Neongarten

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• Announcements·15 Apr 2026Official

  Endless Mode Released

  Neongarten 1.3 has been released! This update includes a new Endless Mode option from the Victory screen. If you win a game, you'll have the chance to push your luck even farther. Endless Mode was something that players have been asking for for a while, but I've resisted adding in for two reasons. The first thing to consider is performance. Unlike other games of its ilk, Neongarten has a permanent playing field. You add a building and it's there forever. Buildings and their 3D models have lights, textures, animations and so on, and the game (at least on my five-year-old laptop) can already chug a little bit once it gets to Day 64. Especially if I'm using lots of neon. I wasn't sure if the game's performance would suffer too much if any given player got to, say, day 128. The second thing was a game design conundrum. Neongartern is what I call a "broken build" game - discovering (and then building up to) building combos and synergies that make boatloads of cash. I didn't want a situation where the player is just waiting for their weekly rent to slowly increase past what their nightly income (based on some uber-combo) can sustain. Boring! I think I've solved the problem to my satisfaction. Endless mode unlocks and you can build upwards. But! The player doesn't actually get any more play area to build in. When you unlock a new layer, your oldest layer (the bottom-most one) gets taken out of the play space. The buildings are still there, but they just won't generate any new income or contribute to other nearby buildings. That way, you still gotta struggle to make it past the next week. (And the rapidly increasing rent amounts will quickly deplete any existing stockpiles of cash.) I'm hoping that this solution strikes a nice balance between acknowledging earlier uber-combos while still maintaining a certain level of challenge.(Of course, I could be wrong! Let me know, haha.)Happy building!
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• Patch Notes·4 Feb 2026Official

  Update 1.2.2

  Controllers, man. They can be tricky, especially switching between controller and keyboard / mouse input on the fly. When the game first was released, I tried to be clever with that switch. When the game is in "gamepad" mode, then Godot needs to display that particular button in "focused" mode, something that doesn't happen when you just hover over it (or even click it) with a mouse. When I detected mouse movement, I would remove the focus off of the focused UI control. This caused a bunch of headaches for some players. If a mouse was accidentally brushed (or a thumbpad on the Deck), then the focused element could disappear completely and make controllers difficult or even impossible to use. Sorry about that! My bad. This new update gets rid of that cleverness. If you ever use the controller buttons to move or select something, there should always be a focused element now, even if you switch to mouse / keyboard. It might look a little less clean, but it should always work.Other changes:On the default Steam Deck controller configuration, I set the right thumbpad to act as a joystick instead of a mouse. It worked well enough as a mouse, but the game still isn't set up to easily switch on and off between mouse and controller. I've seen a couple of new players get confused that the controller config included that but didn't really "plan" for it.Fixed some issues with keyboard button names popping up in UI instructions when controller button names should have appeared.Fixed some bugs in the Options Menu and New Game Menu where controller navigation had some hiccupsFixed an offset bug in the New Game Menu that showed up when a player hasn't won a game yet.
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• Patch Notes·19 Sept 2025Official

  Update 1.2.1

  The latest update, 1.2.whatever, is now out for public release! This content update adds a set of nine different Scenarios to choose from. Each scenario is designed to explore a certain synergy or build and give you a head start in that direction. They give you a specific game map, starting buildings, and initial perks. (To compensate for starting with perks up front, you won't be able to choose any perks at the end of the week.) With all those starting goodies, it only seems fair that the City Council is increasing how much rent they expect of you... There's also some small balance changes! The Corp Office gets a small upgrade, adding +1 income to any Corp building above it. I think this helps the Corp faction feel more vertically-inclined - ya know, build on the backs of the peasants sorta attitude. The Bar now gets +1 income from any residential building, not just Basic Apartments. It felt pretty underpowered compared to the Cafe, so I think this will bring it more in line. (The perk Cheap Booze used to expand the Bar's "range" from Basic Apartments to all residentials. Now it gives all bars a x2 multiplier.) Full change log:Nine scenarios: Office Park, Treecore, Neongarten, Netrunner, Highroller, Shady Business, Toxic Wasteland, City Hall, and AC/DC.Challenges are no longer available until you win a game. (Scenarios too.) I thought this would be a good idea to prevent new players from getting overwhelmed.Fixed a bug where you could untoggle difficulty buttons completely. (It would default to Normal).Fixed a bug where long challenge descriptions or perk descriptions didn't line wrap properly.Added keyboard panning with IJKLFixed a bug where the perk High Voltage Lasers didn't add any income to unlit Cult of Volt buildingsBars now get +1 income from any neighboring residential building, not just Basic ApartmentsThe perk Cheap Booze now gives Bars x2 MultiplierA Corp Office now adds +1 income to all Corp buildings above itself.Happy building!
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• Patch Notes·11 Jul 2025Official

  Update 1.1.2

  Neongarten 1.1.2 is now ready for everyone! This update rounds out the optional Black ICE challenge tags with four more options. - Inflation: At the beginning of each week, the rent due increases by your current nightly income * 7. So if rent would have been 263 for week 2 and you come in with an income of 30 per night, your new weekly rent due is 473 (= 263 + 30 * 7). - Balance: If any faction has 3 more buildings than another faction, then all buildings of that type get a -1 Multiplier. - Bad Neighbors: Buildings of the same type that neighbor each other give each other x0 Multipliers. - Power Multiplier: +Power effects are now +Multiplier bonuses instead. I've been able to win games with all four Black ICE challenges, and even with multiple ones enabled at the same time. I'm not sure that it's possible to win with every single one enabled, but I have had some fun trying to beat it with four different ones going at the same time. There's also a small bug fix with controller navigation for the Options menu. Enjoy!
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• Patch Notes·16 Jun 2025Official

  Update 1.1.1

  This is a small patch, but it should punch above its weight class in terms of quality of life. 1) If the player selects a different language, that new language is now saved. It no longer needs to be reset every time the game is launched. 2) There's now a button on the Options Screen for Windowed mode. If the player changes from full screen to windowed mode (or back) via F11 or by the shiny new button, that choice is saved and will be set when the game is launched.. Happy building!
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