- SunnySide: Regrown, What We've Been Building and a Poll - 13 August 2026
Hey everyone!First, a big thank you!It has been a little while since our last update, and the support, patience, and honest feedback we have had in that time has meant an enormous amount to a very small team. Nobody was obliged to stick around after everything SunnySide has been through. A lot of you did anyway, and we do not take that lightly.So here is where things stand:Losing That Drive Turned Out to Be a BlessingIf you read the last update, you will remember that one of our SSDs died and took a chunk of our early rebuild work with it.We were… not thrilled at the time.Looking back, it might be the best thing that could have happened to this project. Redoing that work meant making all of those decisions a second time with everything we had learned from making them once already. Almost every system came back cleaner than it was before with fewer assumptions carried over out of habit a…
- SunnySide 2.0 - Survey Results & The Road Ahead - 11 May 2026
Hello everyone,First of all, we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in our SunnySide survey.We received 1,394 responses, which is honestly incredible. The amount of feedback, honesty, encouragement, criticism, and care you all put into your answers has been extremely helpful for us as we figure out where SunnySide goes from here.In our previous post, we talked about the fact that SunnySide is finally back in our hands. We now fully have the rights to the game, and we’re able to work on it ourselves, directly, without the complications and limitations that existed before.This post is going to be about two things:What we learned from the survey.What you can expect moving forwardAnd the short version is this:We are rebuilding SunnySide.Not from nothing. Not throwing away its heart, characters, music, world, or identity. But we are rebuilding the gam…
- SunnySide Is Finally Back in Our Hands! - 6 February 2026
Hey everyone,We want to share an important update about the present and future of SunnySide.As of now, Aftabi Games is the official publisher of SunnySide!!! After a long and difficult process behind the scenes, full control of the game is finally back where it belongs: with the original development team.This also means we now have full access to the game’s data, metrics, pricing, and development pipeline for the first time in a very long time.A New Price, A Better Starting PointYou may have already noticed that SunnySide’s price has changed.Now that we’re able to review sales data and regional pricing properly, we believe $19.99 USD (with appropriate international conversions) is a much better price, not only for the game but for the community as well. This price reflects where SunnySide is today, and where we want to take it next.The Road to SunnySide 2.0Over the coming months, we’ll…
- SunnySide Minor Update Patchnotes - 13 March 2025
Hey everyone! We just released a small update for SunnySide that addresses a few issues. Even though this isn't a big update, we wanted to share some details about what's included! Adjustment to Cooking Recipes With the previous update, we reworked cooking in SunnySide to make it more approachable. However, this introduced some issues for a handful of recipes. Out of the 375 recipes available, around 8 became unattainable under certain circumstances. These 8 "nuanced" recipes essentially share the same ingredients but differ in proportions. As you might guess, this caused logical conflicts when determining what the player intended to cook. To address this, these 8 recipes now require more precise attention, unlike other recipes after patch 10, their ingredient counts must now be exact. Bulk cooking will not work with these specific recipes. We plan on developing a more permanent solutio…
- Survey Results & Patch 9 Update! - 28 February 2025
Hey everyone, First off, a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our SunnySide Player Survey! We received over 1,000 responses, and the insight you shared is already shaping the way we move forward. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable in helping us decide where to focus our efforts, and we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on! Survey Highlights & Charts We’ve gone through all the responses and compiled the data, below, you'll find some charts breaking things down visually. Here’s a quick overview of what we learned: Optimization and performance improvements were the top request, so we’ve started addressing this right away. Many of you shared frustrations with certain mechanics, and we’ve made some key quality-of-life improvements based on those, some included in this patch. We also saw some really thoughtful feedback on gameplay balance, usability, and general…
- Help us Shape the Future of SunnySide - 3 February 2025
We’ve put together a player survey to gather your thoughts on SunnySide’s future. Your feedback is incredibly important to us, and it will help guide what we focus on for our upcoming updates. If you’ve been following our recent announcement about the current state of SunnySide, you’ll know we’re facing some tough decisions as a team. This survey will help us understand what matters most to you so we can prioritize the right areas. What’s in the survey? Your thoughts on SunnySide’s current features What you’d like to see improved or added How you feel about updates and localization General feedback to help us make SunnySide better It should only take about 15 minutes to complete, and your responses are completely anonymous. 👉 Take the Survey Here! 👈 Thank you so much for your support. Every bit of feedback helps us grow and improve, and we truly appreciate you being part of this journ…
- An Important Update About SunnySide and a Message From the Devs - 9 December 2024
