The House Always Wins — Patch 1.2

Released: 7/24/2026, 4:01:40 PM

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3412160/view/687512084637811493

Summary (AI)

Patch 1.2 for The House Always Wins introduces starter pets, including a Labrador and a Black Cat, which can be housed using pet beds from the Akei furniture shop. Players can now control pets with a command wheel and see Twitch viewer names above their pets, with 18 new dog breeds, 9 cat breeds, and 3 goose breeds added. The update expands multiplayer to six-player co-op with friends-only sessions and adds a Security Guard employee with three quality tiers. New customization options include LED neon strips and floor lighting, along with a playable Baccarat table and a Money Vacuum Cleaner that collects cash from the floor. Other additions include fireworks, a fish tank decor item, a robot event, and various quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes, and new tutorials to guide players through the content.

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Friends-Only Sessions: Invites and joining are now friends-only, so random strangers can't wander into your casino uninvited.
Visitors can now actually sit on the Retro Chair and Retro Sofa, and they sit in the right spot.
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.
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.
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.
Three Quality Tiers: Guards come in Low, Mid and High grades. Better guards move faster and cover your floor more effectively.
Six-Player Co-op: Your casino can now hold up to six players in a single session. Bring the whole crew.
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.
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.
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.
🐱 9 Cat skins
🪿 3 Goose skins
🐶 18 Dog skins
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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.
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
If you have bug reports, feedback, suggestions, or information about the known issues listed above, we'd love to hear from you. Discord: