Bongo Cat — patch notes and updates
Stored observation / content update:
Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Community Voting, Language Filter & Fixes | 2026-04-20 | Community VotingI finally found a way to add community voting to the game! As some of you already saw was my first test.We will from now on add different polls regarding certain decisions directly in the game.I will respect the 27% and for them there won't be another community poll shown (until they enable it again in the settings). But overall i really appreciate all your feedback on this.And yes it was ugly :D it was me bashing the assets together and not let Lars (who did the UI) do another pass here haha.Additional Patch notes:Added a language filter!! (shame on all of the bad kitties out there, i thought i didn't have to do this)Various |
| Discord Integration, Afk Warning, The Typer Was Replaced | 2026-04-16 | Discord IntegrationAdditionally we just added the Discord SDK! You can now join lobbies directly via Discord!You can also disable it in the settings.Afk WarningYou can now see if people are inactive in your lobby (after 2 minutes of inactivity)Tap. Tap. Repeat.Big week. Tap Tap Loot is out now on Steam and we want to celebrate it with the crew behind The Farmer Was ReplacedI tested around a bit with something called "IPC" short for "inter process communication". That allows two programs to "talk" to each other.And i really liked the game "The Farmer Was Replaced" and decided to reach out to them if we can create a small collab :DThe Typer Was |
| Meowtiplayer Chat, DLC Release, Collection Bundle | 2026-04-13 | Meowtiplayer ChatSomething a lot of you requested...Meowtiplayer Chat is out now!You can now send small messages in multiplayer lobbies. This is not moderated so please...behave my little kitties |
| 🐁⚔️Bongo Royale⚔️🐁 [Ended] | 2026-04-01 | Update after the event endedFirst things first: The mode is now disabled again (so update the game) and the Blood Splatter Skin will be granted to everyone for the next 2 days (as a small sorry how bugged it was).I know it was a mess (regarding lobbies stopped working etc), sorry for that, i think i know what happened but we couldn't test it ourselves. No matter what, this was a small test for me how people perceive such "multiplayer game modes" as an OPTIONAL thing. I know it was forced on you, but we wanted to test it with everyone and i thought april fools was a great time to do that.Do you want to see other "game modes" that you can selec |
| Regional Pricing, Experimental Mac Support, QoL Changes | 2026-03-23 | Hi everyone, small update post:Regional PricingI found a way to "enable" (aka me creating all the prices haha) regional pricing for all the items in the supporter shop:Supporter ShopThis means you should either see the same price (for EUR/USD) or a significant decrease in price for some regions. This is something we already do with our own games but never found a way to do for the item shop in Steam. Now i found a possible solution.Bear in mind please if there is ANY mistake that you see, i will open up a thread for you to report these issues. Because of how the calculation works it might be that i miscalculated something and it now costs 100 |
| 1 Year Anniversary | 2026-03-05 | 🥳 1 Year Anniversary 🥳WhatAYearIt's hard to put it all into words...thanks to every single one of you that played the game, shared it with their friends, supported the shelter cats or talked about it. It's insane. 5.8 million players downloaded Bongo Cat and gave it a try. I could never imagine reaching so many players and bringing them joy. Thank YOU |
| Bongo Cat x Tap Tap Loot | 2026-02-21 | Tap Tap Loot Demo just dropped!!!This is a small cross collab post because we publish Tap Tap Loot. Thank you for everyone who participated in the playtest and giving an insane amount and valuable feedback! THANK YOU! |
| 🐎Year of the Horse Event🐎 & 🎇Lunar New Year Calendar🎆 | 2026-02-16 | 🐎Year of the Horse Event🐎Hello, it's me again, Marcel. Sorry for the few hours delay, i hoped to get it out on midnight but didn't quite make it.I wish every one of you a Happy New Year! Enjoy the upcoming time with your friends and family. you can claim a free fruit basket cosmetic.Let me know in the comments what you think about this change!-Marcel |
| Steam Typing Fest | 2026-02-05 | Hi fellow Bongoers,Small announcement: WE ARE PART OF THE STEAM TYPING FEST 🥳🥳🥳To celebrate this you can grab your free Ranged Mecha L.A.S.E.R. (Long-ranged Area Supressor of Enemy Resistance) by updating your game, following the giftbox and claiming your free Mech! New mecha collection in the shop: Here 1 million clicks special skinSome of you are CRAZY! And to reward that we added a special skin and hat for everyone who reaches 1 million clicks (this was edited back down from 5M, sorry for all the troubles).Tap Tap Loot: Public PlaytestIf you haven't noticed yet, we publish our first title (even though we are working very very closely wi |
