Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam.

As a quick primer, this is not a content patch, but a polish pass. We’ve made various changes to make the experience smoother overall, but have no changes this time around to base game content. We felt the looks and game feel were lagging behind quite a bit, so we spent a patch cycle shoring a few systems up. We will continue to make polish changes, so expect more of this in lighter doses each patch. Nonetheless, balance and fun remains a top focus - for the next patch, we will be focusing on bugfixing, facility redesigns, and further balance passes to continue improving the game.

An additional note on Steam Deck - we have everything necessary to run the game natively on SD now, but are waiting for a final dependency to be resolved by one of our technology partners. We hope to ship this as soon as possible and get Steam Deck support for players!

• Updated background for improved look and feel.

• Reduced chance of rain. Keep your umbrellas at home.

• Moved facility themes to the center of the details panel where pack icons used to be. We may revert this change but we’d like to try this layout for now.

• Added over 300 new sounds for facilities. This is our first pass, so audio levels may be somewhat unbalanced. Do let us know your thoughts!

• Summon Skeletons now gives 30s/2m/5m worth of CPS on cast.

• Fancy Couch Influence pattern changed to UP.

This now makes Fancy Couch a far less effective option relative to more targeted rarity increasers (eg laminator, SAK), but we will be increasing its versatility more with its second effect once we implement future Coin events. For now we are limiting its power, as with the new upgrade scaling costs, rarity increasing effects will go up in value.

• Swiss Army Knife influence range reduced from 2 to 1

• Gaming chair cooldown reduction changed to RANK*.5 from RANK*1

• Game Director rank scaling reduced from RANK/2 to RANK/4

Another nerf for our beloved Game Director. He's still viable even with the current numbers, so we are further tuning him to allow for Yellow Sign builds to be strong, but not eponymously incomprehensible (we may bump his credit gain to make him better for non duplicate builds). We will keep an eye on this unit for the time being but we feel this should adequately resolve a lot of his abuse cases.

• Windmill cooldown increased from 8 to 11

• Windmill charge increased from RANK*.5 to RANK*.5+.5

• Grandfather clock cooldown reduced from 100 to 80

• Psychologist max ranks up from 3 to 5, rank scaling reduced from RANK*1 to RANK/2

• Gym rat output scaling up from RANK*10 to RANK*30

• Dartboard scaling up from RANK*10 to RANK*50

• Ninja stars scaling up from RANK*5 to RANK*35

• Critkeeper cooldown down from 1 hour to 10 minutes

• Fidget Spinner rank scaling increased from RANK*2 to RANK*4

• Revolver Crit Rate up from 0% to 35%

• 1812 Cannon output up from 300 to 3000

• Blue Elixir Cooldown increased from 20 to 240

• Red Skull buff increased from RANK*3 to RANK*4

• Antique Tea Set max ranks increased to 5, scaling down from RANK*3 to RANK*2

• Cocktail Waitress rank scaling changed from RANK*10 to RANK*5

• Padlock scaling up from 2+RANK*2 to RANK*30

• Players should now be able to cast Summon Skeletons with 10 mana again

• Fixed issue with some lines being misattributed to May during some scenes

• Many! We currently have ~40 bugs and issues in our tracker ready for fixes. We will be focused on addressing many of these for the next patch.

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. This is a foundational patch, so we’ve included several massive reworks and changes to the base flow of the game to improve progression, output inflation, and set the stage for future updates. Additionally, we’ve toned down cooldowns across the board to make the game more intelligible when you have tons of facilities ticking. We highly recommend starting a new save to experience the game from the start. Note that existing saves may also not load, depending on what loadouts you had previously.

Also - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Missions

Over 100 new missions have been added to the game, to better give a structure for players and add more progression beats as they climb levels. We intend to use the mission log even more in the future, so the current crop of new missions are relatively basic (eg, get this many credits, reach this level, etc.) But expect both new missions in future patches as well as new types of missions to keep things interesting and spice up your playthroughs. In the meantime, do let us know how you feel about the new missions!

Output Panel

There is now a new Output Panel that can be visible by hovering over the previous ‘link bonus’ (now renamed to Output Bonus) display. We will add tutorial text for this in a future patch, but for now, this will be where players can check their current Output Bonus. Output Bonus is a new variable that takes into account your current active links and then multiplies it by a new variable called ‘Studio Power’. At present, it is impossible to increase Studio Power, but this will be coming along with more difficult missions as a reward for completion.

