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YOU vs ZombiesNewsNEW UPDATE! THE DEAD HAVE BEEN BUSY! And they have unionised...
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NEW UPDATE! THE DEAD HAVE BEEN BUSY! And they have unionised...

YOU vs Zombies · published 21 Aug 2026, 14:06 UTC

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🧟 The Temporal Apocalypse: Patch Notes

Welcome back, time-traveling survivors. The timeline is still bleeding, and the undead are still hungry. 

🩸 The Gory Details (Gameplay & Enemies)

  • Undead Gossip (Ambient System Update): Zombies are chatty now. If you piss one off, their groans will now trigger nearby undead to join the feast. Brace yourself for a terrifying chain reaction of teeth.

  • Bloated Warning Signs: Exploding zombies (our affectionate "boomers") will now clearly telegraph when they are about to pop. You now have exactly zero excuses for getting covered in corrosive viscera. Run.

  • Embrace the Inevitable: We’ve entirely overhauled the death flow for a far more cinematic demise. Try not to die too much, but enjoy the show when you do.

  • Vital Signs & Possession: Scenarios now kick off with a creepy animation showing your meat-suit being possessed. We've also added a new stat screen and ability cards so you can track your progress as you level up.

  • Subterranean Ambushes: Burrowers have been balanced. Combined with our new cluster spawning system, searching for objectives will now trigger cozy, terrifying group ambushes.

  • The Horde 2.0: We’ve completely revamped the horde gameplay objective. Surviving a relentless tidal wave of rotting flesh has never felt so fresh.

👁️ Sights, Sounds & Appendages

  • Factory Floor Beats: The abandoned Industrial Estate level finally has its own haunting soundtrack. Perfect lo-fi beats to get disembowelled to.

  • All the Better to Grab You With: Both humans and zombies have received custom hands. 

  • Fresh Flesh Grafts: All relevant characters have been re-cloned and generated to include our shiny new graphical assets so everyone looks drop-dead gorgeous.

🔧 Under the Hood (Fixes & Tweaks)

  • Immovable Objects: Rooted zombies have been hitting the gym and can no longer be pushed around. 

  • Peripheral Paranoia: Fixed rendering for widescreen monitors so you can watch the undead flank you in ultrawide, alongside various non-gameplay menu bug fixes.

  • Temporal Tweaks: Smoothed out gameplay geometry so you won't trip over invisible polygons while screaming down hallways, and adjusted level-up weightings for better mid-apocalypse power spikes.

If you've stumbled here by accident, wondering what the hell you've just read but are very much intrigued.

We've opened the doors to players or those with a relaxed attitude towards personal safety who’d like to enter the latest build early, help us break it, survive it and report back from whatever remains of the apocalypse.

👉 Request access through Discord and we’ll send you a key, allowing you to:

  • Test new features before anyone sensible gets near them.

  • Perform The Ritual up to 10 times a day, creating even more personalised heroes to throw gallantly and perhaps failing repeatedly - into the apocalypse.

  • Join our exclusive beta Discord channel and give us cookies, feedback, bug reports, build discussion and the sort of war-room nonsense that occurs when everything is proceeding exactly as badly as expected.

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