- Dev Blog: Role Vote Results & What's Next - 22 September 2026
Greetings!Last week, we let the community decide which role should next be introduced to Walk of Life. We received over 1600 votes on our Discord, but it quickly became clear which role was the favorite to win. With 51% of the total votes, Walk of Life's next role will be the Cultist!The final votes were as follows:Beastmaster 20% Cultist 51%Gymrat 7%Wannabe 21%It seems that our community has a burning desire to do terrible things in the name of the occult! Should we be worried about you guys? Anyways, we've already begun work on the Cultist and we're aiming to get its ominous game mechanics into your hands very soon.While the winner of the vote quickly became apparent, the race for runner-up was way more tense. The beastmaster and the wannabe were separated by only a few votes throughout the week, with the Wannabe clinching ahead in the final two days and staying ahead by just 11 votes…
- The Final Role Vote! (and Bot Improvements) - 15 September 2026
Oorah!Let me see your war faces! It's time for the event you've all been waiting for: the final role vote! We want you, the community, to help us decide which role will be the next role to join Walk of Life! There are four candidates:BeastmasterCultistGymratWannabeTo vote, head on over to the announcements channel on our Discord and let us know which role you'd like to see as Walk of Life's next role! While we can't promise if and when the remaining roles will make it into the game, we will prioritize them based on popularity. Every vote counts!Community ShoutoutsWe also have some outstanding community contributions to mention before we get to some mini patch notes.Spearheaded by Dolphin, an incredible member of our community, the Walk of Life Wiki is live! We hope this community formed project will become a hub for all information Walk of Life related. Check out the wiki channel on the…
- Community Art Contest Results! - 14 September 2026
Hello, hello!Last month, we announced that we were having a Community Art Contest to kick off the newly opened #art channel on the Porcelain Fortress Discord. We received a lot of submissions, but after careful deliberation, we are thrilled to anounce that the winner of Walk of Life's Community Art Contest is.... Sorikai!Sorikai drew this magnificient depiction of Da Vinci's Last Supper (and improved upon it, in our opinion!) Featuring several memorable characters from Walk of Life and capturing the silly essence of the game, we are incredibly happy that, as the winner, this artwork will be immortalized by appearing ingame very soon! Congratulations, Sorikai!The decision was not easy to make as we received a ton of amazing submissions! While we can't post them all, here are some of the ones that we really enjoyed! mir.unat drew this incredibly detailed picture of a day in the life of th…
- The Walk Together Update - 9 September 2026
Halló!There's so much going on with Walk of Life right now! The deadline for the art contest on our Discord is tomorrow, and we've revealed all of the candidates for the role vote that begins next week. What's more, we're back with another huge content update!We're incredibly grateful for the wonderful Steam reviews we've been getting and they really motivate us to make the game even bigger and better. If you haven't given us one yet, please consider doing so and letting us know how you feel about the game.Now on to the juicy stuff!ModifiersModifiers are a brand new system that will allow you to customize your games just the way you like them. These options change the rules of the game in some way, whether it's lowering the cost of all items, enacting a permanent curfew, or having Senior be the only playable role.There are over forty modifiers to choose from and each of them has a certa…
- Role Vote Candidate #4: The Wannabe - 7 September 2026
Preamble! Introduction! Preface! Foreword! Prologue!Now that that's out of the way, let's introduce the final candidate for the final role vote: The Wannabe!Armed with their trusty camcorder, this pretty fly amateur filmmaker will stop at nothing to become famous! As the Wannabe, players will have to dare to be stupid to create as much engaging content as possible for their fifteen minutes of fame! And what is Walk of Life's equivalent of content? Report cards!You forgot to eat? That's content! Lost your job? Content! Forgot to buy a fridge for your groceries and they got spoiled? Gross, but also content! While other roles get nervous when they see a large stack of report cards at the start of their turn, the Wannabe gets excited!As the Wannabe, each report card you receive will grant you cash and work XP. You'll need to be sure that your content is FRESH, however, as report cards that…
- Dev Blog: Solo & Co-op Challenges, Modifiers, and Quickplay - 3 September 2026
Salutations!We are putting the finishing touches on yet another content update that will make its way to your shores some time next week! I'll let you take a little peek at what we've got in store for you if you promise to give us a Steam Review (if you haven't already). Deal? Okay, great! Let's get started.ModifiersModifiers are a new system that allows players to customize their games just the way they like them, whether it's to create a chill or challenging experience. Each modifier comes with a number attached to it. When combined, the total numbers will show you roughly how easy or hard the game will be compared to a normal game.Do you wish rent was cheaper, or would you like a visual indicator that shows you whether you've eaten or not this round? You've got it! Do you want a brutal experience where there is a permanent heat wave and jobs are harder to come by? Have you tried the…
