Rabbit Hole · 1.6

New on your home screen. Rabbithole shows up in every mode, but only opens in one.

A fourth story mode, and the darkest one yet. It all starts with an app you won't find in any store.

• Rabbithole. A platform where new requests go up every day. The pay is good, and the asks get bolder.
• Two ways down. Choose at the start who opens the door: Rin can bring Rabbithole up herself, or you can be the one who asks.
• Down, not up. The deeper you go, the more the platform opens up to you, and the more it asks in return.
• Bills of your own. Money is tight on both ends. Pick up shifts in My Shift when you need to; the longer you stay, the better each hour pays.
• Some people keep coming back. What happens then, you'll have to see for yourself.

Veyndale isn't just the people you know anymore. Every place fills up with a living crowd and agentic NPCs who think, decide and act on their own.

• Every new place comes alive. Dynamic NPCs work hand in hand with Dynamic Locations: when characters discover a place that was never on the map, it opens with its own crowd and its own people.
• New faces every day. The crowd changes from day to day, so the same café never plays out the same way twice. Any ordinary outing can turn into a story.
• They remember. A familiar face can walk back in days later and pick up right where things left off. A kind stranger might become a regular. So might the wrong one.
• They make the first move. NPCs walk up to the characters on their own, to help, to flirt or to make trouble. You won't always see it coming. Neither will Rin.
• Choose how civil the city is. Before the story starts, pick one of six levels, from Peaceful Neighborhood to Lawless Zone, and decide how kind the streets will be.

Veyndale now runs as one living economy. Every character earns, spends and worries about money, and that pressure shows up in every decision they make.

• Everything has a price. Meals, clothes, a night out, a gift for someone special. Characters pay for what they do, so every purchase says something about who they are.
• Pressure changes people. When the wallet runs thin, choices get harder. Skip a meal? Pick up an extra shift? Say yes to something she'd normally turn down?
• Plenty of ways to earn. Jobs, tips, side gigs, a generous friend. There's always a way to make money in Veyndale. Some are more respectable than others.
• Follow the money. The Wallet shows where her money comes from and where it goes. Running low? You can always send her a little. Or not. And sometimes, money comes your way too.
• Pick a way of life. Set how comfortably the whole city lives when you start a game, from Unlimited to Poor. Standard is recommended.
• Workshop characters too. Give your own characters their starting savings, a daily income and their everyday expenses.

With bills to pay, the city is hiring. A job takes characters to new places, puts them in front of new people, and makes them play by someone else's rules.

• Work behind every door. Shops, bars, clubs and hotels all over Veyndale are looking for staff, including Safari Night Club, Blackfield Cinema, La Soie and The Aurelian Hotel. Some venues only open when their characters are in your game.
• Places found mid-game can hire. Somewhere a character only just discovered may already need help behind the counter.
• Every boss is different. Walk in, ask the owner for work, and do the job their way. A shift at a nightclub is not a shift at a noodle bar.
• Get paid. Wages, tips, and whatever else gets handed over at the end of the shift.
• Your places can hire too. Build a café, a boutique or a club in the Workshop, and let it sell things or take on staff.

Every character now carries a bag of their own: snacks, makeup, keepsakes, gifts. What they buy, use, give away and throw out says more than any status line.

• Keepsakes from day one. Every built-in character starts with a few things that mean something. Some of Rin's came from you.
• Gifts that matter. Hand Rin, or anyone else you know, something from your Bag. She might wear it, use it, show it off to a friend, or quietly put it away.
• Peek inside. Her bag shows what she bought today, what she used up, and who gave her what. Some of those names may surprise you.
• Out with the old. Don't like something she carries? Ask her to throw it away and see what she says.
• Shop the whole city. Every shop you discover gets a storefront of its own in the Shop app, the shelves change every day, and anything close to what they sell can be ordered in. Tap an item's name to copy it, ready to bring up in a chat.
• Workshop characters too. Pack your own characters' bags with the things that make them who they are.

On desktop, the phone unfolds into two pages. Chat on the left while Rin's world plays out live on the right.

• See where she is. Her building from above, room by room, lit for the time of day.
• See who's around her. Friends, strangers, and the crowd along the walls, each in the room they're actually in.
• Catch every moment. Bubbles show what just happened. Tap anyone to see what they're doing, what they're wearing and what they did last.
• On your phone too. Playing in the browser? The scene map waits on the second home page.
• Read the room. Interaction bubbles blush deeper the closer things get, and anyone who's thinking glows softly.

Smoother play

• No more slowdowns in long games. Saves now only store what changed and happen in the background, so autosaves, photos and scrolling stay instant even hundreds of in-game days in.
• Big libraries load in pages. Photos, Recordings, Messages, the feed and every private history load a page at a time with "Load older", and apps refresh only what actually changed.
• Faster nights. End-of-day summaries and memories are written side by side instead of one at a time, and one hiccup no longer stops the whole night.
• Fewer retries. When a model's reply is only slightly malformed, the game repairs it instead of asking again, saving a full round trip and the tokens that go with it.
• Your actions land right away. Transfers, gifts and purchases take effect the moment you make them instead of waiting for the current turn to finish.
• Quicker exit. Quitting no longer waits for a model reply that's still on its way, and your game is saved on the way out.

Smarter characters

• They hold on to what they want. Nightly reflection no longer talks characters out of their goals, and tomorrow's plans push those goals forward.
• Stronger personalities on DeepSeek. Characters make decisions instead of putting them off, and the ones meant to be cold or hostile stay that way.
• Richer scenes on every model. All providers now write interactions with the same detailed scene rules, so scenes feel fuller wherever you play.
• Thinking in your language. Every character thinks in the language you picked, custom languages included, so their inner voice matches the story.
• Steadier status lines. What a character is "doing now" describes the next half hour instead of a passing moment, so the phone tells you what's really going on.
• More reliable actions. Characters get clearer, simpler instructions for their tools and pick the right one more often, and they're reminded to try the new apps and places.
• Claude support. Claude is now a provider of its own in setup and Settings, with prompt caching built in.
• Steadier Gemini. Requests are framed so content filters interrupt the story far less often.

Phone & chat

• Receipts in the chat. Money and gifts you send show up as cards right in the conversation, next to your messages.
• Banners and badges. Results from the Shop, Bag and Wallet pop up as banners and badges, so you never miss something that happened while you were elsewhere.
• Tidier Messages. Conversations open at the newest message, the contact list is cleaner, and the emoji picker sits right in the composer.
• New night wallpaper. A built-in night landscape for the home and lock screens.
• Quieter touch sounds. The drag sound that followed your finger across the screen is gone; taps and scrolling keep theirs.

Workshop

• Share without spoilers. Export a locked character that others can play but can't open, with an optional password to unlock it.
• Write {{main}} for the player. The game fills in each player's own name, and the editor reminds you how to use it.
• Catch typos early. The editor flags placeholders the game won't understand before you share your work.

• Fixed an issue where messages you sent while a character was acting could disappear when that turn was undone.
• Fixed an issue where texts a character sent during an interaction never reached the recipient.
• Fixed an issue where a character who had left a scene could be put back into it.
• Fixed an issue where characters described to strangers showed raw placeholders instead of real names.
• Fixed an issue where the Continue button stayed stuck on "Resuming…" after the AI usage limit was reached a second time.
• Fixed an issue where the hourly usage limit was reported as a content filter.
• Fixed an issue where some background requests were counted under Rin in the usage stats.
• Fixed an issue where Rin's widget kept showing "Update interrupted", and the paused banner stayed up, after the game had recovered.
• Fixed an issue where removing a place a character had discovered caused errors every turn until the game was restarted.
• Fixed an issue where Workshop places didn't fill in the player's name and other game values.
• Fixed an issue where discovered places were described to characters with the wrong text.
• Fixed an issue where importing a save could rename its images or overwrite existing ones.
• Fixed an issue where restarting didn't keep the previous game as an autosave, and autosaves were made during setup.
• Fixed a misleading "Missing Authentication header" message for a rejected API key; it now says the key was rejected.
• Fixed an issue where the model provider picker during setup showed white text on a white background.

Save compatibility: 1.6 can't load saves from before 1.6.0, so you'll need to start a new game. Your Workshop drafts and character packages carry over.

Everything we've fixed and tuned since the 1.6.0 preview, mostly from your reports. Thank you.

• Improved the Gemini bypass for Camera and Recordings image generation.
• Reduced the share of hostile Dynamic NPCs.
• Reduced how often Dynamic NPCs are called back.
• Fixed an issue where Rin accepting two Rabbithole tasks at once could freeze the game.
• Fixed an issue where a failed task board could block the night transition.
• Fixed an issue where a paid board refresh after leveling up still dealt lower-level tasks.
• Fixed an issue where commissions with nothing to do were turned into paid tasks.
• Fixed an issue where posted tasks added times, places and outfits that were never asked for.
• Fixed an issue where Rin could mention her own game settings in her thinking in NTRS.
• Fixed an issue where earlier lines of the NTRS prologue shrank and became unreadable.
• Fixed an issue where the Do Not Disturb auto-reply during a shift read as the player's own words.
• Fixed an issue where splitting work into one-hour shifts paid as much as one long shift.
• Fixed an issue where shops declined orders for anything slightly outside their line.
• Fixed an issue where the back button was covered by the shop pager when there were many shops.
• Fixed an issue where the End today button covered the back button in the two-page layout.
• Fixed an issue where avatar pack previews overflowed during setup after importing characters.
• Fixed an issue where the English Quick Guide showed Chinese placeholders for Rabbithole, Bag and Wallet.
• Fixed an issue where marking Hires here in every room of a Workshop place created a manager for each room; the editor now explains each switch.