Echoes of the Community
A complete overhaul built directly from player feedback. Mood, moodlets, crime, pathfinding.
What's in it
The overhaul
- Most systems rebuilt from the ground up, with nearly all of the most requested features added to the base game
- Resort rating overhaul: daily ratings with clearer thresholds and more accurate guest feedback
- Room and resort capacity system that ties service capacity, rating and transport together
- Business payments: taxes, salaries, social security and loan payments, each with a due date
- Much faster saving and loading, smaller save files
- Data recording and graphs for every system
- Reports rebuilt into one category based interface
Getting around
- Transportation overhaul: walkways, parking licenses and a fully managed public transport fleet
- Resort vehicle garage: buy, maintain and repair your own vehicles, which gather dust and wear over time
- Escalators
- Elevator overhaul: smarter direction handling, routing and new logic modes
- Faster, more natural pathfinding and crowd behavior
- Item usage queues: guests line up for shared items, with patience and timers
The city and its people
- Townsfolk overhaul: personalities, corruption levels and better requests
- City licenses, unlocked by your reputation with the townsfolk
- New moods, moodlets and smarter guest behavior
New rooms and services
- Specialty restaurants
- Smoothie Bar
- Yoga Studio
- Cigar Lounge
- Hair Salon
- Cybercafes
Your staff
- Contractors on demand: builders, delivery drivers and waste collectors
- Agents: freelance mechanics, drivers and lawyers for short contracts
- Executives: HR, Finance, Marketing and Research leaders who automate operations
- Employee coping styles, from fiery outbursts to quiet breakdowns and the occasional strike
- Breaks, job happiness and quitting reworked
- Salary negotiations that show the chance of success
Running the resort
- Hotel system overhaul and a full laundry workflow: collect, wash, dry and iron
- Utilities rebuilt, with a smart switchboard per room
- Vending machines that run on their own pricing
- CCTV improvements and servers
- Storage shelf stacking
- Room policies per room: hours, prices and smoking rules
- New CEO decisions
- A people inventory: see what every character carries
- Specialized parking spaces for police, builders and delivery staff
Look and feel
- Lamp colors, new wallpapers and new item varieties
- Animation and audio improvements, and new streamer friendly background music
- Room signs, action sliders and other world indicators
- Starting map size settings
- 40 new achievements
- The start of the tutorial rework
Since release
- v0.7.5.2.1: large dumpsters, crime graphs and a new settings menu
- v0.7.6.0.0: the demo, jackpot pool loans, vehicle maintenance and contractor payments
- v0.7.6.1.4: elevator controls and item duration
- v0.7.8.0.0: the stable version, with moods, the Dish Pit and rating
- v0.7.8.3.2: room move and cloning, and the new launcher
- v0.7.8.4.0: Smoother Operations
Screenshots
Patches
- v0.7.5.1.2Quickfix ↗
- v0.7.5.2.1Large Dumpsters, Graphs, Settings Menu ↗
- v0.7.6.0.0Demo, Jackpot Pool, Vehicle Maintenance, Contractors ↗
- v0.7.6.0.3Room Cloning Quickfix ↗
- v0.7.6.1.4Elevator Controls, Item Duration, Stability Update ↗
- v0.7.6.1.7Patch ↗
- v0.7.6.2.0Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.0.0Stable Version, Moods, Dish Pit, Rating ↗
- v0.7.8.1.0Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.1.6Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.1.7Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.1.8Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.2.0Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.2.2Patch ↗
- v0.7.8.3.2Maintenance Update: Room Move/Cloning, Launcher and Fixes ↗
- v0.7.8.4.0Smoother Operations
Full Roadmap
The 2023 playtests and the open beta days of Early Access, from the first playtest until Echoes of the Community.
See the detailsA complete overhaul built directly from player feedback. Mood, moodlets, crime, pathfinding.
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All 13 event types on a new calendar, Main Lobby, trends, multi-floor rooms, Nightclub, billboards, a new tutorial, wiki and demo.
See the detailsUsability and quality of life across the menus, the first 5 languages, reworked executives and policies, CEO builder RPG elements and a staff and HR package. Also launching on the Epic Games Store.
See the detailsSky bridges, cantilever floors, atriums, outdoor terraces, rooftop and corner rooms, penthouses, facade skins, room value and utilities that play more like a puzzle.
See the detailsSteam Deck and controller support, 5 more languages, and accessibility options.
See the detailsFire, infrastructure failures, rats, bed bugs, cockroaches and illness. Respond with your own teams or call the city.
See the detailsFour seasons, weather, holidays, temperature with fans and AC, pools and ice skating.
See the detailsRival casinos and businesses, a stock market, espionage and alliances. Plus Campaign, Sandbox modes and the new CEO Mode.
See the detailsAttract elite guests with luxury amenities and premium services for the wealthiest guests.
Inner distribution, transport tubes, automated delivery and drones.
Boost your fame with media relations, social buzz, and PR managed coverage.
Protect your wealth with advanced vaults, surveillance and security teams.
Expand globally, adapt to local events and move your CEO between locations.