As a note, we are also going to be implementing tooltips on every facility to show your expected output and all contributing sources of output amplification as a result of a cleaner calculation formula. Here’s a sneak peak of what that will look like:

Floor Unlocks

We added some tapping. Enjoy!

Renormalization

Our renormalization project is well underway, and we have made adjustments to core output systems to combat number inflation in most cases. We have a new standardized formula for all facilities (you will also see some updated facility effects and functionality to fit) that will help with both player clarity and debugging. As a result of this, expect output numbers in the mid game to be vastly reduced. Our aim is to bring down progression to more reasonable levels, while still allowing players to get some crazy builds off if they set their board up the right way. The fun is still in tact - but we are aiming for progression currently to top out around the trillions for now.

NOTE that this rework is still ongoing. In the next patch we will update the workshop upgrade system, as currently it is still far too cheap just to get all of your facilities to the Legendary rank and accelerate your build. Additionally, there may be some cases we haven’t found of abuse loops that can still technically generate way more credits than intended. If you do find any of these, let us know in the bug reports!

Planetarium Updated

We feel good about the current Planetarium, and have now done a second balance pass on the progression to make it feel more impactful. Expect points to come fast and often just like before, but the actual costs of things have risen quite a bit to match! You’ll need to really pick and choose your selections more carefully moving forward. We will continue monitoring this system, and though we feel the pacing isn’t quite there just yet, we are certainly getting closer to our ideal form of the planetarium.

Levelling

• Rebalanced level requirements for smoother progression

• Summon Skeletons now grants credits based on CPS rather than percentage of total credits

• Critkeeper Effect reworked to now gain a flat amount of Credits based on Rank.

• Windmill cooldown increased to 8 seconds, charge reduced to rank x 0.5

• Loaded Dice's effect reduced to 10+Rank*5 down from 40+rank*10

• Overworked Artist cooldown increased to 11s

• Motivational Poster cooldown reduced to 18 from 20s

• Cooling Fans cooldown up from 7 to 15s

• Project Manager cooldown up from 10 to 16s

• Psychologist cooldown up from 5 to 15s

• Catgirl maid cooldown up from 8 to 14s

• Robot Assistant cooldown up from 8 to 14s

• Idea Guy cooldown up from 12 to 15s

• Ninja Stars cooldown up from 8 to 9s

• Sales Associate cooldown up from 8 to 9s

• Revolver cooldown up from 7 to 9s

• Sprinkler System cooldown up from 4 to 6s

• Magic Wand cooldown up from 12s to 150s AND redesigned. It now casts the last spell you previously cast when activated.

• Stuffed Bear cooldown up from 8s to 12s

• Game Console cooldown up from 10s to 20s

• Slot Machine cooldown up from 10s to 20s

• Gachapon redesigned, and now provides a global buff based on a roll chance.

• Bodyguard cooldown up from 10s to 15s

• Bank Vault cooldown down from 20s to 18s

• Briefcase cooldown up from 8s to 10s

• Guard Dog cooldown up from 10s to 12s

• Padlock cooldown up from 5s to 10s

• Suspicious Van cooldown up from 7s to 14s

• Pool Table cooldown up from 9s to 18s

• Calculator cooldown up from 8s to 12s

• Streamer and Overworked Artist both redesigned, and no longer scale with tetration

• Clover’s Starlight enhancement effect removed. We will add this back in later, but needs tweaking

• ATM disabled while we redesign it

• Catgirl Maid’s effect now only counts stacked buffs as a single buff (eg, 200 Starlight stacks only count as 1 ‘buff’ for her effect)

• Fixed Swiss Army Knife functionality

• Fixed workshop looping issue

• Fixed draggable facilities spamming the board with ‘press to activate’ visuals

• Updated Printer text and output flow for visual clarity

• Selecting to downgrade all of your facilities at a certain point in the story now works as intended

• Sometimes the ‘Pick 3’ selection has void art

• Motivational Poster interaction with Fancy Couch

• Fancy Couch ranged not affected by Influence increasers

• Two bathtub debuffs can reduce Credit gain to 0

• Finance Chart + Nodes that count as spells are breaking idle

• Story cutscene skip is too sticky

• Red Skull has incorrect buff amount in its tooltip

• Summon Skeletons shows 5 minutes of CPS, but is now in fact 1 minute

• Spell visuals do not show their correct tiers in the planetarium