2025-08-29 10:44 UTC · Community Announcements · lockyaw
A tiny patch to tidy up your cafes! ✨🔧 Bug Fixes🍞Our beloved Bread Guy no longer gets stuck waving to the customers, he’s back to baking smoothly!🌊Paths, rivers, and fences can now be properly deleted again! Build and rebuild to your heart’s content!That’s all for this little patch! 🐱 Thank you for playing, and for every bug you help us squash, the cats appreciate it! 💖 📣 Got a suggestion, found a bug, or just want to share your cozy cafe?Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/kP8gAqeJyF
2025-08-25 11:02 UTC · Community Announcements · lockyaw
🐾 Hello, Cat Cafe Proprietors! 🐱☕ Thank you so much for playing! This patch mostly focuses on squashing some pesky bugs, and improves achievements. 🔧 Bug Fixes 🔧 Achievements: All known achievement issues should now be fixed! If you were missing some before, they’ll automatically unlock next time you play. General Stability: A few behind-the-scenes tweaks to make the game run smoother. Korean Language: Fixed an issue where Korean didn’t work at all (oops... Sorry to our Korean players!!). Tooltips: Now properly display in your chosen language instead of defaulting to English. Recipe Names:
2025-08-02 10:11 UTC · Community Announcements · lockyaw
🐾 Hello, Cat Cafe caretakers! 🐱☕ Thank you so much for playing, building, and purring alongside us! Here’s what’s new in this update, we’ve been busy squashing bugs and polishing a little. ✨Changes & Improvements ✨ Game Opacity Behavior has been tweaked: opacity is now only applied when the game isn't in focus. Camera Movement now works as long as the game window is in focus! Previously, it only responded if your cursor hovered specifically over the game view. 🔧Bug Fixes 🔧 Furniture Deletion Refunds: You’ll now correctly receive money back for all linked items when deleting furniture. Exam
2025-07-16 10:47 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
A fresh new build is here! Just a few tweaks and fixes to keep your cafe purr-fectly smooth,🆕 Improvements:🌏 Better Localization Accuracy! We polished up translations across the board for a smoother experience in every language.🥟 Recipes Now in Chinese! All recipes are now fully localized into Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.🔧 Fixes:🐈 No More Pale Cats! Cats visiting attractions now look lively and adorable as intended.🏗️ Blank Stations Fixed - everything should show up properly now.🗺️ Unlocked Land Color Bug Fixed - land areas won’t stay red after leaving build mode.🎥 Auto-
2025-06-27 22:33 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
🌞🐾 Desktop Cat Cafe – HUGE Summer Update & Sale! v1.20.0 ☕🎉Our biggest update yet is here - just in time for the summer vibes! With new features, more languages, smarter cats, better systems, and tons of polish, your cafe is about to feel more alive than ever. And we’re on Steam's Summer Sale too 30% OFF! 🌻💸 🆕 New Features🌍 Languages Added! The cafe now supports multiple languages! Available languages include English, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Arabic, Czech, Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Poli
2025-06-03 18:51 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
Happy Pride from all of us at the cafe! To celebrate love, identity, and self-expression, we’ve added a few adorable Pride-themed props for you to decorate your space with. 💖🏳️🌈✨ 🎉 New: 🏳️🌈 Pride Props! Add a splash of color and joy with some cute, placeable decorations to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community 💕 🔧 Fixes & Improvements: 🪑 Staff should now clip into tables and chairs way less—they’re learning spatial awareness, slowly but surely. 🖌️ In Twitch Integration, you can now choose whether support names use white text or Twitch-specific name colors! 🚶♀️ Updated walking delays for
2025-04-24 22:55 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
A little maintenance update with some polish and behind-the-scenes fixes to keep your cafe running smooth as silk (or soft as a kitten paw 🐾). 🔧 Fixes & Tweaks: 💬 Tooltips now show their fonts properly! No more invisible whispers. 🧍♀️ Added extra checks for customers heading to attractions to prevent odd behavior. 🎯 Fixed a highlight bug where items stayed lit up after using Shift to place duplicates. 📚 Cleaned up a few issues in the tutorial UI to make onboarding smoother! 🖥️ Fixed the bug where the game would stay always on top or act weird when switching monitors. Thanks for hanging
