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| Published | Title | Build |
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| Elephant + Skeleton Lag Improved Dear all, The game should perform better with Skeleton classes and also with Elephants. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 25174687 | |
| Public Multiplayer Servers Fixed Dear all, The multiplayer servers were down for a bit this morning. Sorry for the inconvenience. We have repaired the issue and have strengthened our pipeline against reoccurrences of this problem. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 25174687 | |
| New Body Shapes Dear all, This update ships new body shapes! Some classes are now a bit taller, a bit more slender, or a bit chunkier. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 25165620 | |
| New Classes, Weapons, and Physics Updates Dear all, We've made some very large scimitars. We've also made some tweaks to the physics to make some characters more playable again after the weapon heft changes. We've also added new ROBOT CHARACTERS! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 25155638 | |
| Main Menu Theme + Physics + More! Dear all, Music We've received the latest track back from our composer friend. The Main Menu theme is here! Physics Large Weapons receive more penalty on back-and-forth swinging. Heromaster Mode Helmets: Rare Helmets now exist, instead of EPIC ONLY. This should make it easier to obtain them early on in a run Please enjoy! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 25139829 | |
| Menu Improvements Dear all, The Main Menu has been simplified and the Play menu has been reformatted. There are still a number of menu-related changes to be made over the next few weeks... but this should be much better and easier to navigate than it was! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 25089733 | |
| New Pirate Ship Stages + Weapon Collisions w/ Stages & Scenery Dear all, A few new pirate ship stages have been added. We have big plans for these. Also... now weapons are less likely to path through scenery during swings. Unfortunately, they will still path through scenery when not swinging and when moved just right. This is a little better though and we'll celebrate that for the time being! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Hotfix Dear all, Lots of little fixes and improvements to the game! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Hero Realm Beta Updates + UI Updates Dear all, We've started laying out more of the scaffolding for Hero Realm. There's a lot to do still, but we're actively working with our players to improve the game mode. We're experimenting with a new Leaderboard layout... let us know what you think in Discord at: Most gratefully, The Joust Devlopment Team | — | |
| QoL Updates - UI + User Instructions + Balancing Improvements Dear all, Lots of little updates to things: - Heromaster Reward Cards are now ore colorful - Help Text for picking up weapons - Help Text for projectile launchers (guns / bows / frying pan, etc) - Heromaster Ability Card Rarity System Added (not done with this, but it's a start) - Jousty Zombies Improved to have Medkits and better Weapon / Ability Management UI - Heromaster $200 Gift Card Conte… | — | |
| Two Hockey Modes + Martial Saint Dear all, We've shipped Field Hockey and Ice Hockey. This wasn't too bad to accomplish since we already had done the work for soccer mode. Martial Saint inspired by the legendary Guandao and created in collaboration with our community member, Hacksaw... has joined the battle! We'll probably work on the weapon swings for Martial Saint a bit more in the weeks to come, but it's too cool not to sha… | — | |
| Neck Armor for Heromaster Mode Dear all, Neck Armor has been added as a reward in Heromaster Mode. Also, we're currently running a limited closed beta for The Joust VTuber application if you know anyone who is interested in trying it out! Please consider joining the Community Discord by clicking the link below: Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| UI Updates + Heromaster Score Submission Resiliency Dear all, We've updated the UI for our various leaderboards and the Public Games menu on the Main Menu. We've also increased the stability of the Heromaster Score submissions against circumstances like transient network issues. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| The Joust - Menu Theme Dear all, Please enjoy the temporary Main Menu Theme Music while we work on a more permanent version! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| 17 New Achievements Dear all, Please enjoy these new achievements and write to us if any of them are broken. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team p.s., | 24784959 | |
| The Joust - Heromaster Battle Theme + UI Improvements Dear all, We've released the first piece of The Joust - Official Soundtrack today. You can hear this while playing Heromaster Mode! Thank you, Michael Sutherland for your collaboration! The Joust - Battle Theme Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Football (Soccer) Mode Beta! Dear all, Main Menu -> Extras -> Sports & Demos -> Soccer Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Multiplayer Input Improvements Dear all, This should help with multiplayer inputs a bit for things like: Charging attacks Charging jumps Turning Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Class Select UI Improvements Dear all, Small tweaks to class select. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Lots of Updates + Heromaster Tournament Dear all, Please seem the image above. Furthermore... please enjoy some of the following updates: · Offhand Weapon indicator added to UI · Instant Replay Blood Loss Meter Centered · Heromaster Rebalanced + More Events · Jousty Zombies 2nd -> 3rd Floor Staircase Improved · Tournament Integration Improved Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | 24754559 | |
| Tournament Server System + Soccer Mode Improvements + Bugfixes Dear all, This update establishes a multiplayer menu icon for Official Tournaments! This update also improves soccer physics This update also fixes a few bugs, notably the way that Zombies handle the second staircase in Jousty Zombies. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| Class Select UI Update + Campaign Builder Beta Dear all, Class Select UI Simplified The Class Select UI has been improved so that it's a bit less cluttered and easier to reason about. We've still got more improvements to make to this, but we think this is a good start. Introducing.... CAMPAIGN BUILDER - Main Menu -> Extras -> Campaign Builder Minimize / Restore Behavior Improved This should help SteamDeck users. When you restore the game fr… | — | |
| Weapon & Class Balancing Update Dear all, Core game: Weapon weight calculations retuned 25 class strengths were retuned Cinema Mode: More Joust Animation Script Gestures + Poses added. Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — | |
| NPC Brains Improved + Stage Builder Custom Shapes Dear all, NPCs NPCs will be less likely to carelessly wander off cliffs or launch abilities that might kill them. That said... they're still prone to killing themselves with moves like Shield Bash sometimes. NPC Theatre Graphics improved to show projectiles Stage Builder Stage builder now supports CUSTOM SHAPES. Use "Prism" or any of the presets to explore this. Press "Edit Shape" on the Shape… | — | |
| Stage Builder - MultiSelect Dear all, Stage Builder has been upgraded to feature multiselect capabilities! Multiselect will also allow for properties to be edited in unison! Most gratefully, The Joust Development Team | — |
| Date | Day | Time | Patch title | Build ID | Branch | Depots | Download Δ |
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| 8 Sep 2026new | Tue | 00:35 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25177292 | public | 1 | — |
| 7 Sep 2026new | Mon | 20:56 | Elephant + Skeleton Lag Improved | 25174687 | public | 1 | — |
| 7 Sep 2026new | Mon | 20:56 | Public Multiplayer Servers Fixed | 25174687 | public | 1 | — |
| 7 Sep 2026new | Mon | 10:58 | New Body Shapes | 25165620 | public | 1 | — |
| 7 Sep 2026 | Mon | 04:08 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25160669 | public | 1 | — |
| 6 Sep 2026 | Sun | 19:08 | New Classes, Weapons, and Physics Updates | 25155638 | public | 1 | — |
| 6 Sep 2026 | Sun | 11:00 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25151165 | public | 1 | — |
| 5 Sep 2026 | Sat | 16:25 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25142975 | public | 1 | — |