- A personal letter is waiting for you the next time you start the game. You get it once — close it and it's gone for good. - Fixed: terrain texture in the wrong format) Thanks for playing my game. The next bigger update will come in the next week.
Thank you for all your feedback over the past weeks! This is the biggest update By My Side has received so far. Alongside brand-new content, we've fixed many of the issues reported by the community and completely reworked several core gameplay systems. 🛠️ Major Improvements Completely reworked airplane Entering and leaving the aircraft is now reliable, even with a full inventory. Cargo storage…
Hey everyone! 🐕 A big update — and a lot of it comes straight from your feedback. Highlights: 🛒 New: The Wagon Build a wooden wheeled wagon at the workbench — the summer alternative to the sled! As you pull it, the front wheels visibly steer into the turns and the wheels roll along. The sled still glides best on snow, the wagon rolls best on bare ground — hitch either one to yourself or to yo…
New - Item tooltips: every item now shows what it's for and where to get it — or what it's crafted from — in all 8 languages. No more guessing what a part does or where a resource comes from. Bug fixes - Recipes that produce the same item (e.g. Cloth from Wool or from Fiber) are now clearly distinguishable at the workbench, and their tooltips show the correct ingredients. - Pressing without a h…
Thank you for all the feedback right after the 1.0 release — a lot of this comes straight from you! ⏸️ Real Pause The pause menu now truly freezes the whole world in single-player — time, animals, weather. A clear "⏸ Game paused" shows it. Perfect for when the phone rings. (In co-op the game keeps running for everyone, with a clear note.) 🪢 Rope Winch — now for yourself, too New: tie the winch…
The big day: By My Side is now version 1.0 — thank you to everyone who joined us through Early Access and shaped the game with your feedback! You can now see the version in the main menu (important for co-op: both players need the same version). 🔌 Power & Water — Finally Clear - Holding a cable or hose makes all connectable devices glow (gold = power, blue = water), with step-by-step prompts:…
🏠 Build Upwards — Multi-Storey Houses - New piece: Intermediate Floor. Snaps flush onto your wall tops — walkable, and the next storey's walls go right on top of it. 2 planks. Leave one cell open for your stairwell. - Stairs stack properly now. Place a second staircase on the upper floor, offset from the first, for a real stairwell. Previously the second one silently dropped back to the ground…
🎮 Steam co-op invites now work - Fixed the bug where joining a friend's game via a Steam invite got stuck at the main menu — the character select appeared, but nothing happened after. You now connect straight into your friend's world. - Under the hood: the Steam peer-to-peer relay wasn't being initialized, so the connection socket could never be created. That's fixed now. - The host just needs…
What's new in this update Controller support — completely overhauled - Dog naming works with a controller — pick from suggested names, no keyboard needed. - Chests & inventory: after taking an item, the next one stays selected — you can keep taking items (previously the selection was lost after one). - Eat food with a controller (inventory and hotbar), now with a visible on-screen prompt (Ⓧ Eat…
Update — What's New Multiplayer - Steam multiplayer is now live — play together with friends. New Player Experience - Added a tutorial / improved onboarding to help you get started faster. - Language selection on first launch (the game no longer forces German for everyone). Characters - New, higher-quality characters (male & female). - Character selection at the start of a new game. - Color cus…
🌲 Forest & world - Big forest pass: trees now have varied green tones and a natural, matte look — and you can no longer walk through distant trees. Saplings lost their glossy look too. 🧍 Characters - New character creation — pick male or female, each with their own animations and appearance. - Character backgrounds now show the correct title in your language (all 8 supported). - Existing save…
# BY MY SIDE — #1 MAJOR UPDATE - On 10.07🐕✈️ ### The wild is about to feel more alive than ever — and this time, you decide who walks into it. 🧍 Choose your survivor Begin your journey as one of two fully-animated characters. Pick who braves the wilderness — right at the start of a new game. Customize the look of your survivor's parts to make them yours. 🌲 A living forest Hand-crafted new pi…
Language & First Launch - The game now starts in your language automatically (detects Steam, else system language). No more German-for-everyone — unsupported languages fall back to English. - New language-selection screen on the very first launch — pick your language before anything happens. Changeable anytime in the pause menu. - All text now updates instantly when you switch language mid-game…
By My Side — Update Fixed - You could get stuck in the inventory: Esc now closes open menus/windows first, and only opens the pause menu when nothing else is open. - The chicken coop showed a duplicate placement preview — now only the correct one at your cursor. New - Deconstruct buildings: Placed structures (chicken coop, furniture, workstations and more) can now be removed — hold to deconstru…
Localization - 88 native-speaker corrections applied across 7 translated languages (EN, 简体中文, RU, FR, ES, PT-BR, JA) after a full native-review pass. - Fixed a real menu bug: the "German" option in the language selector showed the wrong language name in FR/ES/PT-BR/JA (e.g. a Spanish player picking "Español" would actually switch to German). Now correctly Allemand / Alemán / Alemão / ドイツ語. - La…
Hey everyone, Quick but important update before the weekend. 📅 RELEASE DATE CORRECTION The store page currently shows July 3 — that date is no longer accurate. Due to a Steam review process delay, the actual release is now planned for July 6. Sorry for any confusion if you were waiting for today! We'll update the store page date as soon as we can. 🐕 MULTIPLAYER By My Side supports online co-o…
🐾 By My Side — the Demo is live, and our first big update is here! It's really happening! Hundreds of you added the demo in the very first hours — thank you, from the bottom of our (and our dog's) heart. To celebrate, we just pushed our very first content update, and it's a big one. 🐕 Your dog — your companion for life · Find a dog and tame him with patience. He comes as one of three breeds —…
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