Rent Due — 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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| Rent Due 0.3.5: Your Bug Reports, Fixed | 2026-10-06 | Rent Due 0.3.5 A bug fix update built entirely from your reports. Every bug filed on 0.3.4 was read together with the log it sent, and each one is fixed here. A few of them, like the stuck loading screen and the inspection finding on the roof, were the kind of thing that could end a session, so these were the first to go. Changes Tenants who come up short on rent now build a record. Three short payments give you grounds to evict, and if you warn them at the door, the very next short payment counts. Their tenant card shows how many are on file. "I'll get you the rest on Friday" now means Friday. The balance waits for their first rent day from |
| Rent Due 0.3.4 | 2026-09-01 | Rent Due 0.3.4 Italian, and a long list of fixes pulled straight from your bug reports. Some of these have been broken since the first week and finally got tracked down. Italian The game is now playable in Italian, text and voice. Every menu, the laptop, the phone, the doorstep conversations, the whole of Uncle Sam's course, and both owners at the gate reading their asking prices out loud. That is five languages now, alongside English, Spanish, French and German. Fixes Fixed bug where house markers disappeared as soon as you walked up to a property, so you had to walk back to the middle of the road to see where to go next. Fixed bug where a d |
| Rent Due 0.3.3 | 2026-08-28 | Rent Due 0.3.3 A fixes patch. Doorways, the ranch furniture, a crash on smaller graphics cards, and a calmer wrecking rate. Fixes The game now runs on DirectX 11, which fixes a crash on lower-end and integrated cards. Doorways stop catching you. The player is a touch narrower, so trailer and house doors no longer need a sprint to get through. The Bare Minimum front door, the one that snagged every body on the way in, now walks straight through. Opening the upstairs bedroom door at the Big League Estate no longer switches off collision for the whole house. House names no longer pile up in the middle of the screen after you travel to a neighbor |
| Rent Due 0.3.2 | 2026-08-26 | Rent Due 0.3.2 A small one. The camera no longer shakes while you walk or run. It still moves with your head when you lean into a sprint, crouch, jump or land, so nothing else about the new movement changes. |
| Hotfix 0.3.1 | 2026-08-25 | Rent Due 0.3.1 A quick hotfix for something the White Horse Ranch Update broke on launch night. Fixed custom character bodies stretching across the map in the districts. A part of your outfit was getting pinned to a point far away the moment you left your bedroom. It stays on you now. Thanks to everyone who hit the bug button in the first ten minutes. |
| The White Horse Ranch Update | 2026-08-25 | Rent Due 0.3.0. The White Horse Ranch Update Three big things in this one. A whole new map, a new way to move through the world, and the game in three new languages. White Horse Ranch, a whole new map A third neighborhood on the county map, out past Harrison. Nine retro ranch homes on big lots, from fixer-upper singles to two-storey estates behind their own fences. Eight new listings, two of them at auction. Every one has its own photos, its own rooms to furnish, and its own tenant at the door. New room sets to buy. A library, a pantry, a storage room, extra living rooms and bedrooms. The Long Porch sells its barn as a furniture upgrade, a wh |
| Rent Due v0.2.9 | 2026-08-18 | Bug Fixes Fixed the crash on entering the office or a neighborhood, and the seconds long stutter that went with it. Both came from the game compiling shaders mid frame the first time it drew something new. Shaders now compile up front while you are in the menu, quietly finish in the background, and stay loaded. Fixed a trash bag being able to spawn in a doorway and lock you in a room. Fixed house name labels printing on top of each other when several of your homes are in view. Fixed hiring at the office desk stamping HIRED and then quietly refusing. If your payroll is full or you already have a leasing agent, the button says so before you pre |
| Rent Due v0.2.8, Bug Fix Update | 2026-08-16 | Bug Fixes The case file conversations have their voices back. Every line was recorded, but the game was asking for them by the wrong name, so the talks played silent. You can knock on a tenant's door to question them now, even when you walked there yourself instead of pressing Question tenant on the computer. Fixed inspection findings placed too high to photograph, like damage above a porch roof. Also Doorstep talks now show the tenant's record. Payer rating, renewals, missed payments, credit and any strikes, so you can decide a renewal or a raise on their history instead of guessing. Crash reports now attach the crash dump properly, which he |