| Private Lobbies, Cosmetic Preview and QoL Changes | 2026-01-14 | Hello everyone, i'm back from a nice christmas vacation! This is a quick update for in between, it will mostly contain a lot of quality of life changes made by Iris (she joined us back in October woop woop!). So big thanks to her for helping me out! Cosmetic PreviewYou can now preview cosmetics before getting them. Just head over to the collection where you can click on cosmetics to showcase them on your cat.Private LobbiesA lot of you requested this, you can now set your lobbies to private which means invite only via Steam. Two new supporter itemsWe also added two new supporter items, Yin and Yang that you can grab here: YinYangFull patch no |
| You donated 15.000€ | 2025-12-16 | Finally we can share the total amount that everyone here donated:15.000€It's crazy, if someone had asked me what my year would look like, I would never have imagined something like this happening. At the beginning of the year, I asked Lars (my co-founder and the person who did all the UI |
| Bongo Cat ❄Winter Event & Advent Calendar❄ | 2025-12-01 | ❄Winter Event & Advent Calendar❄First of all: You have made my year. It has been and still is crazy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I cannot express my gratitude in words. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and take good care of yourselves. |
| Nominate Bongo Cat! | 2025-11-25 | If something defined 2025 for me it was definitely Bongo Cat! And what a year it was! Millions of you had the cute little companion guiding you through your day. We had cats with sunglasses, a zombie with a tiny cowboy hat, squirrels with ice cream cones and strawberries with top hats. Truly an infinite amount of cozy little typing creatures. Thank you for that wonderful time! You are truly amazing! |
| Bongo Cat x Indie Demos | 2025-11-17 | First of all THANK YOU to everyone who supported the charity! I will do a more elaborate post later on that |
| Animal Shelter - Charity Event | 2025-11-10 | 🐈Animal Shelter - Charity Event🐈To celebrate the Steam Animal Fest, we introduce you to these 6 cuties: Bobby, Jerry, Luna Teddy, Tommy and Vinci You can adopt Luna (ingame) for free by updating your game, following the giftbox and claiming your free Luna! You can grab the other five in the ingame supporter section. 100% of the net proceedings will be donated to the animal shelter in Munich.But not just ingame, if you are actually interested into adopting one of those cuties, feel free to checkout the website of the animal shelter (German only): https://tierschutzverein-muenchen.de/tiervermittlung/tierheim/katzen All of the skins will only |
| Free Halloween Treat | 2025-10-30 | 🎃Free Halloween Treat🎃Claim your free Halloween costume for the next 7 days (until the 5th of November). You can pick one of the three items: Zombie, Nosfergato, FrankittysteinUpdate your game, follow the giftbox and claim your free costume! We have more content and requested features planned for November so stay tuned |
| Small fixes | 2025-10-14 | Fixes the exchange mixing things up with emojis and non emojisFixes the emote wheel, it should pop up more consistentFixes gaming mode not working with the transparency fix enabled |
| Fixes | 2025-10-08 | Fixes exchange icon while no exchange can happenFixes collection item count being wrong |
| Bongo Cat 🍂Autumn Event🍂 | 2025-10-08 | 🍂Autumn Event Starts 🍂We will now run a limited event to celebrate Autumn for the next 3 weeks (until the 31st of October). During this time you can drop 20 exclusive autumn items! There will be 4 for each rarity. The chances to drop event items are also significantly higher than before :) so everyone should get some! To be clear, if you drop an uncommon item it is now higher that the item is an event item, we didn't adjust the overall drop chances.After October 31th the items will no longer be dropable. So exchange, exchange, exchange and open your chests! New supporter items: the SQUIRRELS 🐿️🐿️🐿️This contains 3 skins and 3 hats (their |
| Emote 2.0 and bug fixes | 2025-10-06 | The emote update is finally live and you get a second chest!Should fix a bug that can make your cat disappear on auto startFixes the auto start toggle not working correctlyRemoves the dragable area in the emote wheelAdds a second chest, just for emojis (exchanges are WIP)Adds emotes as their own category in the collectionEmotes now don't spawn if players are hiddenFixes a bug if a player gets kicked that they are stuck in a join loopRemoves a Steam integration that should fix any inventories that showed 0 entriesThank you all for your feedback again! |