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13 Aug 2026Developer post

SunnySide: Regrown, What We've Been Building and a Poll

Hey everyone! First, a big thank you! It has been a little while since our last update, and the support, patience, and honest feedback we have had in that time has meant an enormous amount to a very small team. Nobody was obliged to stick around after everything SunnySide has bee

Hey everyone!

First, a big thank you!

It has been a little while since our last update, and the support, patience, and honest feedback we have had in that time has meant an enormous amount to a very small team. Nobody was obliged to stick around after everything SunnySide has been through. A lot of you did anyway, and we do not take that lightly.

So here is where things stand:

Losing That Drive Turned Out to Be a Blessing

If you read the last update, you will remember that one of our SSDs died and took a chunk of our early rebuild work with it.

We were… not thrilled at the time.

Looking back, it might be the best thing that could have happened to this project. Redoing that work meant making all of those decisions a second time with everything we had learned from making them once already. Almost every system came back cleaner than it was before with fewer assumptions carried over out of habit and far fewer shortcuts. Sia’s work this time around has been nothing short of incredible.

We might've lost a few weeks but we gained a much better foundation, and honestly we’re really thrilled about it.

The Remake Has a Name

We finally get to say this out loud.

We’re calling it SunnySide: Regrown

Same town. Same people. Same heart. Built again from the roots up, with everything we have learned since. We are genuinely happy with this name, and we hope it says what we want it to say about this version of the game.

Rebuilding the Guts in C++

The original programming for SunnySide leaned very heavily on Blueprints. We still love Blueprints and we still use them, but a lot of the heavy lifting in the old game was being done in places where it really should not have been.

This time, all the systems that do the hardest work are written in C++.

The inventory is a good example of what that buys us. It already does things the old one never could:

Sorting that actually works
Items remembering when you picked them up, so you can sort by what you gathered most recently
Faster access, fewer clicks, less digging
No stutters or frame drops when opening it mid-game

That last one matters more than it sounds. Opening your bag should never cost you a single frame.

Time Moves On Its Own Now

The time of day system has been rebuilt in C++ as well, and it changed how the whole day works.

Time now flows continuously and smoothly. You no longer have to sleep to push the game into the next day, because the day gets there on its own.

Instead, you build up exhaustion.

Push through a long day and you will start to feel it. You can fight it for a while with coffee and a few other things, but exhaustion is not something you can ignore forever. Eventually you need to actually sleep, both to clear it and to charge your phone.

We like this a lot more than the old loop. Your day ends because you ran yourself down, not because the game needed you to click a bed in order for your plants to move to their next growth stage.

The New UI, and Your Phone

This one has been a fun one!! You all know how much we love UI work!

The UI in the original game was one of the quieter reasons for its performance problems. A huge number of assets were being loaded at once every time you opened the phone, and a lot of them were interface elements. It looked fine but it cost far too much.

For Regrown, we are using MSDFs for icons, which means they stay crisp at any size while taking up a fraction of the memory that the old ones did. The UI now looks cleaner and performs better at the same time, which is not a trade we expected to win, but we’ll take it! It also allows us to bring in animations and effects that were not possible before! We really think everyone is going to love the new look, and we can’t wait to test it.

We have also settled on a new look: a soft, glassy style that sits over the world without burying it.

Your phone now lives in the corner of your screen permanently, as a small always-visible version serving as the clock and notifications are readable at a glance. You can open it at any time without the game stopping, and you can keep walking while you use it. No more freezing the world every time someone texts you.

We loved the feeling of pulling out your phone, and we loved the way it looked sitting in the player’s hand, but we traded that vibe for usability and we’re not going to do that again. The player character will still hold the phone in their hand while it's being used but it won't stop you from moving.

Building, Properly This Time

We were never happy with how player houses worked in the original SunnySide.

Being honest about why: it came down to the limits of our programming skill and understanding back then. We built what we knew how to build but we know a lot more now.

In Regrown, you build modular structures from the ground up, piece by piece. A shed, a house, a greenhouse for your plants, whatever you need, assembled by hand out of parts. A lot of what we learned making Vending Dokan went straight into this.

We are also removing the friction that can make building in games so frustrating:

Cut pieces of a building to extend it, instead of tearing it down
Copy an entire building and place it somewhere else
Nudge and rotate freely to get the angle you actually wanted
Swap the style of a whole building without rebuilding it, from traditional walls to something modern in a couple of clicks

The system is built to be expanded, so we can keep adding new sets and pieces over time, and every new set becomes another style you can flip an existing building into. No more sacrificing FUN for realism.

The best part? You will be able to share what you make. Any building you create can be uploaded to the Steam Workshop, and you can download what other players have built. This has been our dream for a long time, and VD:KK walked so that SunnySide: Regrown could run.

Farming Gets Room to Breathe

Farming is getting attention too.Sydney had a vision that was held back a bit by programming ability, but we’re finally going to be able to deliver.

We are working on letting you till multiple plots in one go, because nobody has ever or will ever enjoy doing that one square at a time.

We are also getting rid of plant sizes as a category. Instead, plants have footprints. A larger crop might need eight tilled spots to grow into, which makes laying out a farm a real spatial decision rather than a menu one. We want farming to be the most realistic feeling system in the game, and we want to branch into real world farming techniques in the future. We’re laying the groundwork for that now, and we’re excited about future possibilities. Feel free to share ideas with us in Discord!

Also, we are extending the blueprint planning system from buildings across to farming. That means you can plan out a farm around seeds you have not acquired yet, laid out in the holographic style from the original game, to then plant and fill in as you go.

This also means potentially future automation systems can know what you want grown where. Whether it's Sparky that does the farming or one of your friends. We haven’t decided yet ;)

A Real Town, Built the Way a Real Town Grows

The map has been one of our biggest discussions.

As we said last time, we cannot simply drag the old map into the new engine and expect it to hold up. We thought maybe we would just do some recarving and mold SunnySide’s map into something that works better for Regrown… but instead we took the opportunity to rethink it from the start.

Instead of fixing the old map, we are going to start by recreating a real town in Japan, and doing it faithfully.

That means working from actual geological data: where the rivers run, where the mountains sit, how the land has eroded, and where people historically chose to settle because of all of that. Towns are shaped by their landscape, and we want ours to feel like it was.

From there, we will adjust the landscape to be uniquely SunnySide, to suit the history of the town and the people who settled there.

SunnySide will look different to the version you know, but it will also feel far more like a place that could actually exist.

And we promise that it will be smaller and more fun to navigate.

About Multiplayer

We want to talk about this one carefully, because we are not going to promise it.

We keep coming back to how much fun SunnySide could be with a friend, especially with everything above in place. Sharing a farm. Building a homestead together. Splitting the chores and then arguing about the layout.

We have not confirmed that co-op is possible for us yet.

What we can tell you is that every design decision we are making right now is being made with co-op in mind, so that if it turns out to be within reach, we are not having to tear anything apart to get there. We would rather build the door now than knock a hole in the wall later.

A Decision We Want You In On

A few weeks ago we got an email from a SunnySide player.

They laid out a case we had not properly considered about how we release Regrown, and it was good enough that it made us stop and rethink a plan we thought was settled. We love that this is the kind of community we have.

Here is the short version.

Our original plan was to release Regrown as an update to the SunnySide page you already own. What we are now considering instead is releasing SunnySide: Regrown as its own game on Steam, where it can go into Early Access, and where you can play it and shape it as it grows.

If we do that, and you already own SunnySide, you get Regrown for free. That part is not up for negotiation.

We have not made this decision, and we are not going to make it without you. There are real trade-offs in both directions and we have written them all out honestly in a survey, along with a couple of other options and some questions about crowdfunding.

Please take a few minutes to respond to the survey below. Your input means the world to us. <3

👉 https://forms.gle/xGVshBJZXjHG6McU6

Thank You

Thank you for reading all of this.

Work on Regrown is going well, and it has picked up a lot of speed over the past few weeks. We are enjoying it enormously!!

Honestly, there is nothing out there quite like working on SunnySide. We still have so much love for this game and this town and these characters, and we are at our happiest when we are building it. Getting to do that on our own terms, at last, is not something any of us is taking for granted.

We are looking forward to the survey results, and to your comments below. We read them.

And if you want more frequent updates and the occasional sneak peek before it shows up here, come and join us on Discord: 👉 http://discord.gg/sunnyside

Thank you all. We will see you in the next update! 💛

The Aftabi Games Team

Original post

11 May 2026Developer post

SunnySide 2.0 - Survey Results & The Road Ahead

Hello everyone, First of all, we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in our SunnySide survey. We received 1,394 responses , which is honestly incredible. The amount of feedback, honesty, encouragement, criticism, and care you all put into

Hello everyone,

First of all, we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in our SunnySide survey.

We received 1,394 responses, which is honestly incredible. The amount of feedback, honesty, encouragement, criticism, and care you all put into your answers has been extremely helpful for us as we figure out where SunnySide goes from here.

In our previous post, we talked about the fact that SunnySide is finally back in our hands. We now fully have the rights to the game, and we’re able to work on it ourselves, directly, without the complications and limitations that existed before.

This post is going to be about two things:

What we learned from the survey.
What you can expect moving forward

And the short version is this:

We are rebuilding SunnySide.

Not from nothing. Not throwing away its heart, characters, music, world, or identity. But we are rebuilding the game’s foundations so that we can finally make it into the game we always wanted it to be.

Why We’re Taking This Approach

SunnySide is in a slightly unusual situation.

The original game was built in Unreal Engine 4.27, which is now very old by modern standards. Since then, Unreal Engine has received years of improvements, optimizations, new tools, and better workflows. On top of that, the version of the engine used for SunnySide also had source code edits made to support console development.

As many of you know, the console ports were handled by a different company and were not supervised by us as closely as they should have been. Now that SunnySide is back with us, we no longer have that overhead or those constraints. Our focus can be very simple:

Make the game fun. Keep its identity. Improve performance.

And yes, we hear you loud and clear: Optimization is one of the biggest priorities.

Over the past two months, we tried to convert SunnySide from Unreal Engine 4.27 to Unreal Engine 5.7. We explored it seriously, tested it, and spent a lot of time trying to make it work.

In the end, we reached the conclusion that it simply was not the right path.

Even if we managed to force the old project into the new engine, we would still be left with a messy collection of old systems, old decisions, old bugs, and technical debt. It would not give us the clean foundation SunnySide needs.

So we made the harder decision: We are starting again from a new foundation.

That does not mean everything is being thrown away. We will be keeping the characters, much of the writing, the music, the sound, the atmosphere, and the essence of SunnySide. But this gives us the chance to take a second look at almost every system in the game.

