enemy health bars. We've also added some more expected PC-centric options like, y'know, adjustable resolutions and being able to play in a window.

• And yes, this is also one of those "stability updates." Many, many weird and random issues reported by the community have been squashed. Keep that feedback coming, we love stomping those bugs!

• And as if that wasn't enough, we have now released the Cookie Cutter Soundtrack by popular demand, and it's available now! MEGASTRUCTURE'S MOANINGS

Please enjoy, and if you haven't already done so, a Steam review would be absolutely fab. Thanks! Subcult Team

Do you remember the Thank You update we sent a while back? We can’t believe the response, it’s heartwarming to see and we cannot thank you all enough.ːsteamhappyː

Our next goal is 1000 reviews, so if you haven't yet, please get in there and tell us what you think and review!

We read everything, are working very hard over here on the issues, and all of your feedback makes the game better, so keep it up! We are also so thankful that not only did we hit 500 reviews. but at a “Very Positive rating” and are gaining new bastards every day. We literally love this community so much! ːsteamhappyː We’re taking all the feedback and suggestions into consideration and are making progress to make the game better and better everyday. Don't hesitate to reach out on the Steam Forums if you’d like to get in touch with us or have suggestions. Thanks for your time and all your love, The Subcult team

We wanted to reach out and say how grateful we are to our amazing community. You should know that we are working hard to fix all issues we find and polish every day. ːsteamhappyː If you didn’t know we are a very small team and are just 2 people now but we are working everyday to improve the game and even on new cool stuff for you to enjoy :) The support we got from you was INCREDIBLE and even all the love you send us, it was really cool and make us feel proud about our work. I would like to ask you now to help us spreading the word out there. Our game is not perfect but as a first project of a new-born and small indie game studio we put our heart and soul into every bit!

Please help us get to 500 reviews! If you haven’t yet, please get your review in!

It's so common that just upset people leave those stuff around, ranting about how their new toy didn't satisfy 100 percent their little kinky needs and other nerd shit. If u like the game put out 2 words out there, in order to help us sell more and become more popular than the Kardashians, or go to dinner with Eddy murphy and Elon Musk. ːsteamhappyː Cookie cutter is being constantly improved, we read every feedback, review and watch every YouTube video-Live stream, we intend to do this for a long time. After our last patch we fixed a lot of issues that players experienced and we will continue until everything is diamond polished, then new stuff next! Thanks for your time and all your love. Remember that Baby Jesus is loving you all, so do we. Subcult team

We've sent out a very small hotfix to help users retroactively pop some achievements like ones centered around boss fights and other unrepeatable events that may have been completed between launch and the release of Hotfix 1 earlier this week. Thank you for all of your continued support through launch week! The PS5 version of Hotfix 1 is live now and the Xbox version is still processing with Microsoft at this time but will be available as soon as they are completed with their checks. We hope you have a kick ass holiday season and get plenty of time to explore the Megastructure with Cherry and Regina in peace once your family all goes home!

Hey Beautiful Bastards!

Cookie Cutter has been a six-years-in-the-making dream of ours. It’s a very big game from a very small team, so we feel extremely fortunate that it has been so well received from media and players alike. That being said, the community has provided valuable feedback on some oversights and bugs and we’ve been working pretty much nonstop since we launched to deliver a big update that squashes a large number of them. We think these changes and fixes significantly enhance the experience and should make it seriously more intuitive to navigate the Megastructure and crush enemies as we head into the holidays. Please continue to work with us by reporting any issues you find in our community threads and we’ll continue to respond with updates as necessary. In the meantime, here’s a breakdown of the changes we made—and please keep in mind that if you don’t already see your fix on the list, there’s a very good chance that it’s in progress for the next update. For console players, this patch will be rolling out sometime this week—just as soon as it processes on each platform.

Parry System:

• Fixed a bug that caused inconsistency in parry window of opportunity
• Adjusted the timing of the telegraph particle for attacks that can be parried to align with the parry window of opportunity

Achievements:

• Fixed a bug that caused achievements to not trigger. Not all achievements will pop retroactively though, such as Way Too Brutal since the counter will be starting from 0 for everyone with this new patch

Save System:

• Fixed a bug that caused players to save right upon loading into gameplay
• Fixed a bug that could cause player's save files to enter a bad state after updating causing some doors/chests to reset
• Fixed an issue caused by the bug listed above this that blocked players from a key item in Hidden Diner

Keyboard Support:

• Fixed weapon wheel support for keyboard
• Fixed dialogue windows to display keyboard button callouts
• Fixed interaction windows to display keyboard button callouts
• Fixed keyboard button callouts in menus
• Fixed keyboard controls of the map. You may need to reset your key remapping to default and then rebind any custom changes you had before to see the full fix on this bug.
• Fixed interactables like red chests, doors, NPCs only displaying controller button callouts
• Fixed tutorial signs only displaying controller button callouts
• Fixed dialogue sections that explain inputs only displaying controller button callouts

Other Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with a song used in the beginning of the game that was causing issues for content creators
• Fixed a bug with Rob never transitioning to the Hidden Diner
• Fixed a bug with Jacko telling you to go West when you need to go East (He didn't MEAN to mislead you, we promise)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when traveling to the E.T. Factory
• Fixed a bug that would temporarily disable the player's ability to open the map menu
• Fixed a bug that caused audio issues on the opening cutscenes
• Fixed a bug that forced the Skip UI to never disappear during cutscenes
• Removed some debug options that we're still partially hooked up
• Fixed a bug that caused remapping feature to be inaccessible on console versions of the game
• Fixed an enemy grinder door in Crystal Pits that would re-lock itself sometimes
• Added a marker on a checkpoint in Denzel Factory
• Added a new save point to Bloody Den before the Lost Guardian boss fight
• Fixed a hitbox on one of the Mudbot attacks
• Increased the void cost of the Void Wave ability (it was a little too OP)
• Fixed the Grit Value displayed for the Autechre boss
• Added a few more easter eggs
• Fixed a bug where purchasing items/upgrades, not saving, and then reloading your save file would make the items disappear from shops until game was relaunched
• Fixed a couple destructible walls for hidden areas
• Fixed an issue where Althea would not recognize the player had collected more items to trade if her shop was bought out

It's Happening!!!

Time to wishlist!

Stuck at ho-ho-home for the holidays with your weird handsy brother-in-law, your aunt’s six old, possibly feral cats, and pounds of rock-hard fruitcake? No problem. We’ve got you covered with the best present ever. COOKIE CUTTER is dropping down Steam’s chimney on DECEMBER 14, in all caps because even we can’t believe we made it this year!

So power on your PC or Steam Deck (you better believe it), crank up the volume, and get ready to experience the best metroidvania in years. COOKIE CUTTER is a deep, unique, bloody, irreverent, insane adventure with incredible fight mechanics, an enormous world to explore, ludicrous characters and eye-popping boss fights, stupendous weapons and upgrades, and so much more. And it’s all yours just in time for the best slaycation ever. Best of all? You can have it for 20% off for a limited time