Steam News · 7h
Removed the pale label from customer shopping bags so the full bag surface shows the shop owner’s color. Bag contents and shapes are preserved. Added a short explanation after your first sale in the tutorial: bag colors show whose shop a customer bought from. Included the new tutorial explanation in all 16 supported languages.
Steam News · 17h
Lost your connection during a multiplayer game? Guest players will now automatically try to reconnect when their connection drops or town updates stop arriving. Up to three automatic reconnection attempts, with progress shown on screen. Successful reconnection returns you to your existing player slot and refreshes the town state. If automatic reconnection does not succeed, the manual Reconnect but...
Steam News · 18h
Fixed an issue where the target you were typing in a multiplayer lobby could reset when another player joined or the lobby refreshed. Your input now stays in place while you edit it, so you can finish setting up the match without re-entering the target.
Steam News · 20h
Indonesian is now available in Lotwick Hill. Added Indonesian translations for menus, the HUD, tutorial, shop and street signs, finances, the newspaper and Lemonade Days. Fixed the HUD leader name so translated AI names match the newspaper. Added an Indonesian Steam store page and Steam language support. Choose Bahasa Indonesia in the language settings. Thank you for playing and sharing your feedb...
Steam News · 1d
A follow-up update is now live in the main game and Playtest, with more localization and readability fixes. Added missing translations for Commercial Hotel and Gardens. Fixed the newspaper button not updating immediately after changing language. Fixed localized AI names on Lemonade Days stalls and the scoreboard, and improved name readability and winner text. Shortened clipped tab labels in Spanis...
Steam News · 2d
Language fixes — October 14 Today's update fixes several cases where English text could appear while another language was selected. The update is now live in both the main game and Playtest. Added missing translations for multiplayer connection and error messages. Fixed translation of formatted gameplay messages, including auction notifications and city facility reports. Corrected untranslated tex...
Steam News · 4d
Latest update — October 12: Multiplayer version check Now live in the main game and Playtest. Steam lobbies now compare installed game builds when version information is available. Players with different known builds receive a clear message before joining. The message asks both players to close Lotwick Hill, restart Steam and wait for the game update to finish before trying again. The warning is a...
Steam News · 5d
Today’s update focuses on helping you find your feet in the city, with clearer tutorial guidance and more hands-on practice. The update is now live in both the main game and Playtest. Improved first-time guidance Added a first-time tutorial prompt to help new players get started. Added hands-on camera practice for movement, zooming and rotating with the middle mouse button. Camera practice now rec...
Steam News · 6d
Thank you for playing Lotwick Hill and sharing your feedback! This post now covers the October 9–10 updates, including the latest update available in both the main game and Playtest. Performance and optimisation Reduced repeated calculations in city updates, including fish-shop lookups and shared pedestrian destination calculations. Streamlined traffic-neighbour searches and sorting, intersection ...
