1.09 is live: dig sites and roach hunts get proper map markers, and the basement oven gauge finally reads true.
I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator

1.0 through 1.09 patch notes

Quick answer

1.09 clarifies dig, delivery and roach markers and corrects the basement oven gauge; cooking times stay unchanged.

The latest gameplay hotfix listed here is 1.09, released on 9 October 2026. Early Access started 1 April 2026. Version 1.0 left Early Access on 25 September 2026.

Official Steam screenshot: an in-game screen

Milestone: 100,000 copies (12 October)

The developer announced over 100,000 copies sold on 12 October, roughly three weeks into 1.0 and six months into Early Access. The announcement celebrates sales; it does not add a new client version or change quest conditions.

Nothing in the milestone post changes gameplay. For the actual task changes, use the pizza-shop instructions or the job-marker checklist.

1.09 — 9 October 2026

Two fixes, both about reading the game correctly:

  • Dig sites, roach hunts and delivery spots now use the standard map marker — the site diamond, site tag, quest name and location line that scrub and bugging jobs already had. Zack's search circle stays deliberately offset from the actual roach, so the diamond does not pinpoint the bug, and his quest row names the location once you accept the hunt.
  • The basement oven's gauge was misprinted by about 24 mm. The printed green zone ran past the real burn threshold, so pulling a pizza at the end of the green could still burn it. The needle now hits the red boundary exactly when a pizza burns. Cooking times and pizza quality are unchanged.

1.08 — 9 October 2026

Multiplayer and menu fixes only:

  • Wall photos survive the host's save. A photo hung on the wall by a friend no longer disappears when the host saves and reloads.
  • The connection error tells the truth now. When Steam is down, the menu says Steam is not connected instead of blaming your internet connection.

1.07 — 7 October 2026

The developer's own note calls this a cleanup patch, but two entries change how you play:

  • Quest items in your hands or bag survive a reload. Wash and burn job items being carried restore to the right inventory slots, and the quest line links to the respawned item instead of leaving duplicates on the floor.
  • Pausing now freezes the automatic pizza oven, so pizzas no longer keep baking — or burning — behind the pause menu.
  • Trash-can photos check the viewfinder and line of sight. A can outside the frame or behind a wall no longer counts, so re-frame instead of re-shooting.
  • "Like a Ferris Wheel" can no longer be locked out. Declining CaseOh at the window now switches the achievement to his open-world quests, it syncs for every player in the session, and it applies retroactively when an affected save is loaded.
  • Forgery-station guidance corrected. Declining a forgery job no longer points you at the Dark Web SkillForge tree; the popup now explains that Tony delivers the covered desk once the first debt installment is paid (and where to buy it if you missed that payment).
  • Also fixed: a starter machine reappearing whenever its former counter was moved, and key prompts showing stray Hebrew, Cyrillic or Arabic characters on non-Latin keyboard layouts.

1.05 — 8-player lobbies and order toggles

Hosts can set the lobby cap to 8. The studio says anything above four is not optimized, and the lobby warns you. Recipe screens can turn off drink and sauce tickets.

Elon Tusk's pepperoni job wants one piece of pepperoni, not a pizza. Bulk orders that need Leo Caruso stock now say to buy from his vendor. The Red Phone door no longer drops you into the basement if you run through it twice.

1.04 — 28 September 2026

Forgery jobs are finally readable. A randomly generated job used to leave the HUD card stuck on "Forge a badge" until the courier pickup, even after the document was done. The card now updates the moment the forging finishes, and the task line mirrors the handwritten jobs: it names the document type, the required name, and the exact delivery location. If you were alt-tabbing to a wiki to remember what you were forging, that is the patch you were waiting for.

Co-op fixes:

  • Being kicked from a lobby or losing the host no longer leaves that lobby's voice chat running while you sit on the main menu. It resets properly and works again in your next lobby.
  • "Guess I'm A Gold Digger Now" now unlocks for every player in the session the moment a buried chest or cash bag is looted. If you already emptied a dig site before this patch, the achievement is granted automatically the next time you load that save.

1.03 — 27 September 2026

Quest and delivery fixes, plus one mini-game flow:

  • Elon Tusk's skateboard quest: items bought from the vendor did not count toward the throwing quest. They count now, so a stalled quest can be finished without restarting it.
  • Washing machine levels: level-3 washing jobs could be completed on a level-2 machine. They now require level 3 as intended.
  • "Rookie's First Case File" was hit by a save-migration bug carried over from the beta. Fixed.
  • Prefilled drinks could not be taken by cashiers. Fixed.
  • Bulk-order delivery: handing shady pizzas from a bulk order over to the car put the box in the car but dropped the pizza on the ground, where it could not be picked up. Fixed.
  • Signature mini-game timeout: running out the timer kicked you from the table with no warning and could leave you stuck on that screen. The flow now says what happened and does not strand you.

1.02 — 27 September 2026

Quest reset is the one players will use. It covers washing-machine jobs, incinerator jobs, and item quests such as Eleanor's chest. It is not a universal "abandon any objective" button. The prisoner photo job is not on that list.

Sabotage and the arcade duels:

  • Yellow and orange risk zones, front and shady, wait a full in-game day between triggers.
  • Cops or mob members show up at most once per day.
  • Cabinet mini-games are capped at once per day.
  • Leaving the zone and walking back in does not reset the timer.

A side-quest tracker now sits on the left HUD under "Side Quests" when a new open-world job can be picked up. "Guess I'm A Gold Digger Now" tracks again. "With Great Pizza Comes Great Responsibility" was removed until it is reworked.

1.0.1 — difficulty and the payment fix

ModeRule
RelaxNo deadline on debt payments. The studio points solo players here
ChallengingOriginal deadlines. 10 installments, 48–120 in-game hours each
SwitchAt the start, or later, either way

1.0.1 also fixed payment steps on the original mode, the double-oven recipe timer (White Pizza no longer bakes as a custom), a soft-lock during electrical sabotage while taking cash, Hobarey Depot on the map, and the forgery-station timer. Washing machine level 1 dropped from 8 BTC to 5 BTC. Kitchen and shop lights were raised so night corners are not a black box.

What 1.0 actually added

The campaign change is the debt. Ten BTC installments, a Friendly Loans TV in the back room, on-time rewards, missed-payment interest, a good ending, a bad ending, and the choice to keep the save after the good ending. Old saves are tagged and discouraged.

The rest of the 1.0 list, compressed to what changes how you play:

  • Night visitors: Case, Elon Tusk, Roach King Zack, each with a three-part line. Sewer deliveries, 10 quests. Eleanor Marsh's dig line. Red Eye's ingredient line. Spy missions and crime-scene cleaning.
  • Menu to 12 recipes, unlocked by level. Four new ingredients, drinks, six sauces, a prep counter, an underground kitchen, three mushroom types on 18 spots.
  • Forgery table back, with 18 scripted jobs then random ones. 16 contraband items. A 13:00 bulk van. Redline phone up to five calls a day.
  • Reputation from −200 to +200. Yard camouflage. Arcade duels. Cashiers finish orders including sauces and drinks.
  • Solo works offline. Autosave exists and defaults to off. Turkish was added; eight languages were revised.
  • 13 achievements were added with 1.0. The live list is on the achievements page.

Performance notes in that post claim a lower rendering load and better results on 4 GB cards. That is the studio's benchmark claim, not a measured frame time from this site.

Saves

If a slot says old version, start over for the debt path. Loading it is allowed. The economy and quests will not match the pages here.