Pay 2 Win: The World is Mine news & patch notes

Hello bosses!

Firstly, a HUGE thanks to all of those leaving reviews on the game - we're getting an amazing feedback from players, and we truly appreciate all of your thoughts and compliments, it motivates us to do even better for you. Productivity HOO!

And now time for our patch notes. We're doing a small push again this week to fix some of the bigger issues with onboarding, clarity, and a few mission critical bugs:

• Fixed issue with timed missions respawning

• Fixed issue with audio slowdowns

• Significantly reduced scaling on link locking costs

• Added a new 'Generate' tag to better define outputs that go through the multiplier formula vs outputs that do not

• Added a new 'Gain' tag for similar reasons.

• Improved wording and clarity on various tooltips

• Improved visuals in the Forge and card reward screens

• Fixed bug with Roulette Wheel allowing for infinite credits

• Reduced starcoin cost of magical spells

• Buffed various Facilities:

• Roulette Wheel

• Poker Set

• Unpaid Intern

• Computer clicking now scales with level

• Links activation now comes with a neat sound effect. Clink!

We're currently working on an upcoming patch that will address a few of the bigger issues, namely improving clarity in various areas, supporting streaming saves for folks who accidentally close their game while running, and a TON more bugfixes.

Once again we thank you for your support as we continue to improve the game.

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Hello bosses!

Another round of thanks for all the new reviews on the page as well as the amazing feedback we've gotten from all of you playing the game. We've also got TONS of bug reports, which we are thankful for. Next week we will be stamping those little guys out! Onto business...

A few of you may have already seen this, but we've inked an agreement with the devil and released a DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT! Yes, everyone's favorite.

... of course, it isn't actually P2W. We did add some fun cosmetics for a few of the facilities in-game, ranging from the track running Guard Dog to the floaty Angel Dice. And of course, all of that served to you by your trusted Robot Butler Mr Bisquix.

The pack is merely a way for certain bosses among you to show your support for the devs - it adds NO additional gameplay or power, but we do think the skins are pretty neat!

Early Access supporters will also be getting this pack free of charge, as thanks for the support so far. It's because of our EA friends that we were able to make the game as fun as it is. We're working behind the scenes with Valve to ensure that EA purchasers get the pack, so the skins should be hitting your accounts with the quickness over the next few days.

Find the supporter pack here

We hope you enjoy.

Hello bosses!

It's the day after launch, and we are incredibly excited to see how players are enjoying the launch. We're seeing crazy builds, funny moments, and wonderful feedback from newcomers to the game. We also want to shout out and give a thanks to those leaving a review - it means a lot to hear your genuine thoughts as we aim to improve the game from here.

Now then, let's talk content. Intrepid players may have already seen a few of these "Money Bag" cards lying around their Pick 3's - we've just expanded the system to include about a dozen BRAND NEW special power up cards that can help vary, improve, and refine your run. Players in game will have a random shot at rolling for some of these special cards during normal play.

Pick up bonuses ranging from higher link caps to free upgrades and more. This is the start of the new powers system, and we hope to hear your thoughts on it, as we look to expand it further with things like Legendary effects and more.

We've also pushed a small set of updates for better clarity when players have many missions as well as a note in the Workshop to let players know they can lock those links. It will serve to help guide new bosses for now while we prepare a proper tutorial for the workshop screen.

Happy gaming!

Day 1 Hotfix!

• Fixed issue with special missions giving computers instead of their proper rewards

• Fixed issue with ninja stars

• Fixed text clarity on Chainsaw and some buff descriptions

• Fixed text overflow in report card

• Tweaked early levelling for slightly faster progression

Hello bosses!

It is with great pleasure we'd like to welcome you all to your first day on the job. PAY 2 WIN: THE WORLD IS MINE is now available globally.

We hope you enjoy the game as much as we enjoyed making it. If you're new to the game, please make yourself at home - your two assistants are waiting for you to get started.

If you're an early access player, we hope you enjoy some of the new content and QoL improvements.

We've placed lots of exciting secrets, items, and fun events in the game for everyone to enjoy. If you'd like to theorycraft with friends, discuss the story, or just hang out, feel free to join us at our Discord here

Hello bosses!

We are returning from our long-lived development slumber to deliver a long-overdue update for our long-time supporters - that is all of you in our Early Access launch phase.

We will keep it short - 1.0 Beta for Pay 2 Win is now LIVE on the Beta test branch. This is the biggest update to Pay 2 Win yet, and we hope to gather lots of feedback, bug reports, and more as we prep the build for the official launch in early June.

A more formal changelist sits below the fold, but here are the biggest changes;

- Completely overhauled visual layer into Unity Native. Players should see anywhere from 2-5x improvement in performance, FPS, and compute requirements. Some animations are still waiting to be hooked back up, but you should see for the most part the same animations as in the current live version of the game - only much smoother and more performant.

- New Planetarium Visuals

- New Forge with reworked Link Reroll system (now you can lock your links to save good setups and reroll the rest)

- Links have been reworked and now function on a simple color code system

- New currency - Star Coins. These are the valuable coins you'll need to get new facilities and Planetarium talents.

- Planetarium slightly reworked to separate out Pick 3s into its own button in the UI.

- Purchasing new slots is now done through a simpler flow

- Revamped onboarding and tutorialization

- STEAM DECK SUPPORT! We have tested this internally, but would love to get this in player's hands - try it out on your Deck if you have one.

- Scene 3 has been replaced with a new Scene 14. We hope you enjoy.

- Steam cloud saving enabled

- Basic controller support added

- Various bugfixes and improvements

- Many more things we're forgetting

HOW TO ACCESS THE BETA

Simply right click the game in your Steam Library, go to "Properties", then "Playable Versions and Betas" and select the 'beta' branch. Your existing save on main branch will remain if you wish to switch back, but do keep in mind that the big reset for 1.0 is coming and that will include a reset wipe.

We hope you enjoy.

GENERAL

• Players may now press spacebar during cutscenes to pass to the next line of text

• Spells now have associated hotkeys from 1-5. No more sore fingers!

