Hello everyone! The Spring cleaning season is officially underway, and we’re getting in on the act with a little "Something Eggstra" - a special four-day Easter in-game event that will run from Friday, April 7th, to Monday, April 10th. Each day over the holiday weekend, a different egg-themed Daily Tidy puzzle will be available to play. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did in creating them.
Found inside the game’s The Daily Tidy Delivery mode, these new puzzles will begin hatching from 00.00 in your local timezone on Friday 7 April. A new puzzle is accessible on each day of the Special Event, playable up until 23.59 in your local timezone on Monday 10 April.
Now we understand that not everyone is a fan of time-limited content and we want to let you know that we hear you loud and clear. As a result, we are thrilled to announce that we are working on an "archive feature" that will enable you to access any time-limited puzzles from the past. So, if you don’t manage to play any of the Something Eggstra Daily Tidy puzzles during the event, you will be able to access them in the future.
We appreciate your patience as we work hard to develop and implement this new feature. While we don't have a specific release date at the moment, we are committed to making it happen as soon as possible. Rest assured that we will keep you updated on our progress and let you know as soon as we have a clearer release date.
The free Something Eggstra Special Event update will go live tomorrow April 5th at 14:00 BST (UTC+1) and contains additional bug fixes for all A Little to the Left players on PC, Mac and Nintendo Switch. The full patch notes for the ‘eggstra’ special update will be published tomorrow once the update goes live.
We cannot express how grateful we are for your overwhelming support and feedback since the launch of A Little to the Left. Your unwavering love and dedication for our game have left us truly humbled and touched. We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to those who took the time to report any issues or bugs they encountered. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable to us, and we couldn't have squished some of the bugs without you. We look forward to bringing you more exciting updates and events in the future! Annie, Lukas & Rookie the cat.
1.1.9 Patchnotes - Updates to the Daily Tidy and Achievements
Hello folks! Here we are at the 3 month anniversary of the release of A Little to the Left, and we’ve been blown away by the response! So many of you have shared your gameplay experience with us, and this has helped us understand what’s working, what needs improvement, and what you’d like to see more of… Thank you all for sharing with us!
One of the topics of discussion has surrounded the Daily Tidy and Steam Achievements. With help from your feedback, our patch v1.1.9 has made some changes that we hope will make the Daily Tidy and Steam Achievements more accommodating.
Daily Tidy
We’re reducing the number of solutions required to be awarded the top 3 Daily Tidy badge tiers, so more players can enjoy them- a full year for top rank was far too much! As a result, the completion count for the 90 puzzles solved badge will reduce to 50, the 180 tier will become 75, and the 365 will now be 100.
A full list of Daily Tidy updates includes:
Reducing number of solutions required for the Daily Tidy top-tier badges from 90/180/365 to 50/75/100
"Spice Jars" Daily Tidy will no longer produce variations where both solutions have the same order, which was resulting in the second solution not being detected
Objects can no longer blend into the background in "Symmetry" Daily Tidy levels
Removed the variation of the "Symmetry" Daily Tidy that featured the bread tags sprites, as it was confusing with the “Bread Tags” puzzle
"Spider Web" Daily Tidy will no longer produce variations with overlapping fly placements
Achievements
We have decided to keep only Achievements that can be unlocked at any time, during any play through, so that all players can strive for them. This means that the following achievements will be removed, as they are tied to limited-time events and not currently unlockable:
Special Day Complete a Daily Tidy special event
Special 5 Complete 5 Daily Tidy special events
Special 10 Complete 10 Daily Tidy special events
Special 15 Complete 15 Daily Tidy special events
Other Achievements will see their requirements reduced:
Almost A Hundred Halfway There Complete 90 50 Daily Tidy's
What Is Will Be Skip every 10 levels with “Let it Be”
A full list of Achievements changes includes:
Removal of the “Complete X Daily Tidy special events” Achievements
Adjustment to the counts required for the “Complete X Daily Tidy’s” Achievements, to align with the modified badges scaling mentioned in the section above
Reduction of the “Hint Hunter” and “What Is Will Be” Achievements from requiring “every” to only requiring 10 hints and skips
"Helpful Hints" achievement now operational (if you are having trouble with this, please see this forum post)
"No Mess Left Behind" achievement stability fixes
"Fun For Humans" achievement stability fix
"Be The Chaos" achievement difficulty reduced
Additionally, we are aware that some of you have had your Daily Tidy streaks stalled recently. We are currently investigating and hope to be able to include a fix in our next update.