Farming. Inventory. UI. Time Managment.. Performance. Progression. Social systems. Mining. Exploration. The way the game feels moment to moment. All of it can be rebuilt with the knowledge we have now, and with the huge amount of feedback you have given us.

A More Stable, Better-Performing SunnySide

One major change is that we are now much more comfortable working in C++.

The original version of SunnySide relied heavily on Blueprint systems. Blueprints are fantastic, and we still love using them, but some of the heavier systems in SunnySide were simply not built in the most efficient way. Inventory handling, cleanup logic, repeated background checks, and other large systems could become slow and difficult to maintain.

For this new version, many of those core systems are being rebuilt in C++.

That means better performance, cleaner systems, more flexibility, and fewer situations where one slow piece of code drags the whole game down.

We have already created a prototype with several systems running in C++, including:

A new inventory system
A new day and night system
A redesigned clock
Early UI systems
Foundational gameplay systems

We are not ready to show all of this just yet, but we will share more when it is in a good place.

This is a very big step for us. We are excited about it, but we are also very aware of the scale of what we are taking on. We are still a very small team, smaller than we were before, but we care deeply about SunnySide, and we want to bring out its full potential.

All we ask for is time.

We know how much many of you love the core of SunnySide. It genuinely saddens us to see how often that core experience gets buried under unfinished systems, bugs, performance issues, or mechanics that never quite landed the way they should have.

What about Current Players?

This new version of SunnySide is something we are currently referring to as SunnySide 2.0.

Our goal is to release it as a free update to the existing game on Steam.

If, for technical or platform reasons, this has to become a separate Steam app instead, then current owners of SunnySide will be granted access to it.(However we don’t currently foresee this happening)

The bottom line is simple: If you own SunnySide, you will always own SunnySide (as long as we have a say in it, anyway)

Whether you want to call it a 2.0 update, a remake, or a second iteration, we do not want existing players to ever feel left behind.

We will also keep the original version of SunnySide available on a legacy branch on Steam. That means if you prefer the original version, or if you simply want to revisit it, you will still be able to access it. We also encourage everyone who wants to play it now to go ahead and do so. Nothing that we do with SunnySide 2.0 will impact your current games, so please continue to have fun!

Because this new version is being rebuilt from the ground up in terms of code and systems, old save files will not be compatible between the 1.0 and 2.0 branches. We know that is not ideal, and we will do what we can to support the legacy version as much as possible, but the new version will effectively be a new game under the hood.

Let’s Talk About the Survey

The survey gave us a huge amount of useful information, and we want to go through some of the biggest themes that came up.

We will not be able to address every single response in this post, but we have read through them carefully, and they are already helping shape the direction of SunnySide 2.0.

The Caves

The caves were one of the clearest points of agreement in the survey.

A lot of you felt that the caves, combat system, and the story connected to the Ancients did not quite fit with the rest of SunnySide. Many of you described the combat as repetitive, confusing, buggy, or simply not enjoyable enough to justify how much space it took up in the game.

There was also a strong feeling that the caves pulled attention away from the parts of SunnySide that people connected with most: farming, relationships, the town, the atmosphere, and the day-to-day life sim experience.

At the same time, the feedback was also very clear on one important point: You do not want mining to disappear.

Many of you still want a way to gather stone, ores, gems, and other resources. Some players also enjoyed the caves as a unique part of the game, especially as an alternative way to make money or progress outside of farming. So our direction is not simply “remove the caves and move on.” Instead, we are rethinking what the caves should be.

In the survey, 77.8% of players agreed with removing the caves in their current form.

Based on that, our current plan is:

Remove the battles from the caves
Remove the enemies from the caves
Remove the current cave storylines
Remove the main Ancient storyline connected to the caves
Keep mining as part of SunnySide
Rebuild the caves into a more focused mining experience

We are currently exploring a version of the caves as a procedurally generated, dynamic mining area where you can visit, gather minerals and gems, and return again after the cave resets on a set interval.

We also want mining itself to feel better. Rather than only being a basic pickaxe interaction, we want to look at tool upgrades, different mining tools, and a more tactile, satisfying resource-gathering loop.

As for the Ancients, we still love many of those designs and ideas. We are looking into creative ways to bring parts of them back into SunnySide in a way that better fits the game, but we will share more on that when we are ready.

If you have more ideas or opinions about this new direction, we’d love to hear from you in the comments here or on our Discord!

Relationships and Social Systems

Another major theme in the survey was that many of you want relationships to feel deeper, more natural, and more rewarding.

A lot of players felt that relationships currently reach a point where they simply stop progressing in a meaningful way. Many of you asked for stronger “endgame” relationship content, including commitment, marriage, partners moving in, children, or other ways for relationships to feel like they continue after reaching a high bond level.

We also heard a lot of feedback about NPCs needing to feel more aware of the world around them.

You want characters to remember things. To react to your progress. To comment on what is happening in town. To acknowledge your farm, your relationships, your choices, and recent events.

You also want NPCs to interact more with each other, not just with the player. Friend groups, group hangouts, casual conversations, visits, texts, notes, and characters initiating contact with you were all common suggestions.

This is something we strongly agree with. In fact, a lot of these systems were originally planned for SunnySide but were cut for various reasons, most of which were related to word count issues. SunnySide was originally meant to be a 500k word game, but when we were forced to cut the word count in half, a lot of the supporting social systems went out the window as well.

For SunnySide 2.0, we want the social side of the game to feel less like a checklist and more like a living part of the world. That means looking at dialogue variety, friendship progression, hangouts, NPC schedules, social groups, and how characters behave outside of direct conversations.

We also received a lot of feedback about the romance and gender attraction system.

Many players found it frustrating that certain romance options could be locked off based on choices made during character creation, especially when those restrictions were not always clear upfront. We understand that this could lead to players feeling like they had to research romance options before playing, or even restart if they realized later that the character they liked was unavailable.

This is something we are going to take a serious look at.

We are not ready to confirm the exact changes to the system yet, but we hear the feedback clearly: relationships should feel more flexible, less punishing, and easier to understand.

Hangouts were another common topic. Many of you liked the idea of spending time with characters, but felt the activities could become repetitive or awkward, especially when NPCs invited the player to places or activities they disliked (This was a bug that we were just never able to fix). We want to make hangouts feel more natural, with better context, more variety, and more personality from both the NPC and the player character.

We also want the friendships in SunnySide to take center stage like they were always meant to. The truth is: SunnySide was never meant to be a “Dating Sim”. Very much like the Persona series that inspired our game, the goal was always to focus on the people of the town and all of the different types of relationships that existed. We wanted you all, the players, to feel like you were a part of that community, and we’re sad that this focus was taken away from you. We plan to fix that.

Making the World Feel Alive

The survey also made it very clear that while many of you love the look and atmosphere of SunnySide, the world can often feel too empty. This came up a lot.

Many areas were described as beautiful, but lacking enough to do. Places like the beach, outer farms, campgrounds, hot springs, bathhouse, abandoned school, research lab, and the roads leading out toward the bus stop and city were all mentioned as locations that look interesting but do not currently offer enough activity, interaction, or reward.

The size of the map also came up often. Some of you felt that SunnySide’s world is simply too spread out for the amount of content and population currently inside it, which can make travel feel slow and unrewarding.

At the same time, there were specific moments where SunnySide did feel alive.

The Farmers Market and festivals were mentioned again and again as moments where the town felt more active. Seeing NPCs and background characters gathered together helped the world feel busier and more believable.

But even there, many of you felt those events could go further. More unique interactions, more things to buy, more NPC conversations, more activities, and more reasons to participate would make those moments feel much stronger.

This is a big part of what we want to improve.

For SunnySide 2.0, we want to look at the world not just as a large map, but as a place that needs rhythm, purpose, and life.

That means looking at things like:

Scaling down the map
More meaningful NPC schedules
NPCs using more of the town’s spaces
Characters interacting with each other more often
More reasons to visit underused locations
More activity in places like the city, beach, hot springs, and market areas
More rewarding exploration
Small discoveries, secrets, resources, or encounters that make wandering feel worthwhile

We also heard the feedback about Higashi, the city area.

Many of you felt that Higashi had the appearance of being busy, especially with background characters, but still lacked meaningful things to actually do. We want to look at ways to make the city feel more useful and connected to the rest of the game, whether through shops, customization, NPC visits, activities, or other reasons to spend time there.

On a Personal Note

We know that a lot of you are incredibly excited about SunnySide finally getting the updates that it deserves, but we also want to make sure that we do a better job of managing expectations this time. Previously, we didn’t have much agency around how we communicated with our fans, and that’s also something that we desperately want to fix. We’ve always promised you transparency, and we always tried to give you that within the limitations that were placed on us. But now that those limitations are gone, it’s time to share more. So much more.

Firstly, we had made a good amount of progress on the first steps toward rebuilding the game. UI, Farming, harvesting… lots of animation updates and we were starting on the new map (yes, we have to rebuild the map) and we were excited to start sharing more information and… well… Siavash’s SSD died. Full failure. It won’t take too long to rebuild, but that’s the main reason that nothing has been shared yet. We don’t want to make false promises. We do want you to see some of what was accomplished though, so here are some photos!

Secondly, we want you to know why SunnySide felt so unfinished upon release. The truth is: we always wanted SunnySide to be an Early Access game. We wanted to make changes and additions based on feedback from fans because we wanted you all to have a farming sim that you could truly love because you had been a part of making it. We fought for years to push SunnySide into Early Access, but we were denied.

To be clear: We don’t blame Merge Games for the issues that we faced. They were also struggling with their relationship with their parent company, and all of the issues always came down to money flow. Instead, we blame the corporate machine that has poisoned Indie Gaming over the last 5-10 years. Corporate greed is the main reason that we were pushed into so many corners, and over time we’ll provide more insight into how and why various pieces of SunnySide were cut or changed or modified the way that they were.

We want to answer your questions more honestly, but we also don’t want our answers to sound like excuses. The truth is, we made some bad decisions, too, and we’ll own up to that. All we ask for is a little grace, a little empathy, and maybe a really big mug to pour that delicious tea into.

Something else we feel that everyone needs to know: No one is working at Aftabi Games full time anymore. After SunnySide released and it was made very clear that we weren’t going to be recouping the publisher’s investment any time soon, we were all forced to find other ways to pay the bills. Sydney got a job at a small law firm, Siavash is developing games with other studios, Ren went off to college (and just graduated, actually!),Kaori and Allan are… well doing other work that I actually can’t tell you about… and Matt is a music teacher now! (No one knows how Ken survives, he’s an enigma).

Yes, we are making money on the sales from SunnySide and Vending Dokan now, but it’s just enough to pay the studio’s bills (and the legal debt incurred from trying to wrestle back the publishing rights) and not much more.