| Rent Due v0.2.7, The Freeze Fix and Case Files | 2026-08-15 | Bug Fixes Fixed the freeze every couple of minutes. It was the Discord Rich Presence check running when Discord was closed. It runs in the background now. Fixed falling through the map after filing an inspection. Fixed getting locked inside a tenant's home while collecting rent. Fixed the Adjust Rent screen for tenants who pay every 2 or 3 days. Prices there now match what they actually pay. Fixed inspection findings that would not register no matter how many photos you took. Fixed the Needs Doing chip saying leases are ending when they just started. Fixed the While You Slept screen showing price cuts on homes you cannot buy yet. New Case fil |
| Rent Due v0.2.6, Bug Fix Update | 2026-08-14 | Bug Fixes Fixed inspections giving strikes way too often. Normal inspections were counting as strikes, so tenants hit eviction grounds after just three visits. Now only truly filthy homes get a strike. Existing saves are fixed automatically, extra strikes and wrong eviction grounds are removed. Fixed getting stuck after filing an inspection. The walk out could put you in a locked room or drop you through the map. You now always land outside on solid ground, and if there is no safe spot the doors stay open so you can walk out. Fixed tenants repeating the same conversations. One time events like the dog moving in or painting the living room now |
| Rent Due v0.2.5, Bug Fix Update | 2026-08-14 | Bug Fixes Auction homes now show the furniture they came with. Winning a lot you had walked past earlier could leave it looking empty while the furnishing tablet said every set was owned. The furniture was always yours, it just refused to appear until a reload. Furniture wrecked by a bad tenant or a disaster now disappears from the home right away, instead of standing there looking fine until the next reload. Furniture deliveries that finish while you are somewhere else now show up properly the next time you walk in. Mess no longer spawns inside walls, and trash bags keep a clear step away from them so nothing sits half sunk in plaster. Set d |
| Rent Due v0.2.4, Performance Fixes | 2026-08-13 | A small performance patch. Fixed stuttering caused by too many shadow casting lights sharing one budget across the county. The office no longer runs a hidden lighting recalculation that could stutter or even crash the game. Crashes now report themselves on the next launch, and bug reports carry the details we need to fix what you found. All anonymous, usernames stripped, with an opt out in Settings under Anonymous Error Reporting. Keep the reports coming. Go collect. |
| Rent Due v0.2.3, Bug Fixes | 2026-08-12 | A follow up patch built almost entirely from your reports since the last update. Thank you for the fast reporting, nearly every line below came from one of you. BUG FIXES Fixed the frozen employee card. Checking on a hired worker, at the office or out on the street, locked the mouse so you could not click out of it. The mouse behaves now. Spotless inspections file properly. A home with nothing to document signs itself off a moment after the camera comes up, instead of leaving you stuck with no way to finish. Getting trapped after an inspection is fully fixed. Wherever the report catches you, in the garage, on the porch, anywhere under a roof, |
| Rent Due v0.2.2, Bug Fixes | 2026-08-12 | A small bug fix patch, mostly from your reports. Inspection mess no longer spawns in unreachable places. No more evidence under floors, inside counters, on roofs, behind fences, or outside the property. Spawn spots across the county were reviewed and cleaned up by hand. If an inspection report files while you are still inside the house, the tenant now walks you out instead of the door locking behind you. Mouse look reconnects on its own after closing the laptop or any other screen, no click needed. Automatic freeze reports got better at ignoring loading screens, so we can chase real stutters. Keep the reports coming. Go collect. |
| Rent Due v0.2.0, Home Inspections + Hire a Staff | 2026-08-12 | Landlords, this is the biggest update Rent Due has ever gotten. Two whole systems land at once, the county gets involved, and the sun finally learns how to set. Here is the tour. HIRE A STAFF HireME is open on your laptop. Post a job, candidates ride the bus to your office, and you read their application across the desk and stamp it, the same way you screen a tenant. Three jobs. Rent collectors walk your street on rent day and bring the money back. The leasing agent signs tenants for every listing you own, and even renews leases for the ones with a spotless record. Eviction agents serve the notice so you do not have to. They are real people w |
| Rent Due v0.1.6, The Clock Update | 2026-08-09 | Rent Due v0.1.6 The day is yours now. This patch reworks how time flows based on your reports, adds a notification history so nothing gets missed, and fixes a long list of bugs you sent in. Time Rework The clock only runs while you are actually in the world. Loading screens, the laptop, the travel map, doorstep conversations and popups no longer burn daylight. A loading screen used to eat 14 in game minutes. A tenant chat used to cost over an hour. Not anymore. Days are longer: about 5 minutes on Normal, about 2 and a half on Fast. A big portfolio's collection route finally fits inside a day, with time left to live your landlord life. New set |
