Steam News28 March 20263mo ago

DEVELOPMENT UPDATE – MARCH 2026

Hello everyone! We've gained a surprisingly large number of wishlists since we launched a store page in mid 2025. We think that we're obliged to provide you an update on the current status of MY SUMMER COTTAGE.

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changedHello everyone! We've gained a surprisingly large number of wishlists since we launched a store page in mid 2025. We think that we're obliged to provide you an update on the current status of MY SUMMER COTTAGE .

addedWTF is MY SUMMER COTTAGE?MY SUMMER COTTAGE is a small, humorous simulator of life in Northern Finland for 1-4 players. After losing your job, you're determined to start a new life in a small town. This game revolves around daily tasks, like fishing, hunting and foraging, as well as completing jobs to earn extra money, while encountering all kinds of weird scenarios on your path.

changedWTF is MY SUMMER COTTAGE?Basically, we're just working on a simple, yet fun life simulator with a bunch of activities, random events, and little stories. We want you to hop into it and relax, maybe laugh too.

addedCurrent StatusWe're still working on the game. In fact, almost everything that you see on our store page is kind of outdated already - it was an extremely early build! The current game is a lot more cohesive, with a lot of new assets and gameplay. And we'd like to show some of these cool things below.

changedPublic DemoAs we said, we'd like to release a public demo in the near future on the s&box platform. This demo will be a gameplay test - just all important activities, for you, and your friends. We want to test them with you, and hear what you think about them – Are they good? Are they entertaining? Is there something missing from them?

My Summer Cottage changes

addedMY SUMMER COTTAGE is a small, humorous simulator of life in Northern Finland for 1-4 players. After losing your job, you're determined to start a new life in a small town. This game revolves around daily tasks, like fishing, hunting and foraging, as well as completing jobs to earn extra money, while encountering all kinds of weird scenarios on your path.

changedBasically, we're just working on a simple, yet fun life simulator with a bunch of activities, random events, and little stories. We want you to hop into it and relax, maybe laugh too.

addedWe're still working on the game. In fact, almost everything that you see on our store page is kind of outdated already - it was an extremely early build! The current game is a lot more cohesive, with a lot of new assets and gameplay. And we'd like to show some of these cool things below.

changedAs we said, we'd like to release a public demo in the near future on the s&box platform. This demo will be a gameplay test - just all important activities, for you, and your friends. We want to test them with you, and hear what you think about them – Are they good? Are they entertaining? Is there something missing from them?

(To be honest with you, this number is much higher than we expected, considering that we've done a pretty horrible job self-promoting this game so far...)

s&box engine

If you're circling around Source games communities, then you probably heard about Facepunch signing a licence agreement with Valve for standalone s&box games.

MY SUMMER COTTAGE is powered by s&box, a game engine based on Source 2! We kind of weren't able to confirm this officially before, but now that the agreement is almost done, we can finally confirm that this game is running on the s&box engine.

WTF is MY SUMMER COTTAGE?

MY SUMMER COTTAGE is a small, humorous simulator of life in Northern Finland for 1-4 players. After losing your job, you're determined to start a new life in a small town. This game revolves around daily tasks, like fishing, hunting and foraging, as well as completing jobs to earn extra money, while encountering all kinds of weird scenarios on your path.

Basically, we're just working on a simple, yet fun life simulator with a bunch of activities, random events, and little stories. We want you to hop into it and relax, maybe laugh too.

Current Status

We're still working on the game. In fact, almost everything that you see on our store page is kind of outdated already - it was an extremely early build! The current game is a lot more cohesive, with a lot of new assets and gameplay. And we'd like to show some of these cool things below.

This game has been in development for 1 year now. We've made big progress since then, but we still have a lot of things to figure out before it's ready. How far are we from release? We feel like we aren't ready to promise you any specific timeframe yet, but we want you to know that we want to release a public demo soon-ish.

Before we talk about the demo, let us show you some of the content we've made during this period of radio silence (this is just a brief selection of screenshots... check out the FULL blog over at Blog / My Summer Cottage 2025 Update):

Public Demo

As we said, we'd like to release a public demo in the near future on the s&box platform. This demo will be a gameplay test - just all important activities, for you, and your friends. We want to test them with you, and hear what you think about them – Are they good? Are they entertaining? Is there something missing from them?

When? Hopefully soon! Once we're ready, we will provide you with more news.

Game development is hard, and we're excited to see that MY SUMMER COTTAGE gained some attention from Source games enthusiasts. We appreciate you, and we wish we could've provided more stuff at this time.

We're hoping to ramp up our media presence in the coming months and provide more frequent updates on this game. Huge thanks to everyone who's been with us for years, and huge thank you to whoever just found out about us - we hope that our dumb little game made you interested, and we wish to see you again in our future dev updates. <3

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