The importance of that information is this: updating SunnySide is going to take time. We don’t know how long. But we plan to earn your trust back through proof and actions, not just words.

Where This Leaves SunnySide

SunnySide has always had a strong core.

A beautiful town. A modern farming life. A great cast of characters. A unique atmosphere. A soundtrack we are still incredibly proud of. A world that so many of you connected with, even through the bugs and rough edges. That is the part we want to protect.

But we also need to be honest about what did not work. Some systems were unfinished. Some were too ambitious for the time and resources we had. Some added complexity without making the game more fun. And some simply made the game harder to maintain, optimize, and improve.

SunnySide 2.0 is our chance to rebuild around what worked, remove or rethink what did not, and create a much stronger version of the game.

This will take time. Like a lot of time. Like possibly a couple of years. But we’re going to do our best to share progress along the way and make sure that your voices are heard this time around.

Thank you again to everyone who filled out the survey, left a review, sent us feedback, supported the game, or simply believed in what SunnySide could be.

We are very happy to be back working on SunnySide and we are going to do our best to make it shine.

- Aftabi Games 💛

Original post

06 Feb 2026Developer post

SunnySide Is Finally Back in Our Hands!

Hey everyone, We want to share an important update about the present and future of SunnySide . As of now, Aftabi Games is the official publisher of SunnySide !!! After a long and difficult process behind the scenes, full control of the game is finally back where it belongs: with

Hey everyone,

We want to share an important update about the present and future of SunnySide.

As of now, Aftabi Games is the official publisher of SunnySide!!! After a long and difficult process behind the scenes, full control of the game is finally back where it belongs: with the original development team.

This also means we now have full access to the game’s data, metrics, pricing, and development pipeline for the first time in a very long time.

A New Price, A Better Starting Point

You may have already noticed that SunnySide’s price has changed.

Now that we’re able to review sales data and regional pricing properly, we believe $19.99 USD (with appropriate international conversions) is a much better price, not only for the game but for the community as well. This price reflects where SunnySide is today, and where we want to take it next.

The Road to SunnySide 2.0

Over the coming months, we’ll be working on a series of substantial updates aimed at pushing SunnySide toward what we consider a true 2.0 version of the game.

We want to be very clear about something upfront: We are not going to be overly cautious with changes.

SunnySide has often been described as a game with a lot of potential. That word shows up again and again in reviews, and while we appreciate the sentiment, we also believe potential can become a trap if it’s never fully realized.

Our goal now is simple: To turn potential into something deeper, more engaging, and more fun to play.

That may mean:

reworking or replacing core systems
significantly deepening mechanics that currently feel surface-level
removing features that don’t fit the game or hold it back

Some updates will be bigger than others, and some changes may be bold, but every decision will be made with the long-term health of the game in mind.

We’re Involving You in the Big Decisions

Whenever we’re considering a major change to a core system, we’ll be asking for your input.

We’re already doing that right now.

👉 https://forms.gle/h2gaLxQE4Zftm4CHA

This first survey focuses on a significant decision we’re currently evaluating: The potential removal of the caves, including mining, combat, and rewriting Sparky’s story so that it no longer relies on cave progression. This would also mean rewriting the entire main storyline of the game.

All of the context is explained in the survey itself, and we genuinely want your voice to help guide this decision. So if you care about the future direction of SunnySide, please take a moment to check it out.

First Technical Step: Upgrading the Engine

Our very first development task is a big one.

SunnySide is currently running on Unreal Engine 4.27, which is now quite old. One of the major constraints in the past was that the game needed to stay on that version due to external console porting requirements.

That limitation is now gone.

We are beginning the process of upgrading SunnySide to the latest Unreal Engine (5.7). This will:

improve performance and stability
unlock modern engine features and tools
make future development faster and more flexible

This is not a small or trivial task. SunnySide is a large game, and some older systems will need to be reworked to function properly on newer engine versions. We’re going to take our time and do this carefully because this upgrade is the foundation for everything that comes next.

Legacy Version Support

Because the upcoming changes will significantly alter core parts of the game, we’ll be creating a “Legacy” SunnySide branch on Steam.

This will allow existing players as well as anyone who purchases the game in the future to continue playing the current version of SunnySide exactly as it exists today (bugs, quirks, and all)

If you prefer the original experience, you’ll always have access to it.

Looking Forward

Now that SunnySide is fully under our control, and finally able to properly support itself, we have the freedom to make the changes the game truly needs.

That means:

trimming systems that feel disconnected or frustrating
deeply expanding mechanics players genuinely enjoy
focusing the experience instead of bloating it

If something needs to be removed, we’ll remove it.
If something deserves more depth, we’ll give it the time and care it needs.

The game and community come first.
It has to be fun, engaging, and cohesive, and most importantly: you all deserve a game you'll love.

Platform & Console FAQ

What’s happening with PlayStation?

SunnySide has already been removed from the PlayStation Store.

If you previously purchased the game on PlayStation, you should still be able to download and play it without issues. At the moment, however, we are unable to update or support the PlayStation version.

This isn’t a decision we took lightly, but the reality is that our studio is currently very small, and we do not have access to console porting hardware or the resources required to maintain console builds properly.

What about Xbox?

SunnySide will also be removed from the Xbox Store.

To be completely transparent: the Xbox version is not in a state that we’re proud of, and we are not able to meaningfully update or improve it going forward. Leaving it available for purchase without the ability to support or fix it would not be fair to players.

As with PlayStation, existing owners should still be able to access the game, but no further updates will be made to the Xbox version at this time.

Does this mean SunnySide is gone from consoles forever?

No, but consoles are not our focus right now.

Our immediate priority is to stabilize, improve, and evolve SunnySide on PC, where we have full control of development. Once the game reaches a strong, stable place, and if our studio reaches a healthier financial position, we absolutely want to explore console ports again in the future.

If and when that happens, it will be:

done with our direct supervision
built on a solid, updated foundation
supported with ongoing updates

We’re not closing the door, we’re making sure we don’t rush back through it unprepared.

Join the Conversation

You’re always welcome to share feedback and questions here on the Steam forums, and we’ll be keeping a close eye on discussions.

That said, we’re currently most active on Discord, where we can respond faster, chat more casually, and keep conversations flowing more naturally.

👉 http://discord.gg/sunnyside

If you have questions, concerns, ideas, or just want to hang out and talk SunnySide, we’d love to see you there!!

On a personal note, this outcome wasn’t guaranteed, and we still can’t quite believe it happened. Massive thanks to our legal team for making this possible!

2026 marks a fresh start for SunnySide, and we’re incredibly excited (and honestly a little terrified) to finally build the game the way it deserves.

Thank you all for your patience, your support, and for sticking with us.

Please don’t forget to check out the survey if you want to help shape what comes next.

Here’s to busy, but exciting year(s) ahead! 💛

– The Aftabi Games Team

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13 Mar 2025Developer post

SunnySide Minor Update Patchnotes

Hey everyone! We just released a small update for SunnySide that addresses a few issues. Even though this isn't a big update, we wanted to share some details about what's included! Adjustment to Cooking Recipes With the previous update, we reworked cooking in SunnySide to make it

28 Feb 2025Developer post

Survey Results & Patch 9 Update!

Hey everyone, First off, a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our SunnySide Player Survey! We received over 1,000 responses, and the insight you shared is already shaping the way we move forward. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable in helping us decide where to

Hey everyone,

First off, a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our SunnySide Player Survey! We received over 1,000 responses, and the insight you shared is already shaping the way we move forward. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable in helping us decide where to focus our efforts, and we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on!

Survey Highlights & Charts

We’ve gone through all the responses and compiled the data, below, you'll find some charts breaking things down visually. Here’s a quick overview of what we learned:

Optimization and performance improvements were the top request, so we’ve started addressing this right away.
Many of you shared frustrations with certain mechanics, and we’ve made some key quality-of-life improvements based on those, some included in this patch. We also saw some really thoughtful feedback on gameplay balance, usability, and general experience improvements, we hear you, and we’ll continue working on these!

Let's also take a look behind the curtain at the results of the survey:

Performance Improvements

We know that a smooth experience is key to fully enjoying the game, and from the survey results, it’s clear that optimization is a top priority for many of you. While performance improvements have been an ongoing effort, we’ve made major strides in this update, focusing on areas that needed the most attention.

Our goal is to make SunnySide feel better to play across the board, whether you’re farming, exploring, or diving into the depths of the caves. This update lays the foundation for future optimizations, and we’ll continue refining performance over time.

Cave Level Performance: We focused on improving performance in all cave areas, with Lush Caves receiving an extra aesthetic overhaul alongside optimizations.
Overworld: General optimization pass across various areas to improve stability and performance.

We’re not done with optimizations yet, but this is a big step in making SunnySide run smoother!

Quality of Life & Requested Features

Alongside performance fixes, we tackled some of the most requested QoL changes!

Summon & Dismiss Sparky Anytime!

You can summon or dismiss Sparky anytime from your inventory!

We saw a lot of requests for this, many of you wanted a way to dismiss Sparky while exploring, and now you can! Just open your inventory and press the Dismiss Sparky button.
Don’t worry, he’ll still appear when needed for cutscenes, cave navigation, and fights.

Animal Happiness & Needs Overhaul

We saw a lot of feedback about animals not staying happy consistently, which was frustrating for many of you. Pets and farm animals are an important part of the game, so we’ve reworked how they manage their needs to make them more reliable, responsive, and overall happier.

More reliable: They now handle their needs much more efficiently.
Better optimized: This should reduce weird behaviors and glitches.
Happier animals overall!: Works for both pets and farm animals.

Cooking System Rework

We heard you, cooking has been a bit too difficult, so we made it more forgiving!

Recipe detection is now more lenient: You don’t have to be as exact with ingredients and can put more than needed in the mixing circle.
You can cook multiple servings at once: Just add multiple sets of ingredients!
Be careful: If you use extra ingredients, they won’t be refunded if not used up!

A Personal Note from Us

We also want to take a moment to say something personal. Your messages in the survey truly meant the world to us.

SunnySide’s development has been a journey, filled with ups, downs, and some really tough moments. The kind, encouraging words so many of you shared in the survey were a huge boost to our spirits. We’ve been through a lot as a studio, and hearing your support, excitement, and even just kind words of appreciation reminded us why we do this in the first place.

Seriously, thank you. It means more than we can say.

If you want to make sure that you have the update, check the game version on the main menu or the pause menu, on the bottom right of your screen. It should read "1.20.2-Main".

