The Tenants — patch notes and updates
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| 🎮 The Tenants OUT NOW on PlayStation and Xbox! 🎮 | 2025-06-27 | Become a landlord playing on your favorite console! Get ready to build your real estate empire from the comfort of your couch. The Tenants is now available on PlayStation 4 & 5 and Xbox One & Series X|S! Your real estate empire is now just a controller away - we're thrilled to welcome console players into our landlord community! Moreover, during the ongoing Steam Summer Sale, you can get The Tenants and The Tenants - Pets DLC at the highest discounts ever! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1009560/The_Tenants/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2255330/The_Tenants__Pets_DLC/ |
| Ancient Forge's 5th anniversary stream | 2024-05-07 | Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you. Today on May 7th, all of us celebrate Ancient Forge's 5th anniversary 🥳. As co-founders of this Polish indie studio, we want to thank all players who have been with us during this amazing journey. We gathered the experience, tailored the strategy for our future titles and have watched our team grow from 20 to 50 amazing individuals over the past few months, and we're just getting started! ✨ We're ready to present our plans for the coming year, including the full release of Glorious Companions, an anniversary sale, and a mysterious new project that we are going to announce thi |
| Ancient Forge 5th anniversary: 50% Sale for The Tenants! | 2024-05-07 | Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you. Today on May 7th, we celebrate Ancient Forge's 5th anniversary 🥳. We’ve started as a small Polish indie studio, and now we are in the best position to do things our way. We gathered the experience, tailored the strategy for our future titles and have watched our team grow from 20 to 50 amazing individuals over the past few months, and we're just getting started! ✨ In this place, we want to thank you all for playing The Tenants, you helped us bring these future dreams to reality, and thanks to you we can grow and create more projects for you - this time on our own! https://sto |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.10 | 2023-10-24 | Congratulations to the winners of The Tenants Pet Contest: Aly T, Lemur, and Jimmy_M! We’ll be contacting you all shortly. General Added new pet actions. Fixed an issue with the Drugs Lab event. Fixed an issue with the pet adoption when the player was in a different district. Fixed an issue with refreshing subtasks within purple missions. Fixed an issue with missing furniture event after a burglary. Fixed an issue with pets not standing up for some of the interactions. Fixed a tutorial issue after interacting with a non-tutorial pet. Fixed an issue with opening the pets menu during tutorial. Fixed a visual bug with pet color variants. Fixed a |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.9 | 2023-09-22 | While we're working on further improvements to the game, the Voting stage for Pets Community Contest is starting right now. Please head over here to vote on the wholesome entries from our community: https://forms.gle/rmPi2pf7eey1jxsY8 General Added a suggestion in the pet progression tab that the player should aim to complete the pet tutorial before unlocking more interactions. Moved the starting point of the Pets DLC to after the player receives the cashflow main mission. Bugs Fixed an issue with the pets tutorial where the game would lose the reference to the pet that the player was supposed to take care of. Fixed an issue with the pets tut |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.8 | 2023-09-14 | We’re pleased with the results of testing our experimental branch and with the Patch 1.2.8 we’re merging those experimental changes to the public branch of the game. This means that the initial loading before the main menu will get slightly longer for everyone, but loading a save file or starting a new game should go through much quicker. We’re also taking down the experimental branch as it won’t be needed for now, to avoid any further confusion. Let us know if you encounter any further issues, either related to the game loading / optimization or to the game/dlc itself. General Optimized asset loading on game startup. The game will now also c |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.7 | 2023-09-11 | General Added more pet sound effects. Added media to the Pig minigame tutorial. Added a display of available DLCs and their status in the main menu. Enabled more actions for the Pigs, Cats and Raccoons. Enabled the sneezing action for allergic tenants. Improved the missing pet effect visibility. Suppressed a number of annoying log messages. Bugs Fixed another case of the missing pet event not completing properly. Fixed an issue with the burglary event that would leave undoable renovation requests for the player and cleaned up such requests from the save files. Fixed an issue with some pet actions not playing out properly. Fixed an issue with |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.6 | 2023-09-04 | If you have trouble loading into the game, please check out this thread on the forums on how to access the experimental branch where we're testing a fix for that and let us know if it helped. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1009560/discussions/0/3821922030301313137/ General Added a popup talking about the newest community event. Added particles to missing pet pickups to make them more noticeable. Increased the pet XP from pet interactions. Fixed an issue where the phone would appear outside the screen for some users. Fixed a few issues related to spawning pets. Fixed an issue with pet needs being fulfilled incorrectly. Fixed an issue with the |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.5 | 2023-09-02 | General Adjust some item placements for the Loan Oak 45 job. Fixed an edge case where players could get the animal shelter contract twice. Fixed an issue related to pets not being properly disposed of when disappearing. |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.4 | 2023-09-02 | General Added a new warning tooltip for the Installing Heating tutorial sequence, informing the player that they need to finish the Pedro babysitting job first. Fixed an issue where the game would glitch out when trying to generate new jobs for some people. |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.3 | 2023-09-01 | General Disabled trashing for the Parrot Collector tenant. Fixed more issues related to the cursor not becoming visible after some pet