Infinity Nikki

Infinity Nikki launched December 5, 2024 to strong reviews (IGN 9/10, Eurogamer 4/5) and 20 million downloads in its first week, then updated roughly every month without a miss. Version 1.5, Bubble Season, landed April 28 to 29, 2025 alongside the Steam launch and detonated that goodwill: it replaced the original prologue and removed the Threads of Reunion sequence, shipped co-op and a dye system players judged unfinished and monetized per piece, raised five-star outfits to 11 pieces (up to 220 pulls), and arrived with login failures and crashes across platforms. Infold apologized within about 12 hours, apologized again in a detailed official notice on May 17, 2025, paid repeated compensation, delayed version 1.6 to June 12, 2025, and launched a Miraland Round Table feedback channel. But the core asks were refused or left pending: the 220-pull structure stayed, the dye system kept its premium per-piece palette economy, and the original prologue was promised for future updates and has not returned. The pattern repeated at smaller scale in version 1.9 (September 2025), when housing furniture pricing was pulled back only after backlash, and an August 2025 official statement calling leaks poison had to be softened. Version 2.0, Terra's Call (November 25, 2025), opened the Itzaland region and is widely credited with winning players back, and updates continued through version 2.8 in July 2026 and the September 23, 2026 Little Prince collaboration update, so the game is supported, recovering, and still carrying unrepaired trust damage.

• Update cadence never missed: versions 1.0 through the September 2026 update arrived roughly every three to five weeks for 22 straight months.
• Version 1.5 (April 2025) removed the original prologue, monetized dyeing per piece, raised outfits to 11 pieces and 220 pulls, and shipped with game-breaking bugs on the day of the Steam launch.
• Infold apologized twice, paid repeated compensation, delayed 1.6 to June 12, 2025, and opened a Miraland Round Table feedback channel, but kept the 220-pull structure and answered no comment to press questions on monetization, the retcon, and dye costs in June 2025.
• The fix created its own harm: deducting over-awarded Starlit Crystals left some players with negative balances, and the promised Threads of Reunion return is still undelivered 17 months later.
• The repair work is real but keeps relapsing: housing furniture pricing in 1.9 was reversed only after backlash, while version 2.0 (Itzaland, November 2025) was a genuine recovery step that brought players back.