• Players now get May's idle buff instantly upon completing the associated story (scene 7)

• General improvements to overall performance

• Legendary mission completions should now play the correct sound

VISUAL

• Starlight Greatsword has new visuals

• A new display is available that shows all of your currently activated talents

CONTENT

• New Timed missions have been added to the game. Timed missions are credit races where players must achieve a certain amount within a specified time. Timed missions set some of the foundations for the future Roguelike mode, so do let us know how it feels to play.

• Several new achievements have been implemented and are available

BALANCE

Computer

• Output reduced by 1 from 2 and scaling reduced to 2 from 3

• Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds from 10

• Added new click/tap function to generate faster credits in the early game

Unpaid Intern

• Output up to 4 from 3

Gamer Supplements

• Scaling down from 9*Rank -> 7*RANK

• Cooldown increased from 5s -> 8s

Printer

• Scaling down from 50+(RANK*10) to 10+(RANK*10)

Streamer

• Scaling down from RANK*20 -> RANK*10

Internet Router

• Starting rank now RARE

Telephone Booth

• Rank scaling down from RANK*20 -> RANK*12

Gym Rat

• Scaling down from RANK*30 to RANK*6

Dartboard

• Scaling down from RANK*100 -> RANK*50

Chainsaw

• Rank scaling down from RANK*50 -> RANK*25

Motivational Poster

• Cooldown reduced from 18s -> 16s

Critkeeper

• Scaling reduced from RANK*50,000 -> RANK*10,000

Note: Critkeeper is meant to function as a huge payoff that takes a long time to charge up. With critical strike being so easy to get, this also makes Critkeeper's activation requirements much easier to fulfill. We are balancing her base income to better account for this, and are continuing to keep an eye on this unit. Overall she should still give you a huge payout, but this will help to make her gameplay less of an obvious snap pick.

Subwoofers

• Now starting at EPIC rank.

Note: We like multifire, but in tandem with upgrades this makes it very strong a bit too early in the game. Subwoofers should still be a great pick if you have a strong facility to synergize with its output.

Fidget Spinner

• Rank scaling down from RANK*4 -> RANK*2

Revolver

• Rank scaling up from RANK*2-> RANK*4

• Cooldown up from 9s -> 12s

Sprinkler System

• Cooldown up from 6s -> 9s

Bottled Lightning

• Rank scaling on Starlight buff down from 4s -> 2s

Stuffed Bear

• Rank scaling down from RANK*2 -> RANK*1

Finance Chart

Rank scaling down from RANK*2 -> RANK*1

Leaky Cauldron has been reworked:

When you gain a Buff or Debuff, Charge a random Annie Facility by @ seconds, then place Leaky Cauldron on Cooldown.

Bubble Pipe has been reworked:

Gain 5 Credits, then Increment this by RANK times your level. While Idle, your Studio Power increases by RANK.

Note: May antisynergy begone!

Slot Machine has been reworked:

Press to Activate: Spin the Roulette and choose Black or Red. If you guess correctly, win RANK credits.

If you win, enter a streak, winning RANK% credits each successive win. If you lose, place this Facility on Cooldown for 180 seconds.

Roulette has been reworked:

Press to Activate: Spin the Roulette and choose Black or Red. If you guess correctly, win RANK credits.

If you win, enter a streak, winning RANK% credits each successive win. If you lose, place this Facility on Cooldown for 180 seconds.

Witch Time

• No longer affects Ultimate Spells

Note: The scaling CDR was way too hard to balance, so we placed SJD on a shorter cd and made it uninteractive with WT, so that WT can continue keep its scaling effects. Boring yes, but should lead to more consistent play patterns on Annie builds.

Coin Collector

• Now grants CPS when coins are clicked

Ascended Power

• Cost now increases in triangular fashion

BUGFIXES

• Extant Excavators are now nuked from orbit when the player completes the floorplan

• Fixed visual display issue with Coin Flipper and Credit Card

• Potential fix for alt-tab crash issue

• Robot Assistant now gains its proper Crit Rate from Fax Machine

• Credit Card no longer breaks idle on retriggers

• Crit Rate gain above 100% no longer increases CPS

• Fixed issue with Game Director's effect still being global

KNOWN ISSUES

• Lifetime credits are sometimes not fully accurate

Hello bosses,

We're pulling an incredibly on the nose move and delaying the game launch 1 month from its original May 4th launch to the new date of Thursday, June 4th. Simply put, we've done a massive rework of internal technology and we need the additional time in order to deliver a complete, polished experience to you, our loyal bosses. More information below, as well as some updates on how you can get an early version of 1.0!

What happened?

We had a version of Pay 2 Win ready to go for 1.0, including all of the new features, QoL, and content updates - however we experienced such massive demand for a Steam Deck compatible version, that we had to go back to the drawing board.

We won't bore you with too many technicals, but the visual runtime we relied upon simply didn't support Linux in the way we needed it to. In addition, Pay 2 Win (though 2D!) is a relatively CPU reliant game, and emulating that visual runtime on top of the Unity native stack was leading to performance drops. There was a big effort made in January to alleviate these performance concerns, but ultimately we had to bite the bullet when it came to really making this work natively and smoothly for all players not on high end PCs (looking at you, Steam Deck community!)

That rework is now complete, however, and we are back on track for launch. Still, it took longer than expected, and we never want to misplace heroism for a solid end product. In order to give players a smooth, QA'd, and (we hope!) bug-free experience, we needed the extra time to do proper testing, balancing, and implementation of new QoL and other features.

Give me the good news!

Of course, we have some good news too! All players on launch will be receiving some secret skins and visual interactions for the Streamer unit, free of charge. These were initially planned exclusively for our upcoming content creator campaign, but we've decided to share that work and art with all players as our way of saying thanks for being patient with us.

Additionally, for those who want to get the new updates and see what's coming for 1.0, we're opening up a beta branch version of the game in a few weeks. If you're interested in trying the new onboarding, systems, content, and more before 1.0, we'd love to have you try. We will release additional details around that when we release the beta branch. Hop in our Discord and chat with us when you do, we'd love to see you there.

