Saloon Simulator news & patch notes

General idea

Starting today, you get early access to our newest features and bugfixes — straight from the workbench, before they land in the main game. Just one heads-up: things here can be a little rough around the edges, and there's a chance you'll lose your progress. So jump in only when you're okay with that. Here's how it works: before every patch, we'll drop fresh content on this branch for you to test. Once it's polished and stable, it goes live for everyone. Your feedback along the way helps us get there faster.

How you can change branch?

Click right mouse button on Saloon Simulator -> Properties -> Game versions & Betas -> Choose branch you want to play Also we are preparing Wild West Customs patch which will include bug fixes and new wagon feature

Dear players! Today we're releasing the patch containing the next chapter of Saloon Simulator. This is the biggest update since the game launched in Early Access - the result of several months of work. If you haven't visited Blueberry in a while, now is a great time to catch up.

What's been added since Early Access launch?

• Employee system (cook, waiter, cleaner & bartender)

• Pickpocketing mechanic

• Fistfight mechanic

• Reworked train unloading mechanic

• Reputation system - adding progression after finishing the story

• Courtesan mechanic

• Additional rooms to unlock and over 100 new furniture pieces and saloon decorations

What's arriving today?

To everyone who has been following the game closely and testing the latest changes - thank you, sincerely. You're what keeps us going day to day, and it's thanks to your feedback and ideas that Saloon gets a little better with each update. Here's what's just landed in the game.

New Story Quests

Take on new quests and find out who talked Cheyenne into learning to pickpocket, how hiring employees ties into the contract, why sometimes it's worth throwing a punch, and who came up with the idea of expanding the saloon's offer with certain... unique services.

Moonshining

When business is slow and your staff have everything under control, it might be time to pick up a second trade. Buy some apples, bottles, and the necessary equipment, and start producing your own cider. Cook, distill, bottle, ship, and expand your contacts. Let Blueberry be known by day for the finest saloon in the West — and by night for its finest distillery.

New Recipes & Ingredients

Some time has passed since the daring defense of the town in the previous chapter, giving Blueberry a chance to rebuild. The town is growing, and new ingredients are finding their way in. New vegetables and fruits, new cuts of meat, and a range of drink additions - including something as exotic as imported Curaçao. Brandy has also arrived, along with the so-called green fairy herself: absinthe. With these new ingredients, your bar will satisfy even the most demanding tastes, and every drink will feel like a wild ride through flavor country. ​

Voice Acting

We're very happy to announce that Chapter 3 quests will be fully voiced! Returning characters will once again be brought to life by the actors you already know, and two new faces are joining the cast - Bee Malik as Otto and Julie Wettstein as Lucy. Voice lines for your employees and courtesans are already in production - they'll arrive in the next patch.

Bug Fixes

Fixed customers getting stuck in rented rooms Fixed a bug causing no customers to appear after hiring a bartender Fixed customers getting stuck in the drink queue Fixed customers getting stuck in the gambling room during rush hour Fixed fistfights between customers not triggering correctly Fixed some employees not leaving the saloon at night Fixed a bug where the waiter could occasionally leave soup floating in mid-air Fixed some employees not showing up for work

What's Next for Saloon Simulator?

Our next patch is planned for June and will be a content update - bringing, among other things, full voice acting for all your employees. We'll also be updating our roadmap soon with the next stops on the way to the next major milestone: Chapter 4. Thank you - truly - for every hour spent in Blueberry, every bug report, and every kind word along the way. Chapter 3 is our most ambitious update yet, and it wouldn't exist without your support. We hope it's worth the wait. If you're enjoying the game, leaving a review on Steam means the world to us and helps more players find their way to Blueberry. ​As always, please report bugs on our Discord or in the "Bug Report" thread on Steam Discussions.​ See you in Blueberry (and on Discord)! Krzysztof "xardi" Marchewka on behalf of the Glivi Games team

We've just dropped a brand new trailer - go check it out!

Chapter 3

Saloon Simulator Soundtrack on YouTube

About the room issue

Courtesans

• The chance that a customer accepts her company's
• Earnings per room and other parts of your business.
• The risk of a brawl breaking out downstairs

Lucy

​Courtesan Work Modes

Smaller Additions

Relax to Some New Music

What’s Next?

