The Drawing Heat Update

Annyeonghaseyo!

Guess who's back? It's us! And we have yet another HUGE content update for you, if you think you can handle it!

We're incredibly moved by the wonderful Steam reviews that we've been receiving recently, and if you haven't given us one yet, please consider doing so. It really helps us!

Alright, enough begging, onto the good stuff!

New Role: The Artist!

The Artist is a bohemian rebel that refuses to conform to the norms of society. This pretentious beatnik is the first role that refuses to join the workforce and therefore can't get a job at the job office! Instead, the role relies on creating artwork in order to survive the Walk of Life (that's the title of the game!)

Heat Wave Rework

The Heat Wave global event has been reworked. Instead of passively draining hygiene, players will have find ways to keep cool to prevent passing out from a heat stroke! Stay hydrated, homies!

Simultaneous Turns Improvements

You may no play a single player games vs. the bots in simultaneous turns! Furthermore, we have added an event score log so you can keep track of how the rest of the lobby is doing in real time! Finally, we added a timer above the pawns so you can how the amount of time a player has left in their turn.

Hacker and Drifter UI Improvements

The Hacker's UI widget has been reworked to better show how the chance of getting busted works. We also added checkmarks to the Job Office for the Drifter to help keep track of what jobs you've completed.

New Choice Event and Choice Event Settings

Get ready for dozens of new choice events, including role-specific events for all roles that were missing them! We have also added options in game setup to show the results of choice events before selecting them, or simply turning choice events off if that's your vibe. We won't take it too personally.

New Quest and Chailand Quest Variants

The update features several new quests to Vexcorp, as well as tuning for certain quests in Chailand. This aims to make certain quests less miserable when playing on the Chailand map. Finally, we increased cash rewards for completing quests. We wish you all the quest!

New Pet: Red Panda

The Pet Store has an adorable new critter in stock: The Red Panda! This pet will help you speedrun the education system and will improve the yoga action at the gym. How adorable!

Balance Changes

There are a lot of balance changes and we're not the best at keeping track of them. Sorry! Here are some things that got changed, though:

• Fishing improved overall, including master rod fishing and magnet rod fishing.
• Academy Coffee Job Perk nerfed.
• Hacker: Reduced chance of getting caught for hacking job office.
• Time cost for playing and bathing with pet halved.
• Pig, Chicken and Divorcee pets buffed.
• Yoga and Take a Walk Actions buffed.
• Pet Store and Pawn store have more stuff available.

Various Bug Fixes and UI improvements

Here's the entire changelog for those of you that haven't already left to go play the game.

• New Role: The Artist! Reject the corporate ladder, travel town looking for inspiration, and turn your artistic vision into cold hard cash by pawning off your artwork!
• Single player vs bots in simultaneous turns is now possible!
• Simple Simultaneous Turns Event Score Log Added! Keep up with the Joneses in real time!
• Added Time to Sim Turns Map Pawn Markers. Laugh at your friends as their time ticks down before you!
• Hacker UI widget rework - This should better showcase the way that getting busted works. There's also a siren and sound for the entire lobby to hear!
• Drifter completed checkmarks added to Job Office - it's now easier to track what jobs you have finished!
• Heat Wave rework! Watch the fever meter when moving around the map! Find ways to keep yourself cool or you'll pass out! We're sorry how topical this is!
• Quest Cash Rewards increased.
• Brand new quests! Catch wildlife and deliver a piece of jewellery to a shadowy land in these new adventures!
• New Chailand variants of quests and Chailand specific Quests, with the aim of less painful quests in Chailand.
• Abandon Quest action added to Vexcorp. Refuse the king's errand!
• Role Quests Standardized to 5 quests for each role (except Adventurer)
• Role Quest Score now ramps up, higher tier role quests yield higher score
• New choice events! Dozens of nonsensical dilemmas for you to tackle.
• Choice Events can be disabled or Rewards shown with a new Settings.
• Arcade chamber actions now show exact Gamer Score
• New Pet: Red Panda! This adorable critter helps you speedrun the education system!
• Added Extra Pet options in the Pet Shop.
• Pawn shop has extra random item to buy.
• Customize Game menu now estimates how long your game will take. About as inaccurate as your typical board game estimates.
• Steam Cloud Saves! Your save games now follow you between machines.
• Bots can now play the arcade machine and handle furniture a little better.
• Pets should not randomly vanish in restored games anymore.
• Empty chambers now tell you they're empty instead of leaving you guessing.
• Fixed a random case where Arcade broke in Saved Games.
• Fixed Slider hover in wrong place in Customize Games menu.
• Fixed Mayor Boris bugs at very high cash values.
• Small fixes to Online Game flow in Main Menus.
• Location names should not randomly overlay Reports in Sim Turns.
• Valued Customer achievement now less buggy.
• Various balance changes.
• Various bug fixes.

We hope you enjoy the update!