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inZOI [v0.8.0] Patch Notes (29th April 2026)

inZOI's biggest career overhaul yet lands in v0.8.0, adding new jobs, freelance licenses, team projects, and a lot more.

Nathan Lees
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The v0.8.0 update for inZOI is live today, and it's a substantial one. Careers have been completely reworked across all cities, with new roles including Researcher, IT Developer, Architect, Music Producer, and Journalist available in Dowon and Bliss Bay, plus a Travel Agent option added to Cahaya. Crucially, school, career, and business now run as separate categories that can overlap on the same Zoi's schedule, which opens up a lot more flexibility in how you build a character's day.

Freelance work has also been formalised with a proper licensing system. Your Zoi earns a license grade based on reputation and completed tasks, with higher grades unlocking better-paying gigs across delivery, creative, publishing, and online sales. It's the kind of progression loop that should make freelance feel like a real career path rather than an afterthought. I'm impressed by how much depth Krafton has packed into the work systems here for an Early Access title.

Build mode gets a long-overdue multi-select feature, letting you drag-select and deselect multiple objects at once. Anyone who's spent time nudging furniture one piece at a time will understand why this matters. Simulation also picks up some nice touches, including adjustable autonomy per Zoi, gender reveal social events, and ultrasound visits for pregnant Zois.

Here's the full breakdown.

Full Patch Notes

◆ Update Information

◽️ Patch Date: April 29, 2026

◽️ Build Version:

  • Windows PC Steam: 20260429.12169.W
  • Mac Steam: 20260429.12173.M


■ Gameplay

Career

  • New careers have been added to all cities.
  • Dowon & Bliss Bay: Researcher, IT Developer, Architect, Music Producer, Journalist
  • Cahaya: Travel Agent
  • For the new careers, Zois will first have to apply for an interview then impress the interviewer to be accepted to begin work.
  • School and business have been separated from careers as independent categories.
    • As long as the schedules do not overlap, these three categories can be assigned to the same Zoi simultaneously.
    • Schedules are prioritized in the order of school first, career, then business last.
    • Zoi card displays the Zoi’s occupation in school, career, business, or freelance category.
  • Salary is given on a daily basis.
  • Zois can register for paid leave, sick leave, and remote work on the computer.
    • Companies can sometimes provide company-wide holidays but also assign overtime work.
    • The amount of leaves is determined by the Zoi’s job position.
  • Team projects have been added.
    • Zois can collaborate with co-workers to work on team projects from day 1 through day 4.
    • Progress can be tracked on the dedicated phone app and the mission UI.
    • The amount of contribution at the end of a project will determine their grade and rewards.
  • New workplace interactions have been added, and after work missions have been added.
  • Arriving to work late will cause your Zoi to be marked as tardy or absent and will negatively impact their evaluation.
  • If a Zoi’s performance is insufficient, they may be fired from their position.
  • Zois can retire after meeting the required amount of time spent in that company.
    • Once your Zoi announces its retirement, a retirement party social event will take place.
    • After retirement, your Zoi will become eligible for pension funds.
  • Zois who are fired, leave their workplace, or retire will receive severance pay.
  • Loading a save file from before this update will automatically sync previous career information to its updated version.

    Freelance

    • The following freelance jobs have been added.
    • Delivery: Deliver a good given by the client to its designated recipient.
    • Creative: Create writing, music, program, or media as requested by the client.
    • Publishing: Publish your created work to earn commission based on its performance.
    • Sell Online: Sell your created work using the computer for a much lower price than if you had submitted to a client or published it.
  • A license must be obtained on the computer to begin freelance work.
    • Once obtained, the grade of a license will be determined by the Zoi’s reputation in that line of work and the number of successful tasks.
    • Holding a higher grade license will allow your Zoi to take on more difficult tasks with higher compensation rates.
  • A dedicated app for freelancers can be used to check license status, available jobs, and the status of current tasks.

