Insider Trading — 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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| 1.4 Update - Characters+ | 2026-06-26 | The fourth major update for Insider Trading has been pushed as the game enters its first Summer Sale!Thanks for your continued (or newly found) interest in Insider Trading.This 1.4 update brings four new characters to the game. Three correspond to the card types that didn't have a character of their own, alongside one that introduces a slightly different game mode.New CharactersFour months have passed since release, and during that period, there have been various suggestions as well as plans on the development side to create new gameplay concepts. These new characters were created to realize those ideas.With some characters altering the game |
| 1.3 Update - Rarity Patch and New Cards | 2026-05-04 | (Patchnotes have been translated using AI) Rare cards in Insider Trading were deceptive. Unlike what their tag suggested, they weren't that rare to find. And because they were so common, they ended up being under-balanced. Consequently, rare cards became neither rare nor particularly good. This was counter-intuitive and strained the balancing of certain cards that could have been much more exciting.The 1.3 update tackles this by making rare cards feel actually rare and rewarding to pick up, featuring stronger effects than before.Several rare cards have been buffed, 18 new rare cards have been added, and the mechanics around finding rare cards |
| 1.2 Update - Controller Support Added | 2026-03-26 | Hey guys, I've been working on controller support for the past couple weeks, and the game's come to a state where it can be played fully through a pad without the mouse having to be involved. This means sliding your trackpad on the Steam Deck is no longer necessary to emulate a cursor (although you could do that if you prefer to), and instead everything could be navigated around with the d-pad and a/b/x/y buttons.While thorough testing has been done in a couple controllers, I am much more of a keyboard/mouse person that is unfamiliar with using controllers, so there may be odd interactions you may come across depending on your machine, settin |
| 1.1 Bugfixes | 2026-03-02 | Hey, it's been a couple days since 1.1 update, and I've been fixing bugs that came along with the new update, as well as older bugs that existed before the update. This is a post to share what exactly has been fixed or changed. Bug Fix: Fixed price setting itself to '$0' and later leading up to broken prices (nan) when dropping the price by a massive amount from a high amount.Bug Fix: Fixed the game sometimes dealing you less cards than your slot count, and later leading to crash.Bug Fix: Fixed 'Virus' not deleting itself after trigger.Bug Fix: Fixed the new 'Choices Matter' event permanently increasing the reroll cost of cards.Bug Fix: Fixed |
| 1.1 Patch - Difficulty, Translation, etc. | 2026-02-28 | Hey guys, it's been about 10 days into release, though it felt like 10 months to me.Thanks for the attention, support, and sharing your thoughts on the game.While there has been many suggestions and feedback on the game's state in the official discord as well as Steam, I felt the biggest issue at the moment was onboarding, and difficulty.Thus, I mainly focused finding ways to tackle these issues for the first patch.Patch 1.1 includes; new default difficulty, balance changes for certain cards, minor reworks of certain systems, a few bug fixes, a few qol improvements, and finally, a Russian translation. New DifficultyInsider Trading has several |
| 1.0 Hotfixes (Feb 21st Small Dev Note + Fix 4) | 2026-02-19 | ADDED NOTE ON FEB 21ST:Hey guys, it's now been a little more than three days into the launch, and I'd like to first thank you for all the attention you've given to Insider Trading. The game just hit more than 200 reviews, and I am deeply grateful to be hearing how everyone is reacting to the game. Whether it was a positive review or a negative one, I appreciate all of you for taking your time to contemplate and express your thoughts.While there seems to be a wide array of subjects that are being discussed at the moment, it seems that the biggest topics are on the general difficulty, balancing, and certain unpleasant mechanics. Naturally, some |