Lucky Saloon fix

Crouching fistfight fix

Endless Training Fix

Behind the scenes

A quick question

• Courtesans' management
• Moonshining system

A peek inside the Moonshinery

What about the courtesans?

Contest results

Balance changes and improvements

Time to redecorate!

Fixes

• Lighting adjustments - nights should now be brighter. If you previously had issues with overly dark nights, please let us know if this helped.
• Random cash appearing in Earl’s shop.
• Incorrect food quantities displayed in pots.
• “Rush Hour” notification not disappearing.
• Mule carry limit miscalculation.
• Music volume set too low by default.
• Issues creating trash bags.
• Lucky Saloon quest requiring the wrong Faro table.
• Improved hunting trophy textures in Charlie’s shop.
• Missing kitchen door interaction prompt.
• Added screenshots to employee tutorials.
• Mule movement bug in “In Time of Need III.”
• Customer waiting for a drink after closing.
• Incorrect Lucky Saloon Faro quest completion conditions.
• Missing translations in Peabody’s train interaction.
• Removed a restriction that prevented some furniture from being placed in the new rooms.

1. Visit the station more often

2. Take your pick

3. Test your luck

4. Rush hour

Summary

5. Is that all?

1. Moonshining

2. Courtesans

A small contest for you

3. What’s next for the story?

• The safe now correctly counts Mr. Locke’s tribute and no longer resets its balance.
• The “basket” in Charlie’s shop now correctly calculates the total value of selected items.
• Fixed an issue where you had to throw a bowl of food at a customer to make them start eating.
• We’ve exorcised the “drunk ghost” that occasionally haunted the saloon and drank whiskey while being completely invisible.
• Removed placeholder items from Earl’s shop.
• Blocked the ability to stack tables on top of each other.

• Added notifications when money is taken from the safe by Mr. Locke and employees.
• Increased the difficulty of the pickpocketing mechanic.
• Improved the way fistfights with customers work.

First of all - happy New Year!

Employee Customization

Reputation

Pickpocketing

Fistfight

The Waiter

The Cleaner

Employee Management:

1. Recruit

2. Welcome

3. Pay

4. Train

5. Give Us Feedback!

New Furniture

Dear players,

A favor

But wait... a story in a simulator?

Workfeed (i.e. what we are working on)

Artists

Employee customization

Programmers and designers

Moonshining

Dear players,

We’re continuing our presentation of new employees! This time, a new member joins your saloon crew – the cook. Once you open your saloon, she’ll appear in the kitchen and wait for your instructions.

The Cook

Before she starts cooking, the cook needs to agree on the menu with you. Meet her in the kitchen and talk to her by right-clicking.

From her recipe book, you can select up to three dishes – one from each category: sweet, salty, and spicy. In the cooking queue on the right side, you can decide how many times she should prepare a given dish again after the pot becomes empty.

The cook is the most interactive of all our employees so far. We’re really curious to hear your feedback – let us know how it feels to run the saloon when the cook takes over your kitchen! Both the cook and the bartender will appear in the gameright after you finish the main storyline.

What’s next for the employee system?

The full employee system will include:

• A total of 32 employees (8 for each role: cook, cleaner, bartender, and waiter). Each will have their own model, voice*, and short bio so you can get to know them a bit better.

• A job board where you’ll be able to hire new staff members.

• The ability to send them for training to improve their skills.

• A flexible payment system that lets you decide whether and how to pay your employees (though unpaid workers won’t stay for long!).

Most of these features are already in early testing – we’re working hard to bring them to the game step by step in upcoming updates. We’ve designed the employee system in a way that allows us to easily expand it with new features and mechanics over time, so this is far from everything we have planned. *The next VO recording session for actors is planned for early 2026, so in the patch that introduces the full employee mechanic, the workers won’t have their voice lines recorded yet.

New Furniture Set

As I mentioned last month, with every update we want to introduce a new furniture set to the game. Today we’d like to present the “Relic” set. We want there to be plenty of furniture options so that each of you can design your saloon to your liking.

However, it’s hard to fully enjoy decorating when the process itself isn’t as smooth and satisfying as it could be. We’ve been thinking about revisiting the furnishing system at some point, and we’d love to hear what you think about it. Do you enjoy the current setup? What could we improve? Are there any games you think do customization really well that we could take inspiration from?

Share your thoughts in the comments!

