Sins Of Night 2nd Anniversary & 2026 Plans!

Hello sinners! Sin’s Of Night will soon be turning two years old, so as usual it’s time to recap the year and let you in on what’s coming in 2026! Thank you all for your generous support, especially given how rocky this year has been. It means a lot, and I hope to repay it by making the coming year better.

2025 Recap

In last year’s anniversary post, I outlined an intent to shift focus onto character content. This didn’t exactly go as planned – the year started with a delay due to the combat system, and Kate required a substantial investment into the main story content in order to make her accessible. Again, I apologise for this, and I’m working to make up for it in the coming year.

This year, we did see the introduction of an important system, and the work on Hazel and Kate, so I hope you still had some fun along the way. I fell well short of getting Evelyn and Harley updated, but I haven’t abandoned those plans!

As you probably gathered by some of the happenings this year, it’s been a terrible one on a personal level. I’m hoping the family circumstances improve in 2026, but that is of course out of my control. I can promise to do my best whatever happens, however.

2026 Plans

For 2026, I’m leaning even more into the character focus, with the intent of delivering some of the good stuff you’re all patiently waiting for. The beneficiaries of this will be Evelyn and Harley.

You already know about the coming Evelyn content stage, but after that I’ll do the same for Harley, and take turns on them until they both reach their end game vice / virtue stages. Sprinkled between will be smaller releases to do each stage’s corresponding sharing content.

Broadly, the release schedule will look like this:

1. Evelyn content stage 2

2. Evelyn stage 2 sharing

3. Harley content stage 2

4. Harley stage 2 sharing

5. Evelyn content stage 3

6. Evelyn stage 3 sharing

7. Harley content stage 3

8. Harley stage 3 sharing

Quite a bit, but we’re already about 30% through number 1, and the sharing releases I hope to get out in a single month’s time frame. I’m trying to optimize development and bring the production of each of these down as much as possible, but it’ll still take us into 2027 to see it realised. Should be worth it though, for what this will enable me to provide content wise.

Once Evelyn and Harley are in their end game, I’ll be free to update them little by little with that end game content, while working on other characters. I may even be able to let you guys vote on what gets priority.

Now, this does mean that other characters will have to languish for a while, but I think it will be better overall to focus my efforts for a while instead of spreading it out it thinly as it has been over the last couple of years. The other characters will get similar treatment once their turn comes.

Quickly, I want to address any concerns about the game’s scope. I am painfully aware of this, having already dropped a number of ideas and story elements that I wanted to include. Going forward, I am planning around what is necessary, and stripping out anything that isn’t. This should at least mean the game reaches a finished state, even in a diminished form. I’ll keep the number of characters down, the story in check, and restrict additional features to small-scale stuff. I hope this satisfies any worries. The grander vision can come after the important parts are all done.

Conclusion

So that’s the plan for the coming year. I hope you approve or at least see the logic in it. I believe it’s the best approach to round out the game’s content right now.

I’ll be taking the usual time off over Christmas since I can’t work while I’m away visiting family. Usually, this means about 2 weeks of hold on development, and also that there will be a small delay in the next update post.

On that front, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you all for your support, and I hope you’ll stick around for a better 2026! I also bribed convinced a certain someone to model for a special Christmas card.