We’ll be back with more soon! 💚

– Aftabi Games Team

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03 Feb 2025Developer post

Help us Shape the Future of SunnySide

We’ve put together a player survey to gather your thoughts on SunnySide’s future . Your feedback is incredibly important to us, and it will help guide what we focus on for our upcoming updates. If you’ve been following our recent announcement about the current state of SunnySide,

09 Dec 2024Developer post

An Important Update About SunnySide and a Message From the Devs

Hey everyone, We wanted to share some important news about the current state and future of SunnySide. Back in November, we held a livestream where we explained the situation in-depth. You can check it out below, but we wanted to provide you all with a written TL;DR as well. Over

Hey everyone,

We wanted to share some important news about the current state and future of SunnySide. Back in November, we held a livestream where we explained the situation in-depth. You can check it out below, but we wanted to provide you all with a written TL;DR as well.

Over the past few years, we’ve been as transparent as possible with you all. Now, with SunnySide in its current state, we need to share some hard truths. Due to our publishing deal, we as the dev team are not making any money from SunnySide to sustain ourselves. This means that, in order to ensure our studio’s survival, we have to move forward with production on new games.

Because of this, we’ve made the tough decision to temporarily pause work on major updates and new content for SunnySide while we focus on securing the future of our small studio. In the meantime, we will continue to release small patches, performance improvements, and bug fixes, but we’re taking a step back from larger updates to get to a better place as a team.

We plan to release an update of this type in Feb of 2025, but please note that, due to our publishing situation, no new content will be added to the game until we, as a studio, can afford to create it ourselves.

You can watch the livestream where we went into more detail and answered many of your questions here:

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We’ve also posted a personal message from Siavash and the team over on our subreddit over here.

You can also check out our official update we posted on our twitter back in Novemeber here.

SunnySide was our first game, and we’ve learned so much from it. We recognize (and admit) that we made mistakes, but we’re not giving up on our passion. We hope you can understand our position and continue to support us as we work through this. While it may seem like we’re moving on and leaving SunnySide behind, that’s not the case. We have so much love for SunnySide and truly hope to return to it and give it the polish it deserves, one way or another.

Additionally, In the coming days, you might notice our company name on Steam changing to Aftabi Games. This rebranding is unrelated to SunnySide or our publishing deals. We discussed this in more detail during our livestream, and we encourage you to watch it for the full story.

In short, the change is the result of both a lawsuit over our previous studio name, "RainyGames," and a desire to better align with our studio's identity. From Siavash:

"When I first started the studio, I was the only one working on almost everything, and my old nickname, 'Rainy,' felt fitting. But as our team has grown, I wanted to move away from a name tied to a single person and instead choose something that reflects the personality and vision of the studio as a whole."

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. As part of our plan to get back on our feet, we’re working on a new, smaller-scale game that we’re fully funding and planning to publish ourselves, at least for now. If you’re interested in following our journey with the next game or want to support us further, please check out our Discord server here.

We appreciate you all more than we can say. <3

– Siavash, Sydney and the Team

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25 Sep 2024Developer post

SunnySide Sandbox Mode is Here!

Hello everyone! It’s time for another SunnySide Update, and this one is BIG! We’re introducing a whole new way to play SunnySide, and we’re excited about the new possibilities and features it brings to the game. Introducing: Sandbox Mode! Sandbox Mode is a new way to enjoy SunnyS

Hello everyone! It’s time for another SunnySide Update, and this one is BIG!

We’re introducing a whole new way to play SunnySide, and we’re excited about the new possibilities and features it brings to the game.

Introducing: Sandbox Mode!

Sandbox Mode is a new way to enjoy SunnySide! It skips all of the introductory quest lines and cutscenes and puts you right into your first farm, ready for action. YOU get to decide what is unlocked, and when.

What is Sandbox Mode?

When starting a new game, you will now be presented with two play options: Story Mode or Sandbox Mode. Story Mode will take you to the RPG/Cozy select screen as normal, but Sandbox Mode will skip this entirely. Instead, you’ll be asked to customize a variety of game mechanics to suit your play style.

Here’s a full list of all your new options. You can select or deselect them at any time during gameplay:

Buildmode

All Blueprints Unlocked
Checking this box means: All building blueprints will be made available right from the start of the game, or Unlock them immediately when checked.

Free Building
Checking this box means: Building blueprints no longer require any materials to complete. This option is especially powerful when combined with “Auto Deposit Requirements” option in buildmode and will allow you to one-click place-n-build any blueprint.

Build Anywhere
Checking this box means: Build blueprints anywhere in the world. As you can imagine this can cause problems with NPCs, cutscenes and the world of the game as a whole, so please use it responsibly and do not lock any of the poor residents of SunnySide inside tiny houses.

Skip Collision Check (when building)
Checking this box means: You no longer need to cut the grass around an area to build. (This also eliminates the check for the character, so be careful not to lock yourself inside anything)

Unlimited Drone Range
Checking this box means: You can fly your drone anywhere in the world without limitations. Like the build anywhere option, as you can imagine, this option will give your drone access to areas that otherwise would not be accessible through a normal playthrough. So please keep that in mind when flying around SunnySide and Higashi! But if you’re curious about how we put together the world of SunnySide, go ahead and explore and investigate, just be careful of reaching the world’s edge :)

Gameplay & Progression

Starter Money
Checking this box means: Customise how much money you start the game with. You can choose between Default (150 cupules), No money (for extra challenge) or Millionaire (5 million cupules) which would mean you never need to worry about money again.

Unlock All Cooking Recipes
Checking this box means: Like the build blueprints, you will start the game with all cooking recipes already discovered, or Unlock them immediately when checked.

Acquire All Songs
Checking this box means: This will populate the KoiBeats app with all the songs in-game. Enjoy the tunes!

Max All Skills
Checking this box means: All of the skills in the game will be set to the maximum level (level 30) from the start, or immediately when checked.

Free Skill Tree Requirements
Checking this box means: As you know, each skill on the skill tree requires you to donate a specific item to unlock it. This option will bypass that, allowing you to unlock any skill so long as you meet the required level.

Unlimited Energy
Checking this box means: Never run out of energy again while keeping busy around the farm!

NPC Gender Preferences
Checking this box means: As you might already know, SunnySide’s romantic options all come with their own pre-determined gender preferences regarding you, the player. If you’re ever worried about not being able to romance your favourite character with your specific gender selection, this option is for you. All NPCs will be compatible with you once you turn this option off.
Please Note: Some stories might seem odd, dialogue has not been adjusted.

Unlock All Farms
Checking this box means: Certain farm locations in SunnySide are locked behind cave story progression. If you’d like a quicker start to your farming empire or would like to stick to the overworld, turning this option on will unlock all of these farms for purchase. Please keep in mind that using the elevators in these hidden locations WILL cause problems for the natural quest progression in the caves.

Own All Farms
Checking this box means: Don’t want to spend the cash on each farm? Just turn this option on and you will own all 4 purchasable farms from the beginning. Make sure you unlock them, too!

Farming and Animals

Pests Do Not Steal
Checking this box means: We’ve had a chat with the foxes and raccoons of SunnySide and they’ve promised to stop stealing your crops or traumatising your chickens if we give them a treat. We’ll handle the regular treat giving, don’t you worry. ;)

No Crop Death Seasons
Checking this box means: Your crops almost always stay alive unless they reach the end of their life cycle. Plant anything in any season!

No Plant Size Restrictions
Checking this box means: You can plant trees and large crops in smaller plots and planters. Please use responsibly, and note that there may be some graphical weirdness.

Happy Animals
Checking this box means: Your farm animals will always be happy and content, regardless of their living conditions.

Caves

Friendly Enemies
Checking this box means: Enemies in the caves will no longer chase you. They won’t even spot you to cause you trouble. You can however still attack them if you wish. Sneak attack!

Disable Mini-Bosses
Checking this box means: The Caves of SunnySide come with a pretty simple quest loop, each cave level has 4 power nodes to be activated, and each power node is guarded by a miniboss. This option will disable those mini-bosses, so you can access the power nodes peacefully.

Disable All Cave Barriers
Checking this box means: We know that some of you really didn’t like the colour-coded gates inside of the caves of SunnySide. This option will allow you to forever get rid of them and explore the caves at your own pace. Keep in mind that triggering the final boss battles of each level without properly going through the questline of each level will very likely cause problems.

Some of these options are also adjustable once the game has started through the new "Sandbox App". So if you’d like to adjust things later you can always do that while the game is running.

What is still available in Sandbox Mode?

The entire tutorial questline of the game, (including most overworld quests that unlock different systems and aspects of the game) may be gone, but in exchange, you'll start the game right away on your farm with all quest related progressions unlocked. (Yes, this includes vehicles and horses)

All NPC stories are still accessible in Sandbox mode through normal hangouts. The Cave questline is also entirely open and accessible and you can start it simply by visiting the Caves.

It's also worth noting that Steam achievements are disabled on a Sandbox Mode game.

But this update is more than just Sandbox Mode!

We’re really excited to finally introduce two new (and HIGHLY requested) Phone Apps:

New “Skills” App

We’ve added a whole new app in the game that allows you to check your skill progressions without having to visit the Kashiwa Shrine. With this new app, you can check your XP and level for each Skill category. You will also be able to see all the available skills in each category, if they can be unlocked, and what item is needed to unlock them. Keep in mind that you still need to visit the shrine to unlock skills.

New “Profile” tab on the Squirrel IM App

We’ve heard you and we’ve added a new tab to the Squirrel IM app so that you can now change your name, birthday, profile picture, username and bio at any time using the app. You will also be able to reference what section of the Gender Slider you selected when creating your character.

We’ve also fixed a few pesky bugs:

Sparky should now steal moves from enemies successfully. Keep in mind that certain skills are "un-stealable" by Sparky but we have fixed the bug that constantly displayed the message "No acquirable skills found".

We’ve also removed the invisible wall that was blocking you from exiting the secret area unlocked from the Lush Level of the caves. Feel free to forage to your heart’s content now!

Lastly, we’ve also added a new secret to the map that is only accessible through Sandbox Mode! Have fun on the hunt and feel free to join our discord server if you need help finding and solving this new mystery!

For an extra boost, here’s is a clue about where to find this new secret that will unlock a special item in the game:

The version number for this update is 1.20.0, and is listed at the bottom-right of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game. If your game is on that version, you’ve got the update! If Steam hasn't prompted you for an update, it is usually dispatched slowly to each region. If you'd like to force Steam to update the game, fully restart Steam (close it from your system tray or task manager).

Please note that due to some internal changes with our publisher, we haven't been able to localise this update yet. We will be working on pushing an update with all of the Sandbox text localised.

Thank you so much for reading the patch notes! If you’re enjoying SunnySide, please let us know by leaving the game a review, it helps us immensely! Your feedback is our best source of information on what we should focus on next <3

Thank you again for loving the game, for reporting issues to us, and for your continued patience! We’re committed to making SunnySide the best it can be!

