A Little to the Left News

A Little to the Left is dropping its second free Special Event, running from April 7th to April 10th (that's this weekend coming!). This Easter-themed Something Eggstra event will introduce four new egg-themed messes for players to unscramble. Not sticky egg messes in real life, but cute egg puzzles in a warm, charming video game. Something Eggstra follows on from December's Christmas freebies.

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Hello everyone!
The Spring cleaning season is officially underway, and we’re getting in on the act with a little "Something Eggstra" - a special four-day Easter in-game event that will run from Friday, April 7th, to Monday, April 10th. Each day over the holiday weekend, a different egg-themed Daily Tidy puzzle will be available to play. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did in creating them.



Found inside the game’s The Daily Tidy Delivery mode, these new puzzles will begin hatching from 00.00 in your local timezone on Friday 7 April. A new puzzle is accessible on each day of the Special Event, playable up until 23.59 in your local timezone on Monday 10 April.

Now we understand that not everyone is a fan of time-limited content and we want to let you know that we hear you loud and clear. As a result, we are thrilled to announce that we are working on an "archive feature" that will enable you to access any time-limited puzzles from the past. So, if you don’t manage to play any of the Something Eggstra Daily Tidy puzzles during the event, you will be able to access them in the future.

We appreciate your patience as we work hard to develop and implement this new feature. While we don't have a specific release date at the moment, we are committed to making it happen as soon as possible. Rest assured that we will keep you updated on our progress and let you know as soon as we have a clearer release date.

The free Something Eggstra Special Event update will go live tomorrow April 5th at 14:00 BST (UTC+1) and contains additional bug fixes for all A Little to the Left players on PC, Mac and Nintendo Switch. The full patch notes for the ‘eggstra’ special update will be published tomorrow once the update goes live.

We cannot express how grateful we are for your overwhelming support and feedback since the launch of A Little to the Left. Your unwavering love and dedication for our game have left us truly humbled and touched. We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to those who took the time to report any issues or bugs they encountered. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable to us, and we couldn't have squished some of the bugs without you. We look forward to bringing you more exciting updates and events in the future!
Annie, Lukas & Rookie the cat.

Hello folks! Here we are at the 3 month anniversary of the release of A Little to the Left, and we’ve been blown away by the response! So many of you have shared your gameplay experience with us, and this has helped us understand what’s working, what needs improvement, and what you’d like to see more of… Thank you all for sharing with us!

One of the topics of discussion has surrounded the Daily Tidy and Steam Achievements. With help from your feedback, our patch v1.1.9 has made some changes that we hope will make the Daily Tidy and Steam Achievements more accommodating.


Daily Tidy

We’re reducing the number of solutions required to be awarded the top 3 Daily Tidy badge tiers, so more players can enjoy them- a full year for top rank was far too much! As a result, the completion count for the 90 puzzles solved badge will reduce to 50, the 180 tier will become 75, and the 365 will now be 100.

A full list of Daily Tidy updates includes:

• Reducing number of solutions required for the Daily Tidy top-tier badges from 90/180/365 to 50/75/100
  
• "Spice Jars" Daily Tidy will no longer produce variations where both solutions have the same order, which was resulting in the second solution not being detected
  
• Objects can no longer blend into the background in "Symmetry" Daily Tidy levels
  
• Removed the variation of the "Symmetry" Daily Tidy that featured the bread tags sprites, as it was confusing with the “Bread Tags” puzzle
  
• "Spider Web" Daily Tidy will no longer produce variations with overlapping fly placements
  

Achievements

We have decided to keep only Achievements that can be unlocked at any time, during any play through, so that all players can strive for them. This means that the following achievements will be removed, as they are tied to limited-time events and not currently unlockable:

Special Day
Complete a Daily Tidy special event

Special 5
Complete 5 Daily Tidy special events

Special 10
Complete 10 Daily Tidy special events

Special 15
Complete 15 Daily Tidy special events


Other Achievements will see their requirements reduced:

Almost A Hundred Halfway There
Complete 90 50 Daily Tidy's

Turnaround Tidier Three-quarter Sorter
Complete 180 75 Daily Tidy's

Hint Hunter
Reveal every 10 hints

What Is Will Be
Skip every 10 levels with “Let it Be”


A full list of Achievements changes includes:

• Removal of the “Complete X Daily Tidy special events” Achievements
  
• Adjustment to the counts required for the “Complete X Daily Tidy’s” Achievements, to align with the modified badges scaling mentioned in the section above
  
• Reduction of the “Hint Hunter” and “What Is Will Be” Achievements from requiring “every” to only requiring 10 hints and skips
  
• "Helpful Hints" achievement now operational (if you are having trouble with this, please see this forum post)
  
• "No Mess Left Behind" achievement stability fixes
  
• "Fun For Humans" achievement stability fix
  
• "Be The Chaos" achievement difficulty reduced
  

Additionally, we are aware that some of you have had your Daily Tidy streaks stalled recently. We are currently investigating and hope to be able to include a fix in our next update.


Other

• Added OpenGL 3.3 support for legacy Mac's (pre-2014)
  

Thank you all for your patience and kind support, and for providing us with your feedback. We will continue to listen to feedback and are committed to improving the A Little to the Left we all love.

Hey everyone,
If you’ve recently picked up a copy of A Little to the Left, you may not know that during the recent holiday period we released some very special festive-themed Daily Tidy puzzles. The “Good Tidyings” were a series of six daily puzzles that were only available for six days over the holidays. If you didn’t play them when they were live in-game, you sadly missed out. But wait; you haven’t!

Many of our new players have found A Little to the Left thanks to the wonderful TikTok videos from Jacob Forster, and so we shared our secret access steps with Jacob to help bring the news to you. You can find the news at the start of the latest puzzle playthrough video:

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How to access the Good Tidyings.
Yep, in short, all you need to do is manually change the system date on your format of choice (whether that’s PC or Nintendo Switch).

Before you start changing the date on your computer, it’s advisable to have other apps that may utilise the date closed to avoid any date/time conflicts.

To unlock the special time limited Daily Tidys all you need to do is change the system date on your computer to December 27th 2022 before you load A Little to the Left.

Once you’ve changed the date, load up A Little to the Left and you should see the special event when you click on Daily Tidy.



Now, you can play through each of the special festive puzzles!

Once you’ve completed them, quit out of the game, and change the clock back to the correct date.

We hope those of you who have missed out on the Good Tidyings so far enjoy our bonus puzzles. And if you have completed A Little to the Left already, or simply want to enjoy the experience with somebody else while you play through the game, we highly recommend checking out Jacob’s videos over on YouTube or TikTok.