    Business

    • New business types have been added.
    • Hair Salon: Place hair salon chairs to change other Zois’ hairstyles.
    • Clothing Store: Place mannequins that you can dress up with preset or customized outfits that Zois can interact with to try on that outfit.
  • Empty employment slots in employee management are displayed more clearly.
  • Objects that are recommended and those that are required are better distinguished in business presets.

    Crime

    • Minor crimes such as stealing tips or snacks can be performed without a prerequisite crime skill level.
    • After obtaining level 1 in crime skill, all crime interactions are unlocked.
    • After obtaining level 5 in crime skill, criminal masks can be obtained from the suspicious job agency.
    • Committing a crime while wearing this mask can cause nearby witnesses to flee instead of calling the police.

    ■ Simulation

    Autonomy

    • Specific autonomy behaviors can be selected for all Zois, household members, or self.
    • Behaviors for self follow behaviors set for household members, which follow behaviors set for all Zois settings.
  • Zois do not automatically engage in conversations with Zois who are far away.

    Interactions

    • Interactions needed to complete tasks are more easily visible.
    • Items can be interacted with directly from the backpack.
    • Getting killed by a shark and jellyfish have been enhanced to look more realistic.
    • Zois can kiss on top of the desk if they are in intimate love relationships.
    • Dancing on top of the table can only be performed when in appropriate emotions.
    • Surrounding Zois display reactions that are appropriate to their current emotion.
  • Zois can sit next to trees.
  • Stickers placed on walls can be removed.

    Baby

    • A pregnant Zoi can visit the hospital to get an ultrasound, check the gender and the overall health of the baby.
    • If a baby tries standing up and falls down, the parent or the babysitter will run over to comfort them.
    • When a baby urinates, there will be a puddle of urine that the parent or the babysitter will have to clean up.

    Social Event

    • Multiple social events can be assigned on the same day.
    • Gender reveal social event has been added.
    • Important social events like a job interview will appear on the calendar differently from regular social events.

    Memory

    • In the recent memories menu, you can view relationship logs of other Zois.
    • New milestones have been added for freelance activities and new careers.
    • Certain milestones will record the names of Zois your Zoi achieved the milestone with.

    ※ This feature may not apply to certain saves from before this update.

    Phone

    • Text messages can be sent to more Zois than before, and more types of messages can be sent.
    • Zois can ask for phone numbers flirtatiously to Zois they are attracted to.

    Skill

    • Doing push-ups produce varying outcomes, with higher fitness skill levels likely to produce better outcomes.
    • Doing performances produce varying outcomes, with better outcomes possible even at lower performance skill levels.

    Other Improvements

    • A new UI displays emotions of other Zois involved in the current conversation.
    • Teleport to destination pop-up appears when selecting a destination that is far away.
    • This pop-up can be disabled in game options.
  • When a home service Zoi arrives at the entrance, you can now select whether they ring the doorbell or a pop-up appears to allow their entrance.
  • Ghost play can be toggled on or off in the game options.
  • The number of days is now displayed alongside each aging speed setting in game options.
  • Weather impact on Zois can be adjusted in game options.

    ■ Create a Zoi

    Situational Looks

    • Situational looks go beyond just outfits to include hairstyles, makeup, and skin settings.
    • Default face settings will be initially applied to all situational looks and any changes made can be reverted at any time.
  • You can set up to 5 different looks and 1 signature look for each situation.
  • Automatically changing outfits based on the situation can be turned off in Create a Zoi.

    Improvements

    • Higher high heels have been added.
    • Facial appearances have been modified to more realistically reflect each age group.
    • Control gizmo movements follow your controls of the mouse.
    • A European countryside background has been added to the studio.
    • Family trees can be captured and saved as .png image files.
    • The background color of the image can be changed.

