Minigame Updates
Sperm Defense — New animations, sound effects, powerups, enemy tutorials, and health bars for multi-hit enemies. Now with toy integration!
Tower Blocks — Smoother mobile controls, perfect-drop toasts, bonus points for precision, snappier 3D effects.
Titris — Character-driven blocks (E blocks hinder, J blocks help), new "Show Off" mechanic, sparkly gold pieces, full tutorial built in now to explain the new mechanics

Milktris — Overhauled GUI, milkier visuals, satisfying screen shake on drops.
Don't Cum — Rebalanced difficulty, now rhythm-based instead of strict beat-matching. Less visual clutter, more vibes
Summer City Blackjack has been completely rebuilt from the ground up — new point-based scoring system, streak mechanics, dealer personalities with readable tells, and strategic meta-moves like Read and Pressure that use your character's stats. This isn't your grandma's casino game anymore. Full rules & strategy guide: https://x-change.life/wiki/docs/summer-city-blackjack/

Engine — Harlowe → X-Lowe
Harlowe has been half-gutted and replaced with 'X-Lowe', the name of our custom fork built specifically for XCL with aggressive performance optimizations, new macros, and deep JavaScript integration to support XCL's upcoming open world features.

All known slowdowns have been resolved, except on very niche / old devices. My "white whale" was getting Togashi to be able to play the Jade gym scene for 100 orgasms, which now can happen without any memory-leak related slowdowns.

️ Mod Loader & Modding Tools
Mod Loader now ships as a native installer — no more .jar files, no more installing Java. Just download and run. https://gitgud.io/xchange-life/mod-loader/-/releases

New in-game modding guide walks you through installing / creating content. I'm hoping this gets more people interested in modding!
New VS Code extension for writing mods with syntax highlighting and autocomplete: https://open-vsx.org/extension/aphrodite/xcl-twee-xlowe
Settings & Menu Overhaul
Brand new unified settings menu accessible from anywhere (press 3 or 4).
Settings now sync across all save files instead of resetting between saves.
Color palette previews, organized tabs, autosave frequency controls, and cleaner toggles throughout.
Bug Fixes
Dozens of bug fixes across the board. A large part of this is thanks to bransta61 who has done absolutely HEROIC work with optimizations and quick fixes.

New in-game bug reporter that logs issues directly to GitLab with full context — mod status, game version, error fingerprinting, the works. I set up a Cloudflare API relay that receives anonymous reports, so that people do not have to share their details or make accounts anywhere in order to report bugs.