Hey all, thanks for the Steam feedback — a lot of this came straight from your reviews and refund notes. Any issues let me know on this post or the forum. Open to your ideas to improve the game also.
Highlights
- The joke is about AI slop now — every item, job and message rewritten so the satire lands where it should
- Every translation redone by hand — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, translated for meaning so the jokes still work, then checked by a second reviewer
- New Menu — top right or Esc: Resume, Language, How to play, Settings and Quit game
- Choose your language — every language listed in its own writing, or "Use Steam's language". The game now starts in your Steam language
- How to play — a short guide on your first launch (SlopBay, Earnings, Cloud Storage, the Supercomputer Fund), there again from the Menu
- Joker Poker — jokers of its own with clearer effects, Fine-Tunes for each hand, and the whole table translated
The satire, written in
- The AI Artist's Masterpiece Forge sells AI-ruined classics — the Mona Lisa Poster (seven fingers), The Scream Mug, a Hand-Painted Scream Mug (painted by an assembly-line robot) — and ends in the Remastered Art Canon
- The Stock Photo Mill grows from a Fake GPU Listing into a Phantom Storefront and a Slop Datacenter Campus
- Jobs say what they make — Citation Forgery, Fake Reviews, Troll Farm Setup, Jailbreak
- Rare finds shout what they are — "SIX FINGERS!", "97% OF EXPERTS AGREE!", "YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT!"
- Helpers fit their agent — the Dataset Bro hires a Data Labeler, the AI Grifter a Wash-Trading Bot
- Leftovers from other games are gone
Gameplay & Fixes
- The 14 most valuable late-game items (Final Victory Banner…) now sell for their full price
- Stacks past 2,147,483,647 no longer drop to 0 — if it happened in your save, the stack comes back full on load
- AI Agents working in the background now find rare items too
- Coming back after a while no longer dumps a burst of instant crafts
- B and N no longer fire while you type in a search box
- Smoother late game — lists no longer re-sort under your cursor, screens refresh only what changed, music streams from disk
- Japanese and Russian use fonts made for them now, as Chinese already did
- Craft buttons no longer stick English plural endings onto item names in other languages
Balance
- Boost prices keep rising past ~$2.1 million (their bonuses kept growing while the price stopped) — very high levels will see a much higher next price, that's the fix
- Resourcefulness tops out at 50% (at 100% every craft was free)
- Bill Humanity — one set of five claims every 30 minutes for all your agents together, not five per agent
- After you deliver a Client Order, the next arrives an hour later (buying its items at SlopBay and delivering for double could repeat forever)
- Extra copies of a job keep getting dearer past the fifth (they stuck at ~$214.75)
Your saves carry over — only names you see have changed.