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Steam announcementView the game on SifterOctober 1, 2026

Patch Notes & Improvements 🛠️

Hello everyone,

Thank you all so much for playing The Merlies and sharing your feedback with us since launch. We’ve been hard at work planning improvements and fixing bugs to make sure your flight through this colourful world is as smooth as possible.

We are releasing a new update for the game that addresses several issues, with the full list of changes available below:

Global

  • Added new achievements
  • Fixed potential issues with achievements not being granted
  • Players will receive all eligible achievements when pressing continue on the home menu

Village

  • Fix possible soft lock during village event: sometimes, when finishing an event in the village, players would not be able to control their Merlies

Exploration

  • Fix possible issue with toaster puzzle: Bard could sometimes fail to spawn in the toaster
  • Fix possible issue with the recruitment of the Merlie painter: sometimes, players couldn’t recruit that particular Merlie
  • Fix some ingredients requiring 3 parts instead of 1
  • Fix some lines missing in different languages
  • Fix a potential issue with map reveal: Cairn now reveals the correct parts of the map
  • Fix and added music and sound design

Menu

  • Sometimes, the exploration function wasn’t triggered

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