Spellbound & Shelved Updates Hub

Spellbound & Shelved is a new Steam idle, not a ten-year live-service. The important date is 7 Sep 2026. This hub is the patch shelf: start with the launch notes, then return whenever needmoar.games ships a build that retunes gold, readers, or the upgrade web.

Until a second build exists, treat the launch article as the live patch. We will not invent a history of hotfixes we have not seen. Steam news for app 5097840 returned zero items when we queried it. Public branch is still build 25162249. Launch-day charts peaked near 595 concurrent players. Player-visible issues (gnomes leaving the floor, stuck finale books) are documented on troubleshooting rather than as fake patch notes.

What launched

• Free-to-play single-player idle on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• 6,655 books, 200+ upgrades, 15 chained shelf wings, 30 Steam achievements, save-anytime, 1–3 hour run target.
• Six reader unlocks, named gnomes in the log, door sign as master lever.
• Accessibility: mouse or touch, play at your own pace, no required timed inputs, custom volume, Family Sharing, stats, leaderboards.
• Developer disclosure: Steam assets and code were AI-assisted.

Full prose: launch article. How to play that build: Getting Started.

How we will log future patches

Each new child page will name the date, the Steam build if visible, and the systems it touches (door, readers, gnomes, wings, achievements). If a patch changes a ranking, we will point back to the upgrade tier list instead of hiding the nerf in a changelog paragraph.

If the studio is silent, this hub stays quiet. Silence is not a fake “balance pass.”

Where official notes appear

• Steam news for app 5097840
• needmoar.games (the studio also runs a Steam ranking site; the game was fan-boosted there at launch)
• Support contact listed on Steam: sven@zuwo.app

Those URLs are grouped on official links. This wiki is unofficial.

What an update might change (so you know what to re-read)

• Gold or reader payouts — re-read readers and the door-sign planner.
• Upgrade costs — re-hover the web; keep the job ranks unless a job is deleted.
• New gnome or reader — add them to the gnomes or reader roster when the log or achievement strip prints a name.
• New codes — they would land on the codes hub, which is empty on purpose today.

A 1–3 hour game can still patch. When it does, the floor still has a number, and the plaque still has two states. That is the continuity.

For now, play the launch build, flip with intent, and let Pippin file one more ridiculous title.