Thrifty Business

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• Patch Notes·29 Sept 2026Official

  A little update from us! ⭐

  Hello there! Long time, no see! We hope you’ve all had a good summer and that your thrift stores are thriving! We thought it’s about time for us to give a little Spellgarden Games update and of course more importantly share what we’ve been working on these past few weeks and what’s coming next for Thrifty Business!You would rather watch this dev log in video format and see some of our Gamescom footage as well as a little Thrifty Business teaser? Here you go:As a quick recap and just in case you missed it: We pushed our latest update at the very end of July, which included a whole number of QOL improvements such as trash cans, sale signs, box shop rerolls and more. You can read about it (or watch our video) here.Our work didn’t end with said update though! In fact we’ve been almost continuously tinkering away at improving your thrift shop experience! To be honest we ran into some issues with one specific feature, that’s been highly requested actually. And while it was initially on our feature list very early on, it didn’t make it into the game upon release as we simply ran out of time and into too many bugs. 😅Knowing what we know now, it was a good thing to not have attempted this back in February/March though, because it ended up causing a lot more troubles than we had initially hoped and our anxious pre-release minds probably wouldn’t have taken that too well… (We know we’re teasing a bit here, but we’ll show you a little something in this post as well!)Gamescom & HolidayAnd then, just as we had started figuring it out, Gamescom came around the corner (Aug 26-30). Or: the one time during the year we all actually get to see each other IRL! So of course we had to be there and it was a BLAST! It’s always so nice to connect with fellow indie game devs and get together with like-minded people. We share a little bit more and show some Gamescom snippets in the previously mentioned video!But of course (like clockwork), some of us caught a bit of a cold which made our littl...
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• Patch Notes·4 Aug 2026Official

  Small Patch 1.0.3516

  Hi everyone! We just updated the game to fix these issues: Fixed issues with recycling furniture or storing them Fixed an issue with customers queing Fixed some customers buying items that were set as not for sale by the player Fixed item were able to be set as not for sale even if customers already wanted to buy them Spellgarden Games 🔮 (Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)
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• Patch Notes·30 Jul 2026Official

  FREE Quality of Life-Update OUT NOW! ⭐

  Is your thrift shop ready for a little update?Some of you might already know that we’ve been a bit busy since the launch of Thrifty Business working on our other small shop simulator. 🐸But before and after diving into the world of stickers once again, we’ve also still been deeply invested in the thrift store side of it all. And we’re quite giddy to tell you about this free Quality of Life update we have for you today! 🥳To get you intrigued all we’ll say here is: keep your favorite items, easy cleaning, clearance section…And with that, let’s talk about all the changes we’ve made AND also give you a little teaser of what’s yet to come:Spellgarden Games 🔮 (Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)Patch notes for Version 1.0.3486:Added sale signs for discounting itemsAdded trash cansAdded functionality to mark items as not for sale so they can be used as decorationAdded a box shop rerollAdded more wall and floor coloursAdded two new tutorial steps to explain how to move boxes and how to switch between item and furniture modeFixed a bug in the shop name generator that would sometimes combine two words that don’t work togetherAdded a missing item to Davids boxFixed a bug where the hover UI did not update the category levels when moving itemsFixed unlock for Ingrids photo and Opening Event item rewards when tutorial quest is skippedFixed that sometimes boxes with two categories would only have items from one categoryFixed UI that was still shown in photo modeFixed an issue connected to how achievements are unlocked in SteamVisual fixes & performance optimizations
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• Announcements·24 Jun 2026Official

  One Month since releasing Thrifty Business! ⭐

  It’s now been (a bit more than) a month since we released Thrifty Business and some of you might have been wondering what’s been going on behind the scenes in the past few weeks, if we’re planning any updates and how the release went for us!So, we sat down to record a little retrospective video to look at the 9 months we spent developing Thrifty Business, the overall wishlist numbers and sales and chat about what our plans for this game are in the future:But to summarize we can say that, while we don’t have a road map or any specific dates for you yet, there will be more QoL updates as well as some more content coming! We’re currently juggling this game along with the recently announced Sticky Business DLC, so stay tuned for some more news soon!And of course a big big big THANK YOU for all of the support over the last few months! Anyone who wishlisted, played the demo and gave feedback and of course purchased the game since release has helped our little studio and the creation of this game so much! We’re excited to continue this journey! 🧡Talk to you soon!Spellgarden Games 🔮 (Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)
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• Patch Notes·21 May 2026Official

  Thank you for an amazing launch!

  O M G!! First of all THANK YOU SO MUCH for a really really fun launch! It’s been absolutely amazing to see your reactions to our game, gush about different cute items together and see some first pictures of all your pretty shops! And then we wanted to say if you have just a couple of minutes to spare, we’d super appreciate a review on Steam. We'd love to hear your thoughts so we can make the game even better!And lastly, we just pushed a small update with a few bug fixes. Thank you all for helping us find those as well as giving some awesome feedback already! The team will now re-calibrate a bit over the next week, and then we'll start working on some fun updates for the game and implement some of your feedback! Patch Notes:Fixed capitalized letters not working on SteamDeckFixed edge scrolling with controller not workingFixed recycling furniture would remove an additional furniture with itFixed left trackpad would also move the camera sometimesFixed button glyphs were misplaced when using the clean font and in asian languagesFixed selection in box shop UIFixed a bug where the game could be stuck after picking up an itemFixed Marc now buying all saws, not only the handsaw.Fixed part of the UI not working on wide screens.Various text and category fixesAdded visual progress for category levelsSpellgarden Games 🔮 (Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)
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