Steam app 3618850 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 19:54 UTC
Pronoun Palace is a word-spelling roguelike set in a dystopian future where the government has taken your pronouns. Use spells to manipulate letter tiles, catch fish, and abuse amphetamines to defeat the Party and get your pronouns back!
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
4 months, June 2026 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 436 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 282 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Pronoun Palace was released on 4 Jun, 2026.
This game contains cartoon blood, violence, gore, nudity, drug use, and explicit writing.
| Language | Full audio |
|---|---|
| English |
A blank audio cell means full audio was not marked in the returned language list.
78 achievements in total.
42 developer announcements, Nov 2025 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
the 9/11 update. modding fixes mostly! Fixes - fixed panic button not being discharged on save and load as intended - improved twelve gauge clay shader visuals by getting rid of a completely nonsensical color space conversion - fixed…
Patch notesintroducing 1.2.9: the feet update. wait no i take it back {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45874304/8f942c9e50dba26a246356cd14a6af5e1fcc43b3.png Additions - added new non-canonical dialogue to the nobody fight on hazel clearance! like the red clearance…
Patch notesa couple fixes for the last patch! sorry i don't have a bit this time Changes - j/o permit and slashfic now work on trigrams as well, splitting them into triple slashed tiles Fixes - fixed lip balm label still saying "Freeze a row", changed…
Patch noteshappy social security day! on today's daily, all spells are your friend's ssn! again! Additions - added a special star icon for special dailies to let you know this one's gonna be a little wacky Changes - nerfed lip balm "Freeze ALL tiles…
Patch notesfixes, mostly for modders! Fixes - added a drop shadow to the spell completion ribbon - fixed randomize charge failsafe for spells that don't have a randomizable charge (prevents a crash if a spell that should not be esoteric somehow…
Patch notessome new final nobody dialogue, food for completionists, and more work towards mod support! yippee! Features - added a new nobody conversation for each character on red clearance... note that since these are story cutscenes, you'll only be…
Patch notesupdate!! fun daily tomorrow!! whee!! Changes - the last daily of every month will now be a hazel clearance daily. good luck tomorrow, everyone! - additionally, the friend's ssn daily will now repeat every august 14th, on the anniversary of…
Patch notessome polish, save backups, and fixes. hopefully not too many more of these hotfixes before i go back to working on mod support and the boss update! Changes / Additions - gave xrafstar some killer new death sfx and other sound polish - added…
Patch notesmore little fixes associated with the recent update Changes - leaderboard now displays top 50 entries instead of top 20, as well as all friends and 25 above and below your own Fixes - fixed frozen ssn description saying "an frozen" instead…
Patch noteshotfix!!! well it's for an issue that wouldn't happen until tomorrow. so it's like a precognitive hotfix..? Fixes - fixed forced spells on dailies being unable to get curses also i updated the game to godot 4.7.1. i was worried that this…
Patch noteswe are still hard at work on the boss update, but we've also been working on a pretty large patch with a lot of little goodies! Additions - added a sneaky new spell.. maybe you'll find it once or twice on tomorrow's daily! hint, hint…
Patch notesi'm sorry that there aren't funny bits about new words in the little hotfix patches Additions / Changes - added a speedrun timer to the options menu as an alternative mode for the battle timer. it times the full run (playable time only)…
Patch noteshotfix for oops Fixes - caps lock can now properly hit coal tiles if there are no other options and convert them to a random capital - fixed haze tiles not spreading (they used the effect priority system and i forgot to update them) - fixed…
Patch noteswe're mostly focused on the new bosses now but there's still time for your regularly scheduled bugfixes Changes - tweaked the system enemies and spells that pick random tiles use to prioritize targeting certain statuses. mostly, things…
Patch noteswhat a relaxing day with nothing of note happening. perfect time to spend 4 hours adding 4200 words to the dictionary. Changes - nerfed verification can's acid. wait you're telling me that's a spell and not an enemy? now converts the top…
Patch notescadence put me in the dumpster out back so she could write the last patch note but i'm baack Changes - wildcards will now prioritize Lump categories and deprioritize repeat words if playing a clearance that disallows them - fisher's nobody…
Patch notesCadence here. Apparently people hated Milkworm? This kind of surprised me, since it was just a slightly remixed version of the Bookworm fight... In any case, it was one of the weakest shadows design-wise and we thought we could do better…
Pronoun Palace Devfixes Fixes - fixes an issue breaking tooltips in spell select - removed some invalid words, mostly typos made when adding to the dictionary Additions - daily runs are now indicated in game by the difficulty disk used for the menu button…
Patch noteswords words words words Changes - housebroken passcode is now prioritized when resolving wildcards - slashfic and dna tweezers unlocks must now be achieved in a single word (words separated by hole punch do not count) - slightly nicer "is…
Patch notesCadence here.Pronoun Palace released ten days ago. People love it and it sold really well. Yay!Here’s a look at some fun player stats we gathered through Steam:The rest of this article will be going over our plans for the game. TL;DR…
Pronoun Palace Devlittle things Additions / Changes - MBA nerf: can no longer submit repeat words on Cerulean Clearance+ - added a new on-key sucking sound for filter feeder - added a floating away sound for noppy Fixes - changed '"X" is not a word!' to '"X"…