Other
Added OpenGL 3.3 support for legacy Mac's (pre-2014)
Thank you all for your patience and kind support, and for providing us with your feedback. We will continue to listen to feedback and are committed to improving the A Little to the Left we all love.
How to play the festive-themed puzzles
Hey everyone, If you’ve recently picked up a copy of A Little to the Left, you may not know that during the recent holiday period we released some very special festive-themed Daily Tidy puzzles. The “Good Tidyings” were a series of six daily puzzles that were only available for six days over the holidays. If you didn’t play them when they were live in-game, you sadly missed out. But wait; you haven’t!
Many of our new players have found A Little to the Left thanks to the wonderful TikTok videos from Jacob Forster, and so we shared our secret access steps with Jacob to help bring the news to you. You can find the news at the start of the latest puzzle playthrough video:
How to access the Good Tidyings. Yep, in short, all you need to do is manually change the system date on your format of choice (whether that’s PC or Nintendo Switch).
Before you start changing the date on your computer, it’s advisable to have other apps that may utilise the date closed to avoid any date/time conflicts.
To unlock the special time limited Daily Tidys all you need to do is change the system date on your computer to December 27th 2022 before you load A Little to the Left.
Once you’ve changed the date, load up A Little to the Left and you should see the special event when you click on Daily Tidy.
Now, you can play through each of the special festive puzzles!
Once you’ve completed them, quit out of the game, and change the clock back to the correct date.
We hope those of you who have missed out on the Good Tidyings so far enjoy our bonus puzzles. And if you have completed A Little to the Left already, or simply want to enjoy the experience with somebody else while you play through the game, we highly recommend checking out Jacob’s videos over on YouTube or TikTok.
A Little to the Left sells 200k
We're so ecstatic to share that 200k of you have bought and played A Little to the Left!
It's great to see so many of you playing the game and enjoying the puzzles we have created.
Rookie is overjoyed to see 200K of you in-game, we just had to share the great news.
If you were thinking of playing, now is the perfect time; so grab a blanket, a hot cocoa and cosy up with a copy of A Little to the Left...
1.1.8 Patchnotes - The "Good Tidyings" Update
Well, it's been a busy 1.5 months since launch and the response has been absolutely wonderful for A Little to the Left! It's been a joy to watch players connect with the game, and we really appreciate everyone who has reached out with feedback and bug reports. Thank you!!
Features
Implementation of the "Good Tidyings" limited-time Daily Tidy holiday event, featuring 6 new free holiday-themed puzzles releasing one per day, over the span of 6 days from December 22nd to 27th.
Achievements & Data
Modals for outputting data save/load errors
"Streak Resolver" to repair streaks that were broken due to getting an unsolvable variation of the Bread Tags or Spice Jars Daily Tidy's
Hint Hunter and What is Will Be achievements stability fix and now supports unlock on subsequent playthroughs
Campaign achievements now award at end of credits or if credits are aborted, instead of awarding as final level completes
Reset on Eggs level no longer negates Exacting Eggs achievement
Exacting Eggs and Keep Away achievements no longer awarded on level skip
No longer able to trigger the "consecutive Daily Tidy's played" achievements through uninstall/reinstall of game
Daily Tidy-related achievements descriptions now indicate that puzzles must be completed, not just played in order to qualify for achievement
Added indicator to Hint menu for when a hint has been adequately revealed to qualify for hint-related achievements
Stats reset count when starting a new game save (this won't affect existing awarded achievements)
Gameplay
Added interaction feedback to freeform Symmetry puzzles (Shells, Seed Pods, Clovers) to better communicate puzzle criteria
Updated hints on freeform Symmetry puzzles (Shells, Seed Pods, Clovers) to communicate puzzle logic rules instead of showing singular solution
Updated artwork for improved player feedback in Front of Fridge: Postcards, Workbench, and Lamp levels
Goal height reduced by 33% in Tupperware Tower
Shuffle objects (Books, Spice Jars, etc) will no longer result in overlap with quick drag interaction
Items can no longer be forced out of frame in the Storage Boxes level
Storage Boxes level can no longer be solved with an object outside of the box
All panable objects now support pan drag beyond confines of object bounds
Corrected cursor sprite state when releasing swabs after a level reset in the Medicine Cabinet level
Shade in Lamp level will no longer snap to opposite side when being tilted to far left
Added SFX on heart-shaped pod in Seed Pods puzzle
Daily Tidy
Resolved rare bug in Daily Tidy "Bread Tags" puzzle that would cause failure to load, resulting in a blank white screen
Daily Tidy "Bread Tags" level now allows for tags to be placed regardless if another object is inside the placement detection area
Resolved rare bug in Daily Tidy "Spice Jars" puzzle that could result in a variation where top row jars abide by both solutions simultaneously, preventing "surface curves" solution from being detected
Outputting level index and randomizer seed to Daily Tidy menu for reference
Daily Tidy menu will no longer change immediately to next days Daily Tidy interface if the player is in the menu or actively playing a Daily Tidy puzzle at the time of a new day start (12:00am)
UI & Languages
Fixing error that could cause the hint eraser to grow in size and fill screen on the Wet Paw Prints level
Corrected eraser "drop" interaction for Radial Dance Party "Food" phase hint
Title screen menu buttons active clickable area now confined to menu item text length
Fixed translation text for "Daily Tidy" title for Traditional Chinese
Repaired missing glyphs in "minutes" text for Chinese languages
Fixed overlapping "minutes" text in Daily Tidy menu for Turkish
Fixed missing glyphs in Good Tidyings title for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) and Korean languages
Good Tidyings from Max Inferno
Are you feline festive? We bring you Good Tidyings with our first holiday event. From 22 December through to 27 December, the usual messes found within The Daily Tidy Delivery mode will temporarily make way for six new, hand-crafted Yuletide disasters in need of your caring, cleaning hand.