Finally, we've gone ahead and released a small hotfix to the current version of the live game addressing some pain points:

1) The Stapler's reign of terror has ENDED! It no longer flows through the output formula twice

2) Ascension talent costs are now triangular, and scale properly. No more infinity credits!

These are small changes but we want to make sure our live game isn't left out in the cold for too long while we prep the big 1.0 patch.

Oh and we re-released the trailer. It's literally the same as the last one, just with the correct date. Our lovely marketing department thought it would be really funny if we left them both up so we will.

PRODUCTIVITY HOOOOOO!

Hello bosses!

We're pleased to announce that Pay 2 Win: The World is Mine will be officially launching on May 4th, 2026!

New things coming to the 1.0 Release:

• Steam Deck Support

• Controller Support

• Revamped Planetarium Talent System

• Revamped Player Onboarding

• Forge 2.0/Revamped Upgrade System

• New Talents, Ascension paths, and extra scenes

• Revamped Link System with Link Locking Mechanic

• Reworked Facilities and additional content

• New missions and mission types

...AND MUCH MORE!

For those who are new to the game and world, we've also put together a Story Trailer that explains the narrative backdrop of the game:

As part of the launch event, we will also be bringing you a few extra goodies.

For new players, we will feature a 20% launch discount on Pay 2 Win, which will be available in the first week of launch! We will also set up a new Supporter Pack for individuals who would like to further support the devs. The supporter pack contains some neat skins for several of the in-game facilities, and once you own the pack, you can click or tap a facility in your inventory to update the visual.

Existing players who currently have Early Access (or purchase the base game before launch) will get this pack for FREE!

We're excited to enter this next phase of the game with you all.

PRODUCTIVITY HOOOOOO!

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. 

GENERAL

• Steam Cloud Save feature is now complete, but not enabled. We will enable Cloud Saving at a future date as we approach 1.0.

• A new option has been added to the player settings to disable output text

• Morality is now divided into various named tiers in the report card

• Players can now scroll through the inventory with the mouse wheel

• Players now have a confirmation step before gaining new talents in the planetarium

• Early game missions have been rebalanced slightly

CONTENT

• 50 new missions have been added to the game. Missions have also been shifted towards post-game (level 100+) to give players more studio power bonuses as they continue their ascent

• ASCENSION is now in the game! Players who get to the end of one of the five story routes will be able to Ascend. Ascension restarts the game at New Game+ and is selectable in the menu. Most things in the game will reset once a player opts into Ascension, however players will keep any legacy items (player route completion rewards) as well as having talent points roll over. There may also be a surprise or two at the start of NG+ awaiting players!

Note: Ascension is now in the game, but in a mostly basic version. Our next patch will include new Planetarium content that will allow for players to spend their newly earned talent points in progressing further up the levels, as well as getting access to more base studio power and output increases. At present we expect most players will be able to top out around level 200, so if you can make it further than this, send us some screenshots!

BALANCE

• Bathtub debuff duration reduced along with rank scaling, as well as starting rank now Common

• Magic Wand cooldown up from 150 to 300, rank scaling down from RANK*30 to RANK*15

• Monocle has received a rework:

Gain 10 Credits. Increase this by RANK every time you've Bet, Spin, or Rolled on a May Facility.

Rank scaling is now RANK*200

Note: Monocle was going absolutely crazy in its previous iteration which was multiplicative. This version is still mega strong with a huge flat incrementation amount but doesn't trivialize the game.

• May's Laptop cooldown reduced to 15s from 30s

• Grinding Wheel now starts at Common rarity

• Sprinkler System now starts at Common rarity

• Philosopher's Stone now starts at Uncommon rarity

• Finance Chart now starts at Rare rarity

• Pool Table now starts at Uncommon rarity

• Critkeeper's cooldown reduced to 60s from 600s, rank scaling increased from 600-(RANK*100) to 1000-(RANK*100)

• Telephone Booth rank scaling increased to RANK*20 from RANK*2

• Bubble Pipe has received a slight rework:

Gain 5 Credits, then Increment this by RANK times your level. You can no longer enter Idle, but your Studio Power increases by RANK.

New scaling on the level incrementation is 3 x RANK. Previous scaling remains the same.

• Red Stone of Asia mana restoration reduced from +100% to +50%

Note: We found a funny situation here where you could stack stones and get infinite mana regen when we looked into this. We've tuned this down so stacking should still be strong but not gamebreaking.

AUDIO

• Audio has been rebalanced. Sound levels should now be more consistent with each other

BUGFIXES

• Fixed issue with declining the call and not being able to answer afterwards

• Fixed links count display issue on beyond Legendary cards

• Fixed issue where all scenes could be skipped on accident

• Fixed issue with the game not remembering audio settings on alt-tab

• Fixed visual display bug with spellpower showing on locked spells

• Fixed issue with giga-stacking Gym Rat

• Removed the Pizza Box's cooldown. Bon Apetit!

• Fixed visual display issue on Spellbook Judgment Day's cooldown

• Fixed audio issue with building new slots

• Fixed layering issue on 1920x1200 monitors

• Fixed visual issues with rain effects

• Fixed longstanding issue with levelling runaway

• Fixed issue with report card showing too much unlock progress

• Links will now update and increase your active link count as soon as able

• Red Stone of Asia now affects mana restoration on various facilities (Moody Candles, Blue Elixir, etc.)

KNOWN ISSUES

• It takes several taps to before entering the build office space flow

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. We’ve reworked the missions (tracks visuals etc.). As part of this, players loading in current saves will have their missions removed. To compensate, we will be giving you all a new mission in-game that should get you back up to speed once claimed. We stronglyrecommend starting a new save in order to get early mission rewards (new cap bonus increases, etc), but existing saves will generally remain playable.

General

• We've performed heavy game optimizations to various systems in the game. Players should expect vastly reduced resource consumption during play as well as a marked increase to FPS and smoothness. If you still have choppy frames, lag, or otherwise, do let us know! This is an ongoing initiative and we will make further improvements in the future.