See you in the next update!

-The RainyGames Team

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24 Sep 2024PCGamesN

The Sims style anime life sim SunnySide cuts price, adds sandbox mode

SunnySide has been on our radar for quite a while thanks to its unique blend of Persona 5's visuals, turn-based fights, and relationship building along with Stardew Valley's farming and The Sims-style life management. Though it's only been available for a few months now, its crea

16 Aug 2024Developer post

SunnySide is now available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S!

Exciting news everyone! Sunnyside is now available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S ! Find harmony in the Japanese countryside, cultivate new relationships and create the homestead of your dreams. Start your adventure now on: PS5: XBSX: You can also watch the new Console Trailer below!

15 Aug 2024Developer post

Wholesome Games Steam Celebration

Hey everyone, SunnySide is part of the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration starting now until August 21st! If you haven't already, don't forget to pick up SunnySide at a discounted price with 25% off, and check out all the other exciting cozy games below!

09 Aug 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 7

Hey everyone, it’s time for another update for SunnySide! This time around, our focus has been on some (highly requested) quality-of-life features as well as continued work on bugs and optimization. Our highlight for this update is the newly added Global Storage Access! Let’s loo

Hey everyone, it’s time for another update for SunnySide!

This time around, our focus has been on some (highly requested) quality-of-life features as well as continued work on bugs and optimization. Our highlight for this update is the newly added Global Storage Access! Let’s look at how it works alongside everything else the team has been working on:

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Global Storage Access

When using any storage item; such as cardboard boxes, global cache, or even your vehicle’s inventory, you can now see the global storage access menu on the left side of the screen. This menu allows you to switch to any remotely accessible storage placed in the world. Once switched, you can move items easily between them and even customize them all from one location.

We’ve heard your struggles regarding gemstones and caves, so with this update, we are adding one more use to the campsites inside each of our cave levels! When using a campsite, you can now access the global cache remotely. This combined with the global access, allows you to access virtually any storage from within the caves whilst sitting at a campsite.

The global storage access is available even on your vehicles! This gives you a mobile way to access all of your inventories even when you’re cruising around in town. We hope that this update alongside the customizations of storage in the previous update, gives you all a much more enjoyable experience of inventory management. We've also heard the call for larger storage options, and we will be looking into more options in the future.

AutoWalk

From your feedback on our Steam and Discord community, we have decided to implement an autowalk feature! Like many other RPGs, you can now activate the autowalk mode by pressing “C” at any time. A little prompt will pop up at the bottom left corner of the screen to let you know that autowalk is currently active.

While autowalk is active you can press forward to continuously move forward, you can continue to aim or even strafe without interrupting the autowalk. You can stop the character by moving the character backwards without having to turn off autowalk.

If you’re using a gamepad, you can access the autowalk feature under the “Accessibility” section of the settings menu.

Cooking Mixing Circle Improvements

If you’ve used the cooking menu in SunnySide, you know that ingredient portions are important. We also know that using the stack split menu constantly can be a pain, especially when cooking multiple dishes on one appliance. Taking a note from one of our own favourite games, such as Minecraft, we’ve added single-item placement inside the mixing circle!

When holding a stack of items on your cursor, left clicking or using A/Cross on a gamepad places the entire stack onto that slot, just like before. But now you can instead press the right click or X/Sqaure to place down a single item from the stack onto the slot! You can also continue to add one to the slot by pressing the right click multiple times.

This small change has a big impact on interacting with the cooking system, hopefully making it easier and removing more barriers and menus when cooking in SunnySide!

Let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week:

Progression and Skill Tree

Fixed an incorrect value for the achievement "My Precious".
Trees that do not have physical top sections (such as Oak) now give you the correct drops when broken.
Breaking the stump of the trees on the farm now gives you the proper amount of XP.

Phone and UI

When using the interface setting to disable the minimap, the minimap now collapses into a notification bar as opposed to disappearing altogether, allowing you to still see the number of pending messages.
The setting for the button prompts (PlayStation or Xbox) should now persist correctly.
The vehicle HUD for the scooter and the truck will no longer occasionally get stuck on screen.
Using the Battle Planner app in caves when it is late, should no longer darken the lights.
The minimap quest markers are now a lot more accurate and don't disappear randomly.

Social System

The "Quest Hold" notice no longer shows up on the HUD objectives panel when tracking an NPC fetch quest.
The letter from Ryozo should now display the player's name correctly.

Farming & Cooking

Fixed the Avocado Oil Barrel & Turnip Seed Food Crafting recipes.
Food Crafting machines now have proper controller support.

General Bug Fixes & World Improvements

Removed a stray model of Melody and Hanako from the winter decorations map.(yes, again LOL)
Fixed a few of the tutorial trigger boxes that would not trigger occasionally.
Further improvements to level loading and game performance.
Farm 3 and 4 now cost 5K and 10K cupules, respectively.

Developer Tip of the Week:
You can press “F” while drawing a path, fence or wall. This will add a corner pinpoint to your currently drawn item and allow you to create bends and other complicated shapes!

The version number for this update is 1.18.1, and is listed at the bottom-right of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game. If your game is on that version, you’ve got the update! If Steam hasn't prompted you for an update, it is usually dispatched slowly to each region. If you'd like to force Steam to update the game, fully restart Steam (close it from your system tray or task manager).

As always, we will continue to work on more optimisation, fixes and improvements as you all continue to play and enjoy SunnySide.

Thank you so much for reading the patch notes! If you’re enjoying SunnySide, please let us know by leaving the game a review, it helps us immensely as feedback is our best source of information on what we should focus on next <3

Thank you again for loving the game, for reporting issues to us, and for your continued patience! We’re committed to making SunnySide the best it can be!

See you in the next update!

-The RainyGames Team

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26 Jul 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 6 is out!

Hey everyone, we’re back with another update for SunnySide! As we mentioned in the last update, we have now pivoted to bi-weekly updates, as it provides us with more time to work on bigger features, tackle more time consuming bugs, and do more testing on performance. We’re pretty

Hey everyone, we’re back with another update for SunnySide!

As we mentioned in the last update, we have now pivoted to bi-weekly updates, as it provides us with more time to work on bigger features, tackle more time consuming bugs, and do more testing on performance. We’re pretty happy with the bundle of changes for this update and we’d like to start by highlighting some of the biggest ones.

Animal Selling

Thanks to your amazing feedback in the community polls channel on our Discord Server, we have now implemented Animal Selling! This is a whole new system that not only allows you to sell your unwanted animals, but it also uses a dedicated formula to calculate how much an animal will be worth based on their living conditions, happiness, and overall love meter.

This change will make SunnySide’s Ranching systema lot more robust, and you can now even focus solely on that “career path” as your form of income in-game. Based on your choice in the Discord Community poll, the animal selling interface can be accessed through the Animal Companion app. Simply toggle Sell mode and the game will display an estimated value for the animal, which updates in real time. You can then set an animal to be sold, but you will have until the end of the day to cancel the process if you change your mind. The next day, animals which were set to be sold will disappear, their slots in a coop or sleeping spot will open, and you’ll see money in your pocket!

New Crafting Recipes at the Crafting Table/Build Station

We have added a number of new crafting recipes which can be found in the Crafting interface inside either the Crafting Table or Build Station. These items, some of which are level locked, will provide a more smooth and enjoyable experience especially for players at the later stages of their playthrough.

We will continue to balance the requirements as well as work on potentially adding more ways for you to utilize the crafting system.

New Storage Customizations

We know storage and inventory management can be a big portion of the day-to-day loop in SunnySide, and we have seen how meticulous some of you are with your boxes of items! Honestly, it’s very impressive, and to give you all more tools to customize your storages we have implemented changing the color tag and icon of storages to make things easier to find at a glance.

Simply open a storage interface, and inside you should be able to change the color and icon of the storage container. Keep in mind that this does not apply to the global cache, vendor drop points or cave caches, and only works for whatever storage you can build on your farm.

Food Crafting Balancing

We heard your feedback on the excessive amount of time foodcrafting can take. Before this update, the time for a food crafting recipe would be calculated based on the amount of output you select. So if a 1x Soy sauce would take 30 mins to be done, 4 of them would take 2 hours. We have changed how this calculation is done and it is no longer a one-to-one multiplier.

We now use increments which means the time will only be multiplied once a threshold is reached. This, from the beta feedback, seems to be a much more preferred method of calculating the time and should allow you to do much more with less food crafting equipment in the same amount of time!

Let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week:

Farm Animals & Pets

Animals no longer try to seek your attention when you're far away from them (in a different farm for example).
Animal shearing and milking stations now only grab animals from the farm the player is at.

Progression and Skill Tree

Fixed an inconsistency with the amount of resources trees drop when cut, especially when used alongside its related skills.
The skill "Farmer" should no longer affect the last stage of a crop, causing it to wither the next day.

Shops and Vendors

Fixed an issue to the vendors, where you could purchase more than 100 items if you exceeded the amount.
Subsequently, to ensure an enjoyable experience for all post this fix, we've bumped the max item purchase to 300 items.
You can now add 10, 100 or 300 items to your cart from a vendor's item list. This is currently only implemented for Items in vendor shops and we'll look into a similar solution for services in future updates.

Phone and UI

The currently tracked quest is now highlighted in the journal app.
You can now untrack quests, this will also hide it from your HUD. Simply re-click on a tracked quest to toggle it off.
The black phone screen after using certain apps such as SunnySeed should no longer appear.

Caves

Using an Ofuda in battle no longer removes all the instances of that card.

Social System

Fixed an issue with Lucy's dating cutscenes.
"Tend the Animals" activity at Reed Estate hangout is now accessible during correct time of day.

Build Mode

Fixed an inconsistency with Build Mode where sometimes the rotations degrees would not persist between items.
All buildable sittable surfaces such as chairs and sofas now correctly attach to the building they're built on when moving buildings around.
When drawing paths or walls, if the path cannot be placed (if it exceeds the buildable area) instead of the game canceling the placement of the whole path/wall, it now gives you an error "Cannot place path/wall" without discarding your process of drawing.
Time now pauses when using a food crafting machine.
There are now pre-placed building stations on all farms besides farm 1. You can find each one inside the large open sheds and they need to be built.
When loading a save, placed blueprints should now show up more reliably.

Farming & Cooking

Compost bins now give you the correct type of fertilizer.
All unlocked food crafting recipes now appear in food crafting machines all the time, consistently.
Food Crafting XP is more generous now.
Fixed an incorrect stage length for Japonica.
All crops now correctly fruit inside of a greenhouse regardless of season.
Greenhouses should work a lot more reliably now.
Simple syrup now acts as a sweetener in cooking recipes.

