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Update Notes for February 11, 2025

- New setting to enable searching "All Periodicals": This is a much requested feature but also makes some puzzles easier, so it is defaulted to off. Players who find it frustrating to search every periodical for the same thing can turn it on and search much faster.
- New setting to disable intuition: This is a for hardcore detectives who want no leads at all. It's default off.
- Settings has now been split into several screens. It was too much to fit on one screen!
- Fixed a bug where the Newspaper on the title screen looked bad on a 16:10 screen.
- Fixed a bug where the Zoom +/- buttons were visible during cutscenes.
- Would this even be an update without any typo fixes?

Update Notes for February 7, 2025

- The game now supports 16:10 screens like the one on the Steam Deck. Previously there were black bars at the top and the bottom of the screen but now it should take up the full screen.
- There are performance improvements when zoomed in on the tree, desk or PC.
- Everything you can interact with in the room now has an icon
- Fixes an issue where the zoom buttons were visible on the family tree in cut scenes
- The mouse cursor is smaller on lower resolutions. Previously it looked quite big in 1080p!
- Some small typos were fixed
- A hint is now skipped if you've figured out a later step.
- Fixed an issue where an article would not end up in your history (ghost article?!?!)
- More dates and text have been adjusted to be consistent.



Updates for February 4, 2025

- Camera transitions can now be fully disabled, enabled, or only from/to the room. The default is still from/to the room.
- There is a new control option for zoom sensitivity. This affects the scroll wheel on a mouse or magnify gesture on a trackpad.
- The dates of some periodicals have been adjusted in Roottreemania to be more consistent with timeframes given.
- There's now a description of what a yearbook is in the notebook, since they are not universal!
- Fixes a bug where if you double clicked a note to edit it, then cancelled, it would keep selecting.
- Added a "Save Note" button for when you edit a note to make it more clear how to save it.
- Fixes a bug where a particular Roottree's snipped photo wouldn't appear if you came back to their piece of evidence
- Alt+Q no longer quits the game because that shortcut is used in German/Swiss keyboards for the @ symbol
- Fixes a bug where ã wouldn't show up in your search history

Update Notes for February 2, 2025

This update mostly fixes regressions introduced by other fixes and backend work to support more platforms 😳 - sorry, it's been a busy time!

- Fixes an issue with line spacing of some fonts on the family tree
- Adds back a missing hint in Roottreemania
- No typos this time, but this update includes some minor text changes that make things more clear

Update Notes for January 29, 2025

- Added a List of Names to make it clear your employer provided you with the list. Some players felt like it was cheating to use the list of names. It's not!
- Adds 2 more notebook pages for those who love to take notes.
- Adds an accessibility option to skip motion transitions when moving around the room. It's also skipped now for all players between the tree/pc/evidence because it feels much better.
- There are keyboard shortcuts now for moving around the room (hover over the menu to see, it's the F keys)
- Fixes a bug with some font line spacing
- Fixes typos (insert joke here)