Little Kitty, Big City — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| FREE Customizer Demo Available Now! | 2026-04-27 | Ever wanted to try out the Kitty Customizer feature by itself? Well now you can, and for FREE! Make some unique, fun skins for your Kitty, save them, and send them to your friends. 🐈⬛✨If you so desire, you can explore the city in your new skin with a full purchase of the game!In the customizer, you can edit KItty’s colors, use patterns, and place different marking shapes to achieve the look you desire. ✨Unsure where to start? We have a great ‘how-to’ series on Youtube! |
| Hotfix | 2026-04-16 | Fixed a small issue with an extra manhole icon being shown on the map |
| Gecko Gods out now -- Little Gecko Hat is here to celebrate! | 2026-04-16 | Are you searching for your next adorable and relaxing critter quest? Look no further than Gecko Gods, from our friends over at Super Rare Games and Inresin. If you loved exploring the city as Kitty and causing chaos, you’ll love traversing an ancient civilization and solving puzzles as a little gecko! (Trust me.) It's out TODAY!To celebrate, we’ve added a cute little sidekick for Kitty, in the form of a Little Gecko Hat, free for all players! Snap some pics with your new tiny best friend and sneak around the city together, cementing yourself as the hottest new dynamic duo in town. Just head to over to your inventory under the Gift Box Icon fo |
| Update for April 16th, 2026! (Little Gecko Hat, new duckling features and more) | 2026-04-16 | Exploring the city is more fun when you have a little buddy! We’ve added a Little Gecko Hat, courtesy of our friends Inresin and Super Rare Games Speaking of buddies, the ducklings’ follow behavior has been improved (they can travel with you to new areas)! Ducklings can now sleep with kitty at nap spots Added animated duckling icons to appear with kitty’s during load screens Fixed an issue where players could exit the construction yard, but not get back in |
| Lunar New Year Update 🔥🐴🧧 | 2026-02-10 | Happy Lunar New Year! 🔥🐴🧧 The LKBC Team wishes everyone a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!Added a new FREE FIRE HORSE HAT in celebration of Lunar New Year!Added 6 FREE Lunar New Year photo stickers and 1 new frameUpdated the equip sound for the Snake Hat |
| Year of the Fire Horse Lunar New Year Update! | 2026-02-10 | Gallop into the Year of the Fire Horse with Kitty! It would behoove you to don this special Fire Horse hat and snap some festive pictures with a new Lunar New Year- themed Photo Mode pack, complete with 5 new stickers and a frame. Don't forget, you're the MANE attraction! We also have a themed contest and a sale on our merch shop to celebrate the occasion!FIre Horse Hat Embrace your inner wild stallion with this free Fire Horse Hat, commemorating the Year of the Fire Horse! We can’t wait to see what horseplay you giddy-up to. Just open up your inventory and find it there!Lunar New Year Stickers and FrameOf course, it wouldn’t be a festive hol |
| Update for January 27th | 2026-01-27 | Small but mighty update for January 27th Build 1.26.1.16_6062Fixed Big Potato’s yard manhole being locked for players who’s save we had previously fixedImprovements to the save system to prevent future save corruptionFixed Crow’s first fish being missing if you didn't eat it before save and then loadingFixed being stuck out of the construction site if you exited it anyway other than the blue bin crawl hole |
| Animal Adventurers Bundle Out Now! | 2026-01-12 | Attention all lovers of adorable critters AND adventure! Announcing the Animal Adventurers Bundle! This one-of-a-kind bundle is only available here on Steam. Including some fantastic games from the world of indie animal protagonists: the newly-released Big Hops, the sweet Zelda-like Lil' Gator Game, the smash hit classic A Short Hike, and of course, Little Kitty, Big City! In Little Kitty, Big City: You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake.In A Short Hike: Hike, c |
| Little Kitty, Big City - Holiday Short 2025 | 2025-12-19 | |
| FREE Holiday Update Now Live! | 2025-12-16 | Our holiday gift to you this year is a free festive update filled with goodies and treats! Thank you so much for playing Little Kitty, Big City and we hope you enjoy the season and festivities! 🎁❄️Gift Bow Hat:Every Kitty gets a Gift Bow Hat in their inventory! Wear yours to remind the humans that you are a gift to be treasured ❤️🎁 Festive Photo Mode Stickers & Frames:Give your Kitty pics a festive glow-up with our adorable seasonal sticker set. Add mittens, snowfolk, sweet treats and gifts, then finish your work with one of three new festive frame effects! 🍬 ❄️⛄️ Snow:❄️❄️SNOW! SNOW! SNOWWWWWWWWWW!!! IT’S SNOWING!❄️❄️ Holiday Animated Sho |
| Black Friday Shop Launch + Fan Art Contest Round Up! | 2025-11-28 | Shop Launch, New Products and Black Friday SaleSurprise! This Black Friday we’ve launched a brand-mew shop loaded with tons of new goodies to enjoy this holiday season! A nifty tote bag, cool shirts, an enamel pin, a 2026 calendar and so so much more. 😻 Use the code VOIDFRIDAY25 to get 20% off your order, and give the gift of Little Kitty to your loved ones!Fan Art Contest Round UpOn our Discord, we just wrapped up a fan-art contest featuring many ameowzing entries! Here’s some of them as a little showcase. 🐱♥️Want to be in the loop for future contests for cool prizes? Join here!l |