• Rarity has been reworked. Facilities with less than 5 upgradeable tiers now reflect a higher base rarity.

• Updated Glossary

• Players now have a chance of upgrading facilities when they roll new ones

• Players now have a hidden Luck stat that affects various things in the game

• There is now a new cap for both Studio Power and Link Bonus. This cap can be increased over time by completing missions, unlocking them via rewards, and other methods.

• Players can now mute the game while it is in the background.

• Spellpower has also been capped early game, and can be increased back to its maximum limit of 10 via various methods.

• Selecting between Annie and May's choices in scenes 5 and 15 will now guarantee a pack of their type on the next pack unlock

Note - The game has changed significantly in the past months, and there is now a large amount of new or different information that players need to familiarize themselves with as they progress through the game. Our next update will feature new tutorialization and improved onboarding to help explain many of the concepts in the game. In the meantime, we recommend checking your Glossary for updated information. Thank you!

Content

• The true ending is now available. Players will need to meet specific hidden requirements in order to unlock the path to the true ending. We recommend checking your Report Card if you need a hint.

• Both Annie and May's good endings are now also tied to specific hidden requirements.

• A new set of ~100 generalized power up cards have been added to the game. These are alternative options to facilities and can help players hone in on a particular build as they play through the game.

• Day/Night Cycle and its associated effects and requirements have now been implemented.

• Spellbook Judgment Day has been added to the Planetarium and can now be unlocked with SP.

• Facilities can now scale beyond Legendary, based on several hidden factors.

• A new set of ~100 missions have been added to the game. Completing many of these will increase the player's studio power, and help further progression at later stages in the game.

Balance Changes

• Streamer base Crit Rate up from 10% to 35%

• Bank Vault received a slight rework:

Gain 1 Credit. When this Triggers, Increment Output by 5 + RANK for every active May Facility. This increment can not be reset.

• May's Laptop Cooldown increased from 0 to 30s

• Talents in the Planetarium have been rebalanced. Supply Drops now cap at 4 SP, down from 10. Most other talents have been reduced in SP cost

Note: We are watching how the Planetarium interacts with the new mission rewards, as the two systems are relatively interlinked. We will continue to tune down talent costs if necessary, though this should be a big first step toward more affordable talent choices in the mid to late game. We would love feedback on the current numbers and the overall feel.

• Pool Table has been reworked:

Press to Activate: If Day, Standard Facilities in Influence become May Facilities. If Night, Standard Facilities in Influence become Annie Facilities. Gain RANK Credits when an Annie or May Facility Triggers.

• Clover has gained Rank scaling and has been slightly reworked:

On Trigger, Gain 7 Credits and 1 stack of Starlight for RANK seconds.

Whenever another Facility Triggers for an odd number of Credits, Gain one stack of Starlight for RANK seconds

• Tricks and Tools is now delayed in the player pack unlock flow for smoother progression.

Audio

• New sound effects for item upgrades, forge interaction, and more.

• Starlight Greatsword has been reworked:

Press to Activate: Swing the sword to remove all Debuffs. Gain 1 stack of Great Starlight for each Debuff removed this way for 30 seconds.

If it is Night, this becomes 300 seconds instead.

Note: We mentioned an audio balancing pass would be coming, and is now on schedule for the following patch. Expect smoother audio levels soon!

Visual

• Mission Panel and associated mission view has been updated

Note - This is an ongoing update, as the mission panel is so crucial to progression. At present rank labels and a few other visual kinks are in the mission panel, we expect to resolve these by next patch.

• Current spellpower visual has been updated for better clarity

• New animations have been added in various areas

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue with Fancy Couch not applying rank updates

• Fixed issue with Dartboard output

• Fixed scaling and description of Mini-Fridge

• Aquarium now works with Red Skull

• Fixed issue with Red Skull Buff not clearing when upgrading

• Removed Magic Caster quest in favor of spellcasting mission track

• Fixed issue with Psychologist not seeing certain facilities

• Fixed issue with Astrolabe stacking

• 3D Printer and Swiss Army Knife now add their influenced facility to the item pool when under their influence

• Fixed display issue with Roulette

• Fixed bug with multiple project managers

Known Issues

• In some cases, saved games are incompatible depending on savedata. If you load an old save and cannot access UI panels, you will unfortunately have to restart with a new save. We apologize for the inconvenience!

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. This is our second foundational patch, and reworks many systems, progressions, flows, and facilities. This is a significant change to both the moment to moment gameplay as well as the overall pacing that places more emphasis on missions and pulling off interesting or unique combos. While there is no specific new feature, the sum of the reworks has significantly changed many elements of the game.

In particular, we focused heavily this patch on Annie’s facilities, playstyle, options, and combinations, reworking the spell system, mana regeneration, and related elements. In a future update we hope to do the same with May’s facilities, though we feel she is already in a strong place (May players fret not however - you will still find many updates to her facilities in this patch!)

We hope you enjoy.

BUGFIXES

• Planetarium talents no longer carry between saves

• Several issues fixed with Fancy Couch not raising rarity properly

• Correct tier art now showing in planetarium for spells

• Holding S key while outside of stories no longer skips instantly on story load

• Laminator no longer adds 99 rarity

• Yellow Sign buff is no longer stackable

• Omamori now properly absorbing Debuffs

• Swiss Army Knife Limit increase now working properly

• Fixed Calculator's base output

• Increment tag now working visually

• Fixed issue with double stacking the Bathtub debuff

• Scratch ticket now benefits from standard facilities when affected by Pool Table

• Fixed missions not being clickable sometimes

• Cocktail Waitress now only affects facilities that can be bet, spun, or rolled.

• Fixed buffs sometimes not placing themselves into the first available slot

• Fixed issue with Game Console and Omamori not working together

• Finance Chart now works properly with facilities and spells while Idle is active

• Fixed display issue where rain is on top of the forge and planetarium

• Fixed issue with the game forgetting Annie and May's names if the player has skip story on

• Fixed issue with output multipliers sometimes drifting between saves

• Fixed visual issue with rarity seemingly resetting on load

• Double Motivational Poster now works in Yellow Sign builds

• Personal Chef now stacks in Yellow Sign builds

• Night Shift no longer stacks beyond 1

• Fixed issue with watercooler not tracking its applications properly

• Fixed issue with Crit Rate display

• Fixed display issue with Fax Machine description

• Fixed issue with double watercoolers slowing game speed beyond 1

• Fixed issue with night shift and idle giving incorrect output depending on application time

• Fixed make a link mission

• Tier art now correctly showing in the Grimoire

• Fixed issue with watercooler not resetting its Moisturized applications

• Links now count properly during game pauses

• Improved menu responsiveness

• Fixed visual stickyness on tooltips when exiting too quickly to main menu

AUDIO

• New Sounds added

Note - We are aware of audio imbalance issues and will be performing a balance pass on audio in a future update.

GENERAL

• Game options are now local to each save rather than global

• Updated pack tutorial

• Early game progression has been significantly retuned

• Item descriptions have improved scaling

• Forge now unlocks earlier in progression

• Mana bar now has a tooltip showing mana regen and other useful information

• Debuffs now have a max stack of 1

• Buffs are now tracked separately and have their own timers when stacked

• Changed wording in various areas for clarity

• Trackers added to various facilities

• Haste now stacks additively and Haste effects now increase the duration of remaining Haste when applied.

Note: This should make haste stacking a pretty good strategy, previous applications of Haste were just overwriting each other - with the new mechanism, you should be able to "build" Haste on various facilities to get them in a semi-permanent Hasted state, which we think opens up some new strategies.

content

• New Facility - 3D Printer: Increase the Limit of all Influenced Facilies by @.

Note: As part of our facility redesign pass, multiple copies of facilities should be overall more balanced and work well together, so we feel good about turning this facility on. It's likely there are still some outliers, so do let us know if you find any gamebreaking combos!

• Several early missions removed in favor of a reworked progression track

FACILITY REDESIGNS

The following Facilities have been redesigned or reworked.

• Black Cat

• Aquarium

• Overworked Artist

• Guard Dog

• ATM

• Moody Candles

• Bodyguard

• Pentacle

• Coffee Machine

• Magic Wand

• Robot Assistant

• Sorting Hat

• Pool Table

• Dreamcatcher

• Tarot Deck

• Streamer

• Mini-Fridge

• Bubble Pipe

• Cocktail Waitress

• Sales Associate

• Project Manager

• Gachapon

• The Printer

• Pizza Box

• Idea Guy

• Coin Flipper

• Philosopher's Stone

• Ninja Stars

• Magic Lotus

• Calendar

• Astrolabe

• Loaded Dice

• Metronome

• Cooling Fans

Note - Some facilities now mention Day and Night as requirements or modulators. These descriptions are in preparation for an upcoming patch that will include a Day/Night mechanic.

GRIMOIRE

• Spells have been reworked.

• Mana regen increased

BALANCE

• Calculator now increments every 4 seconds, up from 1

• Idle buff now has a max stack of 1

• Scratch ticket reduced from 24 hours CPS cap to 1 hour CPS

Note: Scratch ticket is one of the last facilities left in the game that scales off of your current credits. There is still potential to break progression with this mechanic so we are watching very closely

• Red Skull now redesigned to give increasing stacks of its buff, with each granting an 8% output bonus

• Golden Chains now increases rarity by 1, down from 2.

• Upgrade costs now scale globally

• Internet Router can no longer affect itself

• Subwoofer can now no longer have its Influence increased

• Windmill can no longer affect the same facility twice within an 8 second internal cooldown.

• Power Generator now capped to 10s Charge.

• Printer cooldown up from 5s to 7s

VISUAL

• Updated credit gain effect

• Moved mana bar to bottom of the game view

• Updated Spell tooltips

• Updated Annie intro art

• Updated Annie and May pixel art

• Cooldowns now update dynamically in facility details

• Implemented new mission toasts on completion

• New visual for building new spaces

• Further improved visual clarity on The Printer

KNOWN ISSUES

• Enchanted Key does not give proper mutlifires based on rank

• Saving and loading while missions are completed does not reload them in the completed state

• Psychologist sometimes becomes blind

• Upgrading Red Skull makes its buff sticky

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam.

As a quick primer, this is not a content patch, but a polish pass. We’ve made various changes to make the experience smoother overall, but have no changes this time around to base game content. We felt the looks and game feel were lagging behind quite a bit, so we spent a patch cycle shoring a few systems up. We will continue to make polish changes, so expect more of this in lighter doses each patch. Nonetheless, balance and fun remains a top focus - for the next patch, we will be focusing on bugfixing, facility redesigns, and further balance passes to continue improving the game.

An additional note on Steam Deck - we have everything necessary to run the game natively on SD now, but are waiting for a final dependency to be resolved by one of our technology partners. We hope to ship this as soon as possible and get Steam Deck support for players!

Visual

• Updated background for improved look and feel.

• Reduced chance of rain. Keep your umbrellas at home.

• Moved facility themes to the center of the details panel where pack icons used to be. We may revert this change but we’d like to try this layout for now.

Audio

• Added over 300 new sounds for facilities. This is our first pass, so audio levels may be somewhat unbalanced. Do let us know your thoughts!

Balance Changes

• Summon Skeletons now gives 30s/2m/5m worth of CPS on cast.

• Fancy Couch Influence pattern changed to UP.

This now makes Fancy Couch a far less effective option relative to more targeted rarity increasers (eg laminator, SAK), but we will be increasing its versatility more with its second effect once we implement future Coin events. For now we are limiting its power, as with the new upgrade scaling costs, rarity increasing effects will go up in value.

• Swiss Army Knife influence range reduced from 2 to 1

• Gaming chair cooldown reduction changed to RANK*.5 from RANK*1

• Game Director rank scaling reduced from RANK/2 to RANK/4

Another nerf for our beloved Game Director. He's still viable even with the current numbers, so we are further tuning him to allow for Yellow Sign builds to be strong, but not eponymously incomprehensible (we may bump his credit gain to make him better for non duplicate builds). We will keep an eye on this unit for the time being but we feel this should adequately resolve a lot of his abuse cases.

