2025-10-16 13:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Tino
Hello once again dear shopkeepers. We are thrilled to announce that you can now play Faire Trade. A new shopkeeping experience that has been built from the ground up to give way to exciting new features. Faire Trade Early Access Launch TrailerYou can read read up on some of the changes that are coming in our last post here: Or you can check out the new post on the Faire Trade community here: Either way. Today is an exciting day that marks the grand opening of Faire Trade where we look forward to continue development in trying to build the best shopkeeping experience imaginable. With the abilit
2025-10-09 11:13 UTC · Community Announcements · Tino
Hello Shopkeepers, It has been a while since we last shared an update about the future of Winkeltje: The Little Shop. As you may already know, Winkeltje has been in maintenance mode for a while now. The game launched it's 1.0 version in April 2022 and since received several updates including a Cat Companion DLC and a big and risky Pathfinding Update in February 2024. Since then, we realized that if we wanted to go bigger, better, and bolder than Winkeltje, we had to go back to the drawing board to improve on things. This brings us to Faire Trade, which in many ways aims to become Winkeltje 2.0
2025-10-03 08:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
Good morning Shopkeepers!A few hours ago Unity informed its users that a security vulnerability has been found in the engine (going back to 2017). They released a patch for it and as such we immediately applied it to the game. After some testing on our side it seems all good to go. I've just deployed it to Steam, and I encourage you to update the game (and any other Unity game that you have installed) as soon as possible.There is no evidence that this vulnerability was ever exploited, but we did want to get this fix out as soon as possible. If you want to read more details on it, you can find
2025-08-18 09:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
We've deployed a small patch that should fix the issue where you can get stuck outside of the shop. The intended solution is that the game will try to teleport you back at the entrance.If you haven't done so already, make sure to wishlist our next game: Faire Trade!Patch NotesFixed issue where the game wouldn't teleport the player back inside the bounds of the shop as intended
2025-03-24 14:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Tino
Greetings Shopkeepers! We have some very exciting news to share with you. Winkeltje is getting a sequel called Faire Trade aimed to launch later this year! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34365312/ff24a28251318a43e38a716098858ab544ce4437.png Winkeltje was our first venture into the shopkeeping genre and we have learned a tremendous amount from it. Many of these lessons could not be retroactively applied to Winkeltje and so it made a lot of sense to the team to start working on a sequel that will eventually go beyond the experience that Winkeltje has achieved thus far. Faire Trade Faire Trade is a shopkeepi
2024-02-08 13:57 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
This update tries to properly fix the problem where customers and employees are getting randomly stuck. This has been a long-standing issue and has been around in one form or another since 2022. This problem was caused by a combination of simple issues in our code, which were easily fixed, and issues with the pathfinding solution, which proved to be incredibly problematic to solve. Old Pathfinding - Unity Nav Mesh Winkeltje, as many have known it since early access nearly 5 years ago, uses the built-in navigation solution that is provided by the Unity game engine. This solution is also known a
2023-10-19 17:27 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
Hello dear shopkeepers, We are thrilled to announce that the wait is finally over. The major free Winkeltje 1.1 update and paid Cat Companion DLC is ready to be released on Windows PC and console editions. Let's have a look at what you can look forward to. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34365312/d94f2be7c670afc5702b70ca63fdae6b41b3b7b8.png Cat Companion DLC With the paid Cat Companion DLC, you will get a cat basket, food, and water to place in the shop as furniture. By interacting with the cat basket, you can customize your cat. The kitty will subject your shop to a thorough inspection, check that you are
2023-07-17 11:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Tino
Dear Shopkeepers, We are excited to share that a big free update and a small Cat Companion DLC (downloadable content) is coming to Winkeltje. We are now in the final testing stage where we would like to invite you to try it out. The purpose of trying out this new update is to find issues that we can fix before we go through the arduous task of deploying to all stores and gaming platforms. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34365312/04ec6d1396e79a34cc3f97e3a47ebd224eeeddbf.png This big free update contains new features, content, and quality of life improvements such as: Ledger menu Pricing menu 10 additional s
