Home Sweet Gnome

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• Announcements·3 Sept 2026Official

  Playtest is now closed!

  That's it for this time - The first Home Sweet Gnome Playtest has come to an end!We could not be happier with how the playtest has panned out, and are so grateful to everyone who took the time to play! We've had over 660 (!!!) playtesters and 200 feedback forms submitted - that's a looot of valuable data!🎮Seeing the positive response has given us a HUGE boost in motivation to get back to developing and making the game even better✨ And, of course, adding MORE content and gameplay!Thank you again, your support means the world to our little team🫶Until next time, stay cozy!//The gnomes at Elva Entertainment
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• Announcements·20 Aug 2026Official

  📣PLAYTEST IS LIVE!

  IT’S TIME!🎉 Saga's bed & breakfast is offically open! Try out a piece of Home Sweet Gnome, give us your feedback, and help shape the future of the game🌲🍄☕Feel free to share videos, screenshots and streams of the playtest!🎮 Play now until Sept 3rd We're so excited to FINALLY be able to bring you a little taste of what the core of the game will be like and cannot wait to hear what you think!✨ Join the discussion in our Community DiscordStay cozy!☕ //The gnomes at Elva Entertainment
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• Announcements·31 Jul 2026Official

  📣PLAYTEST ANNOUNCEMENT!

  Pack your bags, we’re going to Saga’s Bed & Breakfast! Aug 20th - Sept 3rd, we’re opening the doors to our first Steam playtest Be one of the first to try our cozy hotel management game, share your thoughts and ideas, and help us shape the rest of the game!🌲🍄☕ Sign up NOW on our Steam page to get notified when you can play!🎮
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• Community & Events·30 Mar 2026Official

  House & Home Fest and what we've been up to in 2026!

  It's finally time for House & Home Fest🏡✨As soon as we saw the title of the event, we KNEW we needed to be in it - it even rhymes with our game!This event is all about the home: decorating, cleaning, organizing, renovating, and more! There are some really amazing games participating, both upcoming and already released ones, so make sure to check out the event running NOW through Apr 6th🪴💌Now for a live report from inside the Home Sweet Gnome headquarters📣In our last Steam update, we mentioned getting started on a brand new area and we're happy to report that we're pretty much done! What we need now is some more juice - visual effects, animations... All that good stuff! We already have a few things in place but we want MORE!😍🌲 Creating the new location has given us a really good foundation for expanding the world in the future, which feels super exciting! We've also moved on to some brand new mechanics that are currently in progress but not quite ready to be revealed...👀 If you want more in-depth updates and want to see our progress you should join our Discord community where we post our official Development Updates✨ They're not quite weekly but we try to post one whenever we have something cool to show you!We're working hard behind the scenes and are really excited to let everyone try the game and hear your thoughts once it's ready🫶Until next time, stay cozy and eat lots of yummy fika!☕//The gnomes at Elva Entertainment🦋
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• Patch Notes·2 Dec 2025Official

  Steam page update and Teaser Trailer Anniversary

  Hej hej!We're excited to finally be posting our very first update here on Steam!Some of you might have noticed there have been some quite big changes on our Steam page... We've updated all the visuals with some brand new screenshots, and a first look at the building/decoration gameplay!When the Steam page launched back in June (can you believe it's been almost 6 months?! It feels like yesterday...) we were using footage from the earliest prototype of the game with some assets missing and quite a few placeholders. Having done a couple of external playtests, there were some things we knew needed to be updated:UI: All the previous UI was very placeholder-y and did not meet our internal goals for the handcrafted and colorful vibes we wanted.UX and visual clarity: There were too many button presses and sub-menus in the building/furnishing system (players wanted fewer clicks to get a piece of furniture into a room, as well as the ability to rearrange the room by clicking on a piece of furniture directly). It was also hard for players to understand how different furniture influences a room, and how that correlates to the guests' happiness. Here's how it looked before:So, what did we do?Over the summer we focused heavily on updating both the UI and the UX to make the player experience more intuitive and visually pleasing! Here's what we've changed (so far):Brand new UI for both building and furnishing mode! Our goal here was to make it feel more crafty and like something Saga would probably have designed herself.Added room exteriors - Now there's actual houses on each branch!Combined all sub-menus in the furnishing system into one big super menu! No more extra clicks to get where you need to go! Added tabs to separate the different furniture categoriesAdded flavor text to all furniture/exteriorsMade the room stats VS guest wants purely visual, and visible at all times. Portraits and emotions show how guests feel about a room!Added a custom cursorHere's how it looks now!What...
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