Hello Spiritographers!
Today is the release of our Spring Update, bringing our game to version 1.9 🌸
Get ready for a brand new spirit to discover, new music, new customizable items for the bedroom, a reworked session timer, and more! ✅
You can find the full patch notes below:
New Content:
- New Spring-themed background inspired by cherry blossom season in Japan.
- A new Spirit to discover has arrived in time for Spring!
- 50+ room customization items added with the new color customization feature.
- 50 new Avatar items added with color customization
- 2 new cherry blossom headband hat items
- 2 new cherry blossom flower items added as accessories to room customization - also useable in the Kitchen DLC
- 2 Kitsune-themed skins for Twintail
- 22 Spring-themed cherry blossom skins have been added for all base game Spirits.
- 3 Spring-themed skins for Capybun, Bubble Ducky and Squire Sprout from the Kitchen DLC
- A brand new "Sweeping" activity is available at the bay window, perfect for Spring cleaning!
- A brand new playlist is available, with over 20 new songs to put you in the zone while you relax, work, or clean!
Quality of Life Adjustments:
- A new "Save" tab has been added to the settings menu for players to easily locate their local saves and the automatic backups, in case!
- We've heard your confusion around selecting Cozy Kitchen Spirits Variants as companions. While customizing your avatar, you will now see that Spirit Variants (from the Cozy Kitchen DLC) are now shown individually instead of being under their parent Spirit skins.
- While customizing the room, we have adjusted the camera for the "Scenery" category, under the "General" tab.
- We have adjusted the audio fading parameters to be extra quiet while the Session timer is ringing, to make extra sure that it's noticeable even while other sounds are playing!
New Features:
- Fully redesigned Session Timer - Designed to be more intuitive, and give a better sense of how the work sessions are split. Additionally, you can now also use a Stopwatch mode, and a Timer mode for your sessions. There's also a Settings tab for the timer tools which will grow over time with multiple options to adjust!
- You can now revert back to an item's default color when using the new color customization tool.
- In avatar customization, head accessories, hair, eyebrows and facial hair can now use our new color customization tool! We will eventually expand this to eyes and skin tones as well.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where some playlists weren't saved properly and couldn't be set to play automatically on reload.
- Fixed an issue where the window controls would be visible even when the game is in Borderless fullscreen. They are now completely hidden but can be brought back by hovering the top part of the screen.
MacOS Support
Spirit City is now available on MacOS! All features should be compatible, except the "Always on top" mode which is only compatible for Windows users. As we may find some new bugs specific to MacOS, please be patient for any issues that might arise while we collect data and patch issues.
MacOS and Windows saves are cross-compatible! If you're going to use the game on Windows and MacOS, make sure you update both devices at the same time so that they're on the same game version! Otherwise, it might create issues with save files. If you do get any issues regarding your save files, please check out the new "Saves" section in the settings menu.
Our minimum requirements for Mac devices are quite high as this game is built using the latest version of Unreal Engine 5. You can expect any Macbook from 2020+ upwards to run the game just fine. Consider using the graphics options to tune performance that fits your hardware best.
You can report any issues with MacOS on our dedicated MacOS discussion forum
Updated Roadmap
With the Spring Update, we've updated our 2025 Roadmap to reflect all the new features added.
It's not an exhaustive list, but it should give you a preview of our continued plans for Spirit City: Lofi Session!
Interview with our Art Director and Co-Founder
Our art director and Co-Founder Keith recently had an interview with A Gaming Podcast, talking a bit about the development of Spirit City and the studio. He's a bit shy so please be kind! It's our first video interview, so check it out if that interests you!
We hope you enjoy this update! Thank you so much for all your support. 💗
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