As always, we invite you to join our official Saloon Simulator Discord. It’s the best place to stay up to date with the latest news, share feedback, and chat with the developers and other players. See you in Blueberry (and on Discord)! Krzysztof “xardi” Marchewka on behalf of the Glivi Games team

Dear players,

The Bartender Employee

• Serves drinks
• Collects payments
• Keeps the bar counter clean
• Refills the ice bucket

• You can’t upgrade his skills yet
• You can’t choose between multiple bartenders
• He won’t ask for a salary (very kind of him!)
• You can’t talk to him just yet

• How is it working alongside the bartender?
• How fast should he be?
• How often would you like him to show up in the saloon?

Selling Furniture

New Customization Items

PSA: Lounge Furniture Bug

Dear players!

Thank you for supporting us during Early Access! Your feedback and suggestions are invaluable to us, which is why we want to share our plans for the future. We have prepared a roadmap where you can see what we are currently working on and what new features and improvements are planned for upcoming updates.

Edit: We already know that the update we released on December 16th is the last one this year. The next update will go live in January. It will include two new mechanics: a progression system (Reputation) and a not-yet-announced criminal underworld mechanic - more details coming soon.

As for the later stages, Chapters 4 and 5 will be revealed after we collect your feedback from Chapter 3. The roadmap will then be updated to reflect the direction we’re heading together.

Today we’re also releasing our last update before a longer break. We’re at the final stage of designing the staff system, and soon we’ll start working on the programming part of implementing them into the game.

What’s new in today’s patch

• New furniture sets – This patch introduces several new furniture sets that our artists didn’t manage to finish before the EA launch. Our broader plan is to add plenty more furniture in future updates, so that on each tier you’ll have multiple design variants to choose from, not just one.
• Improved woodwork and base furniture textures – We’ve refreshed not only the floors, but also wooden walls, beams, stairs, and exterior elements. Overall, the saloon’s woodwork has gone through a full visual overhaul to look more natural and detailed.
• Bug fixes – We’re constantly improving the game, and your bug reports have been a huge help. This patch fixes several softlocks in quests and issues with NPC movement in certain tasks. We’ll continue keeping a close eye on any other issues that pop up after this release - and we’ll tackle them right away.

We’d also like to invite you to our new dedicated Saloon Simulator Discord server. Until now, our community has been split between two separate servers – ours (the dev team) and our publisher’s (RockGame). By bringing everyone together in one place, we’ll be able to stay in touch with you more easily, and you’ll also be able to get answers faster – especially if another player helps you out while it’s nighttime in our timezone.

Finally, we’d like to thank you for the warm reception of Saloon Simulator’s Early Access. Your feedback – whether it’s in reviews, forum discussions, or on Discord – is helping us make the game better every day. Knowing that our work resonates with you and that you want to be part of shaping the game is truly a dream come true for every game developer.

We’re excited to keep developing the game and bringing you even more Saloon content!

See you in Blueberry (and also on Discord!)

Dear players,

• Toggleable sprint option added – You can now choose whether sprinting requires you to hold the button or just tap it to switch between walking and running. You’ll find this setting in the gameplay options.
• Customer spawn rate is now adjustable – Some players found the saloon too busy, others thought it too quiet. You can now manually adjust the number of customers coming to your saloon in the options menu. This is a temporary solution while we work on a more advanced customer spawning system.
• Translation fixes – We’ve corrected some localization issues in various languages.
• Train performance optimized – You should notice smoother gameplay during train unloading sequences.
• Minor texture optimizations – A few small tweaks were made to improve overall performance.

• Customer frequency reduced – Many of you told us that running the saloon can get a bit overwhelming in the later stages of the game. While we’re still working on implementing staff management in one of the upcoming major updates, this patch slightly slows down the rate at which customers appear. This should make gameplay more manageable—both in the final story chapters and in Freeplay mode.
• Fixed a bug where rugs would revert to their original color after loading a save.
• Fixed looping dialogue issues.
• Fixed shop display issues on non-standard screen resolutions.

About game crashes

Dear players,

What’s included in the current Early Access version?

• 34 quests that introduce the residents of Blueberry, the work of a saloon keeper, and all the mechanics and minigames we've built
• Expanded saloon management with rentable rooms and a full-fledged gambling den
• A robust Freeplay mode
• Brand-new furniture and decorative elements
• 2 new minigames: gold panning and unloading the train
• Full English voice-over performed by professional actors

FAQ

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🍻 Final Playtest Before Launch!

