Eat the Rich — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Crab Mentality Update | 2026-10-30 | Hello everyone! This is our second post launch update. We're introducing a new minigame as well as some small tweaks to existing features.NEW MINIGAME: Crab MentalityIn this game, each team owns a Crab Statue and starts the game with 50 points. Players must visit the circus tents to search for either a Crab Pincer or a Crab Shell. If you find a Crab Pincer, take it to another team's statue to reduce their points. If you find a Crab Shell, take it to your statue to increase your points and protect your statue from Crab Shell attacks for a few seconds.Crab Mentality is all about keeping track of who's leading and bringing them down with you!TWE |
| Fake News Peddler Update | 2026-09-30 | Hello everyone,This is our first post 1.0 update. Today we are adding one more minigame plus some small tweaks and improvements.New Minigame: Fake News PeddlerThis is a brawl-type minigame. Random mobs with different "Point Values" will be spawned all over the map. Players must interact with these asap to convert them to followers and gain their points.You can steal another player's follower by hitting them but only if you have more points than them! Otherwise, try to take a Prop Page from the map to enter Viral Mode, during which you can take any other player's followers for a short duration.Game FilterThe lobby host may now filter minigames |
| Eat the Rich 1.0 | 2026-08-28 | Eat the Rich 1.0We're very happy to finally release Eat the Rich 1.0! We've made a major overhaul and added many new content throughout our Early Access period. Please read further for all the detailed changes for our game's 1.0.Main Structural ChangesWe've reworked the structure from the ground up to make that first game far easier to grasp, without losing the social scheming at the heart of Eat the Rich.Every game now runs exactly four rounds, regardless of player count.Every round now follows the same three phases: Challenges → Private Talks → Voting.Conspire or Betray and Pay or Bluff are now optional games that players can start during t |
| Eat the Rich hits 1.0 on August 28th! | 2026-08-14 | We're thrilled to announce that Eat the Rich is finally leaving Early Access — 1.0 launches on August 28! Here's a rundown of everything new.A Streamlined Game StructureThe biggest hurdle for new players during Early Access was information overload. On top of learning the core loop — voting players out and playing your advantages — newcomers had to learn a bunch of different minigames all at once.We've reworked the structure from the ground up to make that first game far easier to grasp, without losing the social scheming at the heart of Eat the Rich.Every game now runs exactly four rounds, regardless of player count.Every round now follows t |
| Doomsday Bunker Update - June 2026 | 2026-06-05 | Hello everyone! The pacing of our update has slowed down a bit. Most of our focus is on completing the structural revamp and other content we plan to include for our upcoming 1.0 release.New Minigame - Doomsday BunkerThis is basically a counting minigame! Players visit three tents in the circus map to count various elements. These three numbers must then be used as the passcode to unlock their bunker.ChangesAdded a configurable shortcut key to quickly mute self's voice chat. |
| Private Tents Update - March 2026 | 2026-03-19 | Hello everyone,We're still working on our major structural rework. It looks like we're on track to have that ready around May. In the meantime, we've made some smaller tweaks primarily focused on improving conversations inside the Private Tents.Private Tent ChangesThere will now always be 5 Private Tents with different visuals. Depending on the number of players during the round, some tents may initially be empty but can later be used via Teleporter.We've also placed a max capacity on Private Tents to 4 to prevent players from all camping in one tent and stifling private conversations.Teleporter ChangesWe've tweaked the Private Tent teleporte |
| Achievements Update - February 2026 | 2026-02-12 | Hello everyone! We have our first update for the year. This is a relatively small update while we work on a huge modification to the game structure to further streamline and simplify its structure.AchievementsWe've added 16 Achievements in the game. A few examples:Bluffer - Bluffed at least 4 times and still won Pay or Bluff.Comeback - Won the game as a Defector.Karma - Successfully reflect another player's Advantage use against you.Additional Volume ControlYou can now separately adjust the audio volume of in-game voice overs. In addition, You can also adjust the volume of individual players in your lobby.ImmunityWhen enabled, the 1st place w |
| Gluttony Update - December 2025 | 2025-12-18 | Hello! This is our second smaller December update before we go on our winter break.New Brawl Game: GluttonyThis minigame has members of the brawl teams taking turns in a competition to eat as many dishes as possible before a short timer ends. The player/s with the most dishes eaten will earn a point for their team. Teams will compete for 10 rounds.TweaksAdded asset preloading on Title Screen to resolve previous issues that occur when joining a lobby.Added visual updates at the end of Pay or Bluff for results clarity.Added News section on Title Screen to highlight recent updates.Added "Leave a Review" buttons in-game. Please review if you enjo |
| Friend's Pass + Union Buster Update - December 2025 | 2025-12-05 | Hello everyone,For this update, we're adding another brawl mini game alongside a bunch of tweaks and improvements. More importantly, we updated our demo into a Friend’s Pass! More details below.New Brawl Game: Union Buster 👊This is a playful take on whack-a-mole with a satirical theme about silencing protest. In our previous iteration, the first round is always the Overcooked-inspired "Let Them Eat Cake". It's one of our most involved minigames. We think that a much simpler minigame like this would serve as a good alternative first round brawl game.Friend's Pass 🧑🤝🧑We're excited to announce that we've turned our demo into a Friend Pass! |