Hey everyone, We wanted to share some important news about the current state and future of SunnySide. Back in November, we held a livestream where we explained the situation in-depth. You can check it out below, but we wanted to provide you all with a written TL;DR as well. Over the past few years, we’ve been as transparent as possible with you all. Now, with SunnySide in its current state, we need to share some hard truths. Due to our publishing deal, we as the dev team are not making any money from SunnySide to sustain ourselves. This means that, in order to ensure our studio’s survival, we have to move forward with production on new games. Because of this, we’ve made the tough decision to temporarily pause work on major updates and new content for SunnySide while we focus on securing the future of our small studio. In the meantime, we will continue to release small patches, performan…
- SunnySide Sandbox Mode is Here! - 25 September 2024
Hello everyone! It’s time for another SunnySide Update, and this one is BIG! We’re introducing a whole new way to play SunnySide, and we’re excited about the new possibilities and features it brings to the game. Introducing: Sandbox Mode! Sandbox Mode is a new way to enjoy SunnySide! It skips all of the introductory quest lines and cutscenes and puts you right into your first farm, ready for action. YOU get to decide what is unlocked, and when. What is Sandbox Mode? When starting a new game, you will now be presented with two play options: Story Mode or Sandbox Mode. Story Mode will take you to the RPG/Cozy select screen as normal, but Sandbox Mode will skip this entirely. Instead, you’ll be asked to customize a variety of game mechanics to suit your play style. Here’s a full list of all your new options. You can select or deselect them at any time during gameplay: Buildmode All Bluepri…
- The Sims style anime life sim SunnySide cuts price, adds sandbox mode - 24 September 2024
SunnySide has been on our radar for quite a while thanks to its unique blend of Persona 5's visuals, turn-based fights, and relationship building along with Stardew Valley's farming and The Sims-style life management. Though it's only been available for a few months now, its creator, RainyGames, has just announced that it's expanding the game further, providing a brand new sandbox mode along with a steep discount tomorrow on Steam. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Persona 5 and The Sims 5 have some new life game competition Genshin Impact and Stardew Valley collide in new anime farming sim Stardew Valley meets Persona in SunnySide
- SunnySide is now available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S! - 16 August 2024
Exciting news everyone! Sunnyside is now available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S! Find harmony in the Japanese countryside, cultivate new relationships and create the homestead of your dreams. Start your adventure now on: PS5: https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10004821 XBSX: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/sunnyside/9p6r4ndpqrj1 You can also watch the new Console Trailer below! Don't forget that it's also currently 25% OFF during the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1746930/SunnySide/
- Wholesome Games Steam Celebration - 15 August 2024
Hey everyone, SunnySide is part of the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration starting now until August 21st! If you haven't already, don't forget to pick up SunnySide at a discounted price with 25% off, and check out all the other exciting cozy games below! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1746930/SunnySide/
- SunnySide Patch 7 - 9 August 2024
Hey everyone, it’s time for another update for SunnySide! This time around, our focus has been on some (highly requested) quality-of-life features as well as continued work on bugs and optimization. Our highlight for this update is the newly added Global Storage Access! Let’s look at how it works alongside everything else the team has been working on: Global Storage Access When using any storage item; such as cardboard boxes, global cache, or even your vehicle’s inventory, you can now see the global storage access menu on the left side of the screen. This menu allows you to switch to any remotely accessible storage placed in the world. Once switched, you can move items easily between them and even customize them all from one location. We’ve heard your struggles regarding gemstones and caves, so with this update, we are adding one more use to the campsites inside each of our cave levels!…
- SunnySide Patch 6 is out! - 26 July 2024
Hey everyone, we’re back with another update for SunnySide! As we mentioned in the last update, we have now pivoted to bi-weekly updates, as it provides us with more time to work on bigger features, tackle more time consuming bugs, and do more testing on performance. We’re pretty happy with the bundle of changes for this update and we’d like to start by highlighting some of the biggest ones. Animal Selling Thanks to your amazing feedback in the community polls channel on our Discord Server, we have now implemented Animal Selling! This is a whole new system that not only allows you to sell your unwanted animals, but it also uses a dedicated formula to calculate how much an animal will be worth based on their living conditions, happiness, and overall love meter. This change will make SunnySide’s Ranching systema lot more robust, and you can now even focus solely on that “career path” as y…
- SunnySide Patch 5 is live! - 12 July 2024
Hey everyone, it’s time for another SunnySide Patch!! We’d like to start by highlighting some big fixes we’ve implemented this week. Firstly a thank you to all of you who sent your save files over for an investigation into a separate issue that was causing long load times. We’ve made excellent progress on this issue and we’re happy to call it resolved, eliminating any known loading issues from the main menu or when sleeping. Another important fix addresses the visibility of save files from the main menu. Based on your reports, we discovered that, under certain conditions, not all save files were visible. Specifically, if you had a save in slot 1 and started a new game in slot 2 or 3, the game would sometimes incorrectly register the new save as slot 1. While this didn't immediately impact gameplay, it occasionally caused save files to disappear from the load screen. This issue has now b…
- SunnySide Patch 4 is live! - 5 July 2024
Hey everyone, we’re back with another week of bug fixes and improvements! It’s been a busy week and we’ve managed to tackle a number of bugs, add a few quality-of-life improvements and make some tweaks to the balancing of certain aspects of the game. We heard your request for a house earlier in the game, and after a poll on our Discord community, we have added a whole new house to build mode. This starter house is unlocked alongside the tea-house which you can build as soon as you have your chat with Philip. If you’ve already finished the quest or seen the cutscene, the game will automatically add the new starter house blueprint to your drone’s Build Mode, so be sure to check it out! Let’s take a look at what else the team has worked on this week: Farm Animals & Pets Fixed a few saving issues and collision issues with the Shearing Station. The Station should be much easier to grab in Bu…
- SunnySide Patch 3 is here! - 28 June 2024
Hey everyone, it’s time for another patch! After last week’s focus on performance improvements, this week we wanted to spend more time focusing on bug fixing alongside the continued efforts on optimisation.. Before we get into the patchnotes, I wanted to highlight the biggest improvement. This boost to performance will be especially beneficial to players who have been playing the game for a while: From your reports on Steam and Discord, we are happy to say that we were able to track down the super long and unusual load times of saves, and this issue is now resolved. We even made a system that cleans up your current saves you don’t lose any progress - here’s how you can clean your save if you’re experiencing load time issues: Load your save, this might take longer than usual as the game will try to fix any errors and issues with your save. Once the game loads, it should run normally. Sim…
- SunnySide Patch 2 is now Live! - 21 June 2024
Hey everyone, Rainy here! Since the launch of the beta branch only two days ago, the community has been invaluable in finding ways to improve SunnySide. I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing another, this time, pretty big performance and optimization overhaul to the game! What’s changed? We are now loading the content of the game very differently, this massively improves the stuttering for most players, in some cases, we got reports of them completely vanishing, at the cost of higher overall memory usage, but testing so far shows a net gain in performance. After further investigation, I found that instead of the usual approach of loading parts of the map as the player approaches them, we can instead load most of the content at the very beginning. This is somewhat uncommon, but it seems to work best for our game. As I mentioned above, this eliminates most of the stuttering or…
- Introducing: Public Beta! - 19 June 2024
Hey everyone! As SunnySide's post-launch developments and updates continue, we wanted to open a channel for all of you who are interested in gettiing an early preview of upcoming updates and give you the option to get more involved with the development side of SunnySide! With that in mind, we are introducing a new Beta participation option we call "public-beta". You can access this version of the game right now by following these instructions: Right-click on SunnySide from your Steam Library and click on "Properties..." From the newly opened window, select Betas and in the Beta Participation dropdown select "public-beta" Ensure that the game says SunnySide in your library. That's it! Steam should start downloading the necessary files for this version of the game. We have just released a new beta version today with tons more performance fixes, optimisations and visual improvements so if…
- SunnySide Patch 1 is now available! - 18 June 2024
Hey everyone! Following up on our last update, the team has been working on the first patch for SunnySide with a major focus on performance and optimisation. We also managed to squash a few bugs in between the optimisation efforts. Here’s what’s new: Optimization and Increased Performance We adjusted the loading volumes for interior levels as well as how quickly and granularly they load as you navigate the world. Some pesky trees received new billboards (so trees in the distance load better now, and we grouped up a ton of models (called “instancing”) in each house and interior so that they’re loaded quicker as you play the game. All this should mean less stuttering when the game loads various interior maps as you run around the world. Nvidia DLSS Can now be adjusted in your Graphics Settings Nvidia DLSS is a great tool to achieve some frame rate boost quickly and easily, if you have a g…
- Information regarding Performance & Optimization - 15 June 2024
Hey everyone! We thought it was very important to address something as quick as possible: Performance and Optimisation. Thank you for leaving your feedback, we hear you all in the reviews and our Discord community. Following performance and optimisation issues that some users have been experiencing, the team is hard at work to create the first performance patch in the next couple of days. This will be the first of many updates and patches as we continue to support SunnySide post-release. We hope that any performance issues you may face don’t stop you from enjoying what the game has to offer, but if it does rest assured that it is currently the most important topic at the studio. We’ve also noticed a few users having trouble saving the game and making it past the first day. This issue is caused due to antivirus software preventing the SunnySide application from creating save files. To re…
