https://youtu.be/UeWOUP_YFSU Winkeltje: The Little Shop is finally released on all major platforms! As of today you can enjoy Winkeltje on Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 at the affordable price of $14,99, or €12,49, or your regional equivalent.
Launch Features
Below are the launch features that you can enjoy right now!
Employees
With this much requested feature you can hire and manage employees that will help you in keeping your shop stocked. Employees will gain experience and grow to the limit of their ability. Manage salaries and keep an eye out for new talent as your employer skill increases.
Upgradeable End-Game Storage
When you reach the end-game you will now be able to buy a storage basement hatch. This is an upgradeable storage that will enable you to increase your storage capacity if you can afford it. As a result you can reclaim your store space without losing storage capacity.
New Decorations
You can look forward to a bunch of new decorations themed around spring, summer, and the outdoors that can be unlocked through some new objectives or by increasing your shop level. Some unique item pedestals can be obtained by reaching the maximum item crafting level.
New Cosmetics
Both shopkeeper types received a new outfit, boots, and hair. New color options for this outfit can be unlocked by completing new crafting achievements.
New Floors
New floor options have been added. Some are accessible from the start while others will be unlocked as you progress.
Major Performance Improvements
With a massive effort to improve performance on console devices we have found and applied numerous performance improvements across the board. We took care in maintaining the look and feel of the game although you may notice some differences in aesthetics.
New
Achievements - Added 12 new achievements.
Cosmetics - Added 2 new outfits with 7 colour combinations, these are unlocked as a reward for hitting certain crafting milestones.
Building - Added 14 new floors.
Decorations - Added 39 new decorations.
Decorations - Added 49 new Pedestal decorations for when the player has maxed out the crafting of an item.
Employees - Added employees to help with restocking the shop.
Objectives - Added new objectives for Employees, Spring, and Summer.
Objectives - Updated the 'Item Placement' & 'Building' tutorials to show both the count & bar.
Changes
Art - Updated the default and large shop preview images.
Customers - Renamed Tetta -> Letta, because apparently the former means "boob" in Italian.
Effects - Slightly reduced the windiness on the foliage.
Language - Updated and reviewed all translations.
Lighting - Increased the shadow depth bias to adress some shadow acne.
Objectives - Removed the Kitchen Planter from being unlocked by the Potato Farmer objective as the initial planter can only be unlocked by spending a crafting skill point. This should remove the objective mention from the Unlock Menu when inspecting the Kitchen Planter.
Objectives - The 'Pitchfork Supplier' objective will now also award turf as a crafting resource.
Objectives - The 'Axe Smith' objective will now also award coal and steel as a crafting resource.
UI - Removed the 'in development' disclaimer in anticipation for the release update.
UI - The direct sell confirmation window will now omit the accept button instead of disabling it as the latter would cause issues.
UI - Moved wall and crafting categories in the unlock menu to be more noticeable as people tend to easily miss them.
UI - Added Exit to Desktop button.
Setting - Community - Added an option to allow the game to continue running while in the background.
Fixes
Art - Tweaked the small, medium, and tall torch for better compatibility across platforms.
Art - Moved a terrain tree as it was clipping through walls on a large map.
Audio - Community - Lowering the audio sliders would set the volume at -60dB instead of the lowest possible engine value of -80dB.
Code - Fixed a rare issue that could prevent crafting unlocks if unlock skillpoints happened to go below zero.
Commissions - Community - Placing the initial commission board could cause a critical error if the available commissions are null.
Cosmetics - Max crafting outfits should now also unlock matching boots.
Customers - When customers went home they would destroy the NPC object instead of the associated gameobject. This would likely cause an error.
Customers - Dismissing a customer will now disable the outline instead of disabling the interactable as the latter could lead to a critical error.
Effects - The snowmask is now also applied to the main menu background shops.
Effects - The snowmask would repeat instead of clamp which would look strange on foliage outside of the shop bounds.
Effects - Added snowmask padding and offset to fix clamping issues.
Effects - Dismissing a customer would leave a grayed outline visible until it walked out of the player's awareness radius.
Effects - Fixed a critical snowmask error by removing a race condition.
Effects - A recent performance improvement change broke the snow effect on outside furniture when within interact range. The snow effect should reapply if that is the case.
Effects - Community - Planters should no longer revert their soil material when walking out of interact range.
Effects - Round bushes would not toggle waviness when placed.
Effects - Placing bushes outside during winter would not make them appear snowey.
Effects - The stove's fire animation should now use scaled time.
