THE HEDGE FUND UPDATE NEW HUSTLE: RUN YOUR OWN HEDGE FUND Start a fund from the Hustles tab and trade a living market on a real-time trading floor. Pitch clients, hire a desk, take on rival funds, and ride out crashes and bubbles on your way to billions. It's free. • The war room: quick-trade board, live news, the tape and your books, all a tap apart • One-tap orders, and a slow-mo button when the market moves too fast • Earnings seasons, short selling, margin calls, panic days and magazine covers FOUNDERS' OFFER, UNTIL 31 OCTOBER Verdant Life VIP: EVERY EXPANSION PACK, the Fame Pack and everything after it, for life, in one purchase. After 31 October it leaves the store; owners keep it for life. ALSO NEW • Teen crime: from 14, with street rep that follows you to 18 • The High Life: galas, polo, yachts and the very rich • The family court: DNA tests, hush money, judges and bailiffs • Drama, affairs you can live, open marriages and second chances • Several babies on the way at once, and big gifts for the people you love • Stress now wears on your relationships • Share your life story as illustrated cards QUALITY OF LIFE • Cloud save: sign in with Apple or Google from the Save menu and never lose a life • Hide locked jobs on the job board • Optional notifications, never at night • The Finance tab shows where every penny goes • Social media and dating apps need a phone or computer you own Plus many fixes from your bug reports. Thank you for playing!

The People Update: - A fresh, finished look: soft paper cards, a book-style serif and a calmer dark mode (you can switch back in Settings). - Talk to people properly: friends, family and your partner tell you what's going on in their lives, answer in their own way, and remember. - Hundreds of new moments with family, friends, partners, exes and colleagues, at home, at work and on nights out. - Personality that shows: people act like themselves. - The big feelings: affairs and their fallout, children across partners, child support, and the harder parts of life. - Workouts, real trips with days you plan and postcards to collect, and 16 new holiday countries. - Open relationships, agreed with your partner. - A refreshed Spark dating app, one fair age rule, and a Plan the wedding button once you're engaged. - Sexual health, check-ups and blood donation. - New: Let small things happen — everyday choices can make themselves while big moments still ask. - Fairer careers and money, prices in your own currency, and many fixes.

New in 3.81: • Sports careers you can win: tennis is played round by round, footballers' ratings reflect their skill, and club owners see their team's match rating. • NBA All-Stars are picked every year. • Pop-up result cards, and a Fortune reserve that keeps money above the cash ceiling. Fixes: • Switching between the classic and new look now asks first. • No more stuck pop-ups, faster age-ups, and many smaller fixes.

3.80 - The Fame & Living People Update THE FAME PACK (optional expansion) - One fame bar across all your careers, from local name to legend - Be beloved or notorious: paparazzi, scandals, the fall and the comeback - A major acting upgrade: a jobs board, contracts you negotiate, an agent, coaches and awards campaigns - Your own Film and TV Director career from age 18 - Open your own merch store once you are well known LIVING PEOPLE - Family, friends and partners remember what you do and treat you accordingly - Grudges, forgiveness and people who ask things of you - Partners have their own jobs, homes and feelings A RICHER SOCIAL LIFE - Full dates with real choices and many different outcomes - Nights out at clubs, pubs, bars, restaurants and gigs - Spark dating app conversations that grow over time - Move in with a partner, rent together and split the bills GEM AND JEWELLER BUSINESS - Buy, cut and craft jewellery at your own bench - Run your own Store with walk-in customers - Buy mines, hire crews and sell at live auctions - Bulk selling, batch crafting and saved recipes MORE NEW FEATURES - Property Manager and Vehicle Agent to run your assets for you - Leave your estate to children and grandchildren in shares - Finances now show every source of income - Adjustable stats panel and taller menus - Sound and music throughout the game - A first-life tutorial for new players FIXES - Switching UI no longer loses progress - Many balance and stability fixes across the game

Verdant gets a fresh new look. THE NEW LOOK • A cozy new design — a soft pastel storybook theme with hand-drawn pixel-art trim, top to bottom. Warmer, calmer, and easier on the eyes for a long life well lived. • Light and dark — a matched dark mode for late-night lives. Flip between them any time, and Verdant remembers your choice. • A tidy bottom bar — Home, People, Work, Money and More, always one tap away. Hold a tile to pin your own favourites, drag to reorder, and make it yours. • The Everything launcher — every screen in the game, grouped and labelled in one place. Tap to jump straight where you want to go. • Keep the classic look — love the original UI? It's still here. Switch back any time from Settings, and your life carries over either way. RUN YOUR STADIUM • Sign a tenant club — own a stadium? Let a football club make it their home. They play their matches at your ground and pay you rent every year, and the bigger your ground, the bigger the club that comes knocking. • Kept safe — while a club leases your stadium, it can't be sold out from under them. End the lease first, then it's yours to do with as you please. FIXES & POLISH • A big sweep through the bugs you reported — smoother saves, cleaner menus, and a long list of small rough edges smoothed over. Thank you for every report — keep them coming. Enjoy the new look!

