Full Release: Story Mode, New Music & More

After almost 18 months, the official 1.0 release is here with story events! It's been a long journey from early access back in February of 2025 and I appreciate everybody who's played the game to date (and future).

As a solo developer, this update has been in the works for a long time and I wanted to make sure it was as ready as possible before releasing it to you guys.

New:

• Added in-game music

• Added 2 new audio tracks

• Added the mail tab

• Added a story

• Employees now have unique looks

• Employee info screen added to the management tab

Changes:

• Adjusted default ceiling color

• Changed the default PC screen when not in use

• Changed the default main menu theme

• Removed working hours from the management tab

• Changed the sign font

• Improved main texture tiling

• V-Sync is now enabled by default

• Changed the customer number font to be in-line with the rest of the game

• Updated all snack textures and icons

• Improved lighting at sunrise and sunset

Fixes:

• Implemented wider object pooling for improved runtime performance

• Fixed a wall using incorrect wallpaper dimensions

• Fixed the taskbar being out of alignment on the PC

• Further improvements to lighting and performance

• Fixed a bug preventing the checkout desk from being moved

• Fixed a bug causing graffiti to load incorrectly

• Fixed a load bug that caused all employees to unlock

• Fixed a bug causing customers arriving by car to have no animation

• Fixed a bug causing the checkout to be unusable after firing an employee while they are serving a customer

• Improved vehicle wheel textures

• Fixed a load bug causing customers to reset

• Fixed a bug that allowed the player camera to be moveable during shelf animations

• Escape will no longer open settings with an open menu

• Fixed a load bug causing the time to be incorrect

• Fixed a load bug causing decorations to load incorrect colors

• Fixed a load bug causing the task HUD to display incorrect values

• Fixed the glare of neon lighting

• Fixed an audio bug cutting off rain audio

• Fixed a crash associated with DX12

This isn't the end of Rental Store Sim, there will be more to come. This is just the biggest step in the games future for a long time so thank you for following along with me.