Witchy Business News

Get ready for a spooky season at your witchcraft shop! The Halloween Update adds brand new content, features, and magical improvements to make your potions extra potent. 🧙‍♀️✨

[h2]🧪 New Content[/h2]

• Added 2 brand new potions to brew during the Halloween season!
  
• Added 3 new Sanctuary upgrades to enhance your witchy workspace.
  

[h2]🎃 Seasonal Features[/h2]

• Added Halloween-themed upgrade spots and decorations to your Sanctuary.
  
• Introduced a new NPC — meet a mysterious spirit visiting for Halloween!
  

[h2]⚙️ Improvements[/h2]

• Updated layout for the Shop Scene and improved performance.
  
• Refined customer tab in Grimoire.
  
• Synced all sheets and added new upgrade effects for multiple Halloween items.
  
• Implemented “Ready to Collect” indicators for themed upgrades.
  
• Updated Sanctum Perfecta & Witchipedia entries for the new content.
  
• Fixed an issue causing some screens in Japanese to crash the game.
  
• Various bug fixes and optimizations for smoother gameplay.
  

[h2]🕯️ Happy Halloween from Rogue Duck Team![/h2]

Enjoy the cozy chaos of potion brewing, collect your spooky upgrades, and don’t forget to light a pumpkin or two in your atelier. 🎃💫



https://store.steampowered.com/app/3415230/Witchy_Business/




[h2]Our barista game Cats & Cups coming out this Weekend![/h2]

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Hey Witches!
A small but important update is here with fixes and improvements for your shopkeeping adventures. 🧙‍♀️

• Disabled voiceover for Merchant in the Bazaar scene
  
• Added syncer for "Witchipedia"
  
• Adjusted scroll sensitivity for UI panels
  
• Fixed text color issues for better readability across the game
  

Thank you for continuing to brew with us! 💜
Your feedback helps us polish the game and keep the cauldrons bubbling. 🔮

Hey everyone, we have another small patch, have a great weekend!

• Added failsafe for Game.json and Preferences.json. If files are corrupted or missing, the game now falls back to safe defaults.
  
• Adjusted 3 achievements to make them easier to unlock.
  
• Synced and updated achievements on Steamworks for consistency.
  

[h2]Technical Details[/h2]

• Failsafe system validates files at startup and generates backup configs when needed.
  
• Invalid values are automatically corrected during save operations.
  

[h2]Achievements[/h2]

• Lowered thresholds for certain achievements.
  
• Improved clarity of unlock conditions.
  
• Progress is preserved for existing players.
  

[h2]Steamworks Sync[/h2]

• Achievement names and descriptions now fully match between in-game and Steam.
  
• Unlock tracking and reporting re-tested for accuracy.
  

Greetings, Witches! ✨ The cauldrons have been bubbling and we’ve been hard at work stirring in fixes and polish for your shops. Here’s what’s new in this update:

[h2]Achievements[/h2]
- "Two Sides of a Coin", "Who Keeps Poisoning These?!" and "Ritual of Adventure" achievements have been updated for smoother progress tracking.

[h2]Gameplay & Fixes[/h2]
- Potion Junkie: If you haven’t given Dangerous Experiment, the customer will continue showing up even after all recipes are discovered.
- Expired orders are no longer shown in recipe selection panels. They’ll still be marked in your inventory with an exclamation indicator on the day they expire.
- Special NPCs like Potion Junkie, Shady Customer, and Trade Warden no longer accept normal customer orders.

[h2]Closing Words[/h2]
Your feedback continues to guide our brew! Thank you for sharing your ideas, reports, and magical energy with us. Keep the potions flowing and the cats happy. 🐾💜

[h2]Audio & Sound Improvements[/h2]
- Adjusted thief and sheep sound effects to better match interactions
- Added new speech volume settings for finer control
- Introduced a happy SFX variant for Merchants
- Updated customer sound effects for more variety
- Refined upgrade effect sounds for the Sanctuary’s special spot
- Improved overall audio mix with better voiceover gain

[h2]Gameplay & Systems[/h2]
- Updated spawner logic in The Coven for smoother balance
- Added new achievements to expand progression goals
- Synced achievement data properly with the achievement syncer
- Synced translations across all supported languages

[h2]Other[/h2]
- General polish and performance tweaks

Thank you all for your amazing feedback and support 💜 Your suggestions keep making Witchy Business even better!

If you haven't already, please give us your feedback by writing a review on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3415230/Witchy_Business/