YASUKE SIMULATOR 2026 UPDATE🚀GRAPHICS UPDATE🚀🎮STEAMDECK🎮🌍UI LOCALISATION🌍

🛠️ Patch Update Now Live!

This update brings major improvements to gameplay, visuals, and stability — plus full Steam Deck support!

Highlights

• 🎮 Overhauled camera with smoother movement, reduced sway, and better aiming

• 🚗 Experimental drifting added — hold the drift key to slide cars

• 🤖 Improved enemy AI and fixed multiple combat issues

• 🎥 Camera now starts behind Yasuke instead of top-down

• 💀 First boss now has a proper death animation

• 🌍 UI Localisation

• 🕹️ Controller menu navigation added

• 💻 Fully supports Steam Deck

  🎮 Gameplay & Mechanics

  • Overhauled camera system with reduced sway, improved responsiveness, and fixed clipping issues

  • Cars can now drift by holding the drift key (experimental drifting added)

  • Weapons are now more accurate while moving

  • Enemies on the motorway can now move and attack properly

  • Enemy AI improvements across multiple levels

  • First boss now features a proper death animation

  • Level instantly reloads after Game Over, with a short on-screen message: “Game Over – Try again, Samurai”

  • Added countdown timer before automatically starting the next level

  • Added loading screen overlay after completing each level

  🧠 AI & Enemies

  • Enemy navigation and combat behavior improved

  • NPCs now spawn with a visual puff of smoke

  🎥 Camera

  • Reduced camera sway in first-person view

  • More responsive camera aiming

  • Fixed handgun clipping through the camera (partially resolved)

  🎨 Graphics & Art

  • Improved subsurface scattering with a toggle in Graphics Settings

  • Added lightmaps to all chapters for improved visuals and performance

  • Streamlined UI across all levels

  ⚙️ Performance & Engine

  • Graphics settings are now correctly applied when loading a new level

  • New Screen-space reflection system added that can be toggled in the menu

  🔊 Audio

  • Explosion sounds from destroyed motorcycles can now be heard

  • Fixed sword sound effect

  • Fixed buggy enemy sounds

  • Gates now have sound effects when opening

  • Destructible objects now have sound effects

  • Fixed loud/clipping voice line at the end of Chapter 9

  • Fixed overly loud audio in Level 1

  🗺️ Level Fixes & Improvements

  Level 1

  • Fixed holes in jumping section floor

  • Added more bicycles to the forest area

  • Fixed inability to prone under the obstacle in the tutorial level

  Driving Level

  • Moved Oda’s collider to allow dialogue to finish before level transition

  🌍 Localization & Accessibility

  • Added translation text support for all additional languages (except Arabic, Persian, Hebrew due to Right to left script)

  🕹️ Platform & Input

  • Full Steam Deck support added

  • Menu navigation now works with controllers

Thanks for playing — and as always, feedback helps shape future updates! ⚔️