DEVOUR news & patch notes

• Fixed many locations on all maps (except Carnival) where Azazel was unable to knockout a player
• Enemies that look for dropped items to carry (i.e. spiders on The Inn) can now see those items even if they are hidden within other items
• Long interacts are now cancelled if you are forced into being out of range i.e. from falling
• Crows no longer get stuck trying to pick up clean heads in certain locations on The Manor
• Enemies can now see players that are in the middle of reviving a player or washing dirty eggs on The Inn
• Nathan (Azazel) can no longer be pushed around if he calms down while inside a vent

• Fixed all Azazel's from being able to ground themselves on players which caused issues where they could end up permanently getting stuck in the environment
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed being able to open a freezer room door on the same frame that it locks itself
• Doors opened using exploits that will be locked by keys will now close themselves on being locked to prevent being able to trap Azazel in locked rooms

• Azazel Molly can no longer be trapped behind the basement door at the top of the stairs on the Asylum
• Swapping a doll head with another head while a doll is picking it up now correctly resets the animation
• Fixed Azazel Sam and Zara not consistently stopping to scream on burn if they are running towards out a hiding spot

Deck the halls with blood and entrails, fa-la la-la la, la-la la la! We had a lot of fun with the release of our new map The Carnival and the Halloween event, and we're back to keep the party going! Our annual Christmas event will run from NOW until 10am PT on 2nd January 2026. Read on to find out what's included in the update.

Unique Unlockable Outfits

Players will have the opportunity to unlock Ice Wraith, a Jack Frost-inspired outfit for Sam. Our lead artist really went all out on this one, and we think it's one of DEVOUR's most unique skins yet. Even better, you can unlock it for free during the event if you beat any map on Hard or Nightmare while playing as Sam. Need some gameplay tips or a team to play with? Drop a message in our Discord server!

Ice Wraith

You'll also be able able to unlock this unique, bloody Christmas Robe by collecting the 70 presents hidden across all 7 maps (10 on each map). Once unlocked, both of the above outfits will remain available to you after the Christmas event has ended. Speaking of outfits, our possessed cultusts are feeling extra festive this year so we thought we'd give them all a classic Santa hat (yes, even spider Zara...)

EXP Boost

Take on the forces of darkness this Christmas and enjoy a 1.5x EXP boost for the duration of the event.

v6.0.28 Changelog

• Started Christmas event

• Added Sam 'Ice Wraith' outfit unlocked by beating any map on Hard or Nightmare while playing as him

• Added 10 additional collectible presents to the Carnival

• Added Santa hats to all Azazel demons

• Added unlockable Christmas robe

• Added Christmas theme to menu music

• Fixed an issue with high latency clients losing items after filling a grave on the Manor or lowering the crank on the Slaughterhouse

There's more to come from DEVOUR, so stay tuned in 2026 and we'll share new info when we can. Whatever you're doing this holiday season, Merry Christmas from the whole DEVOUR team! X: @DEVOUR_GAME Discord: https://discord.gg/q4tTa2Z

• Hotfix: Major fix around new FPS limit option not working for users with uncapped FPS set prior to v6.0.26

• Carnival: Improved being able to UV monkeys that are directly below you

• Carnival: Inspired perk should now work on dolls emerging from sewer pipes as a client

• Replaced the FPS limit dropdown with a slider that supports up to 360 FPS

• Fixed an issue where the coins used stat was not reliably being increased

Hi goat burners, We hope you had a great spooky season! Now that another successful Halloween Event has finished, we want to take a moment to thank players for their fantastic response to the recent release of our new map, The Carnival. We've had a great time watching your streams and uploads and seeing your reactions to demonic clown Kai, his (persistent) monkey minions, and the creepy puppet dolls. This is the most fun we've had making a map and it's been awesome to see you all jump, laugh and scream at what The Carnival has to offer, including some fun easter eggs (have you UV'd the shooting ranges yet?)

This is our busiest time of year, and up next is our annual Christmas Event, which we're currently working on. The event will run from 10am PT on 6th December 2025 through to 2nd January 2026. You'll be able to unlock the special Christmas robe if you don't already own it, and there will be the usual EXP boost for the event's duration. Our lead artist has also been working on an incredible, unlockable new outfit for Sam for the event - check it out our latest render below:

Stay tuned for a post when the Christmas event starts to have a closer look at the unlockables. But for now, enjoy The Carnival, and don't forget to wind up those music boxes...