General Bug Fixes & World Improvements

Vehicles no longer continue to move when opening the Map App or Journal App through hotkeys M and J.
The minimap will now dynamically zoom in and out as your speed changes. For example, when on a vehicle and going at high speed the mini map will zoom out to show you more of the map proportionate to your speed so you can navigate easier.

Improved the performance when sleeping, the visible hitch when loading the sleep screen should no longer appear.
You can now adjust the day length up to 60 mins instead of 30.
Adjustments to the rendering pipeline, which should provide improvements to performance across different machines.
Added a button to access the official community-run wiki in the Main Menu and Pause Menu.

Developer Tip of the Week:
Once you build irrigation pipes, you can activate them remotely through the “Utilities” app on your phone, and even set an auto schedule for every morning! All you need to do is activate the appropriate skill on the Skill Tree!

The version number for this update is 1.17.0, and is listed at the bottom-right of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game. If your game is on that version, you’ve got the update! If Steam hasn't prompted you for an update, it is usually dispatched slowly to each region. If you'd like to force Steam to update the game, fully restart Steam (close it from your system tray or task manager).

As always, we will continue to work on more optimisation, fixes and improvements as you all continue to play and enjoy SunnySide.

Before we close this update, we wanted to take a moment to announce the SunnySide Official Community-Run Wiki!

If you’re a longtime follower of SunnySide you might be familiar with our wiki on fandom. Our community-based wiki team decided to make a transition to wiki.gg a while back and now the transition has been completed. This is now the official wiki for SunnySide and the fandom wiki will no longer be maintained by our Discord Community.

SunnySide Official Community-Run Wiki

We have also added a link to the wiki in-game so you can access it easily in a pinch. If you’d like to get involved with the wiki, you can do so by joining our Discord community! Keep in mind that the wiki is purely community driven and while we endorse and support it however we can, it is not managed nor maintained by us.

Thank you so much for reading the patch notes! Thank you again for loving the game, for reporting issues to us, and for your continued patience! We’re committed to making SunnySide the best it can be!

See you in the next update!

-The RainyGames Team

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12 Jul 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 5 is live!

Hey everyone, it’s time for another SunnySide Patch!! We’d like to start by highlighting some big fixes we’ve implemented this week. Firstly a thank you to all of you who sent your save files over for an investigation into a separate issue that was causing long load times. We’ve

Hey everyone, it’s time for another SunnySide Patch!!

We’d like to start by highlighting some big fixes we’ve implemented this week. Firstly a thank you to all of you who sent your save files over for an investigation into a separate issue that was causing long load times. We’ve made excellent progress on this issue and we’re happy to call it resolved, eliminating any known loading issues from the main menu or when sleeping.

Another important fix addresses the visibility of save files from the main menu. Based on your reports, we discovered that, under certain conditions, not all save files were visible. Specifically, if you had a save in slot 1 and started a new game in slot 2 or 3, the game would sometimes incorrectly register the new save as slot 1. While this didn't immediately impact gameplay, it occasionally caused save files to disappear from the load screen.

This issue has now been resolved for all new players and those who haven't encountered it yet, but we also wanted a fix for our current players experiencing this problem. To address this, the game now displays all saves with incorrect indexing underneath the five base save slots. This change also makes it easier to share save files, as newly added saves will always appear below the five slots.
If you plan to modify the save folder (located at Documents>RainyGames>SunnySide), please ensure the game is open and at the main menu to prevent Steam Cloud from overriding your changes.

If you had previously participated in an alpha version of SunnySide or one of the Playtest sessions from 2023, you might see some old save files pop up again. Please delete these saves using the delete button, as loading them can cause unexpected behaviour.

Let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week:

Farm Animals & Pets

Animals should have an easier time accessing food/water stations.
Reduced small animal water usage.
Baby Swiss cows should now have the correct model and product and no longer turn into Jersey cows when growing.
Horses can now only be added to “Horse Bed” when purchasing. Subsequently, no other animals can be added to the “Horse Bed” other than horses.
Receiving the objective “Purchase a Horse from Riverside Ranch” now gives you the blueprint for a horse bed automatically. If you already have the objective, simply buy it from Hoshi Woodworks.
If you have problems completing the objective “Purchase a Horse from Riverside Ranch” ensure that you are adding the horse to a “Horse Bed” after this update!

Progression and Skill Tree

The skill "Glinting Eye" should work properly now.
The skill "Botanist" now appears a lot more smoothly and is less visually intrusive.
Fixed empty requirements on a number of skills.
Fixed the duplicate skill “Friendly III” and switched it to the correct “Friendly II”.

Shops and Vendors

Seasonal clothing shops and Debonaire should now sell the correct list of items.

Phone and UI

You can now back out of the Ofuda purchasing menu using a controller.
The Omamori purchasing window should no longer get stuck on the screen occasionally.
The minimap now works properly when on vehicles.
You can now see the estimated value of a stack of items in certain inventories (storage boxes and player inventory for now).
Added a "tidy up" button to storage in the game. This is the first step in our inventory management quality of life features we're working on. This button will remove empty spaces in storage and put the items close to each other. As inventory management in general is a hefty task it'll take us a bit longer to implement all the features we have planned, but we wanted to add this small feature for this update.

Caves

Ores should work a lot more reliably with the skill "Tungsten Arms".
Fishing in Ice Caves is now fixed. This was happening due to the Rainbow Trout and Smelt missing their inventory item references. As a result, these two types of fish are also now acquirable.

Social System

Hanako and Blake duplicate removed from the Winter Decorations map.
Yukio story spoiler: Yukio's second house should no longer appear on the map app before she is moved out of her first house. Additionally, she should no longer invite you to her second house before she's moved.
Fishing competition is now a lot more fair.
Kyle should now be present during the fishing competition (during Town Birthday) after the competition has started. To submit your fish for the competition just talk to him at the fishing competition site.
Fixed an incorrect string of dialogue for Mayumi, when if you invite her to a hangout and she suggests a location, it would instance display “MayumiMSG”.

Buildmode

When depositing items into a placed blueprint, the game now automatically grabs relevant items from your cache as well as your inventory.
When placing down a blueprint, the requirements window now displays the amount in your cache as well as your inventory.
The “Rotation Degrees” will now stay consistent when selecting different items to build with and no longer reset when selecting a new blueprint to place.
You can now select and move animal sleeping spots that are placed on a ledge or are hovering in the air with ease.

Farming & Cooking

Greenhouses should all work properly in preserving crops now.
Honeysuckle's leaves should no longer disappear during winter.
Pickled Fiddlehead Fern recipe is fixed.
Pickled Carrot recipe is fixed.
Chicory is now an annual that dies in the winter.
"Rice" cooking tag added to Short Grain and Long Grain Rice. (Malted Rice recipe should work now).
Apple Pie, Chicory tea, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter Cookie Dough and Babka recipes fixed.
Sesame Oil and Sunflower Oil recipes fixed in the Canning Machine.
Walnuts can now be harvested properly.
All nut icons now use the correct icon version without the bowl.

General Bug Fixes & World Improvements

Fixed a duplication bug with Cedar trees in the world.
Fixed a rotation problem that caused farm trees to start leaning over the longer the player played. All farm trees should now be upright.
Removed wreaths from Naka doors in winter.

Developer Tip of the Week:

Did you know that sitting at a zen spot or at any location (using the tool wheel) replenishes your energy in a pinch?

The version number for this update is 1.16.0, and is listed at the bottom-right of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game. If your game is on that version, you’ve got the update! If Steam hasn't prompted you for an update, it is usually dispatched slowly to each region. If you'd like to force Steam to update the game, fully restart Steam (close it from your system tray or task manager).

As always, we will continue to work on more optimisation, fixes and improvements as you all continue to play SunnySide. We will not be putting out an update next week, as we want a little more time for the next Patch to cook.

Thank you so much for reading the patch notes! Thank you again for loving the game, for reporting issues to us, and for your continued patience! We’re committed to making SunnySide the best it can be!

See you in the next update!

-The RainyGames Team

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05 Jul 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 4 is live!

Hey everyone, we’re back with another week of bug fixes and improvements! It’s been a busy week and we’ve managed to tackle a number of bugs, add a few quality-of-life improvements and make some tweaks to the balancing of certain aspects of the game. We heard your request for a h

Hey everyone, we’re back with another week of bug fixes and improvements!

It’s been a busy week and we’ve managed to tackle a number of bugs, add a few quality-of-life improvements and make some tweaks to the balancing of certain aspects of the game.

We heard your request for a house earlier in the game, and after a poll on our Discord community, we have added a whole new house to build mode. This starter house is unlocked alongside the tea-house which you can build as soon as you have your chat with Philip. If you’ve already finished the quest or seen the cutscene, the game will automatically add the new starter house blueprint to your drone’s Build Mode, so be sure to check it out!

Let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week:

Farm Animals & Pets

Fixed a few saving issues and collision issues with the Shearing Station. The Station should be much easier to grab in Build Mode as well.
Animals should no longer phase through walls to reach a feeding station. Please be sure to give them plenty of room around their feeders/waterers! Cats and dogs now need one meal/water per day. Also, a friendly note that some larger animals require food and water multiple times a day.

Progression and Skilltree

When acquiring a skill at the skill tree the item is now correctly removed from your inventory.

Shops and Vendors

Removed the shop rotation from Oak Tree Groceries (Sako's Shop). This is a temporary solution while we work on implementing a new form of shop rotation that players can actually enjoy.
Winter festival items now show up in your inventory correctly upon purchasing them.
Vendors' shop times should work more reliably now.
Post Office now opens and closes at correct times.
A programming rework of how animal purchasing works. Cancelling an animal purchasing window should no longer give you the animals as if you purchased them, it should also work a lot more consistently when purchasing animals in general.
The receipt on animal purchasing windows should no longer occasionally show 0 as the price of animals. This could subsequently also fix the issue of animals not showing up even though they were purchased.
Riverside Ranch now refreshes its stock of animals every day and at the start of a day, if loading a save.
Removed a few items from Sako's shop (Mostly things that can also be found in vending machines)
The Sale at Gabe's shop and Higashi Pet Rescue has ended. All animals now have normal pricing.

Phone and UI

Lists such as Build Mode or SunnySeed should now work on all screen sizes. No more items cutting off at the edge or items not filling the whole space on ultrawide monitors. The game now automatically calculates how many items fit on your screen!
Splitting stack window slider is a lot more responsive on the mouse and keyboard now. More controller adjustments to come.

Caves

Falling asleep in caves should now correctly save the progression in the caves.
The circular caches in Desert caves should now have proper content.
The sunken cache in Cave Level 2 now has a platform to make it accessible.
Missing Swimming volumes added to Cave levels 2 and 4. You should no longer get stuck in certain areas.

