In Ski-E-O! Ski Resort Tycoon, patch CL7671 makes trees and buildings provide shelter from the wind. The change affects visitors, wind-related lift closures and wind-blown snow in both the full game and the demo.
The patch notes published on Steam on November 11, 2026 distinguish shared changes from additions exclusive to the full game. The latter include the Ski Tuning Shack building and the unlocking of Pu'u Wekiu.
Wind, slopes and mountain terrain
Trees and buildings now provide shelter where wind affects the resort. Their placement can therefore influence visitors and wind-related lift closures, as well as wind-blown snow.
Visitors start skiing as soon as they reach the drawn width of a slope. They are also better at finding their way out of bowls, while a warning flags a bowl with no real exit. The warning gives resort builders a way to spot a layout that could lead skiers into a dead end.
A French and Nordic slope rating system joins the options, using green, blue, red and black. The former European system has been renamed Alpine. In damp valley bottoms near waterways, terrain generation now produces wet meadows and less dense forest; trees can still be planted there.
Steam Deck, controller and interface
On Steam Deck and when using a controller, every text field now opens the on-screen keyboard. Prompts also use “select” and “press” instead of “click”. On Steam Deck, the resolution setting now appears, including for playing on a larger screen with a dock.
The former text size setting has become an interface scale ranging from 75 to 125%. It resizes panels, icons and text together. A bell in the top bar also keeps a history of the day's alerts, so players can find an earlier notification.
The patch fixes a case where a manual save started during an autosave reported success without writing its own file. Crash reports are now sent only after consent is given. Steam friends' names used for staff are disabled by default and removed from saves attached to bug reports.
Full-game additions and shared decorations
The full game receives the Ski Tuning Shack and unlocks Pu'u Wekiu, whose slopes now have volcanic cinders. These additions are listed separately from the changes shared with the demo.
The first hotel objective now waits until accommodation is unlocked and accepts any place to stay, including cabins. The upper limit of the night-time pricing slider now depends on the proportion of the mountain that is lit.
Both the full game and the demo receive a Cornucopia table, hay bales visitors can sit on, a bench with a backrest and the Autumn Leaf Pathway. In the demo, the Steam wishlist button appears on the main menu.
See also the Ski-E-O! Ski Resort Tycoon game page.
