Blind Box Shop Simulator news & patch notes

Hey there, Shop Managers!

v1.1.3 is now live, bringing new additions and bug fixes. Update to start playing:

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🛠️ Improvements & Additions

· New language support: Thai and Vietnamese are now officially available. · Tutorial improvement: a stocking tutorial has been added before the box-opening tutorial for a smoother start. · New "Customer Trading" toggle added to the settings menu — turn it on or off as you like.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

· Fixed a display issue with transparent blind boxes. · Fixed an issue where the shop rename button couldn't be clicked in some cases.

· Fixed an issue where blind boxes couldn't be picked up empty-handed after stocking shelves using a basket.

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Thanks for all your feedback and support, Shop Managers! We'll keep improving the game — feel free to keep sharing your thoughts in the comments~

—— NovaraGames

Hey there, Shop Managers!

v1.1.2 is now live, bringing several improvements and bug fixes. Update to start playing:

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🛠️ Improvements & Additions

· New sorting on the figure pricing screen: sort by Market Price, Price, Discount, Quantity Owned, or Reserve Quantity for faster lookup and management. · New batch editing: adjust figures' reserve quantity and restock on/off status in bulk. · Printer and workbench can now be placed in the warehouse. · New encyclopedia entries: added entries for the Figure Restocker and Blind Box Assistant for more complete reference.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

· Fixed an issue where customers would sometimes leave the shop through the warehouse. · Fixed an issue where order EXP rewards were 0 in some cases. · Fixed an issue where the order tutorial could get stuck in some cases. · Fixed an issue where staff would get stuck in front of warehouse shelves when "Use Unlabeled Shelves" was not checked. · Adjusted spawn logic for the MASKEDWARRIOR and LADUDU special NPCs: they no longer spawn when "Shoplifters" is unchecked.

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Thanks for all your feedback and support, Shop Managers! We'll keep improving the game — feel free to keep sharing your thoughts in the comments~

—— NovaraGames

Hey there, Shop Managers!

v1.1.1 is now live, bringing some refinements and bug fixes. Update to start playing:

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🛠️ Improvements & Additions

· Figure restocking reworked: the old "Figure Restocker reserve setting" has been removed. You can now set whether each individual figure restocks and its reserve quantity, for finer control. · New "Restock Rules" on the figure pricing screen: choose between random restocking or fixed restocking to manage listings your way. · Shelf 3 model updated: tier display is now split across the left and right sides for clearer sorting.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

· Fixed an issue where the background wouldn't update promptly after completing Collection progress. · Fixed an issue where online orders failed to generate in some cases.

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Thanks for all your feedback and support, Shop Managers! We'll keep improving the game — feel free to keep sharing your thoughts in the comments~

—— NovaraGames

Hey there, Shop Managers!

Blind Box Shop Simulator just received its first major update since launch — v1.1.0 is now live!

This is a content-packed major update: we've prioritized the features you've been asking for the most, alongside brand-new gameplay, deeper shop customization, and a whole lot of management quality-of-life improvements. Restart the game to update and dive into everything new — let's take a look!

🌟 Most Requested · Three Headline Features

The three most-requested features, now live:

• Blind Box Compendium: Unlock the full-series blind box compendium! Track your collection progress for every series at a glance and work toward a complete set.

• Display Case Restocker: A dedicated "Display Case Restocker" joins your team! Restocking duties are now split — figures in display cases are restocked automatically by a specialist, separate from regular goods, with customizable restock rules. No more missed restocks, and your shelves stay fully stocked.

• Robot Trash Bin: An adorable new furniture piece you can buy separately and place anywhere! The little robot design supports free recoloring — practical and cute, adding a charming touch to your shop.

🚌 New Gameplay

• Bus Foot Traffic: Every morning, a dedicated bus pulls up right outside your shop, bringing a wave of customers the moment you open — say goodbye to slow early-game traffic.

• Lucky Cat (Interactive): Offer coins to the Lucky Cat — the more you offer, the stronger your luck buff! Stack up the good fortune for opening shop, restocking, and pulling blind boxes.

• Online Orders · Drone Delivery: Unlock online order gameplay! Multiple orders refresh daily at random — complete them to earn generous EXP and coins, leveling up your shop and building capital through new channels.

• New Recycling Robot NPC: A brand-new permanent NPC moves into your shop, helping with item recycling and resource handling, adding more interactivity to shop life.

🖼️ Display & Showcase Improvements

• New Wall-Mounted Display Cabinet: A wall-mounted cabinet that takes up zero floor space — perfect for showing off prized figures and limited blind boxes. Make full use of your wall space and dial up the atmosphere.

• Independent Lighting for Dual Display Zones: The display area is now split into left and right zones, each with separately adjustable light intensity and color, so you can craft your own lighting ambiance.