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• Halloween event ends

• The Town: Aftershock perk should now work correctly against Ghosts

• Carnival: Monkeys now look at players when pursuing

• Slaughterhouse: Improved frozen air fog visuals in the freezer room

• The Exclude from Quick Play checkbox will now appear consistently when leaving a public lobby that you joined via Quick Play

• Inspired perk now works on dolls that have newly emerged from sewer pipes on the Carnival

• Carnival: Fixed another spot that kept players safe from Kai

• Fixed Aftershock perk that was causing UV to begin re-generating even if UV was still being used after the perk's duration

• Prevented a condition that could lead to EXP being lost on won games

• Challenge "Win a game without medkits" is now completable if you win in single player

• Headless dolls cannot be trapped by active music boxes

• Fixed more Kai safe spots

• First responder perk now shows the full screen speed effect when active,

• Various controller UI navigation fixes,

• Carnival: Fixed a battery and coin spawn point for easier pick up

• Improved the Pug pet's turning,

• Improved all pets aligning to slopes,

• Tweaked more spots that were safe from Kai,

• Fixed the first monkey spawned not emerging from a demonic portal,

• Fixed being able to repeatedly cause the fortune teller to speak new lines when crossing the welcome threshold,

• Fixed Kai walking over the manhole if repeatedly focused with UV in the early game,

• Improved the way monkeys spawn in

Calling all Kai fans!

Step Right Up!

Lore & Gameplay

Halloween Event

Pug Pet

Nathan's Halloween Outfit

Pumpkin Robe

Bonus XP

Unlockable Robes

New perks

New flashlights

New! Sam's Demon Outfit

Full 6.0 changelog

• New map The Carnival
• New outfit for Nathan: Bad Omen
• New outfit for Sam: Lone Ranger
• New pet: Pug
• New perk: First Responder
• New perk: Aftershock
• Steam overlay now works on Mac again
• Fixed a bug where text chat didn't work correctly in Chinese language
• Fixes a bug where the Voice Chat icon in lobbies sometimes displays the wrong mute state
• Fixes a bug where the menu environment is sometimes invisible on slower machines
• Fixes a bug where embers are seen at bottom of lobby screen when joining from server browser
• Tweak Lobby UI to allow more space for player perk descriptions on different aspect ratios
• Upgraded Unity engine version
• Adds a confirmation modal when leaving a lobby. For public servers, a checkbox will also be shown if you want to exclude the server from Quick Join in future.
• VR: In-game options that use a slider now fit without overlapping the label
• Asylum: Fixed an issue where the dissolve effect sometimes didn't work on inmates
• Asylum: Slightly improved visuals of smashed glass effect

Over the past five weeks, we've been running our annual contest for someone to have a piece of fan art included in our new, upcoming map The Carnival. If you haven't checked out our recent teaser post for The Carnival you can do so here. This year, the contest theme was a wall poster advertisement for a circus attraction, ride, performance or game. We'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who submitted a piece (in some cases more than one). The contest is now closed, and over the past few days the development team has been voting for their favourite. This is always incredibly difficult, but it's been especially tough this year because we received so many great entries. That said, we're pleased to reveal that Sandro Luiz is the winner with this beautifully detailed, terrifying piece: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/f114f33539838e8ccea202229d390f14c7c076ab.png We hope players enjoy keeping an eye out for the winning piece in The Carnival. You can check out more of Sandro's art here. We also want to give a special mention to these runners up who received multiple votes from the development team: translucentkitty {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/253a98088e326de688902800a44bade57688aa19.jpg LactoseLover {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/0b68fdad44e0efd567c7c44a516fd2e37c7769d3.png Abaandoned_Coff {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/5ae399d832eeef783aaa557b9085cd31f9f33e5e.jpg GRECiA {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/908d0cfb3d0e941b84fe3ff3220f4ceb9ccc4fb4.jpg _Shieldmaiden {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/371b95d3e390f0f81527ca5b4138828d6d25c77a.png Lalita {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37243634/9c746ff6e82da96ba6058883a5112e3623adead3.jpg Once again, thank you to everyone who entered the contest this year. We enjoyed looking at every single entry and feel grateful to be part of such a talented community. Keep creating! X: @DEVOUR_GAME Discord: https://discord.gg/q4tTa2Z

It's time for our favourite kind of development update - a sneaky look at our upcoming new map! This time, it's The Carnival, due for release mid October. As before, our annual Halloween event will launch at the same time, so it'll be a busy time for DEVOUR players. Development is moving at a good pace - we don't have a precise release date yet, but we'll get it to you as soon as we can. Read on for a closer look at what's in store for our next big update.

Story

At the age of 32, Kai Rewiti moved from New Zealand, where he experienced an unhappy childhood, to Los Angeles, USA. After spending much of his life drifting from place to place, Kai finally felt he'd found a sense of purpose when he was befriended by members of the satanic cult The Watchers of Azazel. He soon became the group's newest recruit.