Effects - Reverted change to the interactable class responsible for outlines as caching the materials would cause highlighting issues across different furniture states.
Effects - The watered material on a planter would reset when picked up.
Employee - Fixed issue where employees would stop restocking.
Graphics - Removed several missing entries from the shader variant collection.
Graphics - Enabling either screen space ambient occlusion or depth of field should now enable the creation of a depth texture as both effects rely on it in different ways.
Lighting - Terrain has been cut into smaller chunks to adress an issue with lighting.
Saving - Added fallback for when files would not be able to be saved in the steam folder, this should stop the crashing on bootup for some people.
UI - The furniture cost label would show the wrong position for a single frame when placing furniture.
UI - The objectives counter would not update when gaining, completing, or failing an objective.
UI - The layout price label would appear in the wrong position after buying furniture.
UI - Planters that can be unlocked through objectives had duplicate objective listings in the details panel of the unlock menu.
UI - The Stucco & Brick Archway did not have all preview materials set which could result in an error.
UI - Fixed the firepit previews in the unlock menu.
UI - Attempting to load a corrupted save file would prompt a window that would cause issues once closed with a controller.
UI - Appeal level would not correctly set itself when losing an appeal level.
UI - Objectives that turned inactive should no longer have their animation routines be cancelled when subsequently called to be shown.
UI - Attempting to favorite furniture while the filter returned no options would cause an error.
UI - It should no longer be possible to upgrade a display using a controller if the upgrade button is not visible.
UI - The normal difficulty was not using the correct image preview.
UI - Fixed floor previews and descriptions in the unlock menu.
UI - Added 4 missing floor unlock IDs.
UI - The snowy keyword setter should no longer call the awake function when instantiated for use in the UI.
UI - Fixed an issue where the employee preview would be blurry.
UI - Added several checks to inspecting employee details in the employee menu to prevent an out of range error.
UI - Updated credits section.
UI - Pressing menu hotkeys while a menu is open should no longer cause the game to unpause.
Performance
Art - Reduced GC alloc in Bush colour update.
Art - Reduced GC alloc in item sell price calculation.
Art - Structure Kit0, Kit1, Kit2, Kit3, Kit4, and Kit5 model and prefab optimizations.
Art - Optimized shop sign.
Art - Replaced the forge coals material with a new material using the smolder shader to increase graphics performance.
Art - Terrain mesh improvements.
Art - The shop sign chain was using the wrong material.
Audio - Removed unnecessary repositioning call on the shop opening.
Audio - Footstep sounds now use the cached transform instead of Unity's transform.
Characters - Optimized character animation import settings.
Code - The placement appeal component was added but not removed which would eventually slow down the game.
Commissions - Optimized the commission generation.
Effects - Removed obsolete color property from the foliage shader.
Effects - Optimized the butterfly particle effect.
Effects - Reworked the foliage shader to use texture arrays and reduce math operations in the fragments shader.
Effects - Additional terrain shader optimizations by using a texture array and storing uv calculation into a seperate UV channel.
Effects - Heat distortion shader effect should now be disabled for the Switch.
Effects - Removed redundant shader keywords from the build selector shader.
Effects - Improved graphics performance by disabling mesh renderers and/or shader keywords of effects that were not visible but could still cost resources to process.
Effects - Character shader optimizations.
Effects - Removed snowy keyword from the sign material as this is set during runtime.
Effects - Interactable materials should no longer set fill keyword on initialization. This would result in additional setpass calls.
Effects - Community - Updated shader variants to include fill and outline shader keywords.
Effects - Removed material property block from the wallmask effect as it breaks batching.
Effects - Removed the material property block from the foliage material.
Effects - Pruned sparks effect from fireplaces on low-end platforms.
Effects - Candle flame effect should cost much less resources now.
Effects - Keyframing shader properties were causing material property blocks in furniture using fire or glow effects which resulted in breaking SRP batches.
Effects - Keyframing shader properties were causing material property blocks in furniture using fire or glow effects which resulted in breaking SRP batches.
Graphics - Anisotropic filtering now happens on a 'per texture' basis on floors and walls.
Input - Changed the input module to ignore mouse buttons 3 and up to reduce GC allocation.
Lighting - Disabled spot light shadowcasters for console.
Movement - Reduced the amount of calculations done in the player movement.
Objectives - Moved the init of the MilestoneObjective to the loading screen instead of the first time the shop opens.
UI - Money label background now only updates when the width of the string actually changes.
UI - Preloading the interaction cooldown & game settings.
