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Steam News12 May 20261mo ago

DEMO UPDATE (8th MAY)

Hello, thanks for playing Pickochet! Thank you to everyone who has played the demo so far and has provided feedback! In this update we've made some changes to improve quality of life and fix some bugs.

In this update6

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What changed

1 fix10 additions10 changes3 removals
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Fixes
addedTooltipsIt seems the tooltips were causing a lot of confusion and were often unclear in explaining what an upgrade did. We've made some changes including better wording of upgrades, showing the metric the upgrade changes (eg. % or x) and gave them dynamic sizes based on the text that needs to fit inside. While we were at it we also made the tooltips less cluttered and added some colours to make them look pretty!
addedAbilitiesWe added pirate music to the broadside ability that can be triggered by dice, it was cool before but now it's even cooler.
addedAbilitiesThe Blocker ability is gone for good. Not really, but it's gone for now while we work out where it belongs in the game, we probably won't add it back to the demo.
changedUpgradesUpdated the cost of unlocking ore because it was too good for how much it cost previously.
removedUpgradesRemoved clicker damage upgrade because it essentially did nothing. It was a bit of an oversight to leave this one in the demo but based on feedback we'll likely remove it from the full game too.
addedTutorialWe got a lot of feedback about how slow the tutorial dwarf walks in and out and we've heard you. Although 900 years old, he's still got a spring in his step which is now reflected in the new tutorial animations.

Pickochet changes

addedIt seems the tooltips were causing a lot of confusion and were often unclear in explaining what an upgrade did. We've made some changes including better wording of upgrades, showing the metric the upgrade changes (eg. % or x) and gave them dynamic sizes based on the text that needs to fit inside. While we were at it we also made the tooltips less cluttered and added some colours to make them look pretty!
addedWe added pirate music to the broadside ability that can be triggered by dice, it was cool before but now it's even cooler.
addedThe Blocker ability is gone for good. Not really, but it's gone for now while we work out where it belongs in the game, we probably won't add it back to the demo.
changedUpdated the cost of unlocking ore because it was too good for how much it cost previously.
removedRemoved clicker damage upgrade because it essentially did nothing. It was a bit of an oversight to leave this one in the demo but based on feedback we'll likely remove it from the full game too.

Hello, thanks for playing Pickochet!

Thank you to everyone who has played the demo so far and has provided feedback! In this update we've made some changes to improve quality of life and fix some bugs.

If you want to suggest feedback or report bugs to us feel free to join our Discord:

https://discord.gg/Q9G2ebdNf7

Tooltips

It seems the tooltips were causing a lot of confusion and were often unclear in explaining what an upgrade did. We've made some changes including better wording of upgrades, showing the metric the upgrade changes (eg. % or x) and gave them dynamic sizes based on the text that needs to fit inside. While we were at it we also made the tooltips less cluttered and added some colours to make them look pretty!

Abilities

We've made some changes to a couple of abilities

  • Goblin sounded way more awesome than it really was. We've buffed it so goblin is now actually awesome. Go check it out!

  • We added pirate music to the broadside ability that can be triggered by dice, it was cool before but now it's even cooler.

  • The Blocker ability is gone for good. Not really, but it's gone for now while we work out where it belongs in the game, we probably won't add it back to the demo.

Upgrades

We've also made some changes to some upgrades

  • Updated the cost of unlocking ore because it was too good for how much it cost previously.

  • Removed clicker damage upgrade because it essentially did nothing. It was a bit of an oversight to leave this one in the demo but based on feedback we'll likely remove it from the full game too.

Tutorial

Just a small update to the tutorial we thought was worth mentioning

  • We got a lot of feedback about how slow the tutorial dwarf walks in and out and we've heard you. Although 900 years old, he's still got a spring in his step which is now reflected in the new tutorial animations.

Full changelog

+ buffed goblin ability

+ added particles to coinflip ore spawn

+ added translations for dice roll options

+ added (back) pirate music to broadside dice roll option

+ added new tutorial animations

+ added context to upgrade values in tooltip

+ added colour to tooltips

= size tooltips based on content

= restruct tooltips to be more clear

= reduced button wiggle

= updated colours of ore spawn abilities

= moved around some abilities on mountain ore tree

= made coinflip animation more cantered

= village base ore upgrade translation fix

= copper ore upgrade translations fix

= updated some upgrade buy costs

= combined last hit and break amount popup text

= fixed font spacing

= updated various translations

  • removed blocker ability from tree

  • removed clicker damage upgrade Thanks again for playing! kron & drunkengoat We actually released the update a couple days ago but forgot to write this post... oops

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Steam News / 12 May 2026

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