| Discord Fan Art Contest Announcement! | 2025-11-12 | 🎨🐾 Little Kitty, Big City Fan Art Contest! 🐾🎨📯Calling all creative cat-lovers: we want to see your best Little Kitty, Big City fan art! ✨ Whether you’re an acclaimed artist, a newcomer armed with fingerpaints, or an occasional doodler who hides their talents in the exercise book margins, we want to see your version of Kitty’s world! So, just let your creative streak run wild and draw (or paint, or sculpt, or collage, or animate, or crochet…) a cute piece of art featuring your favourite characters. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! 🖌️ How to EnterCreate your original fan art inspired by Little Kitty, Big City.Post your entry in |
| 🎃👻 Kitty Customizer Halloween Costume Contest 👻🎃 | 2025-10-16 | It’s spooky season, and that can only mean one thing: ADORABLE CAT COSTUMES! 🐾✨That’s right! We want you to hop into the Kitty Customizer in Little Kitty, Big City, and design the ultimate Halloween costume for your feline friend. Will you turn Kitty into a vampire? A pumpkin? A ghost? Or will you break with tradition and design something else entirely? The choice is yours! 🕸️ How to EnterOpen the Kitty Customizer in Little Kitty, Big City.Create your best Halloween-themed costume. Entries must be family-friendly, so think cute, clever, and PG-rated —and avoid gory or terrifying content.Post a screenshot in the #Kitty Customizer Halloween C |
| 🎨🐱 Kitty Customizer Photo Contest! 🐾✨ | 2025-09-27 | 📸 How to EnterCustomize your in-game Kitty in Little Kitty, Big City so it resembles your real cat as closely as possible. 🎨🐈 Snap a photo of your cat in real life. Take a screenshot of your in-game Kitty Customizer creation. Submit Your Entry: Post your side-by-side photo and screenshot in the #kitty-customizer-contest channel on our Discord. Don’t forget to include your cat’s name and a fun caption! 🐾✍️ Vote: The community will “react” with 🎨 emojis to their favorite lookalike pairs. The entries with the most reactions will become finalists. 🎁 Prizes🏆 Grand Prize: Little Kitty, Big City Deluxe Edition for Nintendo Switch™ and a Steam |
| Update for Sept 26th | 2025-09-26 | Fixed being able to use Taffy's teleporter through the exterior apartment wall after you unlocked it Fixed being able to access Tanuki’s workshop if you unlocked all of the manhole portals pre-Update, but hadn’t done Doggo’s ball quest yet Added a fix to repair save games that got to the workshop too early which made it impossible to complete Doggo’s ball quest Fixed an edge case where you were not able to talk to Beetle on Taffy’s balcony after loading a save game Fixed Capped Crusader not being ticked off as complete for users who’s save we previously fixed and set the correct hat count for. Fixed the completion percentage on the loading sc |
| Small Update for Sept 4th | 2025-09-04 | Fixed a corrupted scene file that resulted in a handful of issues, including breaking Taffy is various ways Fixed a coin (shiny) having a collider on it which could fling kitty up into the air sometimes when collecting it Fixed more collision issues in the new scene |
| Update Patch for September 3rd | 2025-09-03 | Added some missing font characters for Chinese Fixed the Capped Crusader Achievement not counting the basegame hats properly The Capped Crusader Achievement will now retroactively grant if you have the correct number of hats, but not the achievement Fixed the hat number display in some places being off by 1 Fixed a tricky rogue water splash sound that always played on scene start Fixed audio not playing after you exiting a portal after loading a new scene Fixed some collision in Tanuki's workshop which you could easily clip through Fixed being able to get stuck (and ultimately fall out of the world) behind the Workshop object copy machine Fix |
| Small Hotfix for August 28th | 2025-08-28 | Build: 1.25.8.28_5418Fix for Taffy being outside her bed after loadingAdditional collision fixesFixed a case where picking up items caused an error that caused other errors |
| Small Update for August 27th | 2025-08-28 | Fixed a parsing error in Polish localization that prevented talking to CrowFixed some collision issues that allowed getting out of the environmentFixed some issues with Taffy falling when being pulled and saving in that positionFixed the Gecku store cat not looking at the playerFixed the player getting stuck in the sneak state after a sneak to pounce Improved camera collision during conversationsUpdated some sound effectsAdded an on-screen keyboard for Steamdeck when using the customizer |
| Little Kitty, Big City: The Picture Purrfect Update is OUT NOW! | 2025-08-27 | Meowdy, everyone! We are DELIGHTED to meow-nnounce that the Picture Purrfect Update for Little Kitty, Big City is OUT NOW and it's COMPLETELY FREE! Kitty CustomizationYou can now customize your Kitty using Tanuki's exciting new technology! Pick your favorite fur color, add a cool coat pattern, start a trend for bright green toe beans, or lovingly replicate your own beloved pet with a design of your very own! We're even giving you the ability to adjust eye color and pupil shape for each eye separately – a win for odd-eyed cats everywhere!New NeighborhoodsYou'll visit even more of the city, thanks to the new areas included in the Picture Purrfe |