• Tier-Based Shelf Colors: Blind boxes come in three tiers — Normal, Lucky, and Legendary. Once placed, shelves automatically switch to the matching color: yellow by default for Normal, purple for Lucky, and a dazzling dynamic multicolor for Legendary. Tiers are instantly recognizable and your displays gain real depth.

• Blind Box Assistant: More flexible restocking! Set a specific series to restock on its own, for precise series-by-series restocking — focus on whichever series you want to feature, however you like.

🎨 Deep Shop Customization

From furniture to walls, full creative freedom — make every shop one of a kind:

• Free Shelf Color DIY: Mainstream furniture like shelves can be freely recolored, so you can match your shop's overall décor for a more cohesive, better-looking display.

• Save Custom Colors: Save your favorite color combos with one tap and reuse them anytime — no need to remix every time.

• Multi-Device Appearance Customization: Customize the tablet's appearance, shopping bag patterns/colors, and checkout counter image.

• Ad Screen Customization: Set your own content on the ad screen to create a personalized promo display.

💰 Pricing Overhaul · Major Management Relief

We've fully reworked the pricing tools you use most — no more tedious manual adjustments:

• Smart Auto-Pricing: The system calculates the optimal price based on current market conditions, item rarity, and supply & demand, pricing all items or a single category in one tap. Lazy-friendly and reliably profitable.

• Edit All Items at Once: A new "Edit All Items" button lets you adjust every item's price in one tap — no more changing them one by one. \

• Smart Price Rounding: Round off prices in one tap — no more messy figures, for cleaner price tags.

• Market-Based Percentage Pricing: Adjust prices by a percentage of market value, ±5% per click, for more precise fine-tuning.

• Dedicated Figure Pricing Screen: A new standalone figure pricing screen lets you set listing prices for display-case figures separately, for finer control over display and stock.

📖 Growth & Support Systems

• New In-Game Encyclopedia: A built-in encyclopedia puts all gameplay rules, management tips, and item functions at your fingertips — handy for newcomers and veterans alike.

✨ Update Summary

v1.1.0 brings the most-requested features — the Compendium, Display Case Restocker, Robot Trash Bin, and more — along with new gameplay like Online Orders and Drone Delivery, deep customization, and tons of management quality-of-life improvements. Whether you're a décor lover building the perfect trendy shop or a grinder focused on the numbers, there's something new for you!

Update now to experience everything new! We'll keep iterating based on your feedback — drop your thoughts and suggestions in the comments, Shop Managers~

—— NovaraGames

🏪 Calling all blind box shopkeepers—the Shop Decoration Contest is now open!

Print out your treasured figures, scale them up into eye-catching sculptures, deck out your display area, and decorate your shop until it shines—the most popular design will win 3 game KEYs as a reward!

Whether you're showing off your rarest hidden-edition sculpture, flaunting a fully completed collection, or decorating your entire shop until it's absolutely stunning—if it's creative, it's welcome to enter!

To get things started, here's my own shop decoration (5–10 images below 👇). Can't wait to see all your creative ideas!

📅 Event Timeline

• Event period: June 3 – July 10 — Decorate your shop and upload your design to the Steam Community "Artwork" section to enter

• Results: July 11 – July 18 — Winners will be announced via the Steam announcement section, and rewards distributed

📌 How to Participate

Hey trendy shop managers 🎉

Great news — the Mac version update is finally here! Thanks for your patience, Mac players!

Windows also gets a round of fixes in this patch, so both platforms are now more stable than ever.

Here's everything in this update:

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Windows Update

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【🐛 Bug Fixes】

· Fixed an issue where canceling printing on multiple printers printing the same figure would return an incorrect number of figures

· Fixed employee count not updating promptly in the staff panel when firing employees

· Fixed Mechmania special NPC sometimes triggering continuously

· Fixed special NPC standing at the door when there are no Mythmon blind boxes in the shop

· Fixed figures not being purchased by customers in certain cases

【⚡ Improvements】

· Added box info display when hovering over warehouse shelf labels

· Added shop name customization

· Adjusted shop inventory display: red when stock is 0, green when in stock

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Mac Update (Full catch-up!)