Social System

Fixed the incorrect item request dialogue at the end of a hangout for a few NPCs.
Further reduced the frequency at which NPCs invite you to places.
NPCs should no longer invite you to hang out if a quest-related text message is active.
Rebalanced NPC Acts of Service item list. Fetch Quests should be a bit easier to complete now.
Implemented a small system that automatically gets rid of previously added empty fetch quests from NPCs.

Buildmode

A whole new house blueprint! From this patch onwards, once you get the tea house blueprint from Philip you will also receive the blueprint for the "Shack". It's a small starter house that should help you build a homestead earlier than you could before. If you have already gone past this point in the game, the game should automatically give you this blueprint when you load.
All the doors on houses are no longer auto-close. This helps with Build Mode but also allows pets in and out of the house.
A major overhaul to wall/path drawing mechanic, the system will now try to mold the path to the landscape's slopes and dips. This is a pretty big change to the backend of the system but should provide a much more enjoyable experience in drawing walls/paths.

All the doors on houses, barns and greenhouses are no longer auto-close. All of these doors will now also save their state overnight so you don't need to reopen them if you've left them open.
The tea house now has doors on both sides, which should make it feel cozier and more homey.

Farming & Cooking

Fixed the honey production for "Apple Blossom Honey" and "Mandarin Blossom Honey".
You can now see a crop's name above the watering icon if you stand close to it for 2.5 seconds.
Nerfed the percentage chance of raccoons stealing your crops.
Plants that are inside a greenhouse, now dry out and wither at a slower rate.
Fixed a number of incorrect names and descriptions on food recipes.

General Bug Fixes & World Improvements

Changed the player's truck and scooter texture file to a unique texture file for easier modding. (For modders: The files are called T_Player_Truck and T_Player_Scooter).
Face details on character creator should work fine again.
Fixed a graphical issue with Bunching Bamboo during winter.
Snow should no longer fully cover certain ground types (mud, dirt) during snow.
Expanded blockers to Farm 4 area. (Stop trying to break in, you heathens ^_^ )
Moved the floating fried chicken bucket to the appropriate map. (If you know, you know.)

Developer Tip of the Week:

Did you know that you can deposit items directly from your build cache into blueprints when using the drone?

The version number for this update is 1.15.35, and is listed at the bottom-right of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game. If your game is on that version, you’ve got the update! If Steam hasn't prompted you for an update, it is usually dispatched slowly to each region. If you'd like to force Steam to update the game, fully restart Steam (close it from your system tray or task manager).

As always, we will continue to work on more optimisation, fixes and improvements as you all continue to play SunnySide.

Thank you so much for reading the patch notes! Thank you again for loving the game, for reporting issues to us, and for your continued patience! We’re committed to make SunnySide the best it can be!

Oh, before we forget, we have a special message for you from SunnySeed:

Greetings, Plant Aficionados!

It is with unparalleled joy (and a sprinkle of fertilizer) that we share an exclusive treat with the members of our SunnySeed community. As the go-to hub for all things seed-related, where top-tier seeds are just a click away from your door, we’re giving you a reason to plant even more!

Use the voucher code U5RYS12S9N on your next purchase through the SunnySeed app to get 25% off your basket!

- Open the SunnySeed app.
- Add the seeds you like to your basket (the more the merrier).
- Apply the voucher code at checkout and watch the price drop.

See you in the next update!

-The RainyGames Team

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28 Jun 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 3 is here!

Hey everyone, it’s time for another patch! After last week’s focus on performance improvements, this week we wanted to spend more time focusing on bug fixing alongside the continued efforts on optimisation.. Before we get into the patchnotes, I wanted to highlight the biggest imp

Hey everyone, it’s time for another patch!

After last week’s focus on performance improvements, this week we wanted to spend more time focusing on bug fixing alongside the continued efforts on optimisation.. Before we get into the patchnotes, I wanted to highlight the biggest improvement. This boost to performance will be especially beneficial to players who have been playing the game for a while:

From your reports on Steam and Discord, we are happy to say that we were able to track down the super long and unusual load times of saves, and this issue is now resolved. We even made a system that cleans up your current saves you don’t lose any progress - here’s how you can clean your save if you’re experiencing load time issues:

Load your save, this might take longer than usual as the game will try to fix any errors and issues with your save.
Once the game loads, it should run normally.
Simply sleep so the game can save the "fixed" version of the world.
Return to main menu and load this new save, it should load fine now.

If you experience problems with the caves, I also suggest:

Visit every unlocked level of the caves at least once.
Go to sleep so the game can save.
This should cleanup the cave data as well, as they save separately.

As you can see, the system is designed so that it seamlessly fixes save issues as you continue to play. Simply playing the game in essence fixes the load time issues. This fix also takes care of the “game slowing down as you play” issue.

Now let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week:

Farm Animals & Pets

White and Black Alpacas now drop the correct wool type.
Fixed a collision issue on baby animals which prevented some from being interactable and pettable, they should all be fine now.
Quails should now be able to easily leave their coop.
You can no longer pet, pickup or attach leads to animals that are sleeping.
Major overhaul of farm animals and pet systems and AI.
Rebalanced all animal food and water needs. Animals shouldn't be so thirsty anymore.
Improved the collision on large quail coop, you should be able to close and open the doors without issue.
Chickens should no longer get stuck in the underside of the large coop.
Black pigs should work like other pigs now.
Animals should now use their feed and water stations properly and not morph into each other.

Progression and Skilltree

The default sheep breed available at Riverside Ranch is now the Southdown (which is the one that gives you wool)
Updated the item requirement for the skill "Wool Worker I" which unlocks all sheep type.
Fixed a few incorrect descriptions on skills. (Manure Mania I & II)
You can now shear rabbits at the shearing station table! This was blocked previously because of a collision issue that stopped the player from being able to interact with the shearing table that is specifically made for rabbits.

Shops and Vendors

Fixed an item duplication exploit in the vendor sell menu, where if you press esc and confirm at the same time, you receive the money but also your item back.
Fixed an exploit with services and vendors, where if you added an item to the cart while having a service order that doesn't have its requirements fulfilled, you could order the service anyway.
Grow Bag and Babs Raised bed now appear in Ladybug shop correctly.
Purchasing a Grow Bag or Babs Raised Bed now unlocked appropriate blueprints.
Purchasing a small metal light from Ladybug now gives a lamp blueprint.
Can now sell appropriate items to Got Noodz, Saiyatek, and the Shady Seller
Deprecated pet bowl blueprints removed from Hoshi Woodworks Blueprints Shop Menu

Phone and UI

Canceling out of the post office menu no longer blocks pausing.
KoiBeats song list when using the record player now has a scrollbar.
You can now back out of the record player using a controller.
You can now place the "Receiver Kit" item in the drone upgrade window without issue.
Placing a stack of drone upgrades into a slot no longer eats up all the items.
Picking a drone upgrade from its slot no longer gives you back multiples.
Speed upgrades to the drone should now work fine in the drone races.
To-do list is now scrollable using a controller.
The completed items should no longer appear in the to-do list tab on vendor menus.

Caves

You can no longer escape boss battles using the hot key on a controller (LB/L1).
The logged Zant panel in battle planner now has a scroll box.
No more floating Cave Barrier Switches in Levels 3 or 5
Moved the locations of some caches in Cave level 5 for easier access
Selecting "Return to SunnySide '' at the end of a boss battle loss screen should no longer continue to display the post-win cutscene as if the battle was completed.
Improved lighting on Cave Level 0
Rock spawns and item drops rebalanced across all cave levels.
Gates for 3rd and 5th floors now require the correct gem to be activated.
Cache Decal lights now reflect the color of the stone needed to activate the cache properly.
You can now use the spacebar as well as E to execute commands in battle.

Social System

The lock in point for Lucy's romance scene should now function normally.

Buildmode

Large stone path should work fine now.
Selecting boundaries (paths, fences and small fences) is now much easier. You can select them or delete them easily even if they're slightly hovering above ground.
Pre-placed build blueprints (Vehicle shed, Bicycle rack, Tea house and buildstation) now disappear correctly from the to-do list app once built.
Destroying a storage (fridges, storage boxes, decorative storages) now puts all of its content into your global cache.
You can now close all barn doors.
The 3rd Modern Barn mode is now fixed. You can enter it fine and it aligns to the grid properly. If you had one placed down, you might have to move it slightly as it is a tad larger.
The sleeping bag model is now corrected. If you had already placed one down, you might need to rotate it now.
The "Select/Destroy Buildings" option is now disabled by default. You will need to select this option in build mode in order to select or destroy large buildings. This is a safety measure to prevent accidentally deleting buildings while decorating.
Updated and rebalanced the build requirements for beds.
Adjusted material requirements for a number of build items. More changes may come in the future.
Adjusted storage capacity of storage items (Including refrigerators). - You may need to destroy and rebuild the item for the change to take effect.
Adjusted prices for Modern Fridge and Retro Fridge/Freezer to more accurately reflect storage capacity
Large Grill and Propane Tank removed from item lists in vendor shops ( Items were cut and accidentally left in game)
New items from each build category added as default blueprints for BuildMode (Including tent, sleeping bag, lights, and many others).

Farming & Cooking

Remote control of irrigation pipes now displays correctly in the utilities app after unlocking the skill for it.
Clay wall planters can now be correctly placed on walls and surfaces.
Raised beds and planters now work with irrigation pipes reliably.
Watering planters and raised beds is now easier.
Toothache plant item description now reflects the correct plot size needed for the plant.
Cinnamon, Adzuki Beans, and Dragon Fruit can now be harvested correctly.
Spinach salad now recognises the Nuts tag correctly.
Cucumber now has the vegetable tag.
Grilled Shabu items now have the correct cooking tag.

General Bug Fixes & World Improvements

Adjustments to stack size of a lot of inventory items, namely food related items.
Adjustments to drone upgrade speeds as well as their prices.
A major improvement to snow coverage during snowy weather conditions, the paths around the world and your farm no longer get fully covered in thick layer of snow, where it is plantable. This should help with visibility during a snow.
Sako's garden now grows properly in all seasons
Got rid of that stupid plant blocking the door at the Field Lab
Small renovation to Field Lab register and counter space.
Moving the camera around using a controller while sitting no longer prompts the character to get up.
If DLSS isn't supported on a hardware, it'll now tick the off option by default. DLSS was disabled on unsupported hardware anyways, but the highlight of the "performance" option, even though the row is greyed out, confused some players into thinking that DLSS was set on by default. Friendly reminder that DLSS is only supported on RTX graphics card from Nvidia (so 20 series and onwards).

The version number for this update is 1.15.30 at the bottom-right of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game, if your game is on that version, you’ve got the update. If Steam hasn't prompted you for an update, it usually is dispatched via region slowly. If you'd like to force Steam to update the game, fully restart steam (close it from your system tray or task manager).

