Dev Log for January 27th, 2026

[wheezwer]

Hello and welcome to the Tower Unite dev log for January 27th, 2026!

We hope you all are staying safe and warm this winter!

This week we have a bit of a short dev log with some quick announcements!

2026 Bug Roundup / Optimization Update

Now that we’ve had a chance to settle back into the groove of the new year and our two projects, we want to dedicate a Tower update to bug fixes, gameplay polish, and more optimizations. This’ll be the next Tower update!

If you would like to bump / remind the team about any existing bugs, please share that in the 2026 Bug Roundup thread!

Thank you to those who have already posted their bugs in our bug report forums before, and thank you to those of you who have already responded to the roundup thread!

Payouts & Pricing Survey

We have a Payouts & Pricing Survey going on that we would greatly appreciate your responses to!

This survey is intended to get players’ perspectives on earning units, tickets, sea dollars, and the overall feelings about item pricing in Tower Unite. Your feedback will help us with balancing the game’s currencies to help improve the player experience!

The survey will be going on until Sunday, February 8th, 2026, at 11:59 PM CT!

Ball Race Leaderboards Thread

Just so you all know, we made a thread earlier this month to track any requests for Ball Race Leaderboard adjustments! If you’re a part of the Ball Race speedrunning community and ever want to discuss leaderboard wipes / impossible scores, you can do so here!

Event Calendar / Bonuses

We’re working on adjusting the current event system so we have multiple events in one day (ex. Plaza & Game World events going on on the same day)!

This is going to require some planning and making new graphics for the calendar, as well as implementing the code, but work has already started on this! We hope that the Payouts & Pricing survey will also help us determine any adjustments to bonuses, but feel free to give any feedback about TU events and bonuses here!

February 2026 Calendar

That’s a Wrap!

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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[anna]

SUPER happy to see 2026 Bug Roundup thread thing happening!! I’ll add to it in a bit today! I submitted my pricing survey and told friends about it yesterday, can’t wait to see the changes/improvements on that system!!

Also happy to hear that you’re adjusting event system to have multiple events

[Akela]

I already know Silver Saddles is gonna be top voted for earning the most units, but I hope rather than nerfing it you’ll instead buff all the other machines to pay similarly. I’d gladly play other games like Grand Quest, Double or Nothing, and Bingo if they gave more.

Also if anyone selects anything under “Are there any arcade games that you think give out TOO MANY tickets?” I will shoot you out of a cannon into space. No nerfs please, only buffs!

[The_Beebz]

Filled out the survey. I’ve had a personal goal to try to get at least one of every furniture so I can have a “catalog” of everything in my inventory.

I DONT play Casino aside from a little bit of Double or Nothing. I would play more video poker/blackjack but the payouts dont feel substantial enough that I’d rather not play it. I have contempt for the horsebetting situation, as I do not think the game should be balanced around an exploit that was never intended to be so unbalanced compared to everything else. I don’t think it warrants punishment either, but in general I would rather win more often and get smaller jackpot payouts than lose more with higher payouts, but that’s my personal opinion.

I will say that I have been deterred from doing condo stuff, both hosting and going because theres not a way to earn units like that. Maybe a suggestion to get payout popups as long as youre not afk? Not in the style of captcha tests like tapping the right letter in casino. Maybe minigames are an option, I dont know, but so long as there is more and more stuff to buy, I’n going to try to get it all. Maybe an option to see your inventory with all the furniture you havent yet collected? Im just spitballing

I dont know when this came out but I HAVE noticed that in condo list workshop thumbnail previews work so it doesnt have to be smooth dirt all day every day wild card. I’m happy about that.

Also plaza theater runs BUTTERY SMOOTH on Steam Deck default settings now. Well done, looking forward to the new tweaks.

[dylanagain]

Do you know when the next update will release yet? I am just asking out of curiousity since I assume the bug fix update will take a while