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Dead as Disco Patch Notes — May 5, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
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