Rental — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Check out a new game by our alternative label! | 2026-03-11 | Hello everyone!You might remember the game under our alternative label Smarto Club, Bubblegum Galaxy - we also posted a crossover video between it and Rental here previously. Even though it's not horror, you might be interested in knowing we've finally released it on Steam! If you enjoy our narrative style and like city builder/puzzle style games, please check it out:If you want to discuss the game, join the Smarto Club Discord!We'll have news on our more spooky ventures sometime in the near future. Until then~-Lonely House Team |
| Bubblegum Galaxy Crossover Episode | 2025-06-09 | We know some of you are patiently waiting for Mircea on the Lonely House side, we're still working on some nice horrors for you, but in the meantime, if you'd like a similar style of silly dialogue and characters, check out Bubblegum Galaxy under our alternative label, Smarto Club!We've been working on this for years now and it's finally about to release this year ₊˚⊹♡ Try the latest demo for free here! |
| The UMI PLUSHIE is HERE! | 2025-01-23 | Hi everyone, thank you for your patience ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ ₊˚⊹♡ The final design for the plushie is here, and the campaign is now live! https://www.makeship.com/products/umi-plush It'll be available to purchase until February 13th only, so if you're interested don't miss this chance! We're working hard to be able to deliver new and bigger games, so thank you for all the support our little bunny game has recieved |
| Important News about Umi Plushie | 2024-11-25 | Hi everyone, the official date for the design release and final campaign launch has been moved We're working together with the Makeship team to ensure that the plushie looks as good as possible and perfectly represents our little bunny demon. We've been making some adjustments to the physical design, but unfortunately that has meant a delay on the final campaign release, the official date being now early 2025 (January if everything goes well). The link for the campaign remains the same: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/umi-plush Sorry for the troubles and please look forward to it!! ꒰ᐢ. .ᐢ꒱₊˚⊹ Lonely House team |
| Check out the new Lonely House project! | 2024-10-24 | Hello everyone ꒰ᐢ. .ᐢ꒱ we have good news! Thanks to the immense support Rental has received, we have been able to start work on our new horror game project under the Lonely House label: Mircea You can check out the steam page and trailer here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3252240/Mircea/ Hope Rental fans will enjoy it too! 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 |
| Umi Plushie Initial Campaign. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ | 2024-08-12 | Hello everyone, we're happy to announce we are hosting a Plushie campaign with Makeship! First stage is an initial petition to kickstart the plushie: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/umi-plush The way this works is: This petition only lasts 10 days! For the petition to be succesful, we need 200 pledges before it ends. Each pledge is $2 which, if the goal is not reached, will be fully refunded (and the plushie will not be made ૮ ◞ ﻌ ◟ ა) If successful, the remaining $27.99 of the plushie (+ shipping and tax) will be charged on November 16, 2024, when the final product design is launched. Many fans have expressed the wish for a plushie so ple |
| THANK YOU for 2000 REVIEWS!! | 2024-06-07 | Thank you so much everyone ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) As we said before, we're working hard on delivering new projects so we wholeheartedly appreciate your support! Please look forward to new things on our side. Thank you also to everyone who's joined our contests, it's been awesome to recieve so many entries~ Hope to see our community grow even more ✰⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆✰ |
| Rental Short Story Contest | 2024-05-07 | Hello everyone! We're happy to announce a new contest, where you can write a short stories about Rental! The rules are as follows : The short stories may be a maximum of a 100 words, inspired by a writing contest that is held in our city in Chile You can use the characters or the world of Rental, feel free to do what you want as long it is in the world of Rental and follows the rules. We'll have 2 winners, one will be voted among the devs, the other will be chosen by popular vote on the discord server. Each winner will get a 15.000CLP/15USD STEAM giftcard as a prize. No NSFW. No outright gore. No AI generated content. Send your submissions th |
| “RENTAL” now supports Chinese and Japanese! | 2024-04-11 | Dear players, We are happy to announce that “RENTAL” is now available not only in Chinese but also Japanese thanks to the support provided by our kind friends at Astrolabe Games! Please check it out and tell us what you think ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ ₊˚⊹♡ |
| Minor hotfix | 2024-03-31 | We've just released a patch that fixes the issue with the labyrinth door and the Short-Term Rental achievement. Thanks everyone who brought these issues to our attention ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐ |
| We've reached 1000 reviews! | 2024-03-29 | Thank you so much everyone! ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐ We're working hard on delivering new and bigger projects, hope you can keep supporting us! We've also just updated the game with the following fixes: Traditional and Simplified Chinese added to the game's languages. Fixed bug where achievement "Short-Term Rental" was earned even though game was finished in more than 10 minutes. Moved a particularly hard to see item needed for the "Curious Bunny" achievement. Moved the evil couch to avoid bunnies from being trapped. -Lonely house team (𓁹 𓁹) |
| RENTAL Fanart contest! | 2024-03-25 | Rules: 1. We'll have 2 winners, one will be voted among the devs, the other will be chosen by popular vote on our discord server. Each winner will get a 15.000CLP/15USD STEAM giftcard as a prize. 2. All mediums are permitted: digital, traditional, pixel art, 3D, plasticine, etc. NO use of AI though. You don't need to be a skilled artist to participate ^^ 3. No NSFW. You can have blood for spookiness but no outright gore. 4. Send your submissions through the fanart contest channel on our discord server. The link is on the Rental Steam Store page. Feel free to post them on the Artwork tab on Steam too, if you like. 5. Deadline is 15 April 23:59 |