Major update: 0.4 | Cozy quest - Advisor update (Bridges, Demo, Release date)

Hear ye, hear ye, King, Queens and Monarchs!

Today, we are releasing our Advisor update and

Why Advisor, you might ask? Because he has a very important message for you!

City Tales: Medieval Era will release out of Early Access on January 29th 2026.

We also have a new demo!

You will be able to play your save once you buy the main game.

But for now, let's take a peek at the brand new 0.4 update!

• Bridges are finally coming to your city. They will be drawn automatically, no more citizens walking underwater and nearly drowning!

• Companions and buildings last levels will be unlocked. Companions will now gain Prestige that will be used in late-game content.

• A brand new narration and quest panel has been added so you can track your quest and read dialogs again, in case you missed anything!

• Starting from Tier 4, houses plot will have a chance to merge together, and create a smaller district.

• Also: Dogs 🐕!

Highlights

• Adds prestige system and unlocks companion and building last levels

• Adds bridges

• Adds three new music tracks

• UI - Improves profession identification (colors, flags and icons)

• UI - New dedicated quest & narration panels in the commune house

• Add auto merges plots of houses

Other

• Pauses circular progress bar vfx when game is paused

• Adds SFX and camera shake at invalid construction attempts

• Improves zoning performances

• Updates trade port fences to be fancier

• Updates zoning and parcel placement visual effects

• Renames Hyppocras

• Updates missing clay/sand fertility message wording

• Adds keybind (Shift by default) to hide construction panels that might get in the way

• UI - Always show building construction stacks (civil, farming)

• UI - display quest in the HUD in a specific arrangement (progression first, then sotry, then companions)

• Adds unique voices for all companions for assignation and unassignation SFX

• Keep zoning cancel confirmation interactable if zoning is invalid

• Allow wider farming district

• Balanced all sounds in game

• Add parcel count indicator in habitation panel

• Represent merged parcel inside district panel

• General Perf optimization for very late game

• Art

  • New visual for clay pits, sand pits, stone and iron carries

  • Removes underwater fences

  • Stone and paved road are wider in city centers

  • Polish Inns to accentuate differences between them (Inn, Lodge, Hostel)

  • Polish Tier 4, 5 & 6 habitations

  • Polish civil buildings especially at highest tiers

  • More visibile population from far

  • Add some new 3D mills

  • Add dogs walk among villagers

• Balancing:

  • Tanner does not use tools

  • Lord Inn consumes deer meat instead of wine

  • House tier 5&6 merge percentage balancing

• Fixes:

  • Fixes experience progress bars

  • Fixes rare occurrence of infinite tree fall

  • Adds save tooltip on load screen

  • Fixes Select Building Type Objective was not working when selecting Town Hall