Desktown news & patch notes

• FPS limit now works properly.
• Castle Automator no longer overlaps in the background — its length has been shortened to prevent visual clipping.
• Black screen on startup should be resolved.
• Inspector missing / stuck in the world when rapidly deleting items has been fixed.

Hey everyone!

We're happy to announce that Desktown is finally out with a 40% discount for the first 10 days :D

The Full Version Has:

• 3 New areas: Each with new automators, decorations, and satellites.

• New widgets: Pomodoro, Alarm, Stopwatch

• Achievements

• Bug fixes, polishes, and adjustments

Thank you for all of your support leading up to this point!

Your feedback and support helped us push through development hell until it's finally out.

If you enjoy the game be sure to leave a positive review and recommend it to your friends and favorite creators! :D

Hey everyone!

A huge thank you to everyone who’s been playing the Desktown Demo 💛. We’re excited to share the second — and most likely final — update for the demo! With this update, most of the features, bug fixes, and polish are done. From here, we’ll be focusing on adding more content for the full release.

Here’s what’s new:

• ✨Decorations Can Give Resources – Placing decorations now rewards you with resources! We noticed many players skipped decorating their cities, so we hope this feature makes it both prettier and more rewarding.

• 🏗 Move & Destroy Areas – You can now reposition or remove entire areas by double clicking on the area that you want to move/reposition.

• 🖥️ UI Display Fix – Fixed an issue where the game didn’t display correctly for players with side taskbars.

• 👥 Better Layer Sorting – Civilians and decorations now layer properly based on their position.

• 🛰️ Satellite Word Improvements – Expanded and simplified the possible words to make guessing easier and less confusing.

• 🛠 Other Small Fixes – A handful of tiny improvements and bug fixes we may have forgotten to list 😅.

We’re now fully shifting our focus to marketing and preparing for the full release in October 2025 🎉. Make sure to wishlist so you won’t miss it!

Thanks for playing, The Desktown Team

Hey everyone,

We want to sincerely apologize for a critical issue in the latest patch that causes save files to be lost. Unfortunately, if you’ve already updated, your previous progress may be unrecoverable.

If you haven't update the game, we highly recommend you to go to C:\\Users\\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Deskteam and make a backup of the save files!

Right now, the best course of action is to reboot the game and start fresh. We know how frustrating and disappointing this is, and we're truly sorry for the inconvenience.

We're working on a fix and will also implement a proper backup system in the next update to prevent something like this from ever happening again.

Thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued support.

Hey everyone!

A huge thank you to everyone who tried out the Desktown Demo! We've received tons of positive responses, insightful feedback, and helpful bug reports — and we're excited to roll out a new update that improves many parts of the game 🎉

Here’s what’s new:

• 🏙️ 11 New Automators: 6 in the City era and 5 in Medieval.

• 🖼️ Move Decorations: You can now reposition decorations after placing them.

• 📚 Improved Tutorial: Clearer guidance and fewer bugs for smoother onboarding.

• 🛠️ Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed overlapping decorations between areas.

  • Fixed UI buttons (like the menu) not opening properly.

• 🍗 Better Food Balance: More food automators added — that annoying “Not Enough Food!” message should pop up far less now.

• 🌍 Translation Improvements: Especially for German, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — no more tofu (□) characters!

• 🎵 New Music Tracks: Switched to safer, attribution-free music by Loyalty Freak Music and ESPC — perfect for content creators!

• 🌌 Satellite Typing Tip: We added a small indicator to press \ when entering satellite words.

• ⚙️ FPS Limit Option: You can now cap the framerate.

...and more tiny improvements we might've forgotten 😅

Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, and we’re super thankful to have such a great community of players 💛. We’re planning to participate in more festivals, grow our content marketing, and move closer to finalizing the demo!

Stay tuned, The Desktown Team

Hey everyone!

After a long time of development, we're happy to announce that Desktown's demo is now out on Steam!

You can have a taste of the game with its areas, automators, decorations, satellites, and many others! Though they're more limited compared to the full version.

If you enjoy the demo, consider leaving a review and wishlist the game so you won't miss the full release! And if you have any suggestions or bug report, you could let us now through our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/m34qA5wjQU

Thanks and enjoy!