We have a Release Date for you!!

You might have already spotted it on the Wholesome Games socials yesterday: We have a release date for Thrifty Business - and it’s only about 6 weeks away!! 🥳

⭐ Thrifty Business releases May 18th, 2026! ⭐

We also made a new little trailer that hints at a few new things we’ve been implementing over the last few weeks! You can watch it here:

And speaking of! We wanted to share some of those updates with you, especially since a lot of them were highly requested in the Thrifty Business Demo feedback! 🫶

📄 Accessibility

Now first of all we’ve added a few settings you can toggle on or off, that will hopefully make playing a bit more pleasant now if you were struggling before!

🔠 Font

You can now actually choose to switch to a non-pixelated font entirely!

And then because we’ve gotten some feedback that the moving text can cause some dizziness or motion sickness, you can also fully toggle this off now! It works for both the pixelated & non-pixelated font of course!

🎨 Colors

We’ve gotten some really lovely feedback on the color palette we chose for Thrifty Business, since it’s such a nostalgic dopamine rush! But some of you also pointed out that it might cause eye strain or headaches for a few players, especially when playing for longer periods of time. So we’ve now built in a slider where you can dial down the saturation a bit. We hope this helps you enjoy the game for longer! 🫶

🪞 Character Customization

Now this one was probably the MOST requested feature by far!! And we’ve got good news, because yes, you’ll be able to customize your shopkeeper!

♻️ Recycle bin

And then one more thing you requested a lot was a recycle bin or some other way to get rid of any unwanted items or furniture. (Now, this may have been partially due to a little dog bed bug we had in the demo (oops), but we have now implemented this in the game! Even if just so you can curate your thrift shops bit more!

Just hold whatever item or furniture piece you want to get rid of and click on the little bin in the bottom right - and there you go! For furniture pieces you’ll even get 10% of the price back!

Apart from these changes we’ve been hard at work implementing the different stories and events and of course we’ve been making a bunch more items for you to discover in May!

We hope you’re all ready (and we hope we’ll be as well)! Talk to you soon!

Spellgarden Games 🔮 (Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)