UI - The trader patience HUD element would be assigned twice and was not pooling correctly resulting in performance regression when playing over a long period of time.
Hotfix
Achievement - The Professional would not unlock correctly. If you've maxed all crafting professions, you can open up any station and the achievement will pop.
Art - Increased the anisotropic value of tileable wall textures to make them appear less blurry at an angle.
Code - Community - Fixed critical issue when loading a save file after backing out to the main menu.
Employees - Community - Directly selling an item while an employee was trying to restock would cause the display to be permanently reserved by the employee.
Graphics - Added 2560x1080 and 2560x1600 resolutions options.
Lights - Tweaked the candleholder lights to emit more light compared to the lanterns.
Movement - Community - Click to move should no longer slow down near navigation waypoints.
UI - Community - UI scaling options should now adjust for 4k monitors.
UI - Community - Added an exclamation mark to highlight unlock options.
UI - Community - Added settings to adjust the camera sway on each axis. Currently PC only until the required translations are covered to pass a console submission.
UI - Community - The UI atlas was showing some sprite bleeding at the pivot of the event ribbon. A repack of the atlas using looser packing settings on the ribbon sprite fixed the issue.
UI - Community - The employee previews would look blurry on increased UI scales.
UI - Community - The Alchemy Station did not have its Preview Appearance component set up correctly.
UI - Clicking on an unlock reminder would not bring the player to the correct tab in the unlock menu.
UI - Crafting stations did not show the correct level for the category & item level.
UI - The skill increase animation in the crafting menu was not animating from the right starting value resulting in strange looking level transitions.
UI - Removed the ability to save while the shop was open, that was never supposed to be possible.
Fun and enthusiasm in Zula on April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day!
3 entry rewards for each day, 200% XP Bonus on all servers (including Clan and Competition), special offers with Zula Pass Stars special to the end of the season, 1+2 in Case, Deck and Material Packages, Special Mission Card and Free Mission Card with special reward 23 April It is waiting for you at the Festival!
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Key Features:
Cool new tracks – Test your skills on four Arctic-themed circuits New playable characters – Race as Ms. Nowhere or Matsuo and use their vehicles and spy gear New vehicle skins – Ride with new styles for Tony, Layla, Echo, and Cisco-Frostee
This new content is now available to purchase on Steam.
The exquisite St. Mark's Basilica will complete the Venetian architectural complex! The image of the cathedral is incredibly completting: it combines East and West, Renaissance and Antiquity, Romanesque and the Byzantine style… Your city is worthy of becoming a setting for such a pearl! Complete the construction on time to get valuable rewards and become an owner of a true pearl of architecture!
The April Nova Cup takes place April 30-May 1. Sign-up begins now. First come, first served.
Community Spotlight
Shout-out to a new community site https://legionlord.com. View player profiles and the win rates of units, openings, playstyles, and legion spells. More to come!
Creator Boost
Content creators who join the Legion Partnership Program now get a Creator Boost with a unique creator code. Any player purchasing premium essence can enter a creator code. 10% of the $ purchase price will go directly to the creator.
This allows us to say thank you to all the content creators who play the game. It also allows the community to support active Legions creators.
Nexus has also agreed to match up to $750 in creator contributions, meaning creators who promote their Creator Boost code early can receive 20% instead of 10%.
Unlocking cards from the Card Trader now gives you card fragments. Card fragments can be used to unlock a card of your choice from the Card Trader.
The primary ways to collect cards are still unlocking them randomly from the Card Trader or finding them as drops in-game. Card fragments are a new way on top of that.
The number of card fragments needed to unlock a card of your choice depends on its rarity:
Uncommon: 20
Rare: 24
Epic: 28
Legendary: 32
Secret: 100
Additionally, if you unlock 10 random cards in a row without drawing a secret card, the Card Trader takes pity on you and gives you 10 card fragments for free!
New Skin: Pandemic Pack Rat
New Skin: Infernal Oathbreaker
New Secret Card: Nyan Boar
Visit the Card Trader to see which game event can trigger a drop!
Card Collection & Trophy Case
Cards and trophies are now more fun to collect and show off!
Improvements & Fixes
Essence Gain All % boosts are now multiplicative instead of additive. This means that each bonus remains impactful when combined with other bonuses. For most players, especially ones with high Guild Contribution, this means more essence.
Improvements
Audio: Various unit sound & music volumes have been normalized to fix many cases where certain sounds were too loud or too quiet.
Spectator Mode: Added more information to the overlay: openings, builds, net worth, and +/- recommended value.
