Hi everyone!
This update brings a hands-on Pizza Station, a new Assistant Manager employee role, additional management tools, fresh lane artwork, more decorations, and a larger cast of customers.
We've also made even more progress in optimizing the game for a better experience.
New Food is Ready to be Served
Pizza is now available as a new food option for your alley!
Preparing an order takes place across several stages:
Add the requested toppings at the preparation board.
Transfer the pizza into the oven.
Wait for it to finish baking.
Return it to the board for cutting and boxing.
Deliver the finished pizza to the customer.
Serve Churros to your customers with optional chocolate sauce from the fountain!
This update also brings three new drinks: Root Beer, Lemonade, and Chocolate Milk.
Expand to 20 Bowling Lanes
Two new lane upgrades allow you to expand your alley even further:
Lanes Upgrade 7 — adds two lanes, unlocks at Alley Level 9, and costs $30,000.
Lanes Upgrade 8 — adds another two lanes, unlocks at Alley Level 9, and costs $35,000.
Purchasing both upgrades increases the alley’s maximum capacity from 16 to 20 bowling lanes, giving you more room for customers, parties, professional bowlers, and tournaments.
Hire an Assistant Manager
The new Assistant Manager role gives growing alleys some much-needed operational support.
You may employ one Assistant Manager at a time, with Nora and Marcus joining the roster as management candidates. While patrolling the alley, your manager can:
Catch vending machine thieves they notice.
Collect designated deliveries from outside.
Carry deliveries into the storage room or shelves.
Replace depleted condiment and food-container stations.
Restock fridges, freezers, and snack shelves using stored supplies.
Managers only restock shelves that you’ve previously stocked yourself. This lets you decide exactly where each product belongs without your manager filling every empty shelf automatically.
Furniture, supply, and lane-decoration orders now include a Manager Hauls to Storage option. Enable it when ordering to have eligible deliveries marked for your manager.
Assign Jobs from the Management Computer
Employee jobs can now be assigned directly through the Manage application on your office computer.
Select an employee’s Bowling Cashier, Food Cashier, Cook, or Maintenance skill to assign that job.
Customize Employee Uniforms
Employees can now have custom uniform colors.
Uniform choices are saved individually, but can optionally be applied to all employees.
The Lucky Wheel Is Ready
The Casino's Lucky Wheel is now open!
Claim one free spin each night, with possible rewards including cash and improvements to your alley’s rating.
Six New Lane-Art Designs
Give your lanes a bold new backdrop with six additional artwork options:
Starfield Travel
Pulse Spectrum
Chroma Marble
Liquid Pop
Geometry Clash
Emerald Layers
Several designs feature animated effects, creating a more dynamic appearance behind the pins.
New Furniture and Customization
The furniture catalog has also expanded with:
Medieval Chandelier
Medieval Sconce
Medieval Banner
Medieval Shield
Vertical Light Bar
Large Food Containers
Party Carpet
Blue Sky surface material
Additional permanent fixtures and surfaces throughout the alley can now be painted.
Shoe racks can also be restricted by both shoe size and shoe design. This makes it possible to create dedicated storage for specific styles while keeping your shoe inventory organized.
More Characters Around Town
The customer roster has grown from 54 to 84 possible characters.
Fourteen completely new characters have been added:
Aaron
Alice
Amir
Brooke
Caleb
Layla
Leo
Margot
Oscar
Rachel
Stella
Vanessa
Victor
Violet
Sixteen previously created characters have also joined the active customer pool, bringing much more variety to the alley, sidewalk, and Casino Night crowds.
Character models have been rebuilt to reduce skin clipping through tight clothing. Loading screens now remain visible until character appearances are ready, preventing invisible NPCs or walking shadows from appearing during introductions and save loading.
Additional Improvements
This update includes many other fixes and quality-of-life changes:
You can now change the reservation status of party room lanes, allowing them to be used by regular customers
You can now change all item prices by +/- 10% with newly added buttons.
Children no longer go to the casino.
The max loan amount now increases with level.
Improved NPC claw-machine behavior, including searching for prizes and reacting to misses.
Improved hinged-door physics to prevent doors from separating from their frames.
Autosave labels now include the alley name.
Hotbar prompts correctly display remapped controls.
Customer spawning now respects available front-desk queue capacity.
Fixed food stock being counted incorrectly after serving or loading.
Fixed customers becoming stranded outside after loading a save.
Fixed Casino guests sliding out of blackjack chairs.
The health inspector no longer leaves dirt piles.
Improved recovery of damaged local saves using valid Steam Cloud copies.
Improved arcade and racing-cabinet screen displays.
Improved pizza handling, highlighting, cutting, boxing, and cook navigation.
Adjusted food, furniture, employee, and day-based pricing balance.
Improved audio settings, footsteps, nighttime visuals, navigation, and localization.
Fixed several progression, tutorial, reservation, storage, and furniture-placement issues.
Thank you for continuing to play and share your feedback. We hope the new Pizza Station and Assistant Manager give you plenty of new ways to build—and automate—the bowling alley of your dreams!