Sally Face 2 Development Status & Official Updates

The sequel did not appear from nowhere in August 2026. Portable Moose had been mentioning it in year-in-review posts, ordinary patch notes and hiring ads for nearly five years before the reveal — which is also the clearest evidence available about how far along it is.

The full official record, from 2021

What the timeline actually tells you

Read together, those entries say something the announcement coverage mostly missed.

It has been a known project since 2021, and slow by the studio’s own account. The sequel was named in a year-in-review three and a half years before the first hire, with a first-draft script already written and production repeatedly pushed back. The 2024 recap describes progress as slow alongside other projects.

The studio grew specifically to speed it up. Portable Moose was one person for most of the original game’s life, and Gabry said outright in 2021 that he wanted to contract work out rather than spend another five years alone. The first hire landed in April 2025, artists were recruited in June, and two more had joined by November — every one of those posts names Sally Face 2 as the reason.

Nothing about the schedule has ever been stated, and that is a stated policy. In five years of updates there has never been a release date, a named console or a price. In the 2024 recap the studio explained why: it does not give release estimates until it has a timeframe it is confident about.

The release shape was decided before the release date. By the time the store page went up, Portable Moose had settled the episodic structure, the Early Access route and the starting episode number — but still published “To be announced” in the date field.

What does not go on this timeline

Only statements from Portable Moose itself — its site, its press kit, its Steam announcements and its YouTube channel — become entries here. Three things that people do ask about, and where they stand:

Community speculation. Reddit and Discord threads are useful for working out what people want answered. They are not evidence, and none of them has ever produced a date. Portable Moose has said as much itself: after seeing “rumors circulating about release times” in late 2025, the studio asked people to “only trust information straight from official Portable Moose channels,” and stated flatly that there was no release window at that time.

Press articles. Several outlets covered the reveal, and a few described the platform plan more confidently than Portable Moose ever did. Where a report and a primary source disagree, this site follows the primary source.

The board game. Sally Face: Strange Nightmares and its Corruption expansion are real Portable Moose projects with real Kickstarter campaigns, and they are the reason “Sally Face 2 Kickstarter” returns results. They have nothing to do with the video game, which is not crowdfunded.

New official statements are added here as dated entries with their sources attached. For the current answer on timing, see the release-date page.