Big Demo Update & Development news for Early Access!
Hey everyone! 👋
The holidays are here, carrying a big update for the demo! It has been a month over the last announcement and A TON of development has happen since!
Holiday Update v1.5.5
This update carries fresh new content from the full game in the demo with a special Christmas flavour!
Here’s what’s new 👇
🛒 New Grocery Store
The town now features a fully functional grocery store, packed with items that actually matter for gameplay:
Cooking ingredients
Animal food
Baking supplies
Preserved & packaged goods
Grocery Store ties directly into crafting, gifting, cooking, and progression!
🎁 Holiday / Christmas Quests
To celebrate the season, the demo now includes limited holiday-themed quests, focused on:
Gameplay in Winter Season
Greenhouse planting
Helping NPCs
Small rewards and progression moments
🗺️ Map Updates & World Improvements
The map received multiple layout and visual improvements:
SNOW! The whole map is now covered in snow and gameplay is in Winter mode; It's a whole another ball game now!
Better flow between town areas
More readable landmarks
Overall cleaner navigation and atmosphere
The world should now feel more alive. There is so much more content I want to show but that will be left for you to see yourself :)
Development Progress
Thankfully, the development is going to plan with no issues moving forward! All foundations are stable and the game is being expanded, polished and improved each day!
🐔 Animal Improvements
Animals are now so much better!
Improved behaviour and movement
Clearer stats and menus
Better integration with buildings and care systems
First steps toward deeper animal management
This update also introduces importance of animals during Winter.
All in-game animals are ready, and many more are being added!
📋 New Menus & UI Updates
Several menus were fully redesigned and added:
New cleaner layouts
More readable information
Better consistency across the UI
This should make managing items, animals, and buildings far more intuitive and satisfying.
Redesigned menus:
Building Notebook
Chicken Management (+3 new pages)
Cow Management (+3 new pages)
Animal Market Menus
New menus:
Grocery Store Menus
Animal Menus & Tags
Winter Market Menu
🎮 Gameplay Improvements
A lot of time went into smoothing the experience:
Improved interactions and feedback
Better pacing for early gameplay
Big performance improvements
General polish across systems
Many small changes, but together they make the game feel much more solid and responsive.
🚀 Development Update – One Month to Go
The foundations are now fully in place.
From here until release, the focus is on:
Polishing existing systems
Fixing bugs and edge cases
Final content tuning
It honestly feels unreal to say this, but release is in about one month.
Thank you all for the support, feedback, and excitement so far, it has made a huge difference during development.
If you haven’t tried the demo yet, now is the perfect time 💚
And if you have feedback, I’m still listening closely.
Happy Holidays & see you next year!
New Acre Games