Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you. Today on May 7th, all of us celebrate Ancient Forge's 5th anniversary 🥳. As co-founders of this Polish indie studio, we want to thank all players who have been with us during this amazing journey. We gathered the experience, tailored the strategy for our future titles and have watched our team grow from 20 to 50 amazing individuals over the past few months, and we're just getting started! ✨


We're ready to present our plans for the coming year, including the full release of Glorious Companions, an anniversary sale, and a mysterious new project that we are going to announce this June during the PC Gaming Show.



Stay tuned for the world announcement of our new galactic management game this June during the PC Gaming Show on June 8th! 🪐

"The hard work of the last few years is finally paying off. We've learned so much from our experiences with The Tenants and it's exciting to see how we can apply those lessons moving forward. When we started Ancient Forge 5 years ago, we never imagined scaling up to this size, working on multiple projects at once, each one expanding the scope and complexity of our games. Becoming a major developer was never our goal, but we rose to the occasion."


We're looking forward to the amazing things to come in 2024 and beyond. Thanks for being part of our journey so far, and stay tuned for more exciting updates!


Dushan and Max
Co-Founders of Ancient Forge

https://ancientforgestudio.com/5th-anniversary/

Hey everyone!

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you. Today on May 7th, we celebrate Ancient Forge's 5th anniversary 🥳. We’ve started as a small Polish indie studio, and now we are in the best position to do things our way. We gathered the experience, tailored the strategy for our future titles and have watched our team grow from 20 to 50 amazing individuals over the past few months, and we're just getting started! ✨



In this place, we want to thank you all for playing The Tenants, you helped us bring these future dreams to reality, and thanks to you we can grow and create more projects for you - this time on our own!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41220/AF_Anniversary_Bundle/

The Tenants and Pets DLC update

We at Ancient Forge are aware of the technical issues that some of you experience in the game. Right now, under the arrangement that is currently in effect, we are unable to address them with a bugfix update. However, we are working with The Tenants’ publisher on a solution that would allow further development and bug fixes. If that proves insufficient, we will explore other ways to improve the situation. We want you to be as happy with the game as when we worked over it together since early access to the full release. We will update you as soon as we get back to work on The Tenants!



In the meantime, our tactical, turn-based RPG project Glorious Companions is now back on track and heading straight to quit the early access and full release this December! You can grab it now with the anniversary bundle including The Tenants and the Glorious Companions.

If you want to learn more about our projects, visit their Steam pages and watch the broadcasts prepared by Janek, our Community Manager.

Anniversary Broadcasts 🎦

Blockbuster Inc. (Steam release June 6th! Wishlist now)
The Tenants
Glorious Companions
And The Constructors

All broadcasts will be available from May 7th at 6PM CEST. Join our new Community Manager Janek, and check out all 4 titles!

If you want to know more, see what's more we are preparing for this year and check our other projects, visit our blog post here.

We will be back soon with more content details about the upcoming full release!

Congratulations to the winners of The Tenants Pet Contest: Aly T, Lemur, and Jimmy_M! We’ll be contacting you all shortly.

• Added new pet actions.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Drugs Lab event.
  
• Fixed an issue with the pet adoption when the player was in a different district.
  
• Fixed an issue with refreshing subtasks within purple missions.
  
• Fixed an issue with missing furniture event after a burglary.
  
• Fixed an issue with pets not standing up for some of the interactions.
  
• Fixed a tutorial issue after interacting with a non-tutorial pet.
  
• Fixed an issue with opening the pets menu during tutorial.
  
• Fixed a visual bug with pet color variants.
  
• Fixed an issue with entering the city map while bartering.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Adapt Apartment for pets main mission when a tenant moves out.
  
• Fixed an issue with the music minigame not ending after Uncle Steve leaves the apartment.
  
• Fixed a few broken tenant actions.

While we're working on further improvements to the game, the Voting stage for Pets Community Contest is starting right now. Please head over here to vote on the wholesome entries from our community: https://forms.gle/rmPi2pf7eey1jxsY8

• Added a suggestion in the pet progression tab that the player should aim to complete the pet tutorial before unlocking more interactions.
  
• Moved the starting point of the Pets DLC to after the player receives the cashflow main mission.

• Fixed an issue with the pets tutorial where the game would lose the reference to the pet that the player was supposed to take care of.
  
• Fixed an issue with the pets tutorial where it could become broken after selecting the wrong adoption option.
  
• Fixed an issue with the test adoption ending in the pets tutorial part.
  
• Fixed a few issues with apartment events where Uncle Steve is used as the manual worker.
  
• Fixed an issue with configuring a few apartment upgrades as Uncle Steve.
  
• Fixed an issue with tenants that own pets moving to other apartments.
  
• Fixed an issue with tenants owning pets and Open Houses.
  
• Fixed more issues related to the missing pet event.
  
• Fixed an issue with the pigs getting stuck during playtime interactions.
  
• Fixed an issue that would break the game if the player quickly opened the city map after having the shelter job reviewed.
  
• Fixed an issue with players being able to bid more than once before other bidders in auctions.
  
• Fixed an issue with the cat rod interaction.
  
• Fixed an issue with pet avatars not being refreshed in the apartment context menu.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Mods item tag being used in tenant likes and dislikes.
  
• Fixed an issue with highlights during the taming stray pets tutorial.

• Fixed an issue with rubbish interface elements staying on the screen after opening the city map.
  
• Fixed a visual glitch with a missing part of a building in the Suburbs.
  
• Fixed a visual glitch with the pig textures.

We’re pleased with the results of testing our experimental branch and with the Patch 1.2.8 we’re merging those experimental changes to the public branch of the game. This means that the initial loading before the main menu will get slightly longer for everyone, but loading a save file or starting a new game should go through much quicker.

We’re also taking down the experimental branch as it won’t be needed for now, to avoid any further confusion.

Let us know if you encounter any further issues, either related to the game loading / optimization or to the game/dlc itself.

• Optimized asset loading on game startup. The game will now also collect more data, allowing us to investigate crashes and errors live using analytic services.
  
• Tenants will now change their traits to positive ones after a successful test pet adoption period.
  
• Tweaked XP gain from pet interactions.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with the first few tutorials for pets.
  
• Fixed a few issues with pet interactions.
  
• Fixed an issue with the raccoon trash can scale.

• Added more pet sound effects.
  
• Added media to the Pig minigame tutorial.
  
• Added a display of available DLCs and their status in the main menu.
  
• Enabled more actions for the Pigs, Cats and Raccoons.
  
• Enabled the sneezing action for allergic tenants.
  
• Improved the missing pet effect visibility.
  
• Suppressed a number of annoying log messages.

• Fixed another case of the missing pet event not completing properly.
  
• Fixed an issue with the burglary event that would leave undoable renovation requests for the player and cleaned up such requests from the save files.
  
• Fixed an issue with some pet actions not playing out properly.
  
• Fixed an issue with the museum item names and descriptions.
  
• Fixed an issue with the shelter job items becoming unlocked at incorrect times.
  
• Fixed an issue with the shelter cashout % display in the pet level rewards tab.
  
• Fixed an issue with needs considerations for pets in their AI behavior.
  
• Fixed an issue with one of the front door objects throwing errors.
  
• Fixed an issue with buying Elite Contract houses.

If you have trouble loading into the game, please check out this thread on the forums on how to access the experimental branch where we're testing a fix for that and let us know if it helped.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1009560/discussions/0/3821922030301313137/

• Added a popup talking about the newest community event.
  
• Added particles to missing pet pickups to make them more noticeable.
  
• Increased the pet XP from pet interactions.
  
• Fixed an issue where the phone would appear outside the screen for some users.
  
• Fixed a few issues related to spawning pets.
  
• Fixed an issue with pet needs being fulfilled incorrectly.
  
• Fixed an issue with the wrong tenant reply to the player's negative response on helping with the Heating Damage event.
  
• Fixed the pet job at Clover Drive 654.
  
• Fixed a few issues related to the Missing Pet event.
  
• Fixed an issue with the dog jumping through the hoop pet action.

• Adjust some item placements for the Loan Oak 45 job.
  
• Fixed an edge case where players could get the animal shelter contract twice.
  
• Fixed an issue related to pets not being properly disposed of when disappearing.

• Added a new warning tooltip for the Installing Heating tutorial sequence, informing the player that they need to finish the Pedro babysitting job first.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would glitch out when trying to generate new jobs for some people.

• Disabled trashing for the Parrot Collector tenant.
  
• Fixed more issues related to the cursor not becoming visible after some pet interactions.
  
• Fixed a few audio issues when taming a stray pig.
  
• Fixed an issue with the pig being stuck in Play with Plushie interaction.
  
• Fixed an issue with the raccoon and parrot not sleeping properly.
  
• Fixed a few issues related to the Parrot Collector special job.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Railway Cafe job in Manhattan.
  
• Fixed an issue with one of the pet tutorials guiding the player to the wrong pet.