
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa
🛠️ The friends of Ringo Ishikawa update history
Official announcements the developer posts on Steam—patches, new content, and events—sorted by date. Click a title to read the full post.
September 2026
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9/25Fri📢 AnnouncementThe Concrete Sutra #1 "Mid development trailer" is released!
Hello, fellas!Slowly we're moving to the release and since I don't run any media now I decided to share development news here at Steam.First of all, check out this new "Mid development trailer":I read…
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9/13Sun🎉 EventsOur beloved Ueda M. is celebrating her anniversary!
Hello, fellas!Ueda M. turns XX (asking a woman her age is bad tone)!Our story began here, on Ringo's Steam forum when I was looking for a Japanese translator and asked players for the help: https://st…
July 2026
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7/15Wed📢 AnnouncementRingo is featured in the NAG Winter Edition 2026
8 years later some players still discover the game! 3 games later Ringo still sells the best out of them and makes it possible for me to continue living by gamedev. I consider it a pure luck actually …
June 2026
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6/30Tue📢 AnnouncementOld speech bubbles are back!
Hello!I discovered that some players prefer old version only because of old school speech bubbles. So I added an option to turn it back in EX version.Enjoy!P.S.Please let me know if something went wro…
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6/30Tue📢 AnnouncementWhy do players still play the old version?
Hello! From time to time, when I check screenshots section (to hide the ending scenes) I see that some players still play pre-EX version (mostly Chinese players, but not only them). At first I thought…
May 2026
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5/19Tue📢 AnnouncementThanks to the Dude and the players
Hello everyone! Some of my followers know that I deleted Twitter last summer, and this spring I got rid of YouTube, and generally decided (perhaps temporarily) to reduce my online socializing to a min…
April 2026
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4/14Tue📢 Announcement"The Concrete Sutra #1" My new game announcement!
Hello, fellas!I made a Steam page for my new game today, please, check it!
November 2025
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11/9Sun🛠️ Patch / updateCloud saves bug fixed
Hello!I've got a bug report via email that Cloud Saves doesn't work. I checked and it seems that the game uses before ex-update catalogue "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa" instead of "the_friends_of_rin…
April 2025
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4/11Fri📢 AnnouncementPhysical edition of "Fading Afternoon" is opened for preorder
Physical edition by Tesura Games is opened for preorder: https://store.tesuragames.com/producto/fading-afternoon-uncensored-nsw/ It's the only full version on Switch (it matches the Steam version, dig…
March 2025
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3/4Tue📢 AnnouncementBrazilian Portuguese localization is live!
Hello, fellas! New Brazilian Portuguese localization is finally live. Done by Masamune (http://masamune.com.br/), who translated SoR4, TMNT, Yakuza like a Dragon, Fading Afternoon etc. So I hope you'l…
February 2025
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2/2Sun📢 AnnouncementSolitaire mini-game
Hello. Now you can play solitaire mini-game on the roof (after Goro gets enough with it). There's also one new achievement. I know that you don't like new achievements but it's probably the last one. …
January 2025
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1/28Tue📢 AnnouncementHappy Chinese New Year!
Dear Chinese players! I fell in love with Chinese culture as soon as I watched an old (1961) animated movie about Sun Wukong "Havoc in Heaven" on Soviet TV, it was the mid 1980s and I was 6-7 years ol…
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1/23Thu📢 AnnouncementJuggling mini-game
You can now juggle a ball on the playground (100 times for an achievement). Player 2 will be able to do it in the next update.
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1/23Thu📢 AnnouncementOld saves should work now
Hello. Thanks to grap3_day sending me an old save file I was able to fix the issue. Now you can use save files from original game. You have to manually relocate them from: C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT\AppDat…
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1/22Wed📢 AnnouncementPlayer 2 can ride a bicycle solo, pet the cat etc.
Hello. After EX update I added: DONE: 8 new achievements Free roam mode after completing the story Player 2 can pet the cat Player 2 can use scales in the gym Player 2 can ride bicycles solo (he could…
Source: official Steam announcements (updated every 6–24 hours). Titles and summaries are copyright of the original developers.