interactions. Fixed a few audio issues when taming a stray pig. Fixed an issue with the pig being stuck in Play with Plushie interaction. Fixed an issue with the raccoon and parrot not sleeping properly. Fixed a few issues related to the Parrot Collector special job. Fixed an issue with the Railway Cafe job in Manhattan. Fixed an issue with one of the pet tutorials guiding the player to the wrong pet. |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.2 | 2023-09-01 | Game Loading Fixed another game loading issue related to the engine update. Note: If you still have issues loading into the game after this patch, please contact us at support@ancientforgestudio.com or on the official Discord server. General Fixed some issues related to pets navigating in the Animal Shelter. Fixed an issue with the phone when interacting with a pet. Fixed a few issues with raccoon’s interactions. Fixed another issue related to the feeding interaction with pets. Fixed an issue where some of the actions wouldn’t play out for pets (eating, sleeping). Fixed an issue where the UI wouldn’t appear back after playing with a pet. Fixe |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.2.1 | 2023-09-01 | We are sorry this took a while, but being our very first DLC release, we have run into a few unexpected issues along the way. The whole team at Ancient Forge is working hard on the most pressing issues, and this is just the first patch out of many that will follow to fully iron out all the kinks and fix all the bugs. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Game Loading Fixed a loading issue where some people would get stuck at 25% of the loading bar. Fixed an issue with players being unable to load while subscribed to workshop items that do not exist anymore. Fixed an issue with platforms API not initializing on time, preventing some p |
| Pets DLC is Out Now! 🐶🐱 | 2023-08-31 | Hey there, Landlords! We’re very excited to announce that today we’re releasing the first DLC for The Tenants, which is accompanied by a free update to the base game for everyone to enjoy! To learn more about the content and features included in the Pets DLC, be sure to visit the store page and consider adding it to your shopping cart! Pets DLC is available at $8.99 / 8.77€ / £7.65 at 10% off. 🐶🐱🦜🐢 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2255330/The_Tenants__Pets_DLC/ Apart from the DLC itself, we have added a bunch of new jobs related to Pets to the base game, so you can check for yourself if you like the content before diving fully into the |
| Pets DLC Release Date Announcement Trailer & SimFest | 2023-07-20 | Hey there, landlords! We promised you news regarding the actual release date for the Pets DLC for The Tenants and today we deliver. Pets DLC will officially launch on August 31st this year! If you're a creator and would like to get access to a preview build, please reach out to us at community@ancientforgestudio.com. Likewise, if you know a creator that could be interested in this, let them know! Additionally, we're excited to say that we're taking part in this year's SimFest here on Steam! Check out the release date announcement trailer we've prepared for this occasion: We can't wait to see your reactions to what we've been working on for th |
| The Tenants - Patch 1.1.7 | 2023-07-20 | General Introduced an option to buy Elite Contract houses after you finish them 3 times (with exception of seasonal jobs). Fixed an issue with the furniture tags not always being displayed for pathing issues. Fixed prestige calculation for modded floors and walls. Fixed issues related to opening the city map view with Apartment/Tenant context menu being open. Fixed an issue with blank rewards for Goal Cards. Fixed an issue with camera in Manhattan district. Fixed an issue with Babysitting job scoring. Reduced the snow falling speed. |
| Pets DLC Update & An Important Announcement | 2023-07-14 | Hey there, landlords! It has been a while since we shared any updates regarding the highly anticipated Pets DLC. We have been working hard on adding as much new content and features as we can possibly cram, and we should have more news regarding the actual release date later this month. Stay tuned for more cutesy action! https://i.imgur.com/lCPrEEc.gif While we continue to work on enriching The Tenants experience, we have also been expanding our horizons as a studio. Today, we're thrilled to invite you to experience our latest creation - Ashes to Ashes. Set in a desolate and devastated world, Ashes to Ashes lets you embark on a perilous journ |
| Pets DLC Coming to The Tenants! | 2023-04-21 | Hey there, Landlords! We're thrilled to announce that The Tenants will be receiving its first major expansion with the upcoming Pets DLC, tentatively set for release this summer. Get ready to welcome a variety of adorable and fascinating pets into your rental properties! The Pets DLC aims to enhance your tenants' lives and happiness by introducing a diverse range of animal companions, including dogs, cats, raccoons, mini pigs, parrots, fish, hamsters, bunnies, frogs, and turtles. This new addition will not only bring joy to your tenants but also present fresh gameplay mechanics and interactions for you to manage. To stay informed about the Pe |
| Time For An Egg Hunt | 2023-04-06 | Hey landlords! Uncle Steve is back with his shenanigans! To celebrate Easter and show our appreciation for your continued support, we're hosting a special Easter Egg Hunt event in The Tenants from April 6th to April 20th. Get ready to explore the Slums district and hunt for hidden Easter eggs, which will unlock a charming set of Easter-themed items for you to decorate your properties with. But that's not all! Our beloved partner in crime has gone one step further and hidden some extra-special Easter baskets throughout the Suburbs. These baskets contain unique items that can't be bought or unlocked anywhere else in the game. So, make sure to k |
| Welcome to Filmwood | 2023-04-05 | Hey there, landlords! We are absolutely thrilled to announce our latest project, Blockbuster Inc., an exciting management simulation game where you take charge of your very own movie studio! This is a monumental step for us as a company, as it marks the first time we are working on a game from the publisher's seat. We couldn't be more proud and excited to embark on this new journey with you, our amazing community. Ever dreamed of making your own movies? Build up your movie studio, scout for upcoming stars, and produce cutting-edge films and TV shows. Try to stay ahead of your competition throughout the history of cinematography. Blockbuster I |