gogh Summer Update Adds Avatar Workshop, Free Weekend, Bilibili World 2026
The update adds user-generated content sharing and real-time chat, shifting gogh from a solo focus tool toward a social platform, while the Bilibili World appearance targets the Chinese market.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, ASCII.jp.
Developer ambr released a summer update for the Steam version of gogh: Focus with Your Avatar on June 25, adding an Avatar Workshop that lets users upload custom avatars to Steam Workshop with public or limited sharing. The update also expands avatar slots from 9 to 18, introduces a new outdoor room called Monaka Beach with 60 new room items, and adds summer avatar items designed by illustrator Kanazume Yamane. Thirteen new focus poses and a chat item beta test are included. A Free Weekend will run from July 10 to July 13, during which the full game is playable at no cost. A 40% off sale runs from June 26 to July 24. ambr also announced that gogh will have a booth at Bilibili World 2026 in Shanghai, the company's first appearance at a Chinese event. The mobile version of gogh has surpassed 2.5 million downloads, while the Steam version has sold over 300,000 copies.
ambr, the Tokyo-based studio led by representative director Takuya Nishimura, released the summer update (version 3.1.0) for gogh on Steam. The Avatar Workshop allows players to upload their custom avatars to the Steam Workshop, with options for public distribution or limited sharing via ID. The new Monaka Beach room is an outdoor creative space, accompanied by 60 new room items. Summer avatar items from illustrator Kanazume Yamane include three full avatar sets and 14 to 15 individual items.
The update also adds 13 new focus poses covering standing, sitting, floor, and lying positions, and a chat item beta that enables text chat in multiplayer rooms. The chat feature supports auto-localized stamps in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean, and includes moderation tools. The beta version is accessible by switching to the beta branch on Steam; implementation in the release version is not yet confirmed.
gogh's first Free Weekend runs from July 10 at 2:00 AM JST to July 13 at 2:00 AM JST, offering the full game at no cost. The 40% off sale overlaps with the free period, allowing players to purchase after trying. At Bilibili World 2026, which will feature over 170 exhibitors and ticket sales in 190 countries, gogh will have its first Chinese event booth.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.