| Insider Trading is OUT NOW! | 2026-02-18 | Hello everyone,Today is the day. Insider Trading is officially out on Steam.This project has been in development for a long time, and for most of that time it existed as something unfinished and constantly changing. The demo, the playtests, and all the iterations that followed ended up shaping the game far more than I expected when I started. A lot of what you are playing now only exists because of that process.Watch the Insider Trading Official Launch Trailer.Not to pat my own back, but the trailer is actually quite cool.The version launching today includes:Multiple playable characters, each with their own mechanics and starting decksOver 12 |
| [DEMO] 0.5.1 Compatibility patches for Mac, Linux, and OpenGL support | 2026-02-15 | Hey guys, this is probably the final demo update before full release.The game's releasing in just three days, and I've just committed the final build up on steam, ready to launch. I'm feeling pretty good about it. Thanks to the playtesters, the final build was tested thoroughly to a point it should give clean gameplay right from the release date on.Well, that's what I'm hoping at least.Anyways, this update is mostly for Mac and Linux users.But that's not to say, that there has been some minor bug fixes and feature updates as well.Porting and Compatibility PatchMac version has been ported. Both Insider Trading Demo and the main game should now |
| [DEMO] - 0.5.0 TRANSLATION UPDATE (10 LANGUAGES) | 2026-01-31 | Hey everyone, As the build for the full game is getting finalized, I got some work done on translations as well. This update mainly features the support of following 10 languages:-ENGLISH-KOREAN-JAPANESE-CHINESE-GERMAN-FRENCH-ITALIAN-SPANISH-PORTUGUESE-POLISH The translations have been done through professionals at QLoc - Big thanks to them! The languages that were previously supported (CHINESE, JAPANESE, KOREAN) through the use of AI translations, also got redone by professionals at QLoc. This may have changed the terminology such as names of items a little bit in these languages, but in the long term, I hope that this will improve user expe |
| Insider Trading Launches on February 18 | 2026-01-20 | Hello everyone,I wanted to share a quick update about where Insider Trading is heading, and give a clearer picture of what's coming next.After spending a long time iterating on the demo, collecting feedback, and making changes that honestly reshaped large parts of the game, I'm finally ready to say that the full release is close.Insider Trading will officially launch on Steam on February 18, 2026.The full release features:Multiple playable characters, each with their own mechanics and starting decksOver 120 cards across 12 types for you to collect50 perks, including cursed perks that trade raw power for serious drawbacksA combo system that re |
| [DEMO] - 0.4.0 PATCH NOTES | 2026-01-09 | Hello everyone, With the full release coming closer, I felt that the current demo needed a bit of a touch. After 0.3 update shook up the gameplay, there has been a number of valuable feedback from both the Discord community members and my beloved playtesters. There were complements, as well as some criticisms. Based on these feedback, a lot of the content received minor balance changes, along side a few major ones that changed the gameplay mechanic. There were a few rollbacks as well. There has also been alterations in the amount of game's content. Some new gameplay elements got added, and some elements got taken away. I know it sucks to see |
| [CLOSED] Insider Trading Playtest Signup | 2025-12-18 | UPDATE 12/20: Playtesters have all been selected, and we are not selecting further testers at the moment. Thank you everyone for signing up. Hey everyone.Sign-ups are open again to playtest new Insider Trading content and mechanic changes. If you're interested in trying the latest build and sharing your feedback, happy to have you join. If you’ve already been selected for the previous playtest, there’s no need to register again. You can sign up on this form here: https://forms.gle/HckjfXqdrT9HuwEZA PLEASE NOTE, the playtest version will only feature English; Translations are not complete in the playtest build. ALSO, please join our Discord if |
| MAJOR DEMO UPDATE | 2025-11-17 | Hello everyone, Thank you for your patience since the last update. After receiving valuable feedback from the playtesters, I realized there's still more I can improve on in Insider Trading. This means the full release will be delayed to Q1 2026, instead of the originally stated 2025. However, to make up for it, I've decided to showcase the progress so far in this major demo update. This 0.3.0 update consists of substantial gameplay changes, with the addition of new characters, more than double the card pool, and new systems. I apologize for the delay in full release. But I have confidence in how the game's shaping up, and am excited to share |