• Windmill cooldown increased from 8 to 11

• Windmill charge increased from RANK*.5 to RANK*.5+.5

• Grandfather clock cooldown reduced from 100 to 80

• Psychologist max ranks up from 3 to 5, rank scaling reduced from RANK*1 to RANK/2

• Gym rat output scaling up from RANK*10 to RANK*30

• Dartboard scaling up from RANK*10 to RANK*50

• Ninja stars scaling up from RANK*5 to RANK*35

• Critkeeper cooldown down from 1 hour to 10 minutes

• Fidget Spinner rank scaling increased from RANK*2 to RANK*4

• Revolver Crit Rate up from 0% to 35%

• 1812 Cannon output up from 300 to 3000

• Blue Elixir Cooldown increased from 20 to 240

• Red Skull buff increased from RANK*3 to RANK*4

• Antique Tea Set max ranks increased to 5, scaling down from RANK*3 to RANK*2

• Cocktail Waitress rank scaling changed from RANK*10 to RANK*5

• Padlock scaling up from 2+RANK*2 to RANK*30

Bugfixes

• Players should now be able to cast Summon Skeletons with 10 mana again

• Fixed issue with some lines being misattributed to May during some scenes

Known Issues

• Many! We currently have ~40 bugs and issues in our tracker ready for fixes. We will be focused on addressing many of these for the next patch.

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. This is a foundational patch, so we’ve included several massive reworks and changes to the base flow of the game to improve progression, output inflation, and set the stage for future updates. Additionally, we’ve toned down cooldowns across the board to make the game more intelligible when you have tons of facilities ticking. We highly recommend starting a new save to experience the game from the start. Note that existing saves may also not load, depending on what loadouts you had previously.

Also - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Content

Missions

Over 100 new missions have been added to the game, to better give a structure for players and add more progression beats as they climb levels. We intend to use the mission log even more in the future, so the current crop of new missions are relatively basic (eg, get this many credits, reach this level, etc.) But expect both new missions in future patches as well as new types of missions to keep things interesting and spice up your playthroughs. In the meantime, do let us know how you feel about the new missions!

Output Panel

There is now a new Output Panel that can be visible by hovering over the previous ‘link bonus’ (now renamed to Output Bonus) display. We will add tutorial text for this in a future patch, but for now, this will be where players can check their current Output Bonus. Output Bonus is a new variable that takes into account your current active links and then multiplies it by a new variable called ‘Studio Power’. At present, it is impossible to increase Studio Power, but this will be coming along with more difficult missions as a reward for completion.

As a note, we are also going to be implementing tooltips on every facility to show your expected output and all contributing sources of output amplification as a result of a cleaner calculation formula. Here’s a sneak peak of what that will look like:

Floor Unlocks

We added some tapping. Enjoy!

General

Renormalization

Our renormalization project is well underway, and we have made adjustments to core output systems to combat number inflation in most cases. We have a new standardized formula for all facilities (you will also see some updated facility effects and functionality to fit) that will help with both player clarity and debugging. As a result of this, expect output numbers in the mid game to be vastly reduced. Our aim is to bring down progression to more reasonable levels, while still allowing players to get some crazy builds off if they set their board up the right way. The fun is still in tact - but we are aiming for progression currently to top out around the trillions for now.

NOTE that this rework is still ongoing. In the next patch we will update the workshop upgrade system, as currently it is still far too cheap just to get all of your facilities to the Legendary rank and accelerate your build. Additionally, there may be some cases we haven’t found of abuse loops that can still technically generate way more credits than intended. If you do find any of these, let us know in the bug reports!

Planetarium Updated

We feel good about the current Planetarium, and have now done a second balance pass on the progression to make it feel more impactful. Expect points to come fast and often just like before, but the actual costs of things have risen quite a bit to match! You’ll need to really pick and choose your selections more carefully moving forward. We will continue monitoring this system, and though we feel the pacing isn’t quite there just yet, we are certainly getting closer to our ideal form of the planetarium.

Levelling

• Rebalanced level requirements for smoother progression

Balance

• Summon Skeletons now grants credits based on CPS rather than percentage of total credits

• Critkeeper Effect reworked to now gain a flat amount of Credits based on Rank.

• Windmill cooldown increased to 8 seconds, charge reduced to rank x 0.5

• Loaded Dice's effect reduced to 10+Rank*5 down from 40+rank*10

• Overworked Artist cooldown increased to 11s

• Motivational Poster cooldown reduced to 18 from 20s

• Cooling Fans cooldown up from 7 to 15s

• Project Manager cooldown up from 10 to 16s

• Psychologist cooldown up from 5 to 15s

• Catgirl maid cooldown up from 8 to 14s

• Robot Assistant cooldown up from 8 to 14s

• Idea Guy cooldown up from 12 to 15s

• Ninja Stars cooldown up from 8 to 9s

• Sales Associate cooldown up from 8 to 9s

• Revolver cooldown up from 7 to 9s

• Sprinkler System cooldown up from 4 to 6s

• Magic Wand cooldown up from 12s to 150s AND redesigned. It now casts the last spell you previously cast when activated.

• Stuffed Bear cooldown up from 8s to 12s

• Game Console cooldown up from 10s to 20s

• Slot Machine cooldown up from 10s to 20s

• Gachapon redesigned, and now provides a global buff based on a roll chance.

