A Little to the Left News

We're so ecstatic to share that 200k of you have bought and played A Little to the Left!

It's great to see so many of you playing the game and enjoying the puzzles we have created.

Rookie is overjoyed to see 200K of you in-game, we just had to share the great news.

If you were thinking of playing, now is the perfect time; so grab a blanket, a hot cocoa and cosy up with a copy of A Little to the Left...

Well, it's been a busy 1.5 months since launch and the response has been absolutely wonderful for A Little to the Left! It's been a joy to watch players connect with the game, and we really appreciate everyone who has reached out with feedback and bug reports. Thank you!!


Features

• Implementation of the "Good Tidyings" limited-time Daily Tidy holiday event, featuring 6 new free holiday-themed puzzles releasing one per day, over the span of 6 days from December 22nd to 27th.
  

Achievements & Data

• Modals for outputting data save/load errors
  
• "Streak Resolver" to repair streaks that were broken due to getting an unsolvable variation of the Bread Tags or Spice Jars Daily Tidy's
  
• Hint Hunter and What is Will Be achievements stability fix and now supports unlock on subsequent playthroughs
  
• Campaign achievements now award at end of credits or if credits are aborted, instead of awarding as final level completes
  
• Reset on Eggs level no longer negates Exacting Eggs achievement
  
• Exacting Eggs and Keep Away achievements no longer awarded on level skip
  
• No longer able to trigger the "consecutive Daily Tidy's played" achievements through uninstall/reinstall of game
  
• Daily Tidy-related achievements descriptions now indicate that puzzles must be completed, not just played in order to qualify for achievement
  
• Added indicator to Hint menu for when a hint has been adequately revealed to qualify for hint-related achievements
  
• Stats reset count when starting a new game save (this won't affect existing awarded achievements)
  

Gameplay

• Added interaction feedback to freeform Symmetry puzzles (Shells, Seed Pods, Clovers) to better communicate puzzle criteria
  
• Updated hints on freeform Symmetry puzzles (Shells, Seed Pods, Clovers) to communicate puzzle logic rules instead of showing singular solution
  
• Updated artwork for improved player feedback in Front of Fridge: Postcards, Workbench, and Lamp levels
  
• Goal height reduced by 33% in Tupperware Tower
  
• Shuffle objects (Books, Spice Jars, etc) will no longer result in overlap with quick drag interaction
  
• Items can no longer be forced out of frame in the Storage Boxes level
  
• Storage Boxes level can no longer be solved with an object outside of the box
  
• All panable objects now support pan drag beyond confines of object bounds
  
• Corrected cursor sprite state when releasing swabs after a level reset in the Medicine Cabinet level
  
• Shade in Lamp level will no longer snap to opposite side when being tilted to far left
  
• Added SFX on heart-shaped pod in Seed Pods puzzle
  

Daily Tidy

• Resolved rare bug in Daily Tidy "Bread Tags" puzzle that would cause failure to load, resulting in a blank white screen
  
• Daily Tidy "Bread Tags" level now allows for tags to be placed regardless if another object is inside the placement detection area
  
• Resolved rare bug in Daily Tidy "Spice Jars" puzzle that could result in a variation where top row jars abide by both solutions simultaneously, preventing "surface curves" solution from being detected
  
• Outputting level index and randomizer seed to Daily Tidy menu for reference
  
• Daily Tidy menu will no longer change immediately to next days Daily Tidy interface if the player is in the menu or actively playing a Daily Tidy puzzle at the time of a new day start (12:00am)
  

UI & Languages

• Fixing error that could cause the hint eraser to grow in size and fill screen on the Wet Paw Prints level
  
• Corrected eraser "drop" interaction for Radial Dance Party "Food" phase hint
  
• Title screen menu buttons active clickable area now confined to menu item text length
  
• Fixed translation text for "Daily Tidy" title for Traditional Chinese
  
• Repaired missing glyphs in "minutes" text for Chinese languages
  
• Fixed overlapping "minutes" text in Daily Tidy menu for Turkish
  
• Fixed missing glyphs in Good Tidyings title for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) and Korean languages
  

I have a confession to make. I’m not really feeling very Christmassy yet. There’s only a week and a bit to go before the day itself, and I’ve got all my decorations up and everything. I just haven’t found that festive groove. Cat-wrangling puzzler A Little To The Left has something in its Christmas sack that might spur on some kind of festive awakening though. Between December 22nd and 27th, A Little To The Left’s putting aside its Daily Tidy Delivery mode of randomly generated individual challenges to offer six holiday-themed messes for you to make spick and/or span. Cheers, Max Inferno.

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Are you feline festive? We bring you Good Tidyings with our first holiday event. From 22 December through to 27 December, the usual messes found within The Daily Tidy Delivery mode will temporarily make way for six new, hand-crafted Yuletide disasters in need of your caring, cleaning hand.



Get ready for less elf, more shelf as you declutter the house by assembling broken cookie pieces and… well, we don’t want you to peek at these presents too early.



This limited-time event, available to all players on PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch, can be unwrapped from 00.00 in your local timezone on 22 December. A new puzzle is accessible on each day of the Holiday Event, and can be played up until 23.59 in your local timezone on 27 December. Be sure to solve them all before they’re boxed up with the decorations and returned to the attic.

Our holiday creations don’t stop with the game, either. Anyone looking to gift A Little to the Left to friends or family can visit our official website to download a free DIY holiday card template complete with pop-up gift or sneaky swiping cat paw. Insert a gift card for the digital store of your choice for the purrfect present.



*gift card not included

Hey all,
We just wanted to share with you that A Little to the Left has ticked all the boxes and we can confirm that it is Steam Deck Verified.

What does this mean? Well, it means that you can enjoy A Little to the Left on a Steam Deck without issue as it’s fully functional and works great with the built-in controls and display.

If you’re an owner of a Steam Deck and haven’t grabbed a copy of A Little to the Left yet, rest-easy in the knowledge that it plays great!