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Steam News5 May 20262mo ago

[Patch Notes] - Early Access is Live!

Welcome to Early Access and thanks for supporting us! Idols and Skill -4 full story levels are available now, with more on the way!

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  • Gameplay
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
  • Fixes
  • Maps
addedIdols and Skill -4 full story levels are available now, with more on the way! -Take down Hemlock, Arora, Dex, and Prophet, and earn back your power -Unlock new abilities in the Skill Trees to keep the groove going
changedThe Encore -Charlie has finally made it back home -Explore the bar where it all began, and use your rising popularity to fix up the place and start returning it to its former glory -Learn the story of the band as you interact with the Idols after defeating them -Earn cosmetics to style as you fight and build your rockstar wardrobe -Play your own music at the Jukebox to make the Encore your own - My Music is even supported here!
changedInfinite Disco -Play through dozens of challenges and compete on the Leaderboards for top scores. What strategies will win the day? -Or just groove at your own pace in Free Play -Create your own challenges by selecting from Arenas, Objectives, Mods, and Enemies (you can even share your created challenges with others!). Wanna fight 10 Hemlocks at once? Go nuts. -The Free Play options for custom challenges will continue to get expanded throughout Early Access -Keep your eye out for new Challenges and Arenas also appearing in patches throughout Early Access
changedGameplay -General gameplay has undergone more improvements, fix fixes, and polish
changedMusic -Jam out to dozens of tracks - both licensed hits that you know, and original music unique to Dead as Disco -Of course, My Music is there for you to play to any song you have locally! -Streamer Safe mode is available in Settings > Audio for folks that want to safely stream without any licensed tracks
changedMisc -Hear Charlie and the Idols voices for the first time! -Updated mixes for many songs -Steam Deck is fully supported and certified! -and of course, many bug fixes and optimizations

Dead as Disco changes

addedIdols and Skill -4 full story levels are available now, with more on the way! -Take down Hemlock, Arora, Dex, and Prophet, and earn back your power -Unlock new abilities in the Skill Trees to keep the groove going
changedThe Encore -Charlie has finally made it back home -Explore the bar where it all began, and use your rising popularity to fix up the place and start returning it to its former glory -Learn the story of the band as you interact with the Idols after defeating them -Earn cosmetics to style as you fight and build your rockstar wardrobe -Play your own music at the Jukebox to make the Encore your own - My Music is even supported here!
changedInfinite Disco -Play through dozens of challenges and compete on the Leaderboards for top scores. What strategies will win the day? -Or just groove at your own pace in Free Play -Create your own challenges by selecting from Arenas, Objectives, Mods, and Enemies (you can even share your created challenges with others!). Wanna fight 10 Hemlocks at once? Go nuts. -The Free Play options for custom challenges will continue to get expanded throughout Early Access -Keep your eye out for new Challenges and Arenas also appearing in patches throughout Early Access
changedGameplay -General gameplay has undergone more improvements, fix fixes, and polish
changedMusic -Jam out to dozens of tracks - both licensed hits that you know, and original music unique to Dead as Disco -Of course, My Music is there for you to play to any song you have locally! -Streamer Safe mode is available in Settings > Audio for folks that want to safely stream without any licensed tracks

Welcome to Early Access and thanks for supporting us!

Idols and Skill -4 full story levels are available now, with more on the way! -Take down Hemlock, Arora, Dex, and Prophet, and earn back your power -Unlock new abilities in the Skill Trees to keep the groove going

The Encore -Charlie has finally made it back home -Explore the bar where it all began, and use your rising popularity to fix up the place and start returning it to its former glory -Learn the story of the band as you interact with the Idols after defeating them -Earn cosmetics to style as you fight and build your rockstar wardrobe -Play your own music at the Jukebox to make the Encore your own - My Music is even supported here!

Infinite Disco -Play through dozens of challenges and compete on the Leaderboards for top scores. What strategies will win the day? -Or just groove at your own pace in Free Play -Create your own challenges by selecting from Arenas, Objectives, Mods, and Enemies (you can even share your created challenges with others!). Wanna fight 10 Hemlocks at once? Go nuts. -The Free Play options for custom challenges will continue to get expanded throughout Early Access -Keep your eye out for new Challenges and Arenas also appearing in patches throughout Early Access

Gameplay -General gameplay has undergone more improvements, fix fixes, and polish

Music -Jam out to dozens of tracks - both licensed hits that you know, and original music unique to Dead as Disco -Of course, My Music is there for you to play to any song you have locally! -Streamer Safe mode is available in Settings > Audio for folks that want to safely stream without any licensed tracks

Misc -Hear Charlie and the Idols voices for the first time! -Updated mixes for many songs -Steam Deck is fully supported and certified! -and of course, many bug fixes and optimizations

Known Issues: Fixes coming to a hotfix near you! We expect most (if not all) of these to be addressed in a hotfix next week!

-Setting a BPM with a decimal in it can have issues in My Music -It is possible to get some enemies to spawn just outside of arena bounds, particularly when using the arc spawner pattern -New arena unlocks require the player to leave Infinite Disco and come back to see them -Selected arena can show the incorrect thing if the player leaves to Stage Select and immediately returns -Arena selection can show CosmoDome as the selected Arena if the player exits Infinite Disco on Color 3 for a different arena -On user created challenges - “Perform an ability a certain amount of times” objective does not display the move name after leaving Infinite Disco and returning -On user created challenges - Arora’s projectiles do not always correctly fire on some arenas -Drumstick unlocks are hard to see due to the glow on all of them -Playing a Shared Challenge immediately after importing the Custom Song can enter a state where there is no music

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Steam News / 5 May 2026

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