    New Items

    • Hairstyles: 2
    • Tops: 10
    • Bottoms: 7
    • Outerwear: 4
    • Shoes: 9
    • Watches: 1

    ■ Build Mode

    Multi-select

    • Multiple items can be selected at once using the following controls:
    • Drag Select: Hold shift and drag to select multiple items.
    • Drag Deselect: Hold alt and drag to deselect multiple items.
    • Add Select: Hold shift and use the left mouse click to add individual items to selected items.
  • With the dedicated multi-select toolbar, you can choose which types of items can be selected using multi-select.

    Improvements

    • Refrigerators with a water dispenser and the tap can be used to drink water.
    • Up to 3 cooking appliances can be placed on the countertop.
    • Short broom and dustpan combo has been added for cleaning.
    • Side tables placed in homes can be decorated with different objects.
    • Zois can check the laundry basket and feel uncomfortable if it smells bad.
    • Control gizmo movements follow your controls of the mouse.

    New Properties

    • European countryside residential presets have been added to the following properties.
    • Dowon: Moaville
    • Bliss Bay: 3140 Greenway Street, 203 Somerset Place, 8 Beachfront Drive
  • Business
    • Dowon, Bliss Bay: Hair salon
    • Cahaya: Hair salon, clothing store
  • Career
    • Dowon, Bliss Bay: Architecture firm, IT company, record label, laboratory, newspaper company
    • Cahaya: Travel agency

    New Items

    • Module roofs: 2
    • Gates: 1
    • Fences: 1
    • Handrails: 2
    • Pillars: 1
    • Windows: 7
    • Doors: 5
    • Window decorations: 8
    • Tile textures: 10
    • Interaction objects: 149

    ■ System

    Unreal Engine Update

    • The game has been updated to run on Unreal Engine version 5.6.

    Optimization

    • A new category to adjust optimization settings has been added to game options.
    • Simulation Preset: Includes various simulation settings to improve performance.
    • Performance Safeguard: Enabling this will automatically adjust optimization settings when performance overload has been detected.
    • Graphics Preset: This has been mirrored from the graphics category for better navigation.

    Language

    • Incorrectly expressed texts can be reported to the inZOI Team by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F9, then clicking the target text.
    • Current Text: Displays the current version of the targeted text.
    • Suggested Text: Write what you believe is the correct replacement for the current text.
    • Reason: Explain why the current text is wrong and why your suggested text is right.
  • The following languages have been added to the game.
    • Dutch (Netherlands)
    • Turkish (Turkey)
    • These new languages are currently only supported in-game and will later be supported on our official websites as well.
  • While providing translations for new languages used to be logistically unfeasible, we are currently experimenting with AI translation to make this a possibility. While we are continuously working hard to improve the accuracy of our model, there may be some errors in our initial outputs.
    • If you notice these errors during your gameplay, please use the Report Translation Issue tool mentioned above to help us improve the accuracy of the texts for your language.

    Cheats

    • changeSeason \: Change the current season to one of the following seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter.

      ※ This feature was temporarily removed and has returned with this update.

    Smart Zoi

    • A notification will appear when enabling Smart Zoi on a system with 7GB or less VRAM.
    • You can select whether or not to enable this feature after understanding that your system’s performance can be negatively impacted by this feature.

    ■ Controls

    • Hotkey customization has been moved to game options.
    • Mouse sensitivity control adjustments in game options have been refined.

    ■ Mods

    • ModKit has been updated to support Unreal Engine version 5.6.
    • MetaHuman meshes can be automatically converted to the game.
    • An FAQ button has been added to the deactivate mod and application failed popup.
    • Filters have been added to CAZ and Build Mode to show or hide items applied with mods.

    ■ Bug Fixes

    If you discover any bugs or errors during gameplay, please report them via theBug Reports page on the official inZOI Forums.

    Your feedback greatly helps us improve the game.

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    Written by

    Nathan Lees

    Gaming journalist and founder of XP Gained. Covering patch notes, breaking news, and updates across 160+ games.

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