One year of Early Access. The inZOI team's anniversary update deliberately isn't a pile of new features — their words: "rather than introducing many new features, our focus remains on making the game better." It's still enormous, and it finally delivers several things that had been sitting on the roadmap since 2025: custom keymapping, a Memories system, and face modding.
Build versions
- Windows PC (Steam): 20260325.11297.W
- Mac (Steam): 20260325.11293.M
- Mac App Store: 5.4.43 (0.257) / 20260325.11294.M
The calendar and birthdays
A 28-day month calendar now tracks holidays, birthdays, and pregnancy due dates.
Seasonal festivals run alongside it:
- Spring Festival (Spring)
- Halloween Festival (Fall)
- Winter & Year-End Festival (Winter)
That turns last year's one-off Halloween and Holiday Festival events into a recurring yearly cycle.
Birthdays now gate ageing up. A Zoi advances to their next life stage on their birthday after either blowing out candles at a birthday party or spending the birthday alone without candles. Birthday parties are a new social event type. See time and aging.
New businesses
Flower shops — six new farmable flowers, craftable bouquets and flower baskets, and special effects on flowers at high Gardening skill. Existing flower shops can be bought as businesses.
Movie theaters — screening Horror, Comedy, Teen Romance, and Documentary films. You can run your own by installing a movie screen and popcorn machine on a business property. The Theater added in v0.5.0 was under construction and inaccessible; this is it opening.
Other business changes: a tip jar that earns tips based on customer satisfaction, new massage and yoga business interactions, urges for business promotion, mission tooltips, cancellable item sales, vendors reacting when customers buy, and business activities sorted to the top of the action list. Lecture payments were rebalanced.
Driving and parking
- Zois can drive vehicles found around the city, not just their own.
- Family-exclusive parking spaces on some residential properties, where newly purchased vehicles are placed.
- Public parking lots.
- Bicycles are now rideable vehicles.
- Vehicles slow down automatically when a collision is imminent, and collision interactions were improved.
Phone calls
Zois can now call and receive calls. Phone numbers must be obtained by asking for them, and can be blocked or deleted in the Contacts app. Deleted numbers can be re-acquired by asking again, and a blocked Zoi can ask to be unblocked. See smartphone apps.
Memories and Milestones
Two new systems:
- Memories — positive and negative interactions unlock further interactions later.
- Milestones — a record of important moments in a Zoi's life.
The Memory System was a December 2025 roadmap item that slipped; this is the closest thing to it shipping.
Baby Zois
- Needs adjusted.
- Babies can be customized in Edit Appearance.
- Newborns are born without teeth and grow them.
- A quick clean-up interaction for the mess they leave.
- New baby interactions with parents, objects, and bathtubs.
Crime changes
- Stealing another Zoi's vehicle can now get you arrested, and stealing crops counts as theft.
- Zois scheduled for trial can't leave the city.
- "Extort" rewards and success rate adjusted.
- Fewer arrests for misdemeanours — a continuation of the v0.5.4 change. See crime and trials.
Simulation improvements
Conversations now vary by traits, characteristics, and relationship type, and those attributes can trigger special interactions that previously required a high relationship score. Zois can talk outside properties, standing Zois can approach seated ones, and NPCs no longer interrupt.
Autonomy is driven by traits and characteristics, with a speech box explaining why a Zoi chose an action. Interactions are interrupted if a need drops below 30%.
Group interactions find participants faster, now raise relationship scores, and gained 12 Fitness, 6 Instrument, and 4 Critical Thinking activities plus "Enjoy Lower-Body Soak Together", "Have a Pillow Fight", "Snuggle and Talk", and "Build a Snowman Together".
Romance — Zois can ask their spouse on a date, teen dating is easier, "Set the Mood" success now scales with relationship score, and "Kiss Passionately" was added.
Food — held food can be eaten, empty plates go on tables, teatime was added, and baking can be started from the fridge.
Three new ambitions: Coffee Master, Baking Master, Drink Mixing Master. Family members also die less often from low needs, and lights turn themselves off when everyone's asleep.
Minimap
A minimap showing your Zoi, family members, and property icons, with filters by property type, placeable anywhere on screen, and disableable under Game Options → Screen.
VIP lounges were added to Sky Lounge (Dowon), Elegance Hotel & Nightclub (Bliss Bay), and the Beach Club (Cahaya). Zoi Cards were reorganised into tabs, and the load menu gained a save file search.
Building
Property sizes are now standardized into seven formats — read our separate write-up, because two lots shrank and some builds may not load. Custom buildings on updated properties are saved automatically as property presets, price changes affect your funds but won't push you below 1,000 Mew, and you can trigger updates manually via Options → Gameplay → Refresh Property Manually.
Also: more editable properties, adjustable pool water levels, fence and roof placement guidelines, resizable rugs, improved snap-to-grid, and short tables raised from 35 cm to 45 cm. New items include holiday landmarks, festival booths, four building lobbies, 22 textured tiles, 8 traditional objects, and modular roofing.
Custom keymapping — finally
You can remap keys. Open the Game Menu with [Esc] to find it. This was an October 2025 roadmap item, and it's taken until now. See controls and interface.
Camera changes came with it: wider top-view angles, adjusted zoom limits, and shoulder view working better indoors.
Mods — face modding arrives
ModKit now supports animation, accessory, and face mods. Face modding had been deferred repeatedly and pulled from the schedule entirely in October 2025, so this is a genuine milestone for modders.
Also: newly downloaded mods apply without restarting the game, the ModKit project manager gained search and filters, and multiple mods can be packaged at once.
Performance
A long list of graphics preset improvements, weighted toward Very Low and Low — VSM on buildings, blob shadows on Zois, improved SSAO and Zoi materials, SSGI by default, and better nighttime indoor lighting across all presets. High and Ultra get city map shadows and a fix for indoor environments looking yellowish.
Memory optimization landed too: PSO partitioning, memory preallocation, and other fixes. This is separate from the Unreal Engine 5.6 upgrade, which is scheduled for April.
Read the full patch notes: Official inZOI Website