Our old keyart was great, but our necromancer felt a bit lonely on this balcony all by themselves. Our new art better reflects the in-game style and brings the Greenhearth co-op's neighbours outside as well, giving a glimpse of their own pockets of home.

We may even have a fun feature for this new art in the full game, as it becomes our new title screen that will update as you play and progress through the narrative. Keep an eye out for that at launch!

To celebrate Steam Nextfest & our new demo update, we've partnered with some incredible creators to showcase the game! 💚 We're personally huge fans of these creators, so be sure to check them out; we might just be there as well!

Here's our full schedule in text form:February 23rd

https://www.twitch.tv/jazzadelegames (live right now!)

https://www.twitch.tv/cypheroftyr, 5-7pm ET / 2-4pm PT

https://www.twitch.tv/misskyliee, 8-10pm ET / 5-7pm PTFebruary 24th

https://www.twitch.tv/mentallamia, 10am-1pm ET / 7-10am PST

February 25th

https://www.twitch.tv/ashiirosee, 1-3pm ET / 10am-1pm PT

https://www.twitch.tv/findingkyky, 4-6pm ET / 1-3pm PT

https://www.twitch.tv/blizz, 8:30-10pm ET / 5:30-7pm PT

February 27th

https://www.twitch.tv/witchytq, 7-11pm ET / 4-8pm PT

We're running a contest for our community this Nextfest, and we want to see your plant names! Puns, jokes, references, silliness and chaos are encouraged. Just name a plant in-game (alive 🌱 or undead 💀) using the handy dandy function in the plant inspection window, and share your creativity!

We are taking entries in our Steam community, in our Discord server[discord.gg], and on social media (just tag us!). You can also enter once on each platform, but please use different entries! This'll increase your chances of winning (though we will pick different winners for each platform).

The contest is open now, until March 3rd at 12pm EST. Winners will be contacted via DM through the platform of entry.

While we've tried to ensure your experience with the demo will be as smooth as possible, you might run into a bug or two we didn't catch. You may also have feedback for the game you want to share with us, and we would be glad to get both! You can submit this info in two ways:

1. Our Steam forums

2. Our community Discord server[discord.gg] (support-forum)

If you are submitting a bug, please also include your "Forged" and "Player" files, which can be found here:
[c]\[user]\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Silverstring Media\\Greenhearth Necromancer Demo[/c]

Thanks in advance for your help making the game even better!

Thank you to everyone checking out the Nextfest demo, and a big thank you to everyone who has been with us on our journey so far! If you can, please leave a review for our demo on its page (especially in the early days of Nextfest!) as this can help us out immensely with being discovered by more folks on here.
We'll be back later this week with a couple more surprises for our community! 💚

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4049130/Greenhearth_Necromancer_Demo/

See you soon,

Colin \[Community Manager]

To thank our existing demo players & to celebrate our inclusion in Steam Nextfest, we've got a (pretty big) demo update for you! This update expands the demo's content and addresses a variety of fixes and issues reported by you, our community. 💚 We're inching closer to the game's launch this year, so keep an eye out for more news on that front soon...

Nextfest Patch Notes (February 23rd, 2026)

✨ = Community reported or requested!

• A massive UI overhaul, including tons of new icons, tooltips, a brand new notification system, an event card timer, and event card "booster packs." ✨

• Player name customization

• Comprehensive (optional) tutorials for all major game mechanics

• Two brand new plants, both living and undead, available in the first part of the game -- including the thundercloud-shrouded Nymph's Foot

• Lots of new potions, fertilizers, and pesticides

• An overhaul of the contagion system so pests are more interesting (and a little easier to deal with!) ✨

• New settings & options, including text resizing (with lots more options to come in the full game release) ✨

• One more key story event to tease the narrative to come...

Thank you to everyone who reported bugs & feedback in the Steam forums and in our Discord! These help us immensely as a small dev team. If you have a bug or feature request of your own, hop into our server or let us know in the Steam forums.
Join our Discord server![discord.gg]

This is only our first Steam (not demo, there's only one of those, this one!) update for Nextfest, we've got a community update for you later today + some other fun surprises on the way. If you can, please download and take a look at the demo in these early days of Nextfest, as it helps surface our game in the sea of demos. 🏄‍♀️

See you again very soon,

Colin
\[Community Manager]