Bongo Cat
Steam News 14 January 20264mo ago

Private Lobbies, Cosmetic Preview and QoL Changes

Hello everyone, i'm back from a nice christmas vacation! This is a quick update for in between, it will mostly contain a lot of quality of life changes made by Iris (she joined us back in October woop woop!). So big tha…

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Full Bongo Cat update

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Hello everyone, i'm back from a nice christmas vacation! This is a quick update for in between, it will mostly contain a lot of quality of life changes made by Iris (she joined us back in October woop woop!). So big thanks to her for helping me out!

Extracted changes

0 fixes4 additions11 changes0 removals
  • Store
changedCosmetic PreviewYou can now preview cosmetics before getting them. Just head over to the collection where you can click on cosmetics to showcase them on your cat.
addedTwo new supporter itemsWe also added two new supporter items, Yin and Yang that you can grab here:
changedTwo new supporter itemsYin Yang
changedTwo new supporter itemsFull patch notes
addedTwo new supporter itemsAdds option to auto equip drops
addedTwo new supporter itemsAdds option to always show chest

Cosmetic Preview

You can now preview cosmetics before getting them. Just head over to the collection where you can click on cosmetics to showcase them on your cat.

Private Lobbies

A lot of you requested this, you can now set your lobbies to private which means invite only via Steam.

Two new supporter items

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We also added two new supporter items, Yin and Yang that you can grab here:

Yin Yang

Full patch notes

  • Adds option to auto equip drops

  • Adds option to always show chest

  • Collapsable tags in collection

  • Cosmetic preview

  • Error indicator if chest fails

  • Emotes get scaled with ui

  • Emotes get cleanly deleted when multiplayer cat gets enabled after spamming emotes

  • Visual feedback if chest can't be opened

  • Chest position remains right when scaling UI

  • Scale in Settings has to be manually applied

  • Private lobby

Source

Steam News / 14 January 2026

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