| Rent Due v0.1.5, Bank Rework + Fixes | 2026-08-08 | Rent Due v0.1.5 A quick follow up to The County Update, focused on the bank and a handful of bugs you reported. Bank Rework The bank now lends against your equity: what you own MINUS what you owe. Buying property with borrowed money no longer inflates your own credit line. Rental income only counts toward your credit line once a tenant has actually paid you at least once, and the bank counts a smaller window of it. Freshly signed leases prove nothing to the bank. The bank warms up to a new landlord over time: one loan at a time until day 10, two until day 25, three after that. The credit line itself starts capped and grows as your business ea |
| Rent Due v0.1.4, The County Update | 2026-08-07 | Rent Due v0.1.4, The County Update This is the biggest update Rent Due has ever had. The world opens up, your tenants become real people with voices and opinions, and being a landlord finally means walking your own streets. The County Opens Up A real travel map: head out any door, pick your stop, ride the bus. Press M anywhere in a neighborhood to pull it back up (rebindable in Settings). The neighborhoods have names now: Jackson Mobile Home Park and Harrison Estates, with every address rewritten to match. Proper bus stops in both. Open roam: walk up to any home you own and it opens up automatically. Step out of the yard and it closes behind |
| Rent Due v0.1.3 | 2026-08-05 | Quick fix round based on your reports.• If a call caught you while traveling, your cursor could get stuck and you couldn't hang up. Calls now work fully with the keyboard: Y or N to answer or decline, 1 to 3 for options, N or E to end the call.• Some older saves had a hidden level 0 and couldn't buy any property at all. Those saves fix themselves when you load them.• The office computer would sometimes ignore E if something was in the way. It listens now.• Sending a bug report or suggestion now gets you a proper thank you and a button straight into our Discord, where the behind the scenes stuff happens.Keep the reports coming, they're the rea |
| Rent Due v0.1.2: pick your pace | 2026-08-05 | Two game modes New saves now ask how fast life should move before you start: NORMAL is the classic pace. A full day runs close to four minutes, sleep skips up to 8 hours, and there is room to breathe between rent days. FAST is for landlords who never sit still. Two minute days, 12 hour sleep skips, rent and tenant calls coming in thick and fast. The choice is per save, so you can keep a calm main save and a chaos one on the side. Existing saves continue on the Normal pace. Fixed Hanging up on tenant calls works again. Our last update accidentally broke the hang up button on calls, which left you stuck on the line if you didn't like any of the |
| Rent Due v0.1.1 is out: less sleeping, more landlording | 2026-08-05 | Less sleeping, more landlording We heard you loud and clear. The game asked you to sleep way too much, and that made it feel like a nap simulator instead of a landlord sim. This update reworks the core loop so the world moves while you do. The game loop Days now pass in real time while you play. A full day takes about two minutes, so rent, tenant calls, and calendar events happen while you are out working your properties. Rent comes in faster. Tenants now pay every 1 to 3 days depending on their credit, so there is always money on the way. Sleeping is now optional. Use the bed to skip ahead up to 12 hours when you want to, and the wake up is |
| Rent Due is OUT NOW in Early Access | 2026-08-04 | Today is the day. Rent Due is officially out in Early Access. To the seven thousand of you who wishlisted this game before it ever launched: thank you. A solo developer could not ask for a better welcome to town. This game got built in the open, one update at a time, and today you finally get the keys. WHAT YOU ARE WALKING INTO Rent Due is a first person landlord sim where nothing runs itself. You buy the property, you furnish it room by room, you look every applicant in the eye before they get keys, and when rent comes due you walk over and knock. Evictions get posted by your own hand. The bank takes its cut every week whether you had a good |
| The Park Has a Discord Now | 2026-08-01 | Hey landlords,Rent Due is built by one person, and every patch so far has been shaped by players telling me what's broken, what's boring, and what would make the game better. That conversation deserves a proper home, so we now have an official Discord.What you'll find inside:Bug reports that actually get fixed. When you find something weird (a tenant in a wall, a cheque that won't cash), post it and there's a good chance the fix ships within days. Player reports have already driven most of the fixes in recent updates.A vote on what comes next. I keep a running list of feature ideas. Discord decides which ones get built first.Sneak peeks. New |