Merry meet, my good Master Trader!
Some of you have been managing your Waifu Shops for 8 months now on Nutaku. Some of you have been with us for a month on Steam. Now that we’re in such good company with all of you, we can talk with more ease about the future of the game!
Just recently, we pondered our original Roadmap for Waifu Shop. We published it shortly after the game first launched, and sighed in relief that most of it came true in a timely manner. It’s no secret that, upon release, Waifu Shop was “due” rather than “done”. We put in a lot of effort to work on new features while managing a live game, and your live Discord feedback was a real blessing that kept us on a good path. By its Steam launch, Waifu Shop was a much more engaging game, closer to our original vision.
But we’re not done here.
Put on your Covered Helmets and let’s take a stroll around the construction site. Here are some of the changes you can expect to see in your game this year.
Any moment now:
- Wheel of Fortune because what kind of live game doesn’t have a Wheel of Fortune. This’ll likely be part of our next update.
- Steam Achievements. You’re gonna feel a real dopamine rush as your Steam Client pings all your friends about what a Waifu Wrangler you’re becoming >;)
Rethinking:
- Waifu Pass. The revamp is due for a revamp! It’s all gotta change – the rewards, the tiers, the requirements! Might be an autumnal update at the latest.
- Main story delivery. The Waifu Shop story is currently divided into chapters, which are divided amongst your Workers. Adventurers get sex scenes, Workers get everything. We want to let Harmony and your Waifu Shop Worker gang shine even brighter.
- Daily tasks. We’re running a whole different game to what we had in October 2024. Therefore, we gotta create a whole different set of daily tasks to match the new gameplay.
Conceptualizing (doable):
- Community features are the foundation of this season’s development. We’re currently busy with leaderboards, the first of which has already been implemented into Bunny’s Lucky Run. But there is also…
- …visiting and voting for the best Shop. Jazz up your place and bring out the fine china, there’s guests coming over!
- Date night! A chat system (Scroll system? Parchment penpals??) lets you get intimate with your Waifu in a cozier, more personalized environment. An environment to solicit some nudes, respectfully.
- New options to unlock Exotic Waifu outside of Gacha Pulls (via new event types and such).
- Rizz up your Worker Waifu – high charisma speeds up crafting!
- The hips don’t have to do all the talking – we can also do a localization sometime.
- Deeper item and skill progression systems will make your Waifu better prepared for The Next Chapter.
The Next Chapter
- We’re thinking about combat. It’s not on our calendar yet, but combat multiplayer is the next big thing, right after we polish the community features mentioned above.
- A multiplayer system lets us continue working on ideas from our original Roadmap, though they might be presented differently than what we originally thought they would be. Kaiju battles whennnn??
Closing thoughts
What a wonderful community Waifu Shop has brought together! It is a gratifying thing for a developer to work on their project with such creative input from the players – makes us feel like we’re doing a good thing together. Our gratitude goes to our Discord community and our most diligent mods!
If you didn’t know, we’ve just finished our first Community Waifu Voting, and there’s an Art Contest going on. The community voted for their own waifu concept – an Old Ones faction Mystic Sea Witch. Animal-like (specifically a wild, aquatic mammal with predator traits), with dark fantasy-toned hair, a soft & round body, and flirty & seductive personality. It took some weird turns but she’s looking kinda cute now. We can’t wait to see your interpretations of her!
Thank you for staying with us for our second big Roadmap, and remember to
CRAFT. TRADE. LOVE.
– The Waifu Shop Development Team
1 Comment
ELECTRO · August 25, 2025 at 9:16 pm
When will the store be able to be enlarged further?