- Role Vote Candidate #3: The Gymrat - 31 August 2026
September is upon us! I was going to write something hilarious about pumpkin spice lattes, but we know why you're all here and any preamble would just be skipped over. That's fine. Whatever. Let's just get to the main event: the Gymrat!Obsessed with well-toned abs and killer pecs, this fitness freak aims to sculpt their body in the image of the gods! As the Gymrat, players will have to go through two phases: bulking and cutting. When bulking, the Gymrat requires a ton of food to reach their carb quota. Once they've eaten their fill, the Gymrat will start hitting the gym to cut down all that cultivated mass. After they cut off the excess weight, the Gymrat will enter a transcended state: BEASTMODE, Walk of Life's closest equivalent to going Super Saiyan.We wish we could tell you more, but if you want to see the Gymrat as the next role in Walk of Life, make sure to vote in the final role…
- Role Vote Candidate #2: The Cultist - 25 August 2026
Well, well, well! Look who's back again for more sneak previews. It's you guys!Last week we revealed that we will be having a final role vote to decide on which role should be the next to join Walk of Life's roster. It's time to reveal the second candidate, the Cultist!This one has been on our to-do list practically since we came up with the idea of roles for the game. The reason it hasn't made it into the game is that the team had different ideas on how to implement this concept, but we've finally landed on something exciting.As the Cultist, you will share an apartment with a rather unusual flatmate: the abyssal horror. This malevolent overlord will send you out to do their dark and ominous bidding, rewarding you with powerful boons if you enact their tenebrous machinations. However, if you fail to do so in a timely fashion, the horrors of the cosmos will rain down upon you!The Beastma…
- The Final Role Vote and Candidate #1 - 18 August 2026
Summer is drawing to an end, and our sunburnt developers are getting their beach sand all over the office as they plop down in front of their computers once more, lamenting their poor time management skills while on vacay. But we're not here to talk about them. We're here to talk about the four foreboding silhouettes standing before you!A couple of months back, we allowed the community to vote on which role should be added to the game next, the Hacker or the Artist. We turn to the community once more to help us shape the future of Walk of Life, but now the dilemma turns into a quadrilemma, as there will be four roles to vote on!Unlike the previous vote, it's uncertain how many of these will find their way the base game (apart from the winner, of course), so be sure to make your votes count when the voting starts! To drum up some excitement before the campaigning truly begins, so we'll b…
- Community Art Contest - 10 August 2026
Hello!In the spirit of the newly added role of the Artist to Walk of Life, we have decided to kick off a Community Art Contest to discover any aspiring maestros among our playerbase. Our community is the most important part of the game to us, and we want to offer you the chance to leave your mark on the game!Swing by the #art channel on our Discord and show us your submissions. The winner will be selected next month and will have their art immortalized by appearing somewhere in our game, along with their name or user handle. The exact way this artwork will appear will depend on the art itself, which might become a choice event, an inventory item, or something different altogether. The rules are pretty simple:The art must be your own, created for this contest, without the use of AI.The art must be in someway related to Walk of Life.The art must not infringe on copyright content from othe…
- Dev Blog: The roles that didn't make it - 5 August 2026
I'm not gonna lie to you, guys, our office is straight up looking like a ghost time these days. Due to vacation days and injuries, the Porcelain Fortress is being operated by a skeleton crew. Thankfully, this skeleton crew was reanimated by a dread necromancer of great power and is therefore still working hard on new updates!While we're not quite ready to show you the big features that we're working on, what we can do instead is show you what we're NOT working on! Because we scrapped it! Let's take a drive down the boulevard of broken dreams and take a look at some of our discarded ideas!The AnglerWe've covered this one before, but at the launch of early access, one of our planned roles was the Angler. Unsurprisingly, this role was centered around fishing, with progression systems such as the master pole and the magnetic pole that were supposed to help it scale into the late game.There…
- Update v1.3.1 - 30 July 2026
Fixed: When someone left an online game it could keep running without Rejoin Menu showing. Fixed: Players could get stuck if a Bathroom Break interrupted their Report Cards. Fixed: Event meters getting stuck on the Score Screen in Simultaneous Turns. Fixed: Big Game and Kaiju Battle bars now hide correctly at the end of a Simultaneous Turns round. Fixed: Some Localization texts for Quests were missing or incorrect.