Patch notesback to your regularly scheduled programming Fixes - changed "will cancel the attack" in parry description to "will cancel the enemy's attack", and "Attack will be cancelled by" when a word is spelled that will parry the enemy to "The…
Patch notesthe big one! btw the reason i'm skipping numbers is because there are secret patches and you can't have them the big change in this update is the new save format. the game can now detect and notify you about corrupted saves instead of just…
Patch notesslowing my roll a little. small fixes while i figure out save stuff Fixes - fixed steam achievements not being granted for overall difficulty progression (you should get them automatically when you relaunch) - fixed clicking on speech…
Patch notesthis patch is mainly a stopgap fix for a rare issue some users have had with save corruption. i've added a new hotkey, CTRL+SHIFT+9, which can be used in the save select menu to set your save file's achievements from your steam…
Patch noteslittle patch today i'm exhausted need a little rest Fixes - fixed being able to click spells really fast in spell select to select multiple of them - fixed a softlock when submitting words with red tape - fixed submitting with mba not…
Patch notesstay to the end for the punchline Additions - added a max fps setting, defaults to 120. sorry for running your gpus ragged i don't think the game really benefits from running at 250 fps that much Fixes - fixed t gel removing hole tiles that…
Patch notesit feels unnatural if i don't say something at the top here QOL / Additions - clover can now merge wildcards and numbers, picking the most common bigram/trigram you can spell with them. - added a sound for vampire teleporting away Fixes…
Patch notesthat's right this goes up to 10 babyy Balance - nerfed age regressor: health > - buffed trauma core: damage now the same as age regressor, health remains the same as old age regressor - buffed traffic: npcs now have 4 hp each instead of 3.…
Patch notesis it normal for games to have this many patch notes am i committing a faux pas? Fixes - fixed a crash when removing tiles from the word builder at the same moment as the addict's timer runs out - fixed letter stamp, razor blade, and…
Patch notestime for another end of day patch! Additions / QOL - added a new nobody conversation for trans lexicographer (final boss spoilers) - added a setting to disable repeat nobody dialogue (ditto) - added win streak viewing for the final…
Patch notestwo patches in a row! some players may have noticed that other games' locked cursors for e.g. 3d cameras would become unlocked after launching pronoun palace. this was very confusing to us because we don't do fuck all to cursor locking.…
Patch notesfixed an issue where none of the shadow enemies were appearing in runs, even after unlocking them. this meant that 27 of the 54 enemies were not appearing in the game. we also made it so that the game guarantees that you will see at least 3…
Patch noteshazel here. you may have noticed several updates today. i didn't want to spam the news feed with tiny patch notes so i'm doing them all at once now! Additions / QOL - added a "Monitor" setting. launch pronoun palace on the screen of your…
Patch notesPronoun Palace is out! We released it... earlier today!We put a lot of work into this game and received so much help and support from our friends. We hope you love it, sincerely!Our friend Cometz drew this as a gift the night before…
Pronoun Palace DevCadence here again, excited to announce that Pronoun Palace has a trailer, and a release date—June 4th, 2026!Pronoun Palace will be releasing on Steam for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Exciting!! We’ll probably do an Itch release a little later…
Pronoun Palace DevHi, Cadence here. It’s been a little while since the last newsletter; mostly we ran out of interesting topics to write at length about, so how about some actual news in our newsletter for a change?First off, I’d just like to share another…
Pronoun Palace DevHi, Cadence here. Now that we’ve finished all of the enemies for Pronoun Palace, I wanted to talk a little more at length about the iterative design process behind them. But first, some overdue credit: a number of this game’s wonderful…
Pronoun Palace DevOh boy.RENREN here. Most of you know me from here and there, and what have you. I've been much more quiet recently on the social front, but I can assure you that I've been experimenting.Enough chat, listen to this while you read. (Cadence…
Pronoun Palace DevHi, Cadence here again.Making games is the easiest thing in the world when you don’t care about art, and unfortunately, art matters a lot.Pronoun Palace was developed on the heels of a previous failed game that attempted to blend a visual…
Pronoun Palace DevHi! Hazel here. I'm the second half of the team working on Pronoun Palace. While Cadence plugs away at the art and design, I work on the tricky technical stuff behind the scenes that brings everything together.Last newsletter, we talked…
DeadInfinityHi, Cadence here. I'm here to kick off an exciting newsletter for our upcoming game, Pronoun Palace! We're hoping to share some interesting insight about our game every couple weeks up until the game's release.Let's start off by talking…
Pronoun Palace DevWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | pronoun_palace.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | pronoun_palace.x86_64 | linux | ||
| Launch | Pronoun Palace.app | macos | ||
| with OpenGL (Vulkan Fix) | pronoun_palace.exe | --rendering-driver opengl3 | windows | |
| with OpenGL (Vulkan Fix) | pronoun_palace.x86_64 | --rendering-driver opengl3 | linux | |
| with OpenGL (Vulkan Fix) | Pronoun Palace.app | --rendering-driver opengl3 | macos |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
|---|---|---|
WinAppDataRoaming | Pronoun Palace/saves | *.save and below |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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