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【🐛 Bug Fixes】

· Fixed an issue where figure rating progress would not advance in certain cases

· Fixed closing the tablet while selecting a figure in the rating screen causing card loss upon exiting the game

· Fixed price input issues in certain regions

· Fixed pricing screen showing incorrect price change arrows

· Fixed tutorial not progressing when stocking shelves while holding a blind box

· Fixed missing translations for NPC visit notifications

· Fixed a softlock after opening Tinkle special NPC's blind box gift

· Fixed Tinkle special NPC's gift not disappearing after being hit, allowing unlimited rewards

· Fixed Mechmania special NPC sometimes triggering continuously

· Fixed special NPC standing at the door when there are no Mythmon blind boxes in the shop

· Fixed Blind Box Assistant's role automatically switching to Stocker when adding blind boxes to the streaming desk

· Fixed inconsistent price display for the same product with different packaging

· Fixed employee count not updating promptly in the staff panel when firing employees

· Fixed canceling printing on multiple printers printing the same figure returning an incorrect number of figures

· Fixed figures not being purchased by customers in certain cases

【⚡ Improvements】

· Tutorial first step now requires purchasing a blind box before advancing

· Figures without a set price now default to selling at market price

· Card album now defaults to sorting by price

· Streaming desk can no longer be moved while a streamer is unboxing

· Customers will no longer queue at a streaming desk while the streamer is unboxing for the player

· Card album now automatically sorts each time it is opened

· Added box info display when hovering over warehouse shelf labels

· Adjusted shop inventory display: red when stock is 0, green when in stock

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Thanks for your support and feedback, trendy shop managers — more improvements on the way 💪

If you find any new issues, let us know in the discussions!

— NovaraGames

Hey trendy shop managers!

We've received reports of pricing input issues, particularly from players in Europe and other regions where commas are used as decimal separators.

Since the in-game currency is USD, we've standardized the pricing format to follow North American conventions:

• , = thousand separator (e.g. 1,820)

• . = decimal point (e.g. 18.20)

So if you'd like to set a price of 18 dollars and 20 cents, please enter: 18.20

We apologize for the confusion this may have caused, and thank you for your patience and continued support!

— NovaraGames

Hey trendy shop managers 🙌

We're back with another round of fixes! Thanks for continuing to report issues — here's what's in this patch:

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🐛 Bug Fixes

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· Fixed an issue where the Blind Box Assistant's role would automatically switch to Stocker when adding blind boxes to the streaming desk

· Fixed an issue where the Tinkle special NPC's gift would not disappear after being hit, allowing unlimited rewards

· Fixed incorrect decimal input validation on POS machines when customers pay by credit card in certain regions

· Fixed pricing screen showing incorrect price change arrows

· Fixed inconsistent price display for the same product with different packaging in the shop interface

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⚡ Improvements

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· Card album now automatically sorts each time it is opened

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🍎 Mac Version

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The Mac version will be updated shortly — hang tight, Mac players!

Thanks for your support and patience, trendy shop managers — more fixes on the way 💪

If you find any new issues, let us know in the discussions!

— NovaraGames

Hey trendy shop managers — first, we owe you an apology 🙏

We know there have been quite a few bugs since launch, and we're sorry for the rough experience. Our team has been working around the clock over the past few days and has squashed a batch of issues so far. We'll keep monitoring your feedback and pushing fixes until everything runs smoothly for every trendy shop manager out there!

Here's what's in this patch:

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· Fixed an issue where figure rating progress would not advance in certain cases

· Fixed an issue where prices could not be entered in some languages

· Fixed missing translations for NPC visit notifications

· Fixed tutorial not progressing to the next step when stocking shelves while holding a blind box

· Fixed an issue where closing the tablet while selecting a figure in the rating screen could cause card loss upon exiting the game

· Fixed a softlock after opening the Star Person's blind box gift

· Fixed some furniture items not matching their box icons

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· Figures without a set price now default to selling at market price

· Card album now defaults to sorting by price

· Streaming desk can no longer be moved while a streamer is unboxing

· Customers will no longer queue at a streaming desk while the streamer is unboxing for the player

· Tutorial first step now requires purchasing a blind box before advancing

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The Mac version will be updated shortly — hang tight, Mac players!

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Thank you again for your patience and feedback — we're not slowing down 💪 If you run into any new issues, please let us know in the discussions!

— NovaraGames

Blind Box Shop Simulator — OUT NOW!

From an empty little shop to your very own collectible toy kingdom.

From a humble demo to today — we made it.

To everyone who stood by us through Early Access:

every piece of feedback, every wishlist click — it all led to this moment.

The doors are open.

Welcome back.

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✨ Full release · A complete evolution ✨

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【 Visual overhaul 】

▸ Every blind box card → hand-redrawn from scratch

▸ Scene quality → crisper, richer, more immersive

▸ Gameplay feel → smoother, snappier, more addictive

【 400+ figures · 30+ blind box series · Ready to unbox 】

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🚀 20 brand-new core systems

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🖨️ 3D Print Workshop 📡 Holographic Display

🤝 Figure Trading 🎯 Set Collection

📺 Livestream Promotion 👨‍💼 Staff Training

🖼️ Open Display Zone 🏆 Achievement System

🛍️ Deep Shop Customization 🎲 Random Events

🌐 Grid Expansion ⭐ Shop Rating System

🎵 Shop Music 🔍 Figure Appraisal

🎭 Fun NPCs 🦹 Blind Box Thief

🌦️ Dynamic Weather 🎨 Paint Brush Tool

🔒 Hidden Rare Cabinet 💡 Cabinet LED Strips

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📊 What's inside

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✅ 20+ shop equipment & display cases

✅ 30+ unique blind box series

✅ 400+ collectible figures

✅ 40+ shop decorations

✅ 8+ puzzle levels

✅ 8 types of special NPCs

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👑 Your collectible toy kingdom is officially open!