Get ready for less elf, more shelf as you declutter the house by assembling broken cookie pieces and… well, we don’t want you to peek at these presents too early.
This limited-time event, available to all players on PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch, can be unwrapped from 00.00 in your local timezone on 22 December. A new puzzle is accessible on each day of the Holiday Event, and can be played up until 23.59 in your local timezone on 27 December. Be sure to solve them all before they’re boxed up with the decorations and returned to the attic.
Our holiday creations don’t stop with the game, either. Anyone looking to gift A Little to the Left to friends or family can visit our official website to download a free DIY holiday card template complete with pop-up gift or sneaky swiping cat paw. Insert a gift card for the digital store of your choice for the purrfect present.
*gift card not included
A Little to the Left is Steam Deck Verified
Hey all, We just wanted to share with you that A Little to the Left has ticked all the boxes and we can confirm that it is Steam Deck Verified.
What does this mean? Well, it means that you can enjoy A Little to the Left on a Steam Deck without issue as it’s fully functional and works great with the built-in controls and display.
If you’re an owner of a Steam Deck and haven’t grabbed a copy of A Little to the Left yet, rest-easy in the knowledge that it plays great!
A Little to the Left is NOOTUW!
Hello all, join us as today we celebrate the release of A Little to the Left. Come enjoy a calming world with an observational puzzle game, inspired by objects from the developer’s own home. Which way should the clock hands point? How should I arrange the eggs? Who put so many stickers on this fruit?!?.
With surprises around every corner, A Little to the Left is the delightful puzzle game where you sort, stack, and organise things into just the right spot. Just watch out for Rookie the mischievous cat who tends to make a mess of things!
Game Features:
Over 75+ unique logical puzzles
Quick-to-solve puzzles make for satisfying gameplay
Intuitive drag and drop controls
Not feeling a puzzle? It’s OK; just Let It Be and move on to the next
A puzzle unique to you delivered each day with The Daily Tidy Delivery
Multiple solutions
Charming illustration
Atmospheric sound design
A mischievous (but very cute) cat
Funny and playful, great for all ages!
A Little to the Left is out now on PC & Mac platforms.
Introducing Let It Be
Hello folks, we’re almost at the finish line. We can’t believe that A Little to the Left will be in your hands on PC and Mac in less than a month. November 8th, to be exact.
Throughout the game’s development, we’ve continually listened to feedback based on your experience of playing the demo. One of the things some players felt the game needed was the ability to come back to an incomplete puzzle. We know that sometimes sorting a stack of books or tidying the tool rack in your shed can be a bit daunting and so we wanted you say “It’s OK, I’ll come back to that later”. To solve that problem, we’ve added a new feature we’ve called Let It Be. It’s simple: if you’re struggling with a puzzle, you can just Let It Be and move on to the next, allowing you to return to it later.
We hope you like Let It Be, and we can’t wait for you to play A Little to the Left in November.
A Little To The Left Launches November 8th
The cat's out of the bag! During last night's Future Games Show at Gamescom, Annie and Lukas from Max Inferno unscrambled the release date for A Little To The Left with an exclusive new trailer. With a little “help” from Rookie the cat, they announced that A Little To The Left will be launching on PC & Mac on November 8th.
If you've not seen the trailer, please sit back and enjoy as Annie and Lukas make sense of it all. If you pay close enough attention you'll also spy two brand-new puzzles hidden within.