2025-04-22 15:51 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
🐾 Desktop Cat Cafe – Feature Update! 🛠️☕ We've now added Twitch integration! ✨ New Shiny Things ✨ 🎉 Twitch Integration is HERE! Add any Twitch username in the settings and see your chat come alive as cats in the game 🐱 ✨ Hold Shift to place multiple items at once. Decorate faster! ⚙️ You can now find the controls listed in the settings menu. 🔧 Squashed Some Bugs! 🔧 ⚓ Fixed an issue causing some attractions to go for a wander after loading the game. 🏖️ Got rid of that strange black sand bug. 🌍 Coming Soon: Translations! We’re working hard on bringing Desktop Cat Cafe to more players aro
2025-04-05 20:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
🐾 Desktop Cat Cafe – Feature Update! 🛠️☕ We've been hard at work delivering updates to give you all a quality-of-life boost with some much-needed fixes and upgrades. ✨ What’s New: 🧍♂️💼 Staff now arrive with their station already set up! No more separate hires which were causing some unexpected bugs and confusion! 💰 Station prices have been updated to 35 coins to match the extra convenience. 🔧 Fixes & Improvements: 🎓 Fixed a UI dragging bug in the tutorial that would break the tutorial- oops. ✨ UX Improvement - Tables, stations, and modifiers now highlight when hovered in build mode. 🚫
2025-03-31 14:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
🐞 Hotfix Patch Notes – Desktop Cat Café Quick update to smooth things out a bit while we work on bigger features behind the scenes! 🔧 Fixes: ✅ Added extra checks to make sure staff load in properly 🍽️ Added extra checks for customers who weren't placing orders Thanks for your continued support! More to come soon 🐱✨
2025-03-30 14:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
🐾 Desktop Cat Cafe – Patch Notes 🐾 We hope you’ve been enjoying your time with the cozy chaos of Desktop Cat Cafe! While we’ve been hard at work adding translations (coming soon to a cat cafe near you!), we’ve also squashed some pesky lil’ bugs 🐞✨ 🐱 Fixes & Improvements: 🧍♀️ Staff sometimes not loading properly has been fixed! (Psst—you may need to rehire them if this affected you!) 📚 Tutorial alignment has been polished up for a smoother intro experience! 🎁 Fixed a bug where support items were accidentally changing prices. Oopsie! 💰 All stations now cost the same to keep things clear
2025-03-19 00:22 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
🐾 Hi everyone! Thank you so much for playing our game! 💖 We're super excited to keep adding to it and helping you enjoy it to the fullest! 🎉 💬 If you want to chat, show off your 🏡 café, or report any 🐛 bugs, we'd love for you to join our Discord! We're very active and respond quickly! ⚡ 🔗 Join here: https://discord.gg/RdcxgzSeRU 😺 Have a purr-fectly wonderful cat-filled day! 🐾✨
2025-03-18 23:51 UTC · Community Announcements · Sam
Meow there, lovely cafe owners! 🐱☕ Thank you all so much for playing and for your continued support! We're hard at work bringing translations to the game, but in the meantime, we’ve squashed some pesky bugs and made things even cozier! ✨ 🛠️ Fixes: 🌿 Small Flower Bushes can now be placed on top of items. 🏖️ Beach chairs now have a better pivot so cats don't float when sitting. 🛏️ Hammock animations without pillows now properly position the cat’s head. 🏗️ Buildables are now correctly categorized. 🐛 Jittery critter placement has been smoothed out. 🔗 Review link in settings now works prope
2025-03-10 16:13 UTC · Community Announcements · lockyaw
🛠️ Fixes: 🐾 General performance is smoother and snappier! 🧠 Uses less RAM – now with extra efficiency magic! ✨ Supporter pack statue particles are shinier and nicer. 📜 Recipe tooltip is back to behaving properly. 🐛 Critters now block customers and staff way less. 🔍 Search tab bug – squashed! 🏖️ Cats no longer get stuck at sandcastles. 🪑 Cats shouldn't sit on the headrests of benches anymore. 🗿 Fixed statues not highlighting the affected tables. 🌳 Fixed green tree leaves not swaying in the wind. 💃 Changed animations of staff and customers to be offset so they're not all playing in un
2025-03-09 03:22 UTC · Community Announcements · lockyaw
Hi everyone! Thank you so much for purchasing Desktop Cat Cafe and for your patience
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