Howdy, Bartenders!

We’re getting real close to the launch of Saloon Simulator – and before we officially swing open the doors of your very own Wild West bar, we’ve got one last chance for you to jump in and try the game.

That’s right: Final Playtests are live!

This is your last opportunity to:

🔹 Test how your bar business runs 🔹 Share feedback – every bit helps us polish the game 🔹 See what’s changed since the last test

🕹️ How to Join?

Just hit the “Request Access” button on the game’s Steam page:

Seats are limited, so be quick – first come, first served!

Thanks for your continued support and amazing feedback. We can’t wait to see how you run your saloons!

See you at the bar, The Saloon Simulator Team

Dear players!

We’re thrilled to announce that Saloon Simulator will debut in Early Access on July 15, 2025! For the past few weeks, we’ve been focused almost exclusively on bug fixes and minor polish to ensure this is the most refined version of the game you’ve ever played. We’ve got tons of new content to show you, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback.

New Furniture Sets & Customization Items

We’ve added a wealth of new decoration options and patterns to let you personalize your saloon like never before. The design possibilities are bigger than ever, and we can’t wait to see the creative layouts you come up with!

New Cutscenes

While polishing the EA build, we were able to add fully animated cutscenes to several story beats. Our intro sequence, in particular, now beautifully explains how Cheyenne ended up in Blueberry.

New Quests

Early Access extends the game’s storyline with additional quests, characters, and mechanics. Between managing your saloon, you can help Sam pan for gold, care for your mule, or lend a hand to the postmaster unloading the train.

Looking Ahead

Although the game is already well-tested and polished, we’re committed to squashing bugs throughout the entire Early Access period. Soon we’ll publish a detailed roadmap so you can follow our progress month by month.

Thank you so much for your playtest!

We read every single one of the 1,400+ surveys you submitted after the playtest. Many of your suggestions are already in the game, and the rest will arrive soon. As promised, we’ll be drawing winners for free copies of the full game before launch. Thank you again for your incredible support!

Join Our Discord!

We also invite you to join our Discord, where we answer all your questions. If you have anything you’d like to share with us, that’s the place to do it! Stay tuned for more updates, and until next time! Best regards, Saloon Simulator Team

PS. Almost forgot—we’ve just released a brand-new trailer for Saloon Simulator! Check it out here:

Dear players,

1. New drink recipes

2. Saloon renovation

3. New customers’ animations!

4. Bugfixing

Join the Playtests!

Take the Survey and Win the Full Version!

Join Our Discord!

Dear players,

The playtests are now live! Join us today and be part of shaping the game.

Join the Playtests!

Take the Survey and Win the Full Version!

Join Our Discord!

Dear Players,

1. English Voice-Over

2. A Sky as Real as It Gets

3. Horses Have Finally Arrived in Town

If you haven't played Saloon Simulator Prologue yet,

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And One More Thing...

What’s New in Saloon Simulator?

1. Blueberry, Livelier Than Ever

2. Live Music?

3. It ain't much, but it's honest work

• Characters finally drink from their glasses instead of spilling everywhere:

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• A notification system to keep you updated on all the happenings in the saloon

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• Highlighting dirt and trash when using the right tools, so cleaning enthusiasts will never miss a spot

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Our Wishes for You

If you’d like to visit Blueberry again, remember that you can still play the Saloon Simulator Prologue on Steam.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

What’s New in Saloon Simulator?

1. Faro – A Classic Gambling Game

2. Meet Your New Companion – The Mule

3. Ladies and Gentlemen

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Are you ready to sign a pact with the devil?

Trait System

• Thirst – Desire to order a drink
• Hunger – Desire to order food (the hungriest guests might want to order a full meal!)
• Sociability – Perhaps our guest will want to stay a little longer
• Impulsiveness – High impulsiveness increases the chance of an aggressive reaction to a wrong order and a willingness to get involved in a fight
• Wealth – Determines how much money they have and the size of the tips
• Manners – Reduces the chance that a customer will leave a mess behind

Renting and Furnishing Rooms

Skill System

Behind-the-Scenes Bonus

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Dear Saloon Managers,

New Mechanic - Train Unloading

New Clothes for Customers

Continuing the Story

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