THE OWNER'S UPDATE — Football, Fully Yours • Buy a football club and run it all — boardroom, squad, transfers, money, stadium • Or live a playing career, from the schoolyard to the World Cup • Set ticket prices, sign sponsors and TV deals, sell naming rights, rent giant venues • Indonesia is now playable, with authentic names for every country • Starting a new life keeps your old save • Hundreds of fixes you reported

The Polish Update — 27 fixes and upgrades, almost every one straight from a player report. If you reported something, it's probably in here. Thank you. EMIGRATION FINALLY SHOWS YOU YOUR POINTS • See "Your points today: 52/70" and exactly which levers to strengthen BEFORE you apply • Watch the full per-lever breakdown live while your application pends • A refusal now tells you your score and precisely what fell short • Study real languages in the Study menu — they feed your migration score • Passports at 16, and solo emigration at 16-17 on a student visa THE DEATH SCREEN GOT A GLOW-UP • Clean estate rows, business legacies with valuations in gold • Giant fortunes read "12.59T" instead of clipping off the screen • The inheritance-tax line now names the real rate that applied TO OUR TRILLIONAIRES: IMPRESSIVE. ALSO, OVER. • Market concentration caps, real borrow costs, randomised reversion timing • Fraud now has an annual budget AND 20+ OF YOUR MOST-REPORTED BUGS FIXED • Taps always answer — no more double-charged check-ups or silent actions • Your partner's bond updates the moment you act • Closing your YouTube channel actually closes it • The bug-report ladybug stays out of your money stat • Pinch-to-zoom works on the live market chart • Plus apprenticeship wording, portrait fixes, raises that stick, and more Found something? The in-game bug button reaches us directly — we read everything.

THE WORLD UPDATE — the biggest update in Verdant's history. EMIGRATION — live your life anywhere • Move to any of 63 countries, each with real visa routes, points tests, language, culture and taxes • Life abroad is a real life: grow your Language, Network and Belonging — they pay off in jobs, friends, romance and locals' prices • 270+ migration events, 562 festivals and customs, work permits like real life • Heritage carries down your bloodline — you're told at birth, and at 18 an ancestry route to citizenship opens • The right careers (tech, finance, medicine, engineering, science) can transfer abroad with you THE AIRPORT • Travel is a real departures board now — pick the country, then Economy, Business, First… or your own private jet • Own the sky: unlimited trips, companions fly free — but fuel and hangar bills are real • In-flight moments, rotating routes, and a postcard for every country you visit THE HAIR FIX • The most-reported bug in Verdant history, fixed at the root with all-new art — every hairstyle finally works, on every skin tone AND MORE • Politics rebuilt end to end — anyone can run at 18, and every button on the ladder does what it says • The money ceiling is now £9 QUADRILLION • Close credit cards, hire growers for the grow op, country-specific estate tax • Family & generations: heirs stop inheriting invented relatives; your art, antiques and jet pass down • Switch layouts in one tap, faster saves at half the size • 150+ fixes straight from your reports — thank you for every single one From a solo developer: I read everything you send. Keep it coming.

THE LIVING WORLD UPDATE NEW HUSTLE — Grow & Deal Weed Start with a single plant in your room and build a full operation: strains & genetics, growing and curing, then move product through the streets, colleges, gangs, dispensaries and the dark web. The market reacts to everything you do — flood a corner and prices crash, rival dealers fight you for turf, and a nemesis rises the more successful you get. Live a double life — run a full-time career AND a side-hustle at the same time, both fully simulated and both paid. A cleaner, simpler layout — everything in a few clear hubs (with a one-tap switch back to classic tabs), decisions that queue up neatly, and filter tabs to find what matters in your life log. Fund your own startup with your own money — inject runway or buy your shares back from investors. Step back from the weed hustle any time — pause it (everything stays saved) or walk away for good. Aging up is instant now. Political career rebuilt — a sitting PM can be voted out, party loyalty is buildable, and corruption carries real risk. Big economy rebalance — becoming a trillionaire is now a true top-0.1% achievement. Injuries carry real weight, every life writes its own obituary, and the world keeps turning with near-future events. Your saves are safer than ever — they now survive even an app update or an iOS storage cleanup. Plus dozens of fixes straight from your reports. Thank you for playing.

