This is our biggest content drop yet! Update 1.2 finally delivers one of your most requested features, a proper Security Guard for your payroll, introduces Pets as a full gameplay mechanic free for every player, opens the doors to 6-player co-op, lets you repaint your casino with Neon LED Strips and full Lighting Control, deals in the classic Baccarat table, and adds a few very satisfying new toys, including a vacuum cleaner that eats money.

We teased most of this in our sneak peek, and now it's finally live.

Every casino needs a mascot. Pets are now a fully-fledged system in The House Always Wins, and the entire mechanic is included free in Update 1.2 for all players. No DLC required.

• Starter Companions: Every player gets the pet bed plus a Labrador and a Black Cat. Adopt one and it's yours.

• One Bed = One Animal: Place a pet bed from the Akei furniture shop and it becomes home to one companion. Want a whole menagerie? Place more beds.

• Command Wheel: Every pet listens to you. Open the command selector and order your companion to Follow, Sit, Walk, Speak, or just give it a Pet on the head.

• Twitch Integration: Pets display their assigned Twitch viewer name above their head, just like your other visitors.

If you want a bigger roster to choose from, the optional Pets DLC launches alongside Update 1.2 and unlocks a lot more animals. It is purely additional breeds, so nothing in the base mechanic is locked behind it.

• 18 More Dog Breeds: Golden Retriever, Husky, Corgi, Beagle, Border Collie, Boxer, Bull Terrier, Dalmatian, Doberman, French Bulldog, Jack Russell, Pitbull, Pug, Rottweiler, Shepherd, Shiba Inu, Spitz and Toy Terrier.

• 9 More Cat Breeds: Fat and stray builds across a full range of colors.

• 3 Goose Breeds: Including our infamous goose in a hat, and a hat with a necktie.

• An Extra Pet Bed to bring them home.

• Share With Your Lobby: If even one player in the lobby owns the DLC, the pet beds in Akei and all the pet fun unlock for everyone in that session.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4972780/The_House_Always_Wins__Pets_DLC/

One of your most requested features is finally here.

• A New Employee on the Payroll: The Security Guard joins your staff roster to help you deal with troublemakers.

• Three Quality Tiers: Guards come in Low, Mid and High grades. Better guards move faster and cover your floor more effectively.

• Unlocked via Upgrade: Hire your first guard through the new Office upgrade and the Hire Security Guard quest.

• Six-Player Co-op: Your casino can now hold up to six players in a single session. Bring the whole crew.

• Friends-Only Sessions: Invites and joining are now friends-only, so random strangers can't wander into your casino uninvited.

• Draw Your Own Neon: Grab the LED tool and draw glowing neon strips anywhere you want, along your walls, around corners, across the ceiling. You see the line before you place it, and you can rip it back out whenever you change your mind.

• Any Color You Want: Pick any color for your strips, from clean white to hot pink to full rave.

• Every Floor, Your Way: The new Lights section in your Tablet lets you recolor the casino lighting itself, and each floor can have its own color. Cozy gold downstairs, deep purple upstairs, whatever fits the vibe you're going for.

• Priced by Length: LED strips are charged by how long you make them, so a small accent strip costs pocket change next to a full ceiling run. Remove one and you get half your money back.

• Free in Sandbox: In Sandbox, LED strips cost you nothing. Go wild.

• Unlocked via Upgrades: Both LED Strips and Lighting Control arrive with their own upgrades.

• The Classic Comes to the Floor: Baccarat is now a fully playable table game. Sit down, place your stake and call it: Player, Banker or Tie.

• Bet Right on the Table: Place your chips straight onto the betting grid on the table itself, with every seat and every bet clearly marked.

• Premium Baccarat Upgrade: Unlock the table through its own quest and upgrade line.

• Suck Up Your Profits: The Money Vacuum Cleaner hoovers cash straight off the casino floor and out of your machines. No more running around picking up every single bill.

• Unlocked via Upgrade: Arrives with its own Office upgrade.

• Light Up the Sky: Fireworks are now a purchasable item you can place and set off outside your casino, with five different bangs to go with them.

• Fireworks Challenge: Added a dedicated Fireworks challenge to chase.

