Game Updates
Patch notes and balance changes for TBH: Task Bar Hero. Check back after each ranked season reset for tier and entity tuning details.
2026-05-27
TBH: Task Bar Hero Launches on Steam
TBH: Task Bar Hero officially launched on Steam as a free-to-play title. The idle RPG that runs inside your Windows taskbar hit over 200K concurrent players within hours. Players choose from multiple classes, collect pets, and customize builds without leaving their taskbar.
- Launched May 27, 2026 on Steam — free to play
- 200K+ concurrent players on day one
- Developed by Nugem Studio and Tesseract Studio
- Windows 10/11 64-bit only
2026-05-30
TBH: Task Bar Hero Hits 200K+ Concurrent Players
Three days after launch, TBH passed 200,000 concurrent Steam players. Server-side leaderboards and the auction house briefly buckled under demand. Nugem Studio expanded infrastructure and thanked the community.
- Peaked among Steam's top 20 most-played games
- Leaderboard and auction house outages resolved
- Server infrastructure scaled up by the dev team
2026-06-01
TBH: Task Bar Hero Patch 1.0.1 Released
First post-launch patch fixed alchemy cube and pet summoning crashes. Mage AoE damage nerfed, Rogue crit scaling buffed. Black screen issues on certain GPUs resolved. Gold drop rates adjusted to combat early inflation.
- Crash fixes for alchemy cube and pet summoning
- Balance changes: Mage nerf, Rogue buff
- Black screen fix for specific GPU configs
- Gold economy tweaks to slow inflation