| Join Insider Trading Playtest | 2025-10-10 | Hello everyone,Thank you for your patience. You can now sign up to playtest new Insider Trading content. I didn't want to rush anything, but I also didn't want the game to sit completely idle while development continues.This playtest is a chance to explore some of the content I'm working on and share your feedback, which will help guide the next steps of the game.If you'd like to participate, you can sign up here: https://forms.gle/hMyQvMuF9whtfw2r5I hope this playtest gives you a glimpse of what's to come. Your feedback is much appreciated and I'm grateful for any time you spend playing the new content.Thank you again for playing Insider Tra |
| [DEMO] - 0.2.1 PATCH NOTES | 2025-08-09 | Hello everyone,It’s been about a month since the last update. I know many of you are eager for the next wave of content, but I'd like to ask for just a bit more patience. While the new content is in development, I don’t want to release anything too early.That said, I also didn’t want to leave the game dead until I'm done with the next big update. So, in version 0.2.1, I'd like to introduce a new feature: Game History. Alongside that, this version is also packed with a set of QoL patches and bug fixes that I hope will improve your gameplay experience. As always, thank you for keeping up with the patches and enjoying Insider Trading. The change |
| [DEMO] 0.2.0 PATCH NOTES | 2025-07-09 | This 0.2 update features changes and additions to the event mechanic, alongside various quality-of-life patches and bug fixes. Please note that all patches on the demo version are subject to changes. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, or concerns regarding the 0.2 update or the general gameplay, please feel free to share them on the Discord or the Steam discussion page. As always, thank you for keeping up with the patches and enjoying Insider Trading. The changes on 0.2 are as follows: Events:There have been mixed suggestions and feedback regarding the weekly events. Some found it enjoyable, while some found it to be overly punishing with |
| 0.1.3 PATCH NOTES | 2025-06-21 | EDIT (6/28): Despite claiming the next update 'will come towards the end of June', it will be postponed slightly. I apologize for the delay.I want to start off by saying THANK YOU to all of you for playing Insider Trading and sharing your thoughts on the game so far. With Next Fest finished earlier this week, Insider Trading stands at 14,000 wishlists. I consider this to be a great achievement that would not have been possible without your support. With that being said, this minor patch features yet another QoL, UI/UX changes, and bug fixes. Content updates will come towards the end of June - this will mainly feature an overhaul of the events |
| 0.1.2 Patch Notes (KR/CN/JP translations) | 2025-06-10 | Hey, with SNF starting just yesterday, another update has been put up. Alongside bug fixes and minor balance adjustments, beta translations have been made for CJK languages. The changes are as follows: Beta Localization for 4 languagesTranslation added for Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, JapaneseThis can be accessed from the title screen.Bug FixesFixed an inconsistent crash that occurred when returning to the main menu or replaying.Fixed the infinite trigger bug on the Swan card. It was funny, but it had to go.Fixed combos not triggering properly when multitype cards were consisted.Fixed Price panel being displayed on top of |
| [MINOR UPDATE] 0.1.1 Patch Notes | 2025-06-06 | Hello, It's been three days since the demo has been released. I thank you all for playing the demo, and providing wonderful feedback on the game's direction. Speaking of Feedback...Many users have been negatively reacting to several events, especially the Manipulator, which changes your tokens by +/-10 depending on the stock price. Although I have temporarily nerfed this specific event in this patch, I will quickly seek ways to completely overhaul this and other events. Another issue that was commonly brought up was the inability to buy stocks when the price exceeded $1,000. Many players thought this was a bug, or an unpleasant mechanic. Simi |
| Demo for Insider Trading is Released | 2025-06-04 | Hello, This is Naiive, the developer of Insider Trading. After a year of development and continuous playtesting, I am happy to announce the Demo for Insider Trading is now released. Demo will be up for an indefinite amount of time. I am looking forward to your feedback and reviews through Steam page, or through the official Discord. The game can only be complete with your experience! Thank you, and I hope you enjoy. |