The Tenants

Released: Oct 20, 2022
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 07:20 GMT

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27 Jun 2025Developer post
🎮 The Tenants OUT NOW on PlayStation and Xbox! 🎮
Become a landlord playing on your favorite console! Get ready to build your real estate empire from the comfort of your couch. The Tenants is now available on PlayStation 4 & 5 and Xbox One & Series X|S ! Your real estate empire is now just a controller away - we're thril
07 May 2024Developer post
Ancient Forge 5th anniversary: 50% Sale for The Tenants!
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 s
07 May 2024Developer post
Ancient Forge's 5th anniversary stream
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
24 Oct 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.10
Congratulations to the winners of The Tenants Pet Contest: Aly T, Lemur, and Jimmy_M! We’ll be contacting you all shortly. General 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. Fix
Congratulations to the winners of The Tenants Pet Contest: Aly T, Lemur, and Jimmy_M! We’ll be contacting you all shortly.
General
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.
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22 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.9
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: General Added a suggestion in the pet progression tab that the player should aim
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
General
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.
Bugs
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.
Visual
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.
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14 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.8
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
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.
General
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.
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11 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.7
General 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 ef
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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.
Bugs
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.
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04 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.6
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. General Added a popup talking about the newest community event. Added particles to missi
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/
General
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.
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02 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.5
General 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.
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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.
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02 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.4
General 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.
General
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.
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01 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.3
General 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 a
General
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.
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01 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.2
Game Loading Fixed another game loading issue related to the engine update. Note: If you still have issues loading into the game after this patch, please contact us at [email protected] or on the official Discord server. General Fixed some issues related to pets navi
Game Loading
Fixed another game loading issue related to the engine update.
Note: If you still have issues loading into the game after this patch, please contact us at [email protected] or on the official Discord server.
General
Fixed some issues related to pets navigating in the Animal Shelter.
Fixed an issue with the phone when interacting with a pet.
Fixed a few issues with raccoon’s interactions.
Fixed another issue related to the feeding interaction with pets.
Fixed an issue where some of the actions wouldn’t play out for pets (eating, sleeping).
Fixed an issue where the UI wouldn’t appear back after playing with a pet.
Fixed an issue with the tenants AI breaking in some actions that require multiple tenants.
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01 Sep 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.2.1
We are sorry this took a while, but being our very first DLC release, we have run into a few unexpected issues along the way. The whole team at Ancient Forge is working hard on the most pressing issues, and this is just the first patch out of many that will follow to fully iron o
We are sorry this took a while, but being our very first DLC release, we have run into a few unexpected issues along the way. The whole team at Ancient Forge is working hard on the most pressing issues, and this is just the first patch out of many that will follow to fully iron out all the kinks and fix all the bugs. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Game Loading
Fixed a loading issue where some people would get stuck at 25% of the loading bar.
Fixed an issue with players being unable to load while subscribed to workshop items that do not exist anymore.
Fixed an issue with platforms API not initializing on time, preventing some people from loading.
Note: If you still have issues loading into the game after this patch, please contact us at [email protected] or on the official Discord server.
General
Fixed an issue with the feeding minigame getting stuck for mini pigs.
Fixed an issue with collecting parrots.
Fixed a missing job description in the Parrot Collector job.
Fixed raccoon visuals in Open Houses.
Fixed a few incorrect stray pet positions.
Fixed an issue with pets idling.
Fixed an issue with starting interactions with pets.
Balance
Balanced need gains from actions and interactions related to pets.
Lowered Pet and Brush action cooldowns.
Thank you,
Ancient Forge
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31 Aug 2023Developer post
Pets DLC is Out Now! 🐶🐱
Hey there, Landlords! We’re very excited to announce that today we’re releasing the first DLC for The Tenants, which is accompanied by a free update to the base game for everyone to enjoy! To learn more about the content and features included in the Pets DLC, be sure to visit the
20 Jul 2023Developer post
Pets DLC Release Date Announcement Trailer & SimFest
Hey there, landlords! We promised you news regarding the actual release date for the Pets DLC for The Tenants and today we deliver. Pets DLC will officially launch on August 31st this year! If you're a creator and would like to get access to a preview build, please reach out to u
20 Jul 2023Developer post
The Tenants - Patch 1.1.7
General Introduced an option to buy Elite Contract houses after you finish them 3 times (with exception of seasonal jobs). Fixed an issue with the furniture tags not always being displayed for pathing issues. Fixed prestige calculation for modded floors and walls. Fixed issues re
General