As always, we will continue to work on more optimization, fixes and improvements as you all continue to play SunnySide.

Thank you so much for reading, for loving the game, for reporting issues to us, and for your continued patience! We’re a very small team, and we’re doing our best <3

See you in the next update!

-The RainyGames Team

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21 Jun 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 2 is now Live!

Hey everyone, Rainy here! Since the launch of the beta branch only two days ago, the community has been invaluable in finding ways to improve SunnySide. I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing another, this time, pretty big performance and optimization overhaul to the ga

Hey everyone, Rainy here!

Since the launch of the beta branch only two days ago, the community has been invaluable in finding ways to improve SunnySide. I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing another, this time, pretty big performance and optimization overhaul to the game!

What’s changed?

We are now loading the content of the game very differently, this massively improves the stuttering for most players, in some cases, we got reports of them completely vanishing, at the cost of higher overall memory usage, but testing so far shows a net gain in performance.

After further investigation, I found that instead of the usual approach of loading parts of the map as the player approaches them, we can instead load most of the content at the very beginning. This is somewhat uncommon, but it seems to work best for our game.

As I mentioned above, this eliminates most of the stuttering or big rubber banding that players have experienced, especially using faster vehicles in the game.

While most players reported an overall improvement in performance and a steady framerate, this update might not work too well on certain hardware, which is why we’re allowing you to chose if you’d like to use this new system.

How can I try this new update?

This change is now live on our latest patch! If your game version says 1.15.21 at the bottom of the screen in the main menu or while pausing the game, you’ve got the update. Now, I understand that for some players this change might cause problems, after all this increases the memory usage for a smoother experience. For this reason I firstly recommend you guys play with the settings and see if things improve, especially draw distance, shadows and texture quality.

If you still prefer how maps loaded in the previous version, worry not: as I mentioned, we’re allowing you to turn off this new method of loading in the general settings. Just navigate to the Settings on the Main Menu or through the pause screen, and untick “Load all Sub-Levels”. Keep in mind that changing this setting mid game means you will need to return to the Main Menu in order for the change to take effect, but this will revert map loading to how it used to be before this update.

What else is new?

Alongside this change, we have also managed to squash a few bugs. Not as many as we would like to do for an update, but we thought it was important to get this new change to you all as soon as possible.

Patch Notes for this update:

The esc key no longer occasionally becomes unresponsive. This was happening if you interacted with the omamori purchasing box, but had already purchased one that day. Upon receiving the error, your esc button would become unresponsive. This is fixed now.
Your phone screen should now consistently be fixed if loading a save after which you had already visited Hiro.
The Ores on the level 0 of the caves should now work a lot more consistently.
If you pass out in the caves, upon returning to SunnySide all the water should now load fine.
Canceling the gift giving menu will now return the placed items back to the player.
"Watch the sunset" activity at the promenade should work fine now.
Fixed a number of time sensitive activities that were always unavailable due to a math error.
Invites from NPCs to hangouts should no longer occasionally end when arriving at the location.
NPCs should no longer jump around when interacting with player.
NPCs should no longer invite you out during a thunderstorm or blizzard.
When closing a sell menu, gift giving menu or letter sending menu, if the player is holding an item on the cursor, it will be placed back in their inventory.
The objective "Sell Wool to Debonaire in Higashi" in the quest "Homesteading" can no longer be completed before receiving the objective by selling items to other higashi vendors.

As always, we will continue to work on more optimization, fixes and improvements as you all continue to play SunnySide.

Thank you so much for reading, and I’ll see you in the next update!

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19 Jun 2024Developer post

Introducing: Public Beta!

Hey everyone! As SunnySide's post-launch developments and updates continue, we wanted to open a channel for all of you who are interested in gettiing an early preview of upcoming updates and give you the option to get more involved with the development side of SunnySide! With tha

18 Jun 2024Developer post

SunnySide Patch 1 is now available!

Hey everyone! Following up on our last update, the team has been working on the first patch for SunnySide with a major focus on performance and optimisation. We also managed to squash a few bugs in between the optimisation efforts. Here’s what’s new: Optimization and Increased Pe

Hey everyone!

Following up on our last update, the team has been working on the first patch for SunnySide with a major focus on performance and optimisation. We also managed to squash a few bugs in between the optimisation efforts. Here’s what’s new:

Optimization and Increased Performance

We adjusted the loading volumes for interior levels as well as how quickly and granularly they load as you navigate the world. Some pesky trees received new billboards (so trees in the distance load better now, and we grouped up a ton of models (called “instancing”) in each house and interior so that they’re loaded quicker as you play the game. All this should mean less stuttering when the game loads various interior maps as you run around the world.

Nvidia DLSS Can now be adjusted in your Graphics Settings

Nvidia DLSS is a great tool to achieve some frame rate boost quickly and easily, if you have a graphics card that supports DLSS (Nvidia) the settings option will be available to you. We know a lot of our players do not have an Nvidia card, for which we are looking at implementing FSR for AMD users in a future update. (We don’t have an AMD development computer, so this one takes a little more time.)

Strange NPC Behavior

We had a pesky bug that made it into the release which caused NPCs to decide incorrectly that a station was free and would try to use it. This caused many NPCs to either merge into each other or awkwardly sit on each others’ lap. Whilst funny, our NPCs deserve better! We implemented a few safeguards that triple check this now. NPCs should also now be nudged outside of stationery items they could clip into, like tables and chairs. This system is not in its final form yet and we will continue to polish it as we work on more updates, but the fundamentals are now in place. We are also aware of the localization issues in Asian languages and currently working to get this fixed.

Those were the big ones, but in addition, we have also done the following:

Your graphics settings should no longer reset on each start-up.
Fixed an incorrect dialogue string on Hanako's confession response.
Game settings adjusted and rebalanced. Low and Medium settings should look and work better now.
Removed a few developer activities that were available in the game (drone racing at the promenade).
Using the scroll wheel during a drone race should no longer cause problems.
AMD GPUs should perform a lot more reliably in the caves now, and the performance is much better across all hardware.
Improvements to Farmer's Market, including more reliable payouts and animal pen navigation fixes.
Fixed a typo on the bus stop map details panel.
Kat should no longer ask to "let Rainy know" in her daily dialogue.
The rice cooker can no longer be turned on if there is no valid recipe in the mixing circle. This fixes the issue of the rice cooker “getting stuck closed” if you try to turn it on without a valid recipe.
You can no longer close the Omamori receiving window by pressing the “Esc” button causing it to get stuck on the screen.
Minigames that are launched through a hangout (such as Crane Game or Gatcha Game) now show the on-screen prompt for how to play the minigame. The lack of a prompt confused some players into thinking that the game was soft-locked.
Your character should now behave normally when getting on the bicycle if they had accepted a hangout while riding the bicycle previously. No more hands on the side while riding the bicycle, safety is important people!
You can no longer accidentally destroy your bicycle rack or vehicle shed. If you have already destroyed them accidentally in your save, we're working on a way to allow you to re-place them.

Please ensure that your version number in the main menu and pause menu says 1.15.15-Full otherwise you are still on an older version. Sometimes it takes Steam a little while to push the update to everyone, but you can force it by restarting Steam from your system tray or task manager. If you’re using the deck, restarting the system should prompt it as well.

Thank you so much for continuing to play SunnySide and we hope you’re enjoying your time. SunnySide can be a pretty big game, so if you’re thinking of sharing your experience with other players, you can join our discord server here! There are tons of channels including sharing your farm, streaming your game and generally helping each other out with different aspects of the game!

This is just the start for SunnySide’s post-launch support.

We have tons more updates planned and optimisation work continues. The team has also just received a Steam Deck which means we are going to work on a dedicated “Deck Mode” with catered settings just for the Deck, to ensure the game is running as smoothly as it can on that hardware.

If you’re enjoying SunnySide, please let us know by leaving a review for the game. We are eager to know how you all are spending your time in SunnySide.

That’s it for this update, from myself (Rainy) and the team at RainyGames and Merge Games, thank you all for playing SunnySide and we’ll see you in the next update!

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15 Jun 2024Developer post

Information regarding Performance & Optimization

Hey everyone! We thought it was very important to address something as quick as possible: Performance and Optimisation. Thank you for leaving your feedback, we hear you all in the reviews and our Discord community. Following performance and optimisation issues that some users hav

Updates & announcements

Hey everyone!

Losing That Drive Turned Out to Be a Blessing

The Remake Has a Name

We’re calling it SunnySide: Regrown

Rebuilding the Guts in C++

Time Moves On Its Own Now

The New UI, and Your Phone

Building, Properly This Time

Farming Gets Room to Breathe

A Real Town, Built the Way a Real Town Grows

About Multiplayer

A Decision We Want You In On

Thank You

Hello everyone,

Why We’re Taking This Approach

A More Stable, Better-Performing SunnySide

What about Current Players?

Let’s Talk About the Survey

The Caves

Relationships and Social Systems

Making the World Feel Alive

On a Personal Note

Where This Leaves SunnySide

Hey everyone,

A New Price, A Better Starting Point

The Road to SunnySide 2.0

We’re Involving You in the Big Decisions

First Technical Step: Upgrading the Engine

Legacy Version Support

Looking Forward

Platform & Console FAQ

What’s happening with PlayStation?

What about Xbox?

Does this mean SunnySide is gone from consoles forever?

Join the Conversation

Here’s to busy, but exciting year(s) ahead! 💛

Hey everyone!

Adjustment to Cooking Recipes

Performance and Stability Enhancements

Hey everyone,

Survey Highlights & Charts

Performance Improvements

Quality of Life & Requested Features

Summon & Dismiss Sparky Anytime!

Animal Happiness & Needs Overhaul

Cooking System Rework

A Personal Note from Us

What’s in the survey?

👉 Take the Survey Here! 👈

Hey everyone,

Introducing: Sandbox Mode!

What is Sandbox Mode?

Buildmode

Gameplay & Progression

Farming and Animals

Caves

What is still available in Sandbox Mode?

But this update is more than just Sandbox Mode!

New “Skills” App

New “Profile” tab on the Squirrel IM App

Exciting news everyone!

Hey everyone, it’s time for another update for SunnySide!

Global Storage Access

AutoWalk

Cooking Mixing Circle Improvements

Progression and Skill Tree

Phone and UI

Social System

Farming & Cooking

General Bug Fixes & World Improvements

See you in the next update!

Hey everyone, we’re back with another update for SunnySide!

Animal Selling

New Crafting Recipes at the Crafting Table/Build Station

New Storage Customizations

Food Crafting Balancing

Let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week:

Farm Animals & Pets

Progression and Skill Tree