- The Drawing Heat Update - 28 July 2026
Annyeonghaseyo!Guess who's back? It's us! And we have yet another HUGE content update for you, if you think you can handle it! We're incredibly moved by the wonderful Steam reviews that we've been receiving recently, and if you haven't given us one yet, please consider doing so. It really helps us!Alright, enough begging, onto the good stuff!New Role: The Artist!The Artist is a bohemian rebel that refuses to conform to the norms of society. This pretentious beatnik is the first role that refuses to join the workforce and therefore can't get a job at the job office! Instead, the role relies on creating artwork in order to survive the Walk of Life (that's the title of the game!)Heat Wave ReworkThe Heat Wave global event has been reworked. Instead of passively draining hygiene, players will have find ways to keep cool to prevent passing out from a heat stroke! Stay hydrated, homies!Simulta…
- Weekend Discount - 35% Off! - 23 July 2026
Walk of Life, the world's most amazing life simulator, is on a 35% discount from now and through the weekend! Grab it while it's hot! Are your friends cheapskates that have been on the fence about buying this game or not? Now it the perfect opportunity to poke them in the ribs and get them on the Walk of Life train! And what better time to learn the ropes than just before the release of the fancy new Artist role next week?If you need to find people to play with, make sure to swing by our Discord and get into a match with players from our lovely community. That's it, I guess. Buy our game!
- Dev Blog: The Artist - 21 July 2026
Hej hej!The chirping of crickets and the rustling of tumbleweeds make up for the majority of sound in the offices of Porcelain Fortress at the moment as the bulk of our team is on vacation. Undaunted, the rest of us trudge onward to bring you a brand-spanking-new content update that should make its way to you guys next Tuesday! Let's take a look a the headline act of the update and Walk of Life's newest role: The Artist!The Artist is a bohemian rebel that refuses to conform to the norms of society. This pretentious beatnik is the first role that refuses to join the workforce and therefore can't get a job at the job office! Instead, the role relies on creating artwork in order to survive the Walk of Life (that's the title of the game!)Whenever the Artist enters a location, a little widget will pop up similar to the work button when other roles enter their workplace. This will be the prim…
- Dev Blog: Heatwave Rework - 17 July 2026
We really should have saved the cover image from our last dev blog for this one. Oh well.Anyways! On to a depressingly topical global event...Heatwave is one of the older global events in the game. When active, all actions and movement cost extra hygiene, even the ones that don't usually have a hygiene cost! This is supposed to represent the stickiness and clamminess that you feel when subjected to the murderous gaze of the sweltering sun.Unfortunately, this effect is both boring and problematic. Dedicating an entire global event to just an increase in hygiene cost isn't terribly interesting, and a hygiene cost being added to everything led to a number of bugs, including frying the circuit boards of our already dumb bots as they struggled to understand why certain actions weren't possible.With the coming update, Heatwave will be getting a rework. Don't get too excited, it's pretty bruta…
- Dev Blog: What's cooking? - 10 July 2026
Oh, hi there!We hope you guys are enjoying the recently added simultaneous turns mode. There is no rest for the wicked, however, and as the most wicked little game developer around, we are hard at work at yet another update for you guys! Many of the upcoming changes aim to address longstanding issues with certain systems, so let's dive in and see what's under the lid.QuestsQuests have been in an awkward spot lately, especially in Chailand. Many quests that work fine in Calicornia become either way too easy or obscenely hard in Chailand, which makes the entire system often seem like it's not worth the hassle. To remedy this, we will be tuning certain quests especially for Chailand, and adding new map-specific quests into the mix!Another system plaguing the quest system are the cash rewards which are just not up to par unless you're playing as the adventurer. Grabbing a quest should be a…
- Update v1.2.3 - 30 June 2026
Fixed a freeze that could happen on Bots turn, most often in the last rounds of the game. Bots now gracefully end their turn if they get too confused, instead of waiting for 90 seconds. Fixed several rare crashes during turn transitions and when leaving a game mid-round.
- Update v1.2.2 - 29 June 2026
Bot brain improvements. Especially in Chailand! Floor fries now work towards getting "Valued Customer" achievement. Pet Widget should not show over Report Card phase in Sim Turns anymore. Meters in Big Game and Kaiju battle hide/show correctly now in Sim Turns. Fixed gameplay beginning on player without report cards in Sim Turns. Fixed Location Menu over score screen when Sim Turns go out of sync. Added guards for Pet traits dissapearing in Rejoined or loaded games. Added guards to corrupted save games.
- Summer Sale - Walk of Life is 30% Off! - 25 June 2026
Close those curtains! Blot out the sun! We're playing video games this summer! If you've been waiting for the optimal moment to pick up Walk of Life, or convince your friends to do so, this is it! We're taking part in the Steam Summer Sale with a 30% discount, running until July 9th! Who needs a sunny day at the beach when you have a fancy new simultaneous turns gamemode anyway? And have you seen the price of sunscreen recently? Geez!If you need to find people to play with, make sure to swing by our Discord and get into a match with players from our lovely community. What else is there to say, really? 30% off! Buy our game, please.