• Bodyguard cooldown up from 10s to 15s

• Bank Vault cooldown down from 20s to 18s

• Briefcase cooldown up from 8s to 10s

• Guard Dog cooldown up from 10s to 12s

• Padlock cooldown up from 5s to 10s

• Suspicious Van cooldown up from 7s to 14s

• Pool Table cooldown up from 9s to 18s

• Calculator cooldown up from 8s to 12s

• Streamer and Overworked Artist both redesigned, and no longer scale with tetration

• Clover’s Starlight enhancement effect removed. We will add this back in later, but needs tweaking

• ATM disabled while we redesign it

• Catgirl Maid’s effect now only counts stacked buffs as a single buff (eg, 200 Starlight stacks only count as 1 ‘buff’ for her effect)

Bugfixes

• Fixed Swiss Army Knife functionality

• Fixed workshop looping issue

• Fixed draggable facilities spamming the board with ‘press to activate’ visuals

• Updated Printer text and output flow for visual clarity

• Selecting to downgrade all of your facilities at a certain point in the story now works as intended

Known Issues

• Sometimes the ‘Pick 3’ selection has void art

• Motivational Poster interaction with Fancy Couch

• Fancy Couch ranged not affected by Influence increasers

• Two bathtub debuffs can reduce Credit gain to 0

• Finance Chart + Nodes that count as spells are breaking idle

• Story cutscene skip is too sticky

• Red Skull has incorrect buff amount in its tooltip

• Summon Skeletons shows 5 minutes of CPS, but is now in fact 1 minute

• Spell visuals do not show their correct tiers in the planetarium

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. This one addresses a large amount of bugs we’ve received from the community, while also preparing the build for the next phase in our rollout plan, known as the great renormalization. More notes on that below.

Content

Planetarium Updated

The previous iteration of the Planetarium looked pretty, but suffered heavily in basically every other area. We’ve gone back to the drawing board and rebuilt the planetarium from scratch into a more traditional path-based layout that feels vastly improved in playtesting. 

The new planetarium should allow for more strategic decisionmaking, better long-term AND short-term planning, and real tradeoffs relative to the previous free-for-all of v1. Packs have also been randomized, to give players more surprise as they unlock content, rather than having set packs they can unlock at certain nodes. 

DO NOTE, that the new planetarium has NOT been balanced - this is only the first step of a progression rework that will significantly smooth out the game experience start to finish; so in the meantime, you should still expect CP gains to feel entirely too fast. We intend to balance this once we push the next renormalization changes.

General

Inventory

• Updated Visuals

Leveling

• Updated level code to allow for multiple levels if the player gains a large amount of credits

Achievements

• Enabled the ‘Important, Are We?’ achievement

Bugfixes

• Clickable glow now extends to non 1x1 facilities

• Increment audio updated

• Upgrading facilities while the game is paused is now possible

• Fixed timed missions not functioning with the timer

• Basic audio queue implemented to fix multiple audio trigger issue. This is an ongoing issue, let us know if you still experience audio overload.

• Certain missions that could not be completed are now fixed

• Spellbook unlock flashing locked spells issue fixed

• Voice audio now respects the voice audio setting

• Master audio functionality issue fixed

• Idle buff visual clipping issue fixed

• Pushed possible fix with slots deleting themselves. Let us know if you still experience this issue.

• Fixed previous window settings not being respected on startup

• Fixed Build Mode talent not updating excavator costs

• Fixed issue with Workshop restarting tutorial if it was not completed

• Fixed issue with bottled lightning hitting locked spells

• Fixed issue with 1812 Cannon functionality

• Fixed issue with nodes entering a zombie state with hover tricks

• Fixed various progression issues that soft locked progress

• Fixed issue with nodes being dumped to inventory on load

Known Issues

• Sometimes the ‘Pick 3’ selection has void art

• Motivational Poster interaction with Fancy Couch

• Supercharged Buff does not clear stacks of Moisturized

• Fancy Couch ranged not affected by Influence increasers

• Swiss Army Knife not affecting facilities

• Two bathtubs can reduce Credit gain to 0

• Finance Chart + Nodes that count as spells are breaking idle

• Story cutscene skip is too sticky

Looking Ahead

We’re still putting a big focus on stability and making sure the experience is bug-free, but we are also now able to turn our attention to more systemic issues. In particular we have a big rebalance pass that is going to hit next patch that addresses runaway compound gains and should make the game more exciting at all stages of play. In particular we are changing around most of the calculation formulas to be additive rather than multiplicative, which will fix the huge output chains that are causing numbers to reach trillions and beyond before it is really felt earned. We still expect some issues here and there once that change goes live, but overall the game should feel much smoother progress wise, and players should be able to have much more fun making tough decisions and strategizing around their builds, their next investments, and how they plan to play the game.

Content wise, we have a new set of over 100 missions that will be added to the game in the next patch, which will also help progression and give players more things to do. These missions are rudimentary, but will provide a good basis for more fun and interesting missions later on. 

Some neat mission ideas we are thinking of revolve around using specific Annie/May nodes, hitting outputs with a limited amount of active nodes, or hitting certain CPS numbers in a given time. These and more should allow players to discover new ways of play, and the updated Planetarium will also throw more exciting facilities into the mix as they are no longer set reveals. If you have ideas for cool missions, let us know! We’d love to implement your suggestions.

We are also going to be updating the Workshop, as it is currently feeling left out from all of the improvements! While most of the systems remain the same, upgrades will be moved to a global cost and shared across ALL facilities, which means upgrading will become a lot rarer - you definitely won’t have a full board of Legendaries… at least not right away. This will also be coming with a visual makeover that is more befitting the Workshop and more in line with the game. Check it out:

Finally, we will also be adding new story scenes, enabling more achievements, and enabling the true secret ending to the game. Of course this will be spoiler free - but look ahead to our future updates for more on these!

Hello bosses! There’s a new update available on Steam. We’re focused right now on stability and bugs, so most of these changes will not affect the actual gameplay - but we have gotten your first round of feedback on the current state of the game and we have some great ideas to improve things. Some of the upcoming changes (not in this patch, but future versions) will address many of the core issues. Here’s a shortlist of what we’re looking at:

• Slowing down progression so the game is less chaotic

• More information and visibility to players for better understanding of output

• A completely reworked output calculation formula to standardize facilities and effects

• Audio rework

• Full balance pass for all facilities

• Complete revamp to the Forge and upgrading experience

• Further polish and improvement of the Planetarium

• Rework to the spell system to make casting more accessible

And much much more! If you have feedback, do let us know - we check everywhere, including Discord, Reddit, and the Steam Forums.

