Version 418 LATEST November 6, 2026
👥 Guest Mode (new)
Text a friend a link and walk Forward St. together, each on your own phone. Fight monsters, go inside, ride along and jump into games from the street. You let them in, and they don't sign up or type anything. Only send it to people you know. In Forward St.: ☰ → 👥 Bring a guest.
🛍️ Forward Furniture and Forward Threads (new)
Two new stores next to Dad's Place. Buy with game money: furniture lands in your house, and clothes go on Mike.
🏠 Dad's Place
The house opens up like a dollhouse, with close-ups when you walk to the TV or the fridge.
♟️ The Grand Chess House, 🎠 the carousel and 🎱 Bingo (new)
Chess and checkers against the regulars or a friend by text, a real carousel across from Forward Park, and a bingo table at Tashy Hall. Coins here are game money only.
🎲 New two-player games
Bones, Quick Draw, Corner Pocket and Spades, plus 1-on-1 basketball on two phones at Forward Park.
🤖 Wobble Beasts
A train arena, 3D Sumo on two phones, 2-on-2, and parts that each do something different.
🧒 Pick-ups and drop-offs
Mike and Jaylen's Friday pick-up and Sunday drop-off play as real scenes now, in Movie Mode too.
🔥 Carry the Light and Ember
The river got repainted: clear blue water, real logs and light dancing on the surface.
🔒 Privacy, in plain words
Your contacts stay on your phone. We reworded our privacy page to explain exactly what a Guest Mode visit passes between two phones.
Version 417 November 6, 2026
☀️ One Sun (new)
Two worlds fight over one dying star, and your kid lives on the other side. You fly the run anyway. Your choices decide how it ends. Find it on the games page.
🔥 Ember
Pick any of the six levels from the start, with a cleaner level screen.
Version 416 November 5, 2026
📥 Save for offline
Tapping the update note no longer deletes your saved game, and updates keep it ready to play with no internet. If a page isn't saved on your phone, it now says so instead of sending you to the home page.
Version 415 November 5, 2026
🤖 Wobble Beasts 3D Sumo (new, for testers)
Build a plushy robot blob out of parts, then shove the computer off a round stage. Grab your beast and stretch it, poke it, make it hop. Best of three rounds, with an announcer. Find it in Games.
🐾 Wobble Beasts (new, for testers)
The flat version: build a beast, fight the computer, or send a friend the link and fight them live. The winner gets a copy of a part from the other beast, and nobody loses theirs.
Version 413 November 5, 2026
🧹 Fixes
The Lights Out card in the arcade now opens Lights Out.
Version 412 November 5, 2026
👥 2 Players
Every two-player game is now at the top of the arcade: Block Brawl on one phone or two, Lights Out, and text challenges. Free, no account.
See the 2-player games →📥 Save for offline
Download Contact City and Forward St. to your phone so they work with no internet. About 100 MB, once. Live 2-player games, weather and radio still need the internet.
📤 Share a game
Send any game to a friend. Look for Share on the title and end screens and in the menus. It stays out of the way while you play.
🕯️ Carry the Light got a new look
New woods, mist and firelight, cleaner sound, and one hint at a time. A new story and narrator are on the way.
Version 411 November 5, 2026
🧹 Fixes
Holding Jump no longer freezes the game. Hold it and Mike flows through his moves. Let go and he hands control back to you.
Also fixed: the Drop off Jaylen button now shows in Clear view when you're at a door with Jaylen.
Version 410 November 5, 2026
🧹 Fixes
The thumbstick freeze is fixed. After about 25 seconds of walking, the MY PEOPLE list could cover the screen and stop the thumbstick from working. Now walking keeps it away. When it does come up, it stays clear of the thumbstick, and touching anywhere else closes it.
Also fixed: missions could stop opening for good after a while in Free Roam. And mid-range phones get fewer freezes, because the game no longer keeps changing its picture quality back and forth.
Version 409b November 5, 2026
👁 A side tab for Clear view
One small tab now stays on the right edge of Forward St. Tap it and everything clears except the game and your controls. Tap it again and all your icons come back. Tap once more to hide them, or they leave on their own after a few seconds.
📸 More Photo Jobs
Mike has new bookings, each with a new camera trick for Jaylen and a real photo by Value Shot Mobile at the end.
🎙️ The Gossip Girls have real voices
The ladies on the porch now talk out loud, and voices on the street sound like they're out on the block, with a little echo off the buildings.
🎮 The game starts on the Original controller
Forward St. now opens with the Original controller. When an action scene comes up, the game asks if you want to switch to the Action controller.
🥊 Forward Fighter is still under construction
We're rebuilding it. Matches now use the Action controller only, and the fight names are fixed. You can still play it at your own risk while we finish.
🚧 Some story scenes are locked for repairs
Scenes that need work are locked until they're fixed, so what you can play is what's ready.
🧹 Fixes
Cleaner sound: the hiss is gone from the street, the crowd cheers and the clinic hallway, and clapping now sounds like clapping. A ready screen prepares the game before you start, to cut down on freezes.
Versions 403 to 407 November 5, 2026
📸 Photo Jobs: Mike the photographer
Mike books real photo shoots around Forward St. and takes Jaylen along. You frame each shot on a phone viewfinder, and Jaylen learns one real camera trick per job: low angle, natural frames, golden hour, the wedding kiss, symmetry. Every job ends on a real photo by Value Shot Mobile.
🔒 Our Privacy Promise, rewritten in plain words
Contact City's privacy sheet now lists exactly what can leave your phone and when: weather lookups, live two-player games, talking to Mikey, and SOS. Everything else stays on your phone, and one tap erases it all.
🙈 No captions mode
Turn it on and the words come off Mikey's bubble while his voice plays, and off Forward St. movie scenes. Safety lines like 988 always stay on screen. Good for clean clips and for just watching.
🕯️ Two more games in Contact City's Play tab
Carry the Light and Ember are now in the Play tab alongside Block Brawl and the two-player text games.
🧹 Fixes
Contact City no longer restarts Mikey's setup when you come back. On some phones with the newest Android, the contact list opens but sends nobody back. Contact City now notices, tries another way in if the phone has one, and otherwise shows you other ways to add someone. The version number on the home page now matches the real version. Cash App is off the home page.
Version 402 November 5, 2026
🥊 Live 1v1: fight a friend on two phones
Forward Fighter now plays phone to phone over the internet. Pick from 13 fighters, with a rematch button at the end.
🧟 Co-op street: Lights Out on Forward St.
Two players hold the block together against the Sleepwalkers (Shambler, Dasher, Big Snore). Coffee heals, juice boxes fill your meter, and you can revive a downed partner by holding block next to them.
Earlier this week November 3–4, 2026
🏘️ Contact City is here
Your people live on your own block. Tap a house to call or text. Flip between Block and List any time. No account, no ads. Your contacts are never uploaded or sold.
🥷 Ninja Mike
Jump reads what's coming: a car or a monster means a juke, a spin, or a flip over it. Two quick taps on Jump is a dash. Clean jukes earn coins and an instant replay.
🎮 Block Brawl and the two-player text games
A 2D one-on-one fighter, plus games you send by text: Hide & Seek, Daily Duo, Emoji Guess, Would You Rather, Trivia Battle.
📱 Screen switch and coins
Pick Auto, Phone or Tablet layout. Earn coins for clean plays.
In the game you can also just say "what's new" and Mike shows the latest. Questions or something not working? hello@dadsmovingforward.com