| Secret Dissidents Update - November 2025 | 2025-11-13 | There are a bunch of new mini games currently under development. We're adding the first one today! We plan to have another update later this month with at least another Brawl Game.New Brawl Game: Secret DissidentsThis is a simple "Where's Wally" mini game. Players are tasked to hunt for wanted secret dissidents among 40 spawned NPCs. The first team to catch 12 dissidents wins!Private Tent TeleporterThe phase where players are placed in tents is the only time they can privately conspire before voting. Previously, you are stuck for the entire duration with the players you competed against on the Mind Game. We added teleporters to allow players |
| Early Access Update 2 | 2025-10-11 | Hello! This is an update that's mostly about tweaks and bug fixes. Work on new Brawl Games, Mind Games and Advantages is ongoing and we'll slowly start adding them on the next updates.Updated HUDWe replaced our main HUD to make it less intrusive.If Secret Gifts is enabled, a Secret Gifts button will now also be available near the Inventory icons. This will show details about the Secret Gifts event such as who gave you gifts and who you gave your gifts to.Updated other HUD elements.Simplified text chat UI.Bot ImprovementsBots keep track of their grievances against other players. Ex: if they get hit during brawl, if someone chose to betray them |
| Early Access Update 1 | 2025-09-19 | Thank you so much to players and content creators that already tried out the game! There are some really entertaining videos out there that show a glimpse of how fun the game could be once players get the hang of it. However, we also saw streams from content creators that did not have a good first time experience with the game. It's stressful to watch but very insightful. I'll discuss the major issues we noticed and how we addressed them over the past few days.Controller IssuesAs noted on our page, we only have partial controller support right now as we didn't have the time to fully implement by launch. We were expecting most players would us |
| DevLog #3: 2025 Roadmap | 2025-09-10 | Hello everyone! We just launched the game on Early Access. Thank you so much to everyone who already purchased the game this early! We likely won't have a big enough player base yet for you to be able to consistently play public random lobbies quickly. Please bear with us! We recommend playing private games with friends for now as we build up our audience throughout our Early Access phase.We'd like to mention a few more small things we just added to the game that weren't discussed in previous DevLogs:EmotesPlayers can now emote in the game! There are a total of 8 emotes to choose from.Cosmetic UnlocksMost of the character customization option |
| DevLog #2 | 2025-08-09 | Hello, everyone! We're happy to share that Eat the Rich is part of the Tiny Teams festival! Perfect time to share another development update.Brawl Game: Corporate RivalsThis is a new Brawl Game that will also be available once we launch Early Access. Alliances race to earn 10 points. Teams take turns opening briefcases. There are 5 different types of briefcases:SELF - increases or decreases points of the current player's allianceOTHERS - increases or decreases points of all alliances except the current player'sALL - increases or decreases points of all alliancesFIRST - increases or decreases points of the alliance with the most pointsLAST - i |
| Devlog #1: Early Access Launch Update | 2025-07-14 | Hello everyone! It has been a few weeks since we participated in Steam's Next Fest. We were both excited and nervous to finally see the game played by regular players as well as streamers.We were glad to see players having fun with the chaos and betrayal aspects of the game but we also noticed that first time experience can get overwhelming for some. Right now it takes about 2 or 3 full games before some players fully understand it. I think that's fairly normal for a new game with some novel mechanics like Eat the Rich. But, before launching on Early Access, we want to ensure that new players can have a lot of fun even while they are still le |
| Demo Update | New Minigames: Crypto Miners and Pay or Bluff! | 2025-06-14 | We've just released a new update for the demo to give you something new to try!What's new:NEW Mini-game: Crypto MinersHelp speed up global warming by mining imaginary coins! Work with your allies to make sure you've got the most totally-real money in your wallet.NEW Mini-game: Pay or BluffKick it old school with good ol' gambling! Pay the pool or bluff on your turn, and pick the right moment to call someone's bluff to win everything on the table!We've also squashed some bugs and added Smart Bots to fill your matches. We hope to improve their behavior as development goes on!Eat the Rich Releasing on July 23Our game is coming to Steam on July 2 |
| Demo Out Now! | 2025-05-28 | Eat the Rich Demo Out Now! Society has collapsed due to the unbridled greed of the 1%. In retribution (and in lieu of a guillotine), the masses have forced the billionaires responsible into a deadly carnivalesque game show against each other called EAT THE RICH. Get a taste of what's to come to your favorite demented game show! Play our demo now! This Demo includes the following features: Full game flow featuring Group Mini-games, Solo Brawls and Solo Mini-games, Voting and Elimination. 30+ customizable items to dress for the silver screen! 10+ Advantage items to help you secure your win, no matter what democracy says! 6 mini-games to play wi |