Code Tycoon news & patch notes

Bug Fixes

• Corrected faulty translations across all 28 in-game languages: achievements, in-game events, tutorial tips, employee events and other texts that previously appeared in English are now properly localized.

New Features

• Mods & Steam Workshop: install local mods and subscribe to Workshop items. Data-driven content lets mods add programming languages, frameworks, client project types and product categories. Manage mods in-game — activate or deactivate on the fly, publish, hide, delete and tag.
• In-game mod editor: a step-by-step wizard (name, type, values, check, save) to create and edit languages, frameworks, project types and product categories, loaded live without a restart.
• Difficulty-based leaderboards: rankings are now separated by difficulty. Runs with active mods no longer count toward leaderboards or achievements.

Important

• Playing with mods active — or continuing a save that used mods — permanently excludes that run from the leaderboards and achievements.

Improvements

• The Languages panel is now reachable from the left navigation.
• The decline-offer confirmation now scales with the current market, only asking before you reject an above-average contract.
• New games start at a quieter default volume.
• Each training type now shows how long it takes.
• Modded saves remember their mods and prompt you to activate the matching mods when you load them.

Bug Fixes

• The promotion and raise dialog title no longer runs past the edge with long names.

New Features

• Redesigned main menu: a single screen with a navigation rail and content panes (New Game, Settings, Credits, Patch Notes) over an animated era backdrop.
• New in-game navigation: a persistent grouped sidebar (Overview, Studio, Team, Business, Progress, System) replaces the old desktop icon grid, so every screen is one click away.

Improvements

• The Office screen now switches between Management and the Floor view with tabs.
• The Finance overview is now a full-width ledger with amounts aligned on the right for easier reading.
• Sidebar section headers are now translated in every supported language.

Bug Fixes

• Searching your mail by subject now filters the inbox correctly.
• Finishing a team training session now teaches the language to every member of the team, and the team's trained language level is shown on the team.

New Features

• Filter your mail inbox by sender type: Clients, Team, Finance, Maintenance or System.
• Search your mail by subject to jump straight to the message you need.

Bug Fixes

• Released products can start a new version again with the Develop Update action, which had gone missing and left Discontinue as the only option.
• Text in non-Latin languages (Japanese, Korean, Chinese and others) now renders correctly instead of showing empty boxes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the add-member list in team management not scrolling, so employees further down the list can be selected again.

Improvements

• The Development, Market and Employees desktop icons now show a small count badge.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that closed the game when hiring an applicant.

New Features

• The Employees screen is now split into Employees, Applicants and Teams tabs.
• Reworked team management: each team is organised into Members, Assignment Rules and Training, with a scrollable two-column members list showing languages and levels, a language and training-type picker, and per-team language rules for auto-assignment.
• Office dashboard with hardware-manufacturer tabs (Intel/AMD/Apple) and full-width section tabs.
• The Languages tab is now a proper multi-column grid.

Improvements

• The display settings are back: renderer/backend selector, multi-monitor picker and fullscreen resolution including refresh rate.
• Click anywhere on a market or client card to open its details.
• Tidier clients panel and more consistent spacing across the redesigned panels.

Bug Fixes

• The product-name field accepts typing again.
• The filter bar no longer overlaps the tabs and section headings are no longer clipped when scrolling.
• Long labels no longer overflow their buttons in the team and freelancer panels.
• Office upgrades only trigger from the correct next tier.
• The game no longer stays paused after a coding event is dismissed.

Bug Fixes

• Employee actions (train, promote, dismiss, hire) respond reliably again.
• The idle-employee indicator is back as a badge on the desktop icons.

New Features

• Fast-forward: from the Organizer, run time in fast-forward up to the next month or the next important event — the simulation keeps running (development, deadlines, events) and stops the moment something needs you.
• Employee filter: filter staff and applicants by job title, language, status and health from one shared filter bar across both tabs.
• Optimised saves: smaller and now language-agnostic — mails always appear in your current language instead of the one they were saved in.

Redesigned Panels

• Employees: split into Staff and Applicants tabs, with tooltips for health and motivation.
• Office: section tabs for the dashboard plus hardware-manufacturer tabs (Intel/AMD/Apple).
• Clients: a tidier layout, the whole card is clickable, aligned detail values, reputation-by-type bars on one line, and hover highlighting.
• Languages: a proper multi-column grid.
• Market: the whole project card opens the details.
• Settings/Pause: organised into sections and tabs, a resolution picker, and identical main-menu and pause settings.
• Finance & Statistics: a clearer overview.

Improvements

• Employee training is significantly faster.
• Own products are now worth building and simulate real market behaviour — sales scale with your company and updates boost them.
• Freelancers are now worth it as a short-term stand-in, without the oversized price tag.
• Higher payouts for maintenance contracts.
• Fairer early economy: more starting capital, a cheaper first hire, and a milder reputation hit when a project fails.
• Promotions now noticeably speed up an employee's work.
• The settings now explain what events and coding events do.

