Hello Contractors!
Update 1.9 is now live! Today, we are bringing a completely new layer of gameplay to ContractVille, along with important technical improvements and exciting community events.
🔑 New DLC Released: ContractVille - Rent Expansion
Step directly into the real estate market and start building your empire!
The Rent Expansion introduces a full property management system. Instead of only completing contracts for clients, you can now invest in your own properties. Buy apartment buildings available in different tiers, furnish them, and rent them out to tenants for a steady income.
What's Inside?
18 Rentable Apartments: Spread across 9 distinct buildings throughout the city, these properties are ready to be purchased, designed, and listed on the rental market.
Build and Rent: Purchase empty plots, use your planner to build houses from scratch, and put them up for rent.
Income Management & Risks: Set flexible 1, 4, or 7-day lease terms to secure cash flow. But be careful—being a landlord comes with real risks. Some tenants might treat your place nicely, while others might leave trash, smudge your freshly cleaned windows, or even walk away with your furniture!
The rental properties of ContractVille are ready for their new landlord.
⚙️ Steam Deck Support & Optimizations
Steam Deck "Playable" Status
We are happy to announce that ContractVille has officially received the "Playable" (Yellow) verification for Steam Deck! We have implemented specific optimizations for the device to ensure a smoother experience. The only aspects keeping us from the fully "Verified" (Green) status are some minor UI scaling and text size limitations. You might notice that certain menus or texts appear a bit small on the handheld screen, but the core gameplay remains fully accessible and enjoyable on the go.
Technical Optimizations
We have made significant progress in optimization recently, and we continue to prioritize your feedback as we work on further improvements. Here are a few highlights from our latest technical efforts:
FPS & Draw Call Optimization: We focused on one of the most reported issues—FPS drops during late-game and heavy scenes. By making technical adjustments to actor and mesh draw calls, we have achieved nearly a 20% performance improvement in densely populated areas.
RAM Management: We made improvements to how loaded in-game assets are handled in memory, resulting in overall RAM usage optimizations and up to 30% lower memory usage, particularly on systems with higher amounts of RAM.
File Size Reduction: We have completely overhauled our game compression method, resulting in an approximately 57% reduction in the game's overall file size, from around 21 GB to 9 GB.
Audio Optimization: Rebalanced and optimized in-game audio processing.
🎁 Community Events & Giveaways
1. Rent Expansion Launch Giveaway (Gleam.io)
To celebrate the release of our new DLC, we are hosting a special giveaway event! 25 lucky winners will receive a key of their choice. The event runs from September 12th to September 25th.
If you win, you get to choose whichever prize you'd like! You can pick any of our base games (ContractVille, Dig Island, or Sandwich Simulator), OR the complete ContractVille DLC Bundle!
Join the Giveaway Here (Gleam.io)
2. Monthly Community Funny Moments!
It's time to share the funniest, most chaotic, and unexpected moments you’ve experienced in our games! Moving forward, we will be collecting your best clips every month to create a "Funny Moments" compilation video for our official social media channels.
How to Participate?
Capture your best moments while playing ContractVille, Sandwich Simulator, or Dig Island. Whether it’s an unexpected bug, a hilarious co-op disaster, or a creative gameplay trick—we want to see it all!
The Grand Prize
If your video is selected for our monthly compilation, you will be rewarded with ALL the games in our library! (You will receive keys for ContractVille, Sandwich Simulator, and Dig Island).
You can submit your videos through the 🎞️┆highlight-submissions channel on our Discord, or directly via the form below:
Submit Your Video Here (Google Form)
3. Join Our Subreddit
We are expanding our community platforms! You can now share your builds, ideas, and gameplay moments with us on our official Reddit page:
Thank you for supporting ContractVille! Your feedback continues to shape the game, and we’re excited to see the real estate empires you build. 💙
Happy contracting!
Publisher's Bundles
You can purchase the package consisting of ContractVille, Dig Island, and Sandwich Simulator published by FiftyEight Studios with an extra 15% discount:
You can purchase the package consisting of ContractVille, ContractVille DLCs (Medieval, Japanese, Sci-Fi, Valentine's Day Furniture Packs, Rent Expansion), Dig Island, and Sandwich Simulator published by FiftyEight Studios with an extra 15% discount: