What the store says you do in a month

This is the overview for TANUKI: Pon’s Summer after the 10 November 2026 release. It stays with the Steam store page, the publisher page, the press release, and the developer’s Steam announcements. It does not invent a route, a price for a shrine piece, or a numbered trick list. Mail is on Delivery. The festival build is on Shrine. The bike is on BMX.

What Steam says the game is

The short description on the store:

The Tanuki Festival is just a month away, and the shrine is in disrepair. Follow Pon, a well meaning, if a bit lazy Tanuki with a part-time job at the Post Office, as he works to restore the shrine before summer ends. Deliver packages, make friends, and get the shrine ready for the big festival!

The longer text puts that month on a sunlit Japanese island. Pon is a part-time postal worker and, in the store’s words, an enthusiastic show-off. The publisher page uses a shorter label: “Cute Life Sim x BMX Tricks.” Genres on Steam are Casual, Indie, and Simulation.

Fact	What the 12 Nov 2026 check showed
Release	10 Nov 2026. coming_soon was false.
Developer / publisher	Denkiworks / CRITICAL REFLEX
Price	$19.99 USD. Discount percent 0. The press release also prints 15.99 GBP and 19.99 EUR.
Platforms on Steam	Windows. Mac and Linux are false.
Other storefronts	The press release also lists Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Game Pass.
Players	Single-player. Also listed: Steam Achievements (43), Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, full controller support, DualShock, DualSense, gamepad recommended, stereo sound, custom volume controls.
Minimum	Windows 10 or later, 2.6 GHz quad-core or similar, 8 GB RAM, GeForce 650 or Radeon HD 7750 with at least 2 GB VRAM, DirectX 11, 3 GB.
Recommended	Windows 10 or later, Core i5 3 GHz or Ryzen 5 3 GHz, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970 with at least 2 GB VRAM, DirectX 11, 3 GB.
Languages	Fifteen in the supported_languages string. Interface versus full audio was not a separate field in that payload.
Support	support@criticalreflex.com. The store’s website field was empty.

The press release, datelined Kyoto, calls Denkiworks a Kyoto studio and this game its debut. It says the three co-founders previously worked together on Cursed to Golf. The publisher page says the island is based on the developers’ lived experience in Kyoto, Aomori, Sapporo, and Beppu. A 28 October 2026 announcement calls the setting a fictional Japanese island. This page reports all three lines. It does not turn a real city into a district in the game.

One month, one shrine, one post office job

The store’s “about” text is four beats.

Deliver the mail. Hop on the BMX and take letters and packages to the residents. Fit awkwardly shaped boxes on the bike, and do not keep the neighbors waiting. Learning the routes is what makes the island feel like home. That is the whole route sentence. The delivery page stops there on purpose.

Build the shrine. Money and rewards become a shrine you rebuild, upgrade, and decorate before the Great Tanuki Festival. The short description calls the same event the Tanuki Festival. The 10 November launch post says “Matsuri festival” and names benches, lamps, and torii gates. An achievement is titled “The Great Tanuki Matsuri.” Nothing in those sources splits the names into separate festivals. This guide treats them as wording for the festival at the end of the month, and it says so on the shrine page.

Take the invitations. The store names sushi, a baseball game, and the sumo ring, then “what else your new friends have going on.” Every activity is a way to earn rewards for the shrine. The publisher page says friendship and loyalty are what open those invitations, and that the rewards are items as well as money. No friendship number is printed.

Ride. The BMX is also for ramps, rails, and tricks on paths and rooftops, “across over 100 BMX challenges.” The count is not stable across official posts. See BMX.

The launch post adds a size: an “apple-sized tanuki.” That is a phrase in the announcement, not a measured height.

Activities the sources actually name

The store and the press release agree on three pastimes: make sushi, play baseball, step into the sumo ring. Both then leave the rest as “other” activities.

A 4 November 2026 “day in the life” post is more specific, and it is still a sketch, not a checklist. It walks through the post office, a bar, insect catching, a sumo ring it calls the dohyō, baseball, and then shrine restoration paid for with the money from that work. At the bar it names Sakamori. A Steam screenshot shows the same name and the line “Let’s rock, my little friend!”

The 10 November launch post adds fishing, bug-catching, “rolling absurdly gigantic marble stones,” and “playing wingman.” It does not say how any of those pay, or where they start.

Collectibles the sources name

The store, the press release, and the launch post all describe crossover hats. The names they print are Hollow Knight: Silksong, PEAK, and Shovel Knight, plus “and more.” The 28 October announcement also says you can “cosplay your favourite bug with a mask.” No hat count, shop price, or full list was on those pages.

Insects are the other collection the announcements describe. The 4 November post says Pon measures and catalogues each one, then releases it. A store screenshot shows him holding a large red beetle. The post does not name species or a total. Releasing them is part of the sentence, so this page does not call the beetle a permanent inventory item.

There is no separate collectibles page. A checklist was not published.

Demo saves

Three official posts talk about a demo, and they do not use the same limit.

• 26 August 2026: the save from the first three days of the demo will transfer to the full game.
• 28 October 2026: the first three days of the demo carry over. The post says to transfer that progress at release.
• 10 November 2026: do not delete demo saves. “The progress will be transferred to the main game automatically.”

The launch wording is wider than “first three days.” This site did not move a save, so it does not pick a winner. The base game’s dlc array on 12 November 2026 contained one id, soundtrack app 5530500, still marked coming soon. A demo app id was not in that array.

The 11 November patch

Steam’s announcement titled “Release (1.0.2.ccc94e3aa6x00) - Nov 11, 2026” has three bullets:

• Adjusted a ramp in the main town so the player does not get stuck.
• Added a button on the title screen for sending bug reports.
• Fixed a shrine decoration, the parking meter, that could not be selected after it was placed.

The launch post from the day before links a bug form at https://critical-reflex.fillout.com/tanuki-bug-report. That form is the publisher’s. It is not this wiki. The ramp line is the only place-name in the patch, and it is not a map. The parking meter is the only decoration the patch names. Both are repeated, and limited, on the BMX and shrine pages.

No redeem codes

The store page, the publisher page, the press release, and the announcements checked on 12 November 2026 do not list a code to redeem. The soundtrack is a separate Steam app, not a code. This site does not have a codes page and does not invent one.