Bug Fixes

• Overviews no longer clip at the top (balance, income), and charts leave headroom above the bars.
• The employee filter no longer overlaps the tabs.
• Lists and menus highlight consistently on hover.
• Office: only the matching next tier triggers an upgrade.
• Pause is lifted again when a coding event ends quietly.
• Market: the amber warning for 'no employee assigned' shows correctly.
• The 'new mail' notification shows the subject again.
• Maintenance contracts no longer penalise you for 'no work done' in a month where nothing was due.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed non-Latin languages (e.g. Russian) showing mail and panel text as garbled boxes after a window resize or a display-mode change.

Bug Fixes

• Developers now handle testing when no QA is on the team. In large offices projects could previously get stuck in the testing phase with no one able to sign the work off.

New Features

• Team leads: give a team a lead who speeds up the team's assigned project and cuts down its bugs. On a team project this replaces the old company-wide bonus, so there is no more double-counting.
• Rule-based auto-assignment: set a team's rules (which project types and languages it accepts, plus a priority) and it automatically picks up matching projects each day. It is opt-in and you can always override an assignment by hand.
• Team training: train a whole team in a programming language for time and money. New members inherit the team's trained level, and skills never decay.
• Office-tier team size: the maximum team size now scales with your office, so teams grow as your company does.

Improvements

• Existing save games upgrade automatically to the new team format, so your progress carries over untouched.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed interface icons and symbols (achievement markers, the reputation marker and checkmarks) that could show up as blank boxes.
• Fixed a brief freeze the first time a notification appeared.
• Fixed large teams in the Teams tab that could lock up and could not be scrolled, so big teams stay fully editable.
• Fixed the office buttons for moving an employee back to the main office doing nothing.

New Features

• You can now add a project manager to a team. When you assign the team to a project, its manager automatically becomes that project's project manager.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing or garbled interface text in non-Latin languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
• Fixed a freeze and crash that could occur when opening the mailbox in those languages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a fatal error on startup that could stop the game from launching, so the game boots reliably again.

Bug Fixes

• Opening a contract negotiation no longer draws the terms card on top of the title, so the heading stays clean and readable instead of showing through from behind the card.
• The power-on beep on the boot intro screen is now much quieter, so it no longer blares against the otherwise silent startup.

New Features

• Investment offers are now yours to accept or decline. Instead of automatically selling company equity, each offer waits in the Finance panel's Investors tab (and in your mail) with accept and decline buttons and a 30-day decision window.
• A new Teams tab in the Employees panel lets you build, rename, staff and dissolve your dev teams in one place, with a live readout of whether each team's composition is complete.
• Every incoming mail now raises a notification, so you never miss a maintenance report, contract offer or event again.

Improvements

• Creating a product is now a streamlined two-step form: pick category, language, scope and audience from dropdowns, then review the expected quality and fit before committing. The category picker also no longer cuts off the last option.
• Contract negotiation is now a deliberate, one-shot decision per offer. Opening it no longer starts a round automatically, so a misclick costs nothing, but once you start you can no longer cancel and re-roll for a better result.
• Opening the Settings menu for the first time no longer stutters: the language-picker fonts are now warmed up during the loading screen.

Bug Fixes

• Maintenance contracts on the Organizer timeline now show the real project name instead of a placeholder text.
• Employees returning from vacation now get a proper back-from-vacation message instead of the recovery message meant for illness, and a planned vacation can no longer overlap a sick leave.

Bug Fixes

• Assigning a saved team to a different project now pulls its members off their previous project first. Previously the employees stayed assigned to both projects at once.

New Features

• The Organizer: a new planning panel (open it by clicking the date in the top bar) that lays every project deadline, maintenance contract, live product and employee vacation onto a single six-month timeline.
• Plan your team's vacations yourself: click an employee to schedule their paid leave - pick a start date and duration from the days they have banked. Prefer a hands-off approach? Leave them on AUTO and the studio sends them off at a good time.

Improvements

• Redesigned tabs and buttons: tab strips now mark the active tab with a clean accent underline instead of brackets, and buttons use a lighter ghost look that fills in only when you hover.
• The Organizer and vacation planning are fully translated across all in-game languages.

Bug Fixes

• The Kanban advance/return button no longer overlaps the task's complexity number.

New Features

• Employees now proactively ask for a raise or a promotion. The request pops up as an immediate decision - grant it (higher pay or a promotion, and a happier employee) or decline it (they take it less well).
• Paid vacation: employees build up a leave balance each month and take time off once they have earned it. They are still paid while away but do no project work, and the balance shows in the Employees screen.
• The Employees screen now shows how many sick and vacation days each person has taken this year - a roster-wide total plus a per-employee breakdown.

Bug Fixes

• A sick employee no longer secretly progresses their assigned work. Sick, burnt-out and on-vacation workers now contribute nothing while away, and a Kanban task pinned to them shows the reason instead of quietly stalling.

New Features

• Team management: assign a developer straight onto a project even when they are already on another one - a confirmation asks before pulling them over. QA testers can now be moved between projects too, which was not possible before.

Improvements

• The development view now shows each running project's payout and late-completion penalty on its card, so you can see what a contract earns and what missing its deadline costs at a glance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed accepting a market offer sometimes doing nothing - or silently removing another offer - when two offers happened to share the same internal id. Every offer now gets a unique id.

Bug Fixes

• The mail reader now scrolls the message body: the subject and sender stay pinned at the top while you scroll through long emails, so the full text is always reachable. Contract and migration offer details now appear below the body instead of overlapping it.

New Features

• Steam Game Recording timeline support: the timeline bar is coloured by what you are doing, milestones (achievement unlocks and every new decade) get markers you can jump to or clip, and the hover tooltip shows the current year and company value.
• Friend leaderboards: the leaderboards now have a Friends view that ranks you against your Steam friends by net worth, projects, and reputation, showing their real names.

Improvements

• The Skills panel now always shows your available skill points in the header, even when you have none to spend.

Bug Fixes

• Assign All now staffs a QA tester for testing work even if the tester does not share the project's programming language. QA testers can test any project, so the project language no longer keeps them off the team.

New Features

• Filter the employee roster by job title, specialty (programming language), assignment status, and health/training - so a big team is easy to scan.

Bug Fixes

• The team-composition hint now counts developers of any seniority, so it no longer reports a missing developer when your team is already staffed with senior developers.

Bug Fixes

• Assign All now staffs a project by the work it needs: a project manager, developers with the right coding skills for the features and bugs, and testers for the testing phase - instead of filling every slot with developers who have nothing to do.
• Fixed the team-management buttons and labels overlapping in French (and other languages with longer text).

New Features

• Three new languages: Arabic (with full right-to-left layout), Thai and Malay — Code Tycoon now speaks 31 languages.
• Steam Leaderboards: compete globally on net worth, projects completed and reputation, in a new Leaderboards tab in the Statistics panel.
• Steam achievement restore: previously unlocked achievements sync back from Steam onto a fresh save.

Improvements

• Auto-Assign now reserves a slot for a QA tester, so the testing role actually gets staffed on your projects.

Bug Fixes

• Maintenance contracts now start their queued work automatically — bugs no longer pile up untouched in the backlog.
• Temporary event effects now expire correctly instead of lingering for the rest of the game.
• The parallel-project capacity counter no longer counts passive maintenance contracts and released products, so it reflects your actual free developers.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Freelancer screen sometimes acting on the wrong row - clicking Hire or Release could target a different freelancer.

New Features

• Variable time pace: as your studio moves into bigger offices, in-game time compresses - a garage crawls day by day, an HQ races through weeks - so the late game never drags. The top bar shows the current pace.
• Persistent dev teams: form named teams, pick a team manager, and assign a whole team to a project at once.
• Office-tier scaling across the board: contracts grow with your office and tiny jobs phase out, your own products scale up to AAA at an HQ, and maintenance and server management deepen at each tier.
• QA testing is now gated by office tier, and a project manager speeds up their team.
• Domain specializations let employees learn the current era's tech stack faster.
• Era goals now reward mastering each era's technology instead of raw project counts.
• In-game changelog: a What's New popup on launch and a full Patch Notes screen from the menu.
• Project detail popup, reachable directly from rush-event mail.
• Client company and contact names are now localized per language.
• Motivation and health bars now explain themselves with hover tooltips.
• Development view now organizes your work into Contracts, Maintenance and Products tabs, each with its own list and priority order.

Improvements

• Progression rebalanced so your company's growth no longer outruns the decade timeline. Reputation is now a long game - each gain counts for less as your reputation climbs, so reaching the cap takes a real track record instead of a handful of perfect projects.
• The top office tiers cost more and are now tied to their era - an open-plan office opens up in the 1990s and a headquarters in the 2000s - so your facilities grow with the decades instead of maxing out in the first in-game year.
• Currency symbols now match the era and locale instead of always showing a dollar sign.
• QA and project-manager roles are universal - they no longer show a programming language or need language training.

Bug Fixes

• Accepting a project no longer silently fails when a day ticks over mid-click, and forced pauses (like coding events) can no longer be bypassed with the speed buttons.
• Rush-job events now actually create the market offer they promise.
• Fixed the team dropdown and buttons overlapping in the team panel.
• Firing an employee now cleans up their team, and team IDs are always unique.
• A project manager now correctly reads as assigned rather than idle.

Bug Fixes

• The game no longer hangs on exit (Windows). The process now shuts down cleanly instead of lingering after you close it.