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- Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
15,000 Cats!
Short version: New screen savers with playlist! Significant optimizations! Free KW2 demo! Less-short version: You keep putting so much creative, joyful and sincere stuff in Kind Words 1 & 2 that we just had to celebrate…
Event8 changesGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Fix for older windows computers
The last update prevented some windows computers with graphics card drivers older than 5 years or so from starting the game. Sorry about that! As always, please let me know if you find new problems! Now back to working…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Conversation Management! Glitter Management! Bug fixes!
So there's this big wacky bug affecting almost every game ever published with Unity (CVE-2025-59489). That's why you may have noticed everybody scrambling to do updates. Me included! But I figured since upgrading to a n…
Patch notes3 changesGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
New sticker and bundle to celebrate a new friend!
Hello Kind Friends! Luigi just drew a lovely new campfire sticker for Kind Words and I mashed the right keyboard buttons to make it go in to circulation! We did it to celebrate the launch of Fireside Feelings, a game th…
Store4 changesGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Tutorial update, journal UI fix, better corruption handling, etc.
New invitation for players to customize their character during the initial tutorial. Rebalanced distribution of opportunities to start new conversations. Fixed a bug that would show the wrong menu if you opened the jour…
Store7 changesFixGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Kind Words 2 has been nominated for a BAFTA! (So we made a cute new trailer)
Kind Words 2 has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Games Beyond Entertainment category! I won't speak for the rest of our team, but I am absolutely not above the need for external validation. The loving responses from p…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Override Override
The music mood override button's override choice was being overridden, so I overwrote it. (He said in an over wrought sentence). Thanks to discord user Beno988 for the heads up. Also, Kind Words 2 just got nominated for…
Announcement - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Music Encore! New songs, new controls, new sticker!
Did you know that every song in Kind Words 2 has four moods? As you move from home to city, to café to mountain top, each song changes with the feel of the location. Drums morph, timbres shift, vibes slide. Did you noti…
Announcement6 changesUI/audioGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Return of the Banini and Conversation Rebalance
Reworked outdoor conversation distribution. There are now color coded badges that indicate whether you are continuing a conversation you started (purple), continuing a conversation someone else started (red), or startin…
Announcement4 changesFixBalance - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Private journal. Shared inspiration.
Kind Words 2 is great for sharing your thoughts with caring strangers, but sometimes you just need to talk to yourself. Now Kind Words 2 has a private journal. A journal is a great way put your day or your life in to pe…
Announcement1 changeServer - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
More stickers? Yes, please.
Shakespeare died in 1616. But before he did, he wrote several plays that people enjoyed. However, he did not leave behind very many cute stickers. I won't lie: it impressed me a little bit that he could just give up lik…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
End of chain marker
Tiny update today: I've added a divider line that shows when you've viewed a whole chain in the chain forest and it's starting over. Just a little quality of life improvement to throw out while we're working on bigger s…
Announcement2 changesGameplayServer - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Ella the Mail Deer is now 2% more polite and 5% more helpful. Plus fixes.
Ella was embarrassed to realize she had not been thanking people when they reported requests in their inbox and has renewed her efforts to be a great hostess. She's also going to be a lot clearer in explaining that the…
Announcement2 changesFixMaps - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
The soundtrack DLC is here!
I'm delighted to let you know the soundtrack to Kind Words 2 is now available for purchase as DLC on Steam! To celebrate, I've created a new Steam bundle that includes both Kind Words games and both Kind Words soundtrac…
Store5 changesGameplay - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
FPS Limiter. Smaller. Faster. Less explody.
New: FPS Limiter in Settings->Display. Options: none, 30 ,60. New: Escape or Gamepad B will close the map menu. Better: Optimized some game assets to be 60MB smaller on disk and use a bit less ram. Fixed: Removed multip…
Event4 changesFixPerformance - Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
Faster, more reliable (?) scene transitions
Today's challenge has been tracking down the cause of the reports I'm getting that sometimes the game gets stuck when transitioning between spaces. The tricky part is that it never happens to me! So today I rewrote a go…
Event1 change