Chat: New Emoji: : care :
MVP: Improved formula
Major Fixes
Fixed a rare bug where a player would fail to connect to a match if two players connected at almost exactly the same time (more common when players are on the same network)
Fixed a rare bug where players would fail to connect to the login server for several minutes
Fixed some rare cases of game instability
Minor Fixes
Holy Avenger & Sovereign: Fixed a bug when reviving from Guardian Angel where their health wasn’t properly capped at 1500 due to gaining bonus health from their Aegis / Final Judgment buff
Custom Games: Fixed a bug with Tournament mode where players couldn’t see legion spells in the team chat window
Postgame: Fixed a bug where Classic matches didn’t show your correct rating badge
Profile: Fixed a bug with screen tearing when using the scrollbar via mouse clicks (not mouse wheel)
Audio: Fixed a bug where adjusting Special Theme volume didn’t update immediately if a track was currently playing
Misc: Fixed some tooltips
Spectator: Fixed a bug in Spectator mode where net worth stats were displaying the wrong number
Custom Games: Fixed a bug in Custom Games where the game would become unstable if playing Chaos/Hybrid mode with bots
Pathing: Fixed a rare bug where a unit would get stuck at the spawn area
Secret Cards: Fixed a bug where donating/selling a secret card would result in losing access to being able to de-equip a card monument using that slot
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Tempest/Leviathan abilities would continue to run even while a game was paused
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Match Canceled would skip over players that picked Cash Out
Gameplay: Fixed a bug in Campaign where if you restart the game, the post-game Builds tab wouldn’t properly reset mercenaries sent each time
Gameplay: Fixed a bug with nearby Seadragon/Lifebinder where the Sacred Steed/Pegasus wouldn’t self-buff if all Seadragon/Lifebinders had 1 hp left and there were no other targets
Game Balance
Worker Rework - Mythium gather rate now increases by 8% every wave after wave 10. This also applies to workers you trained previously. - Removed x2 Workers on waves 16+
The goal of this change is to encourage workers in the mid game and discourage overbuilding before wave 15, which slowed down the pace/fun of the game.
This is an experimental change. Depending on community feedback, we'll keep it, make adjustments, or revert it. Big changes require time to learn and judge, so please give us time to properly evaluate.
King - Health on wave 18 decreased by 5% (compensating for the fact that Wave 18 now deals less damage to the king) - 4v4 only: Health decreased by 7.5%
The king is too beefy in 4v4, especially with how leaks stream in, rather than grouping up first.
Mastermind Playstyles
Fiesta - Reward for leaking: +4 income → 13-48 gold, based on the wave number
This rework makes Fiesta a legitimate playstyle about aggressive play patterns and risk-taking throughout the entire game, rather than a cheese playstyle focused largely on pro-leaking waves 1-3.
Legion Spells
Battle Scars No longer targets Soul Gate & Hell Gate (it was mostly useless on them)
Magician - Mana regeneration: 0.44 → 0.47
Win rate: Very low Pick rate: Low
Pulverizer - Attack speed: 6% → 4%
Win rate: High Pick rate: High
Nerfing Pulverizer with expensive units, while keeping its identity of being strong with fast attackers.
Fighters
Proton / Atom - Attack speed: 1.12 → 1.15 Win rate: Low Pick rate: Very low
(18) Wale Chiefs - Poison-Tipped Pole: 300 magic damage every fourth attack → 100 area of effect magic damage every fifth attack. No longer refreshes on kill.
(19) Dire Toads - New ability: Split Shot: Attacks up to 3 targets per attack (can still hit the same target multiple times) - DPS: 272 → 265 — Damage: 95 → 114 — Attack speed: 2.86 → 0.78
(20) Maccabeus - Health: 70000 → 60000 - Devour: Health per kill: 150 → 300
Fun and enthusiasm in Zula on April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day!
3 entry rewards for each day, 200% XP Bonus on all servers (including Clan and Competition), special offers with Zula Pass Stars special to the end of the season, 1+2 in Case, Deck and Material Packages, Special Mission Card and Free Mission Card with special reward 23 April It is waiting for you at the Festival!
When I started making this game, I did not pursue the goal of making money on it, but I wanted my work to pay off. That didn't happen so I want to move the game to a free-to-play basis. After all, why do you need a game if you don't play it? In a week I will apply for transferring the game to a free basis. I already wanted to make it free a year ago, but then the support dissuaded me. Now I have firmly decided to make it free and available to everyone. Thanks to all those who have already purchased this game and went through it. I hope you liked this story.