While working part-time as a circus clown in LA, Kai began to experience a creeping mania, greatly exaggerated by witnessing the happy children and families he encountered - a stark contrast to his own upbringing. After luring a group of victims to an underground lair, murdering them and gouging out each of their eyes, Kai performed a ritual learned during his time with the cult, with the intention of taking revenge on a world that had let him down. However, the ritual summoned the demon Azazel, and Kai became possessed by him. It will be your goal to undo the ritual and banish the evil.

Assets

Take a look at some of the handcrafted objects that will be important in The Carnival. Music box Maybe this is one you don't want to wind up...

Coins This time, you'll be paying with more than just your sanity.

Tickets Well, you can't enter a carnival without a ticket, right?

Big top entrance It's really fun inside, promise. We'd never lie to you.

Concept Art

Please note: the following images are not fully representitive of in-game models.

Doll We can't decide if these little guys are cute, downright creepy, or both. One thing's for sure, nobody's pulling their strings anymore.

Demon Kai

The man himself - or should we say, the clown. He's got a few nasty tricks up his sleeve, some bad jokes to tell, and he just can't stop smiling at how much fun you're going to have together at The Carnival...

The Carnival marries our commitment to body horror and classic, heart-thumping scares with a sense of fun and absurdity. We are a small, diverse development team, but we share a love for dark humour, and it shines through in this map. We are so excited to share it with you.

A huge thank you, as always, to all our amazing players and supporters. We wouldn't be here without you.

X: @DEVOUR_GAME Discord: https://discord.gg/q4tTa2Z

Want to have your DEVOUR fan art included in our upcoming map? Check out details of this year's contest below!

Since we regularly receive fantastic DEVOUR fan art we run an annual, optional contest where submissions have a chance of appearing in our upcoming map. This time, the winner will be included in The Carnival - check out our latest teaser of the map here. We'll also be posting another exciting map teaser in a couple of weeks' time.

Contest Rules

The theme this time is a wall poster advertisement for a circus attraction, ride, performance or game. Some examples: a haunted house ride, hall of mirrors, clown show, fire eaters, win a teddy bear stall, and so on. Anything that fits with what you might find at a typical American circus or funfair is acceptable. If you'd like it to fit the design of the map more closely, stick to any shows that you might find in a classic 'big top' tent, like acrobatics, clowns, magicians, animals (and any others you can think of here).

All art styles and ability levels are welcome. You may submit multiple entries if you wish. Please note that we will not be accepting AI generated submissions. We reserve the right to use our own judgement for this, so if you're concerned about this being an issue you may want to have some evidence of process.

The contest is open for 5 weeks from now until 31st July 2025 at 10am PDT. Art should be submitted via the #art-contest channel of the DEVOUR Discord server. You can join the Discord server here. High resolution PNG or JPG image files over 2048x2048 only, please. Please note, all text in the poster should be in English. If English isn't your first language and you would like to check phrasing or spelling with us, please contact us on Discord by sending a message to the #art-contest channel. We're more than happy to help!

After the contest ends, the development team will review all submissions and vote for a winner. The winner will be notified directly, and we'll also publish a Steam news post featuring the winning piece of work. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions in the comment section below or in the Discord #art-contest channel. Check out last year's winner and runners up here.

Good luck!

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• Added further protections to private lobbies to prevent intrusion from rogue clients

• Further fixes for the Azazel Stagger statistics for The Slaughterhouse and The Manor which seemed to cause issues with last weeks challenges
• Fix for the "Win a game with medkits disabled" challenge sometimes not completing correctly

• Fixed head bob setting being inversed since phase 2 UI overhaul
• Fixed XP text not being centered correctly on post-game stats

• Significant improvement to FPS when looking towards the house on The Farmhouse in nightmare mode
• A few tweaks to localization for Russian, Czech and Dutch

• Azazel Stagger statistics fixed for The Slaughterhouse and The Manor
• Prevent joining servers via Quick Play that have been alive for an extended period of time
• Switching languages in-game will now update existing key names in the key list
• Server name is now truncated on server browser if too long

• More fixes to Quick Play

• Fixed a bug where during quick play search you could be kicked from the server browser
• Fixed a rare issue where if Azazel does not have room to move during a knockout, it can become stuck

• Fix for message to restart game to show on changing display monitor setting
• Prevent multiple starts of a map with a controller
• Controller navigation fixes for modals, quick play, lobby and server browser
• Other misc fixes for issues caused by the phase 2 UI revamp

• Fix in game voice chat option text not changing on toggle
• Fix issues with buttons for players on the in game player menu
• Voice chat options now appear disabled if voice chat is disabled
• Voice chat mute button in lobby now inverted to show correct state