• New Decor Item: A brand-new Fish Tank has been added to the Akei Shop, with real swimming fish and water that actually moves. Perfect for the high-roller lounge.

• Beep Boop: A brand-new Robot event has joined the game. Keep an eye on your floor.

• Shelf Contents at a Glance: Your inventory now shows which items are sitting in your shelves, so you no longer have to walk over and check.

• Higher Mouse Sensitivity Ceiling: Maximum mouse sensitivity has been raised from 5 to 8 for players who like it fast.

• Cleaner Inventory Layout: Moved the placed-items marker to the right side of the inventory slot.

• Nicer Coin Pickups: Updated the way coins fly toward you when you collect your money.

• Roulette Audio: The roulette table now has its own sound.

• Wardrobe Change: The female strippers no longer wear heels.

• Everything new comes with its own quests and upgrades, so Guided Mode walks you into the new content naturally.

• Added tutorials for the Vacuum Cleaner, LED Strips, Lighting Control and the Security Guard.

• Fixed bets at the Roulette and Fortune Wheel tables not counting toward your quests.

• Fixed handyman stack repairing slots.

• Fixed Twitch not updating properly for players who joined as guests.

• Fixed your shadow setting resetting itself every time you launched the game.

• Visitors can now actually sit on the Retro Chair and Retro Sofa, and they sit in the right spot.

• Fixed chips not clearing off the blackjack table after a round ends.

• Fixed broken slot machines getting permanently stuck at the repair station.

• Fixed a rare crash during gameplay, plus a few other crashes.

• Fixed the gap when placing objects next to each other. Walls, furniture and decor now sit flush against one another instead of being pushed apart.

• Fixed the TV hanging on walls at the wrong angle.

• Fixed collision on the shop front windows and pillars.

• Fixed the Jackpot slot machine looking broken when viewed from a distance.

• Fixed the Aliens looking wrong from far away.

• Fixed dresses and female outfits changing shape at a distance.

If you have bug reports, feedback, suggestions, or information about the known issues listed above, we'd love to hear from you. Discord:

https://discord.gg/nugBWxZ

Welcome to our first devlog for Major Update 1.2! We wanted to show you what the team is actively working on right now. Everything below is still in development – being tested, tuned, and polished as we go – but it's coming together nicely, and we couldn't wait to show you where it's headed. Here's what we're building.

Tired of chasing down vandals, smokers, and the occasional intergalactic troublemaker yourself? We're working on your new best employee.

The Security Guard is designed to patrol your casino, catch the bad guests before they wreck your rating, and help you keep order on the floor – so you can focus on running the house. Hire them, position them, and let them do the dirty work. We're still fine-tuning their behavior and patrol logic, but here's an early look at them in action.

This one's for the designers. We're building a full toolset to hand you the keys to your casino's entire look.

• Neon Strips – the goal is to let you paint your walls, ceilings and floors with neon exactly how you want. Go classic Vegas, cyberpunk, or full chaos. It's your canvas.

• Light Control per Floor – we're working on independent color and intensity controls for each floor. Moody high-roller lounge upstairs, buzzing arcade downstairs – you decide.

After Blackjack lit up the tables, you asked for more – so we got to work. Baccarat is the next table game we're building, and it's shaping up to draw in the high rollers and keep the money flowing. It's still in development, but here's a first look at the table taking shape.

Alongside Update 1.2, we're really excited about something else on our desks right now – Pets are coming to your casino.
The plan: you'll be able to keep a quiet companion by your side while you run the floor. And for players who want the full menagerie, the upcoming Pets DLC is being built with a whole variety of breeds to choose from:

• 🐶 18 Dog skins

• 🐱 9 Cat skins

• 🪿 3 Goose skins

That's right – you'll finally be able to have your very own friendly Goose watching over the casino.

It's still in development, so add it to your wishlist to follow along and get notified at launch – and help us bring more good boys (and geese) to the casino floor: 👉 WISHLIST THE PETS DLC ON STEAM

This is an early devlog – features are still in development and details may change as we go. We'll keep sharing progress, dates, and reveals along the way, so follow the game and join the community to be the first to know when Update 1.2 goes live.

If you have bug reports, feedback, suggestions, or information about the known issues listed above, we'd love to hear from you. Discord:

https://discord.gg/nugBWxZ