Unofficial fan guide
I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator
Pizza up front. Shady work out back. Updated for 1.09.
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First day and the debt
Relax has no debt timer. Challenging keeps the ten installments.
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Pizza shop and staff
Recipes unlock by level. Cashiers can finish the whole order.
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Shady jobs and stations
Wash and incinerator start at 5 BTC. Forgery timer is back.
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Photo jobs
No name on the camera means the photo will not hand in.
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Two prisoners stand in town; two arrive at the shady window over time.
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All 32 achievements
32 achievements. One was pulled in 1.02 until it is reworked.
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1.0 through 1.09 patch notes
1.09 adds map markers for dig sites and roach hunts, and fixes the basement oven gauge.
Read →Updated 2026-10-30Version 1.0 left Early Access on 25 September 2026. The latest announced gameplay hotfix is 1.09: clearer dig, delivery and roach-hunt markers, plus a corrected basement oven gauge. Hosts can still open the lobby to eight players (the studio says anything above four is not optimized) and the recipe screens can turn off drink and sauce tickets, and 1.07-1.08 fixed the parts players lost sleep over: quest items carried in your hands or bag now survive a reload, pausing freezes the automatic oven, and a photo hung on the wall by a friend no longer vanishes when the host saves.
The loop is two businesses in one building. The front is a pizza shop in Hobarey Town. The back room, the yard, and the shady window are how you work off a debt to Tony. Solo play runs fully offline.
First hour, in five steps
- Start a new campaign. Saves from before 1.0 are marked old, and the debt, jobs, and economy were rebuilt.
- Pick Relax or Challenging before the first debt timer matters. You can switch later.
- Serve a pizza, then take the first shady deal. Those two actions are the opening achievements.
- Buy the camera from the pizza computer's misc section before you accept a photo job. A shot only counts if the name appears on the camera.
- If a washing, incinerator, or chest job jams, use the quest reset instead of restarting the day.
Quick answers
| Question | Short answer | Page |
|---|---|---|
| How do I pay the debt? | Ten BTC installments. Relax Mode has no timer. The payment steps were fixed in 1.0.1. | Debt |
| Where are the prisoners? | Two are in town. Two visit the shady window in orange jumpsuits. | Photos |
| Where are creature photos? | At night, in woods and remote corners. Zoom. Do not walk up. | Photos |
| Where is Sierra Bloom? | She is a front-counter pizza customer, not a map pin. | Photos |
| What is the newest patch? | 1.09: read the quest name and location on map markers; Zack's circle is a search area. The basement gauge now reaches red at the burn threshold. | Patch notes |
Still unlisted
The 1.0 notes name Lucid Pizza and 18 mushroom spots. They do not print toppings or coordinates. A topping list that is not in those notes is not confirmed.