News & Patch Notes

Rack ’Em Up: Pool Tables, Racing Cabinets and Modern Lane Furniture

Bowling Alley Simulator
Rack ’Em Up: Pool Tables, Racing Cabinets and Modern Lane Furniture

Hi everyone!

This update brings even more entertainment, customization and automation to Bowling Alley Simulator. You can now challenge the AI to a game of pool, install racing cabinets, upgrade your lanes with modern furniture and expand your party room again.

We’ve also improved lockers, storage-room interactions, employee behavior and several important gameplay systems.

Play a Full Game of Pool

The new Pool Table is more than a decoration—you can play it yourself!

  • Challenge an AI opponent to a full game of 8-ball pool.
  • Aim your shot and control its power using a mouse or controller.
  • Play with solids and stripes using standard 8-ball rules.
  • Paint the table to match the rest of your entertainment area.

The Pool Table becomes available at Level 6 for $600.

New Racing Cabinet

Bring some high-speed competition to your arcade with the new Racing Cabinet:

  • Customers sit down and race using a new driving animation.
  • Racing cabinets generate arcade income whenever customers play.

The Racing Cabinet unlocks at Level 7 for $325.

Modern Lane Furniture

A complete Modern decoration set is now available for your bowling lanes:

  • Modern Ball Return
  • Modern Bowling Screens
  • Modern Seating

Each piece features new models, detailed materials and customizable color layers, giving you another complete visual style for your lanes.

We’ve also improved the appearance of existing Cosmic seating, mushroom lights, shoe cubbies and wooden wall shelves.

Party Room Upgrade 3

Your party facilities can now be expanded again:

  • Added Party Room Upgrade 3.
  • Adds two more dedicated party bowling lanes.
  • Increases the party room’s guest capacity.
  • Expands the surrounding walls, service areas and lane infrastructure.

Party Room Upgrade 3 unlocks at Level 8.

We’ve also fixed several problems affecting party-room lanes, guest assignments and booking names.

Improved Lockers

One locker bank can now serve multiple customers:

  • Each locker unit can hold belongings for up to four customers.
  • Returning customers will wait briefly if their locker is currently being used.

This makes lockers considerably more useful without requiring a separate unit for every customer.

Smarter Cooks and Condiments

Cooks now physically visit condiment dispensers while preparing orders:

  • Cooks walk to the appropriate condiment dispenser.
  • Each requested condiment is visibly applied before the food is delivered.
  • Orders are still delivered if a dispenser cannot be reached.
  • Employees prioritize tickets that are closest to expiring.
  • Multiple fryers, coffee makers and hot dog rollers are now used more intelligently.

Food containers and condiment dispensers also change appearance when they become empty, making restocking needs easier to recognize.

Storage Room Workstations

Using the storage room is now faster and more convenient:

  • Hold a compatible item and interact with a storage-room station to store it directly.
  • Use the same stations to open and browse the room’s inventory.

Pro Bowlers Bring Their Own Shoes

Pro bowlers now arrive prepared:

  • Pro bowlers skip the rental-shoe request.
  • They proceed directly to payment after choosing a lane.
  • Pro bowlers keep their own shoes when leaving.

Front Desk and Shoe Improvements

  • Bowling and food registers can now only be moved during the morning before the alley opens.
  • Registers cannot be moved once customers may begin using them.
  • The bowling register’s shoe-return position is now visible while moving the register.
  • Improved support for multiple bowling registers.
  • Returned shoes are distributed more safely instead of spawning in one large overlapping pile.
  • Employees now warn you when a shoe size is piling up because its storage is full or restricted.
  • Fixed shoe cubby color customization.

Quality-of-Life and Stability Improvements

  • Increase cursor sensitivity on screens.
  • Fixed UI positioning on ultra-wide screens
  • Entertainment furniture can no longer be moved while a customer is using it.
  • Improved customer behavior around pool tables, racing cabinets and other entertainment.
  • Improved save-list scrolling with mouse wheels and controllers.
  • Fixed hotbar items occasionally being missed during cleanup.
  • Improved casino customer exits.
  • Added additional recovery behavior for customers who become stuck.
  • Improved party sizes, booking names and lane assignments.
  • Improved food placement and garbage spawning around tables.
  • Improved claw machine stability.
  • Increased the volume of the air hockey fan.
  • Fixed several color-map, material, animation and furniture-placement issues.
  • Added further performance, save/load and day-transition improvements.

Thank you to everyone continuing to play and send us feedback. Your reports help us find the strange edge cases that only appear in a busy, fully expanded alley.

We hope you enjoy challenging the AI at the pool table, building out your modern lanes and giving your employees even more responsibility.