The Tenants
Tired of Paying Rent? Get Ready to Collect It Instead in The Tenants – Launching Out of Early Access October 20th!
Posted October 03, 2022Cracow, Poland - October 3, 2022 - After undergoing several renovations since the initial launch in March 2021, developer Ancient Forge Studio and publisher Frozen District are thrilled to announce that The Tenants will be leaving Early Access on October 20th! The road to 1.0 has included many upgrades to this landlord management sim, and the finished product is just on the horizon.
“Despite following our roadmap featuring 4 major updates, we ended up implementing a lot of features and quality of life changes that have been suggested by our amazing community. We're beyond excited to finally have everyone try the full release of the game," said Maksymilian Strzelecki, Co-Founder and Technical Director at Ancient Forge Studio.
Speaking about the players who have supported the game over the course of Early Access, Dushan Chaciej, Co-Founder and Creative Director at Ancient Forge Studio explained, “they've helped us hone and polish the gameplay direction, and it definitely wouldn't be the game it is now if we hadn't decided to go the EA route.”
Included in the 1.0 release will be several new features, including Twitch Integration, new Elite contracts, and voice-overs, but there’s more still to come. Chaciej shared, “one thing worth noting is that by no means is this the end of The Tenants development, we have big plans for the game's future, and we will share some of them soon enough!”
New Features Coming to 1.0:
- Voice-overs: Voiced dialogues for Uncle Steve and Elite contracts.
- Twitch Integration: Allows Twitch audiences to directly impact gameplay positively and negatively in various ways through periodic votes depending on settings set by the Twitch streamer.
- New Elite Contracts: Five additional Elite contracts across the three districts, including Fortune Teller, Sushi Bar, and Motion Capture Animation Studio.
- Upgrade System Changes: Utilities, water, electricity, and heating have been removed from Uncle Steve’s tasks and moved into renovation mode.
- Open House Options: Removed marketing options for open houses and added a feature to target specific demographics to invite to open houses based on gender, age, likes/dislikes, and more.
- Agent Mechanics: Agents can be used to run open houses for the player and can be sent to training to level up their skills.
- Tenant Levels: Tenants will gain levels through player interaction with rewards including rent increases, custom archetype items, customized tenant clothing, and many more.
- New Worker Characters: Three new worker characters, each with unique talents that can affect the game in different ways.
- Additional Achievements: Over 20 new achievements.
Are you interested in joining Uncle Steve in this one-of-a-kind world of providing and handling tenancy? Join us in The Tenants Discord community, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and find out more information on our official website.
About Ancient Forge Studio:
Ancient Forge Studio is a video game development studio from Poland, founded in 2018 by Max Strzelecki and Dushan Chaciej. Led by experienced game developers with a strong passion for mechanics-heavy games, the studio specializes in premium PC games. The studio's core principle is to build games that the team themselves want to play, as showcased by the release of Glorious Companions in 2019 on Steam Early Access and now their new main title, The Tenants, developed in partnership with Frozen District.
About Frozen District:
Frozen District is a group of gamers - personalities full of passion for virtual entertainment. Regular people who are still ready to pull some all-nighters playing their favorite titles. We know what gamers need, as we are a part of the gaming community, and through creating our own projects, which we would play ourselves, we fulfill our ambitions.
At the same time, all of us want to be the best at what we do, still trying to reach the peak of our performance by polishing our skills and seeking innovative solutions. That is why in our midst, you can find experts in programming, marketing, graphics, design, and many more. Our main priority is constant improvement and crafting all the valuable experience gathered this way into the uniqueness present in our current and upcoming titles.