Balance Changes

Motivational Poster

• Buff no longer stacks

• Buff reduced to 20% output

Supercharged

• Now capped to 1 max stack

Metronome

• Reduced rank scaling expeditiously

Slot Machine

• Removed from item pool, and is now only accessible via the story

Briefcase

• Removed from item pool, and is now only accessible via the story

Poker Set

• Max rank increased to 5

Psychologist

• Max rank reduced to 3

Coffee Machine

• Influence pattern changed from cross to single. NOTE - Coffee Machine is now very similar to Subwoofers. We will be adding a new pattern in the future to make the Coffee Machine more differentiated, but 4 separate multifires was a bit overkill.

Pool Table

• Rank scaling reduced to 3

Briefcase

• Cooldown increased to 8 from 4

General

Level Experience

• Added level data from levels 100 to 1000. Level progression is now based on several different curves, and the max credits top out at 1 Vigintillion. We haven’t actually reached this ourselves yet, and we think the current variable setup probably can’t handle it, but we added this for now in case players want to keep their game open beyond Level 100.

Idle Buff

• Unlock is possible even if the player selects Annie’s decision early game

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue with menu sometimes hiding itself

• Fixed issue with Hunter Coin Hunter mission not being completable

• Fixed soft lock with progression causing players to no longer receive calls. This issue may still persist, let us know if you encounter it!

• Fixed issue with Magic Caster mission

• Fixed planetarium initialization issue when loading a save

• Fixed issue with Build Mode talent

• Resolved auto advance skipping choices in the story

• Fixed issue with coins not spawning during player onboarding

• Fixed issue with any credit gains granting instant levels

• Fixed issue with Pool Table crashing

• Fixed issue with haste stacking on itself

• Fixed crash with Swiss Army Knife and Fancy Couch

• Fixed crash with Watch Collection interaction

• Fixed text display issue with Subwoofer

• Fixed save data not fully resetting on wipe

• Fixed issue with scratch ticket counter not displaying proper chances

Visual

• Personal Chef now has a visual cue when he activates.

• Updated Level Up animation for clarity

• Improved feedback speed on menu UX

Known Issues

Too many to list! We will be continually releasing hotfixes and patches as we stabilize the game further and make the experience more enjoyable.

Hello bosses!

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the PAY 2 WIN: The World is Mine Early Access launch!

The Game

PAY 2 WIN is a story-driven genre blend incremental game, featuring elements of roguelike deckbuilding, idle mechanics, visual novels, and resource management. In the game you play as the new boss - recently hired by the megacorporation Mindwave Limited in order to do one thing and one thing only; tackle the games industry and make as MUCH money as POSSIBLE! How you achieve this is up to you - will you go down the path of soulful studio fun with quirky mechanics and abilities, or maximize your profits with efficient selections and choices? Whatever happens, you'll need resources. Lots of them.

Early Access Launch

The Early Access launch is an exciting time for us - as we look to add additional features, content, and more for players to enjoy. Systems are in flux at this stage of development, so note that balance needs tuning, progression might be jumpy at times, and you will certainly find bugs!

We're committed to a fast release cycle and will deliver weekly bugfixes, along with balance changes and QoL updates to the game while we work on the next core features and large upgrades to the current game.

Where you can help

With over 100 items, dozens of interacting buffs, debuffs, and mechanics, and a powerful spellbook, we need your help with player feedback, comments, critiques, and more! We have dedicated channels in Discord for posting things like comments and feedback, but we will also be interacting with you on the Steam forums and our Reddit community.

We hope you enjoy the Early Access launch and look forward to your thoughts on the game!

Hello bosses!

We've just rolled out a small patch update. This is another minimal patch as we are focused on implementing the full version of the game for release. Onwards to 1.0!

Changelist

• 14 character limit for saves

• Pause can now be toggled by pressing the spacebar.

• Fixed issue with first mission completion reducing credits

• Fixed issue with purchasing excavators when the player no longer needs them

• Small clarity fix for Link Bonus

• Fixed incoming call functionality when the player declines several times

Hello bosses!

We've just rolled out a patch update that addresses some small bugs and adds a few things.

Changelist

• You can now hover over a facility and see its area of effect

• Facilities can now be hotswapped with each other by dragging and dropping one on top of another.

• Six new tracks have been added to the music playlist

• Get 2000 triggers mission bug fixed

• Layout Size flipped back to expected values in details view

• Fixed interaction with Grandfather Clock and Overworked Artist

• Rank-down effect visual bug with Fancy Couch resolved

• Various other bugfixes

Watch the developers livestream the game.

DOWNLOAD THE DEMO (AVAILABLE NOW!):

Watch the developers livestream the game.

DOWNLOAD THE DEMO (AVAILABLE NOW!):

Watch the developers livestream the game.

DOWNLOAD THE DEMO (AVAILABLE NOW!):

Greetings future bosses.

We are pleased to announce that the demo for PAY 2 WIN: The World is Mine is now LIVE on Steam! Those looking to play the game can download it right away by visiting our Store page and clicking the green "Demo" button.

What's in the Demo

You arrive in an empty office, the new CEO of a failing game startup. It's your job to take this studio from zero to hero by utilizing your Facilities, a set of objects you can place in the office. Each Facility comes with its own unique set of abilities, powers, and rulesets.

Joining you on this journey are your two assistants; Annie, a fun-loving cult obsessed gamer, and May, a strict accountant with a secret vice for gambling. Utilize their advice, learn more about the office, their stories, and the world. Enjoy an experience beautifully rendered with a blended mix of pixel art, cyberpunk style, and anime flair.

Early Stage!

We are releasing the Demo as a sneak peak of what's to come, and to show players a taste of what we've been building. There are many systems that will come to the game over time - including ways to upgrade your Facilities, reroll their synergies, and much much more!

If you find any bugs, hit us up on the Discord server, or make a report in the official Steam forums.

We hope you enjoy,

-Patriots Division