🎄❄️ Winter Wonders Update Is Live!

🎄 Winter Wonders Update is Here!

Just in time for the holidays and Steam’s Winter Sale, we’re excited to unwrap a little gift for you. Actually… a pretty big one!

Say hello to the Winter Wonders Update ❄️🍃

This update brings new places to clean, a festive surprise, and one of the biggest performance upgrades Leaf Blower Co. has had since launch.

What’s new at a glance

• A brand new main job The Gardens, unlocked on Day 11

• The Japanese Temple, unlocked as a Side Job after finishing The Gardens

• A fun Christmas Level, hiding under the Christmas Tree in your office 🎁

• Steam Cloud Saves are now enabled and working for everyone

• A massive upgrade to our Lighting and Graphics systems, bringing big performance gains, especially on older or lower-end machines

We hope you enjoy the new content, the many quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes, and performance boosts. We’re incredibly excited about 2026 and what’s coming next for Leaf Blower Co. 💚

If you’d like a more detailed breakdown of everything included in this update, you’ll find it below 👇

Leaf Blower Co

❄️ MASSIVE PERFORMANCE UPDATE + NEW CONTENT

This update is all about speed, stability, and polish — plus some brand-new places to clean up.

⚡ Huge Frame Rate & Stability Boost

We’ve done a major overhaul of lighting and rendering to dramatically improve performance across the board.

• Lumen has been disabled for now (Lumen is Unreal Engine’s fully dynamic lighting system — it looks great, but it’s extremely demanding, especially in large, physics-heavy levels.)

• Nanite has also been disabled

• Reverted to DirectX 11 for better stability and compatibility with older graphics cards.

• Much higher and more consistent FPS ( for many this will be double the previous framerate).

• Far fewer crashes, especially on longer play sessions

This has resulted in one of the biggest performance gains since launch.

🎁 Three New Levels Added

• Christmas – available immediately

• Japanese Temple – unlocked on Day 11+

• Gardens – unlocked on Day 11+

More variety, more atmosphere, more leaves to deal with.

🎮 Steam Deck Improvements

Steam Deck players should see a much smoother experience:

• Automatic Steam Deck detection on first launch

• Best-fit graphics settings applied automatically

• Video settings rebalanced — generally hitting 60 FPS with shadows

• FidelityFX removed to reduce crashes

• Crash Log Folder can now be opened directly from General Settings.

💡 Gameplay & QoL Improvements

• Rake no longer pushes leaves through walls

• Major improvements to leaves going out of bounds

• Scan Leaves skill now only “jumps” leaves near the player (huge performance win)

• Help! A Leaf Is Stuck now removes the last 5 leaves instead of teleporting them

• Bags placed in tarp now pay $10 and appear on the summary screen

• New option to pause the passing of time (can be toggled mid-level). So if ending up too dark by the time you are half way through the level is not for you..

• Ground circle indicator fixed on lower graphics settings

• Trees now have wind and will appear to move slightly.

• Cloud Save enabled

• Rake now leaves trails in snow

• Crows fly away in a more natural path

• Lens flares added when looking at the sun

• Steam’s In-Built Frame Rate will no longer show Frame Generation.

• Furniture in the back yard will only be knocked over on Day 1.

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Polish

• Fixed lighting in Skatepark

• Tool ghosting when moving quickly fixed

• Level payments now work correctly (Halloween, Christmas, Cash Cleaner)

• Reset Key Mapping now works reliably

• Fruit physics improved (less wild spinning)

• Fixed floating objects (BBQs, bins, fence panels)

• Player can no longer climb onto bins

• Football physics improved (heavier, more friction)

• Fixed stuck areas across multiple maps

• Correct materials, outlines, volumes, cooldowns, UI messages, and store behavior

• Audio improvements and volume balancing across effects

• Tool swapping now correctly reattaches at charging stations

…and many more small fixes that add up to a much smoother experience overall.

✨Thank you so much for playing, for your feedback, and for being part of the Leaf Blower Co. community!

— The Leaf Blower Team

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