{"id":18197,"date":"2023-03-21T13:54:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=18197"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:54:18","slug":"20230321-18197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230321-18197\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilla\u2019s Art removes The Bathhouse from sale due to game-breaking bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Chilla\u2019s Art has <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/1956830\/view\/3716071937619156620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that sales of <strong>The Bathhouse<\/strong> are being discontinued. Although the game\u2019s Steam page is still live as of the time of writing, it is no longer possible to purchase it. The reason that the game has been removed from sale is a bug that prevents the player from entering room 203, which first began being reported by players around December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fcfcfc\">\u201cHello Everyone.<br><br>We apologize to everyone that is experiencing the game-breaking bug.<br><br>Unfortunately, we weren&#8217;t able to find out what is causing the 203 bug. We thought we had fixed the issue, but all of a sudden, it appeared again.<br><br>We don&#8217;t want to cause any more trouble for you guys, so we decided to remove The Bathhouse from Steam.<br><br>Again, we apologize for all the trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bathhouse | \u5730\u7344\u92ad\u6e6f Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/erUlzUvhtY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Chilla\u2019s Art is a Japanese game development team composed of two brothers who create horror games. They have released many short horror titles, such as The Convenience Store, The Closing Shift, and The Karaoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bathhouse is a psychological horror game that was released in October 2022. It is set in a Japanese bathhouse and features a protagonist who gets mixed up in some kind of paranormal phenomenon that occurs there. Towards the beginning of the game, the player must use a key to enter apartment room 203, but sometime last December, a great number of players began reporting that they were unable to enter the room.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230318-241175-001-747x420.jpg 747w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Chilla\u2019s Art released a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/1956830\/view\/3635002625424132119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notice<\/a> acknowledging the issue to players on January 30. A short extract can be seen below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fcfcfc\">\u201cTo give an overview of what happened to the game: We did not update the game in anyway since October 8th 2022. The game was fully functional until, as far as we know, when the bug started to occur around December 30th 2022. We are thinking the issue is caused by a software update of both or either Windows or Nvidia drivers. The game uses HDRP on the Unity engine which utilizes FSR (framerate-boosting technology by AMD), and we are thinking that that is the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following this, Chilla\u2019s Art temporarily removed the game from sale on February 6, before resuming sales on February 24 alongside the release of Update 2.00. This update was supposed to have resolved the issue of players not being able to enter room 203, but players continued to encounter the bug even after the update. The game later received a number of further updates, but Chilla\u2019s Art were unable to pin down the underlying cause, and the decision was made to discontinue sales on March 17.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b | Notice<br><br>\u30d0\u30b0\u306b\u3088\u308b\u4e0d\u5177\u5408\u306e\u305f\u3081\u300e\u5730\u7344\u92ad\u6e6f\u300f\u306e\u767a\u58f2\u3092\u4e00\u6642\u7684\u306b\u4e2d\u65ad\u3055\u305b\u3066\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u307e\u3059\u3002\u3054\u8ff7\u60d1\u3092\u304a\u304b\u3051\u3057\u3066\u7533\u3057\u8a33\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002<br>Due to a game-breaking bug, we are temporarily halting the sale of The Bathhouse while we work on a fix. We apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>&mdash; Chilla&#39;s Art\uff5c\u30c1\u30e9\u30ba\u30a2\u30fc\u30c8 (@ChillasArt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChillasArt\/status\/1622505794335019008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I (the original author of this article) have confirmed that in the latest version of The Bathhouse, you are unable to enter room 203 if you play it while the save data folder for the game exists on your system. As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/1956830\/view\/3664278558803346711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> by Chilla\u2019s Art, there is a workaround where deleting your old save data and then starting the game anew will give you the option to enter room 203 and thus advance past this point. 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Marco Farinaccia based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20230318-241175\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2023-03-18 18:53 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilla\u2019s Art has announced that sales of The Bathhouse are being discontinued. &#8220;Unfortunately, we weren&#8217;t able to find out what is causing the 203 bug.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-18197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-chillas-art"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chilla\u2019s Art removes The Bathhouse from sale due to game-breaking bug - 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