We can't wait to see your one-of-a-kind DIY shops!

— NovaraGames❤️

Blind Box Shop Simulator · Steam Full Release Announcement

May 22, 2026 / Steam Full Release v1.0

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🎉 Thank you to everyone who supported us during Demo Play!

Blind Box Shop Simulator launches officially on Steam on May 22, 2026.

This is the complete experience — from a humble empty storefront to a thriving collectible paradise. Your blind box empire opens May 22. Are you ready?

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✨ Full Release vs. Demo · What's New

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🎨 All-new hand-drawn figure cards — Every blind box figure card has been fully redrawn by hand, giving each figure its own unique illustrated identity.

🖼️ Sharper, more detailed scenes — Upgraded visuals and lighting across the board — every corner of your shop looks stunning.

⚡ Smoother, snappier gameplay — Deep performance optimizations make every interaction feel crisp and satisfying.

🏗️ 20 brand-new core systems — A fully realized shop management and collection experience, built from the ground up.

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📦 Content Scale

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✅ 20+ Shop fixtures & display cases

✅ 30+ Blind box series

✅ 400+ Collectible figures

✅ 40+ Shop decorations & styles

✅ 8+ Unique puzzle themes

✅ 8 new special NPC types

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🚀 20 Brand-New Systems

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1. 🤝 Figure Trading — Trade figures freely with NPCs and build your ultimate personal collection

2. 🎭 Fun NPC System — Meet quirky visitors whose interactions shape your shop's strategy and surroundings

3. 📺 Livestream Promotion — Hire streamers to go live in-store and drive a wave of new customers

4. 👨‍💼 Staff Training — Unlock skill tiers and build a high-performing shop crew

5. 🌦️ Dynamic Weather — Live weather conditions affect foot traffic and daily operations

6. 🎲 Random Events — Every day brings surprises — no two shifts are the same

7. 🦹 Anti-Theft Gameplay — Catch shoplifters with fun mechanics and protect your prized collection

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8. 🛍️ Deep Shop Customization — Custom bags, posters, and big-screen displays at your entrance

9. 🖼️ Open Display Zone — Arrange oversized figures freely to attract and impress visitors

10. 🌐 Grid-Based Expansion — Expand your shop space freely on a modular grid layout

11. 🎨 Paint Roller Tool — Customize wall and ceiling colors to define your shop's vibe

12. 💡 LED Strip Customization — Set custom LED colors for every display case — pure atmosphere

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13. 🎯 Set Collection — Complete full sets to unlock exclusive themed scenes and displays

14. 🏆 Achievement System — Earn trophies and decorate your personal achievement room

15. 🔒 Secret Display Cases — Place rare figures to unlock hidden scenes and surprises

16. 🔍 Figure Appraisal — Get expert appraisals to boost the value of rare collectibles

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17. ⭐ Shop Rating System — Ratings drive sales and guide customer traffic to your store

18. 🎵 Background Music — Buy speakers and play your own curated background soundtrack

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19. 🖨️ 3D Printing Workshop — Turn your figures into large-scale custom sculptures

20. 📡 Holographic Display — Showcase your rarest figures in stunning holographic projections

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👑 May 22, 2026 — Your collectible empire opens its doors!

🎮 Add us to your Steam Wishlist and be first in line on launch day!

💬 Join our Discord community and connect with collectors from around the world!

Dear Blind Box and Trendy Toy Collectors,

We are thrilled to announce that the free playable demo for Blind Box Shop Simulator—a game that masterfully blends "blind box collection mania" with "shop management strategy"—is now officially available on Steam!

Have you ever been captivated by that heart-racing moment of unboxing a blind box? Have you dreamed of running your very own trendy toy store? Now is your chance! In this demo, you’ll get an early taste of the game’s core and most addictive gameplay loop.

In this demo, you can fully experience:

🏪 Design Your Shop – Customize your layout and decor to attract customers.

🖨️ 3D Print Statues – Turn your pulls into detailed collectible displays.

🎥 Hire Streamers – NPC hosts live-unbox in your shop to draw crowds.

🔮 Holographic Displays – Preview how your cards can become animated projections.

Your feedback is crucial!

After trying the demo, don’t forget to: