Summer at Smile Café Patch Notes — v1.1.4 to v1.1.6

Story and Events

• Fixed character position misalignment in the apartment hallway scene.
• Fixed dialogue freeze during box-moving and firewood-moving tasks when performing specific inputs.
• Events triggered on "next scene entry" now reliably display their hint messages.
• Zoe's running level now syncs with the exclamation mark (!) indicator above her head.
• Event trigger intervals shortened: 3-day gaps reduced to 2 days; 2-day gaps reduced to 1 day.

Night Apartment (New System)

• Added a mandatory night apartment event list.
• Added optional setting to preview night apartment events with a morning notification.
• Added hint text: "It seems like something will happen at the apartment tonight."

See our night apartment events guide for gameplay impact.

Manager Route Changes

• Added manual trigger settings for main story dialogue across multiple scenes.
• Converted some Manager chapter events to active dialogue triggers with visible hints.
• Added "Chat" option to corresponding idle-state dialogues.
• Specific item acquisitions now trigger events and verify chapter progress.

The Manager route guide reflects these trigger changes.

Interface and System

• Fixed dialogue box freezing on screen when returning to the main menu.
• Fixed final ending menu choices overflowing off-screen when 7 characters appear simultaneously.
• Save button now disabled when map movement is locked.

Translation and Other

• Simplified Chinese text typo corrections.
• Fixed Nicole mini-game failure UI text not switching to the selected language.
• Updated credits / staff list.

Version 1.1.5 was an interim stability release between the major v1.1.4 save-compatibility patch and the feature-rich v1.1.6 update. Community sources confirm it included:

• Additional Simplified Chinese localization corrections.
• Minor event trigger reliability improvements carried forward into v1.1.6.
• Continued Renee route stability fixes.

Players on Steam should have received v1.1.6 automatically, which supersedes all v1.1.5 changes. No separate action is required if your game is fully updated.

Version 1.1.4 was the first major post-launch patch, addressing widespread bugs reported during launch week. The developer announced:

• Extensive bug fixes across story events, mini-games, and interface elements.
• Save file incompatibility: Saves created before this patch may not load on v1.1.4 and later. Players must start a New Game to continue.
• F4 CG unlock compensation: Press F4 on the main menu to instantly unlock all CG scenes, compensating for gallery progress lost due to save resets.
• Renee softlock warning: After camping with Renee and inviting her home, avoid interacting with other female characters in that chapter to prevent game freezes.

Full details and recovery steps are in our save compatibility guide. The Renee guide covers the camping chapter workaround.

The initial Steam release included:

• 8 romanceable characters with unique routes and endings.
• Approximately 80,000 words of story content and 80 adult CG illustrations.
• Freelance commission mini-games (drawing, comment response, café tasks).
• 24 Steam achievements with Steam Cloud save support.
• Six interface languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian.
• Chinese and Japanese full voice acting.

Launch week players experienced various bugs that subsequent patches addressed. New players starting after v1.1.6 benefit from all cumulative fixes.

Step 1: Let Steam finish downloading the update before launching.

Step 2: If your save fails to load, read the save compatibility guide and use F4 to restore CGs.

Step 3: Enable night apartment morning previews in settings if you want advance notice of mandatory night events — explained in the night apartment guide.

Step 4: Manager route players should look for new "Chat" options and active trigger hints — see the Manager guide.

Step 5: Report any new bugs through the official Steam community bug report thread linked from the store page.