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City Game Studio: a tycoon about game dev Patch Notes — June 3, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
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Changelog - rc12
Optimization
- Significantly improved performance when developing hundreds of games simultaneously. Signals are now routed through a single dispatcher instead of being broadcast to every active game panel individually
Interface
- Removed the long-click confirmation button (the one requiring you to hold a click to confirm an action)
Bugfix
- Fixed particles not being attracted to the correct panel when creating a custom platform
Previous changes
Feature
- Added a new server item to furnish your studio
- Added the ability to change the studio assigned to an update
- Added the ability to change the studio assigned to a DLC
Interface
- Added the hype value of announced games directly to the in-dev game panel
- Improved the server panel readability
- The yearly report now displays data by year instead of by month
- Fixed the yearly report not computing all values correctly
- Fixed the yearly report not taking dark mode into account
- Added a button to sort the studio list from the main view
- Reworked the bottom menu for better clarity and usability
- Reworked the discontinue game panel to display more figures, organized from income to expenses
- Release panel: adjusted the tooltip to correctly show trade publishing information when working with a publisher
- Reworked the studio customization panel
- Studio decoration: added a new wall type
- Conventions: Added a button to change all game slots at once
- Updated tab panel button colors for more intuitive navigation
- Added tooltips to the Game of the Year panel showing the full game name, company name, and game score
- Added more colors to the studio director panels
- Added a tooltip showing your exact currency amount when hovering over the currency display
- Added a tooltip showing your exact fanbase count when hovering over the fanbase display
Publishing Offers
- Reworked publishing offers to make them more interesting: theme/genre and genre/platform matches now give a proper boost
- Capped simultaneous publishing offers at 24, as generating more is resource intensive
- Fixed the platform panel not updating when viewing a publishing offer
- Fixed currency formatting in publishing offers
Localization
- Months are now translated
- Scientific units are now translated
Cheat Codes
- Added the ability to set the custom platform score
- Added a 'man' command that lists all existing cheat codes
- Added a cheat code to instantly complete a DLC or an update
- Added a cheat code to set the number of points produced for a game: `game set-produced-point game_id 99999 99999 99999`
Balancing
- Set the maximum number of units sold for custom platforms to 1.25 billion
- Servers from 2007 are no longer available after 2020
- The number of generated contracts depends on the difficulty.
- Based on the total number of contract to generate, it won't generate more contracts per month than the total number of contracts to generate. It might take up to 3 months to generate the total number of contracts
Studio director
- When porting a game, select the platform's market share (minimum)
- Studio directors now prioritize continuing existing IPs over creating new ones
Mod
- Add a new attribute to the difficulty mod to balance the number of contract to generate.
Hack Mini-game
- Added a button to pay $1,000,000 to skip the hacking mini-game permanently
Misc
- Reworked the number formatting algorithm to be more efficient and to support localization
- Added a new in-game event: a Covid-related sales boost
- Fixed DLC installation and detection
- Reworked the game name generator
- Added a company name generator
Banker
- The banker can now offer a state loan in exchange for a 10% tax increase that lasts 10 years.
- The banker can now offer to buy your shares to help you avoid bankruptcy
Bugfix
- Fixed a bug in the studio view preventing the computer upgrade panel from showing on the desk itself
- Fixed a bug when manually upgrading a server
- Fixed a save game corruption caused by a 6th difficulty slot becoming selectable after starting and canceling a new game. Selecting it worked once, but the dynamic difficulty data was never loaded, corrupting the save on subsequent loads
- When firing a Studio director it doesn't cancel it's project (game, update or gameport).
- Contract: When no studio were available, there was no tooltip shown on the Start button
- Contract: When unlocking a platform, the start button was not refreshed accordingly
- Fixed number formatting for Chinese players
- Fixed traditional publishing not computing income and expenses correctly
- Fixed studios not being sorted by name
- Fixed failed contracts being counted as income instead of expenses in the annual report
- Fixed failed games being counted as income instead of expenses in the annual report
- Fixed the exit menu in dark mode where some labels were difficult to read
- Refactored the sprite loader to prevent rare random crashes at start-up
- Fixed a crash when fast-loading a save game that was saved into a new slot
- Fixed significant lag when drawing your own company logo
- Fixed the starting currency not being properly reset when using advanced start in sandbox mode
- Fixed a freeze or unresponsive game caused by an invalid game name or game ID when saving
- Fixed games created by the studio director occasionally having no name due to a save game bug. A fallback now assigns a random name in that case
- Fixed a crash when attending conventions and using the button to set the same game across all slots, which was attempting to use non-existent seats