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Five languages, new display settings, and a wide-screen fix

Dark Workshop Simulator Demo · published 26 Aug 2026, 18:34 UTC

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Five languages

The shop now speaks English, Russian, German, Spanish and French. Every menu, item, recipe, contract and line of the Whispering Skull's dialogue is translated, and the game picks your system language automatically on first launch. You can change it any time in Settings.

An honest note: every language other than English is machine translated and has not yet been reviewed by a native speaker. It has been checked for the things that break a game, missing text, broken formatting, clipped labels, but not for the things only a native ear catches. If something reads wrong, or worse, unintentionally funny, please tell us. We would rather fix it than pretend it is fine.

Audio

Interface sound now has [b]its own volume slider[/b], separate from sound effects. You can silence button clicks without losing footsteps, crafting and the till

Fixes

Fixed the billboard and journal panels overlapping on 16:10 and other non-16:9 displays
Fixed confirmation buttons reading True and False instead of Yes and No
Fixed goods knocked off a shelf sometimes landing behind it
Sped up the customer hit reaction and enlarged the impact effect
Cleaned up a batch of English typos and punctuation across items, contracts and world events

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