Introduced an option to buy Elite Contract houses after you finish them 3 times (with exception of seasonal jobs).
Fixed an issue with the furniture tags not always being displayed for pathing issues.
Fixed prestige calculation for modded floors and walls.
Fixed issues related to opening the city map view with Apartment/Tenant context menu being open.
Fixed an issue with blank rewards for Goal Cards.
Fixed an issue with camera in Manhattan district.
Fixed an issue with Babysitting job scoring.
Reduced the snow falling speed.
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14 Jul 2023Developer post
Pets DLC Update & An Important Announcement
Hey there, landlords! It has been a while since we shared any updates regarding the highly anticipated Pets DLC. We have been working hard on adding as much new content and features as we can possibly cram, and we should have more n ews regarding the actual release date later thi
21 Apr 2023Developer post
Pets DLC Coming to The Tenants!
Hey there, Landlords! We're thrilled to announce that The Tenants will be receiving its first major expansion with the upcoming Pets DLC , tentatively set for release this summer. Get ready to welcome a variety of adorable and fascinating pets into your rental properties! The Pet
Hey there, Landlords!
We're thrilled to announce that The Tenants will be receiving its first major expansion with the upcoming Pets DLC, tentatively set for release this summer. Get ready to welcome a variety of adorable and fascinating pets into your rental properties!
The Pets DLC aims to enhance your tenants' lives and happiness by introducing a diverse range of animal companions, including dogs, cats, raccoons, mini pigs, parrots, fish, hamsters, bunnies, frogs, and turtles. This new addition will not only bring joy to your tenants but also present fresh gameplay mechanics and interactions for you to manage.
To stay informed about the Pets DLC and receive updates on its release, be sure to visit the store page and add it to your wishlist today!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2255330/The_Tenants__Pets_DLC/
We can't wait to share more information with you soon, as we continue to enrich the world of The Tenants with our furry, feathery, and scaly friends. 🐶🐱🦜🐢
Oh, and in the meantime, we are pushing a small patch today to finalize the Easter event and release a few tweaks and fixes. Stay tuned for more!
Patch 1.1.6 Changelog
General
Easter celebration is now over! The Easter bunny will come back next year.
Added appropriate clothing icons for different sexes of tenants, resolving the issue of mismatching clothes in the Send Clothes unlockable option.
Tweaked the necessary utility outlets and placement constraints of a few items.
Disabled Uncle Steve's congratulatory dialogue for each apartment purchase after the initial three.
Implemented a new item tag, "Mods", for all modded content.
Tenants will now react more negatively to break-ins.
Fixed a rare issue with broken storage items prohibiting players from loading into the game.
Fixed a visual issue with one of the wall models having incorrect UV mapping.
Thank you,
Ancient Forge
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06 Apr 2023Developer post
Time For An Egg Hunt
Hey landlords! Uncle Steve is back with his shenanigans! To celebrate Easter and show our appreciation for your continued support, we're hosting a special Easter Egg Hunt event in The Tenants from April 6th to April 20th . Get ready to explore the Slums district and hunt for hidd
Hey landlords!
Uncle Steve is back with his shenanigans! To celebrate Easter and show our appreciation for your continued support, we're hosting a special Easter Egg Hunt event in The Tenants from April 6th to April 20th. Get ready to explore the Slums district and hunt for hidden Easter eggs, which will unlock a charming set of Easter-themed items for you to decorate your properties with.
But that's not all! Our beloved partner in crime has gone one step further and hidden some extra-special Easter baskets throughout the Suburbs. These baskets contain unique items that can't be bought or unlocked anywhere else in the game. So, make sure to keep your eyes peeled and gather these one-of-a-kind treasures while the event lasts.
We hope you enjoy this festive event and the opportunity to add some seasonal flair to your rental properties. On behalf of the entire team at Ancient Forge, we'd like to wish you all a very Happy Easter! Have an egg-cellent time hunting for eggs and discovering the delightful surprises that await you in The Tenants' Easter Egg Hunt event.
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Content
Easter Egg Hunt is back! Added an Easter Egg Collectible Set in the Slums, completing which will unlock Easter-themed items.
Added Easter baskets in the Suburbs with unique treasures.
General
Elite Contracts will start showing up in Steve's guidebook only after they're unlocked.
Adjusted the level reward XP text.
Updated the roadmap image.
Fixed an issue with canceling jobs from districts other than the one the player is in.
Fixed a number of glitches with properties being able to be purchased past their offer time.
Thank you,
Ancient Forge
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05 Apr 2023Developer post
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