Verdant just got a big update — a deeper, more reactive world, and your saves are safer than ever. A living criminal underworld. The streets now react to how hard you push them — flood a corner and prices crash, work it patiently and demand grows. Regular customers remember you, rival crews fight for your territory, and a nemesis rises the more successful you become. Life runs deeper. Injuries now carry real, lasting consequences. Every character leaves a full obituary built from the life they actually lived — and your story passes down as a Family Legend to your heir. Your saves are safer than ever. A crash no longer costs you a life (the game saves before it recovers), and your progress now survives even an app update or a storage cleanup. Starting a new life asks first, too — so you can never wipe a dynasty by accident. The political career, fixed. A sitting Prime Minister can actually be voted out, you can't skip the ladder, and retiring no longer traps you. Corruption finally carries real risk. A major economy rebalance. Building a true fortune is now a genuine challenge, the way it should be — with a pile of money exploits closed across every career and business. Family fixes. You can interact with your children again, relationship meters actually respond to how you treat people, and your child's first word now matches who really raised them. Plus dozens more fixes — many straight from your reports. Thank you for playing, and for telling us what to fix next.

few bug fixes and shop available

BUNCH OF PATCHES

The big change this update is how everything looks. Every emoji in the game has been replaced with custom pixel art, drawn one piece at a time. The cars in your garage, the flag on your passport, the icons on every screen. All of it is bespoke now. Also in this version: • Boats, planes, helicopters and motorbikes each have their own design. No two are alike. • The hairstyle picker shows your real character while you choose, so what you see is what you get. • Cleaner character setup, with proper country flags. • Plenty of small fixes and polish throughout. Thanks for playing. More on the way.

EVERYTHING

bug fixed

CRASH FIXES - Sell Business button now works (was crashing the whole Empire tab) - Community mortgage & land development crashes resolved - TV show stuck on pilot year for 5+ years? Fixed - Music artist losing money invisibly? Fixed - Special Forces still tasking you after discharge? Fixed LIVE TRADE - Short positions no longer instant-liquidate - margin now scales with volatility (BTC 50%, SOL 65%, memecoins 100%) - Memecoin "too much quantity" error gone - now uses notional size, not unit count - Position P&L display fixed; 7 more trading-system bugs patched FAMILY & HEIRS - Your heir's spouse and grandchildren now carry over across generations - Play as an individual grandchild (not just "a grandchild") - Late-life play opened up - wider partner age pool, fertility window extended, adoption softened after 55 - New: Immigration gating (Investor / Skilled / Family visas for Monaco, UAE, US, UK, etc.) PROPERTY & EMPIRE - Vehicle rental exploit closed (impounded cars cannot earn) - Tenant visits! Build relationships or chase overdue rent - "Sell Home" actually gives you money now (was a dead button) - Closed empire businesses stop generating phantom events DEAD NPC CLEANUP - Cannot call or hang out with dead friends anymore - Dead siblings no longer trigger rivalry events - Deceased spouses blocked from romantic actions and try-for-baby QUALITY OF LIFE - Investor Level bar now visible on all Invest tabs (Annual/Live/Managed) - Social Energy bar actually drains with friend interactions (UI now matches the math) - Credit card interest logged when it accrues - Silent agent fees (football/basketball/tennis) now shown - Hospital admission respects your health insurance tier - Adult kids no longer block new births at the 5-child cap - Venue events blocked while in prison Plus ~20 smaller fixes, balance tweaks, and edge-case guards.

v2.9.5 — Live Trading Desk

- **Total fixes**: 90+ - **Features added**: 25+ - **New countries**: 2 (Pakistan, Monaco) - **New names**: 1,635 - **Oil actions**: 22 (from 14) - **Data products**: 12 (from 4) - **Version**: v2.9.0 (Build 25) - **Platforms**: Android, iOS, itch.io, Web

v2.8.35 • 2 new countries: Pakistan & Monaco • 78 bug fixes including crash fixes • Oil company fully playable — 22 actions • Stock market crash protection • Housing affordability rebalance • Children visible in family tree • Realistic empire business costs • Custom bank deposit amounts and more