Your words: "When's the next update?" Our Response: Right now! A New song, New arena, New enemies, New Cosmetics, New dance moves, Fresh leaderboards, and a ton of other improvements!
This is our first big needle drop since we launched Early Access a month ago. Built from your reports, your feedback, and your frankly unreasonable high scores. The first two hotfixes warmed up the crowd, now it's time for the headline act. In addition we're celebrating with an extended 3 week sale. We will be bringing back the 20% off launch discount starting Thursday June 18th 2026. The party will roll right through Steam Summer Sale and end on Thursday July 9th 2026. Now onto the details for first stop of our Summer Flames Tour!
"Versus" by Dex takes the stage! Beat the new Versus Challenge to unlock a new record, and the brand new Mind's Eye arena. Clear it with 2 stars or more and there is a new outfit with your name on it. One Challenge, three rewards. Get in there and mix it up!
Elite Surging Echoes have joined the Tour, and they did not come to be polite. Harder to hit, and packing new moves of their own they're here to shred. Yes, you can spawn them in Custom Challenges. Yes, we want to see what you do with that. The Versus Challenge also debuts Super Armored Enemies, extra health, zero flinch they will be a much tougher nut to crack. We haven't added them to Custom Challenges yet, but they will be next update. Tell us how they feel. We're listening.
We've written a love letter to everyone bending Custom Challenges into beautiful nonsense:
Challenge Playlists are live. String Challenges together, Normal, Custom, any order, and see how many you can take down back to back. Works just like Free Play Playlists. Build the gauntlet. Break your friends. (Send us the clips.)
Tunable Modifiers. The new Mods section lets you dial in your Challenge: enemy damage multipliers, enemy health, Fever bars, Takedown tokens, Fever generation speed, hearts, and max caps on all of it. Your rules. Your fight.
Arena Swapping is back in Infinite Disco! You can swap dynamically in Free Play on a round count, a hotkey, or on Takedowns. Creators, this one's for you!
Enjoy the new toys, and let us know what you want to see next...
We've added Dance Moves to the cosmetics menu, where they can be unlocked and assigned to one of 4 inputs (1–4 on keyboard, d-pad on controller). Leave a slot empty and Charlie will rock a random unlocked dance instead. Is there a move that kills your groove? Then just remove it from the rotation via the cosmetics menu. Some moves from the old random pool now need unlocking, but we've added a bunch of new ones to chase too. Key bindings for Dance Moves have also been updated so the Pause screen and Move List now match.
All of the leaderboards have been reset. With the gameplay changes in this update, everyone starts from zero, and we've increased anti-cheat protection, because you told us the boards mattered and we agree. The race for the top starts now. We've also added a setting to hide leaderboards entirely if you just play for the flow.
Balance changes drawn straight from how you're actually playing:
Singularity: damage after launch reduced; flat score bonus decreased; full-charge time increased; score is now awarded on black hole release rather than on reaching charge level
Fever Meter: Fever gain from perfect inputs reduced; deflecting projectiles now grants Fever
Tap Bass Invader now hits twice
Fixed Charlie not picking the correct counter when blocking a punch from his right side, thanks Ryze for the Discord report!
Fixed Dex escaping bounds in the final phase of his boss fight (he's contractually obligated to stay)
Fixed Hemlock ending up under the floor and occasionally refusing to transition his arena in phase 3
Fixed enemies spawning outside the playable space in Infinite Disco
Fixed enemies ending up airborne or above Charlie on perfect counters
Fixed the Bass Invader change sound persisting after getting hit
Fixed bridge transition sync in Dex's level
Fixed a hiccup in Shield Guard's counter attack animation
New air juggle animations hitting airborne enemies is now as satisfying as it should be
New quick get-up animations when knocked back and dodging in time
New Meteor kick animation
Charlie's ranged attacks flow better with smarter clockwise/counter-clockwise rotations
Security guard baton slashes are more visible; pick-up FX for hearts and hidden objects pop more
Objects blocking the view on Hemlock's platform now properly dither
Lighting quality and optimization pass on Prophet Boss phases 1 and 2, plus updated car flyby sounds and more honk warning variations
Repositioned the Finisher indicator and Health Bar
Font adjustments to description text for dyslexic players
New setting to hide leaderboards for players who'd rather not see them
Encore upgrades are more noticeable; collectables now have a collect sound
Jukebox DJ Cappy bobs to the beat (as is right and proper)
Hemlock is no longer a broken record about the lack of Power Juice
Idols do a lot less moaning and groaning in general
Fixed a minor visual bug with the Encore's ceiling fog
New settings to auto-pause when:
The game loses focus or the in-store overlay opens
The platform UI overlay opens
Your controller disconnects mid-set
Slight redesign of the Custom menus in Infinite Disco; arena variations now listed directly in the arena list
Fixed needing to exit and re-enter Infinite Disco to see newly unlocked arenas
Removed stray blue dots near the border of the Green Screen arena
BPM now displays with 2 decimal places everywhere it should
Advanced Song Editor: beat offsets no longer incorrectly apply to custom BPM sections; setting Tempo now carries through to My Music on initial add
My Music: fixed deleting a currently playing song; fixed re-added missing songs sometimes not saving to disk; fixed issues adding songs in the full game after adding them in the Demo
Fixed DLSS quality mode being stuck on Auto when navigating left to right
Frame Rate Limit (On Battery) no longer stays active while charging
Fixed the game losing focus when tweaking Button Glyphs with a controller
Fixed a Free Play bug where popups disrupted the system menu stack
Correct controller "Back" prompt now shows when rebinding keyboard keys with a controller
Fixed the "Failed to retrieve data" typo on leaderboards
Turned down the Fever Bar full sounds in the mix
Lighting adjustments across various levels and arenas
Adjusted Arora's second-quest repeatable lines for clarity
Widescreen support fixes, text spacing/wrapping adjustments, dialogue tweaks, and localization fixes
Added an option to opt out of anonymous telemetry
Various UI/UX improvements, particularly in Custom Challenges
The Summer Flame Tour has just started. Drop your feedback on Super Armor, Elite Echoes, and arena swapping, this is Early Access done properly, and your reports shape what comes next. See you at the next stop! - The Dead as Disco Team