2023-05-19 12:18 UTC · Community Announcements · Tino
Hello dear shopkeeper. With this post we would like to give you an update on what the future holds for Winkeltje and let you know that we have not forgotten about this game. It has been a little over a year since Winkeltje: The Little Shop has launched on PC and console. The community has been great and the reception truly heart warming. Post-launch, our focus has been on fixes and performance improvements across all platforms and regions. Subsequent updates were an attempt at introducing unique scenarios with the Halloween event and the Winter event which introduced a couple of new assets and
2022-12-20 12:02 UTC · Community Announcements · nyco
Happy holidays, Shopkeepers! For this holiday season, we cooked up something special for you. In this update you can try out a new playable scenario called 'Saving Winter's Spirit'. In this update, you manage a winter shop with a solstice tree as the center piece. Grow the tree in size by making offerings to save the Winter's Spirit and unlock new cosmetics that fit the season! Stay frosty and happy holidays! 🕯️🎄 Saving Winter's Spirit https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/zitjkq6uv7ed9kg/shopkeeper1088.gif In this custom scenario you are tasked to provide the solstice tree with offerings to h
2022-11-23 07:47 UTC · Community Announcements · Tino
Winkeltje: The Little Shop is 20% off from November 22nd - November 29th as part of the Steam Autumn Sale This is the first time Winkeltje: The Little Shop is on discount since Winkeltje released on all platforms earlier this year. This is also the biggest discount so far, even bigger than the launch discount. If you haven't tried Winkeltje yet, or you would recommend it to friends or family, this is the time to pick it up. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34365312/d8e87e9461674caf05a98f43e4d588777c18901e.jpg As part of the Steam Autumn Sale you can nominate Winkeltje: The Little Shop as your favorite game
2022-11-16 12:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
Hey Shopkeepers, Just a minor patch this time around, we fixed some issues that we wanted to get out to you as soon as possible rather than wait for a next bigger patch. Changelog Achievement - Achievement for getting all crafting stations to level 10 should work again. AI - Fixed an issue where customers would sometimes refuse to leave. Build - Changed the nav mesh obstacle size of entrances so that the navmesh is more centered. Performance - NPC pooling wasn't correctly returning objects back to the pool, this should reduce some jitter when the store is open. Scenario: Added more floor optio
2022-11-07 15:28 UTC · Community Announcements · nyco
Dear Shopkeepers, 'The Harrowing' Thank you for participating in the Harrowing event, we hope you had a spooky Halloween. Halloween Shop Contest This Halloween we also tried to run a community contest where we challenged shopkeepers to build a spooky shop and show this off. Unfortunately this contest did not see a lot of participation. The winner of this contest is Melandari who submitted her spooky shop to Discord. We hope the community will keep showing off their shops as we love seeing them. Here are a few screenshots of Melandari's harrowing shop: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34365312/f0fe34cb403360
2022-10-24 14:43 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
Dear Shopkeepers, This Halloween you can enjoy some new thematic additions to Winkeltje. In this update you can try out a new playable scenario called 'The Harrowing'. In this scenario, you can complete objectives to earn new theme appropriate outfit colors. Additionally, there are also a couple new decoration pieces to really scare the jeepers creepers out of your customers. Lastly, you can take part in our Halloween contest on Discord where you are challenged to create your best looking Halloween shop for a shot at eternal glory in the Discord hosted hall of fame. The Harrowing In this custo
2022-09-26 11:48 UTC · Community Announcements · Aceria
Hello Shopkeepers! In the previous update we announced that we wanted to use that patch to align all of platforms to the same version. We unfortunately ran into some issues with one of our console builds that stopped us from doing so. This hasn't impacted the PC version, but has created a bit of a weird gap in some of the console versions. All of the builds have now made it through certification on all platforms, so we're ready to go. This patch updates the versions as follows: PC: 7229 -> 7319 Switch: 7229 -> 7319 Xbox: 7052 -> 7319 PlayStation: 7152 -> 7319 Changelog AI - Changed the spawn o
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