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• Announcements·16 Sept 2026Official

  1.6 LIFE RING — every screen rebuilt, one look, twelve languages

  A new deck for every screen. 1.6 is the first half of Snugfang's visual overhaul, and it is the half you touch the most: every menu, card, list and readout in the game has been rebuilt from the ground up. Same game underneath. Everything you look at between rounds — and the HUD on top of them — is new. This is LIFE RING. Twelve screens, one look Main menu, CREW lobby, route choice, WHO LIVES, LOGBOOK, TRIALS, SETTINGS, pause, quit, OPEN WATERS, the results card and the in-round HUD: all twelve now share one language. Two typefaces — a chunky display face for headlines and a clean text face for everything else — dark chamfered cards over the live water, and a single rule for focus: there is exactly one orange thing on screen, and it is the thing you are about to press. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/01098af468584ec46c137e4df762768b614bd8fa.png The life ring is your cursor Focus is carried by a small life ring that glides from row to row instead of snapping — quick enough to keep up with a held stick, slow enough that your eye can follow it. Screens surface into place rather than popping in, and moving between menus runs a short tide wipe across the frame. Turn REDUCED MOTION on in ACCESSIBILITY and the ring snaps, the wipe becomes a plain fade and the surfacing flattens to a straight slide. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/fee22d7724743d7964401d4b76f17898c29e8048.png Every screen, rebuilt CREW — a card per seat with your pup, your colour and the real keys or pad glyphs for your device; mode, tier and depth pills underneath; expedition and flair on their own key-chip pills. CHOOSE YOUR ROUTE and WHO LIVES — the stage-boundary offer and the round-over verdict are proper cards now, in the same deck as everything else. LOGBOOK — five tabs down the left, stamped rows on the right, and a stamp that lands with a toast the moment you finish a challenge mid-run. TRIALS — a medal grid, three across, with a dossier card for the selected trial: its rules, its three thresholds and your b...
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• Announcements·11 Sept 2026Official

  1.5 FATHOMS — a run that ends, a logbook, and thirteen trials

  A run that ends. Snugfang has always been an endless flood. 1.5 adds the other thing: a run with a last stage, a logbook that counts what you've actually done, and thirteen trials with a clock on them. This is FATHOMS. FATHOMS — pick your route, clear every stage A new couch mode that can be finished. Three depths, each a fixed ladder of stages: SHALLOWS (6 stages), TRENCH (7) and ABYSS (8). Rounds inside a stage stay a readable length — the flood only steps up when you cross a stage boundary, never underneath you mid-round. At every boundary the run stops and offers you a slate of modifier cards. You pick the one you'll be living with for the next stage, and that choice is the run. A permanent STAGE n/N readout sits on the HUD with a pip for every stage you've cleared, so you always know how much is left. Each depth keeps its own record. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/210b66e647597ab55ee31dda96be3cb0edcdd9f1.png THE CHALLENGE LOGBOOK Fifteen challenges across five tabs — CARDS, BIOMES, MODES, TIERS and SKILL. Some are collections (try every card, see every biome, play every mode, clear every tide); the rest are single moments worth going after, like chaining three clutch saves in one run or winning a round on your own. Every row states what it wants and how far in you are, each tab counts its own, and the screen tells you what the whole book stands at. Finish one and the round-over screen names it. Enough of them unlocks two new looks — Barnaclecrust and Kelpwrap. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/6bf7cdcdc593d4cc08c187344c8b643cde3eb972.png TRIALS Thirteen single-round challenges on HOME WATERS and SNOUT SHOALS, each with a bronze, silver and gold time to beat. Everything about a trial is fixed — the biome, the mode, the difficulty, the opening card, even the bots you're up against — so the only variable left is you, and two attempts are genuinely comparable. Each trial keeps its own record. A trial attempt never touches your real personal bests. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4621234...
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• Announcements·24 Aug 2026Official

  1.4 TIDE TABLE — a tide for the day, and records that go deeper

  The run keeps going past round 11 — and there is a reason to come back tomorrow. 1.3 was about making the first ten minutes readable. 1.4 is about what happens after them: a tide that belongs to the day, records that no longer stop being reachable, and two ways out of the round-over screen that were never there. A tide for the day — the same one for everyone Round 1 is now pinned to a named tide that holds for the whole day and rolls over at your local midnight. Everyone playing today gets the same one. The menu says which, and whether you have been down yet: TODAY'S TIDE — HEAVY TIDE · NOT YET DIVED, and once you have, BEST 74s. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/0dcbb8acb529b2205c5c673bf3829dcc45e5a907.png And because the moment you decide whether to come back is the moment you are leaving, the round-over screen now signs off with tomorrow's: TOMORROW'S TIDE — WATERLOGGED {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/c80c501526009c09736d4dfe50eed66658aa020a.png Being straight with you: this is not new content. The deck has not grown, and round 2 onward already dealt you a different order every session. What is new is a schedule — named, shared, and said on the way out. Round 10 was quietly the last round you could set a record in Records were kept per card. The deck laps every 11 rounds and rounds get shorter the deeper you go — so round 12 dealt you the same card as round 1, and could never beat the time you set on it back when rounds ran two and a half minutes. Past round 10 the NEW BEST badge was mathematically unreachable for the rest of the run, and nothing told you. Records are now kept per DEPTH as well. Every depth is judged against itself, so the first time you ever reach round 14 is a record by definition. The per-card record is still kept underneath, untouched. BACK TO LOBBY Changing mode, biome, colour or flair used to mean quitting to the main menu — which wiped the lobby. All four of you pressing JOIN again, picking colours again, readying again. Round-over now has a third b...
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• Patch Notes·14 Aug 2026Official

  1.3 UNDERTOW — the sea was always doing this, now you can see it

  The sea was always doing this. Now you can see it. No new cards this time. 1.3 is a clarity patch: the round-over screen finally answers its own question, every card tells you what it does, and two things the game has been doing to you since launch are visible for the first time. "WHO LIVES" now answers itself The results screen asked the question and then said nothing. It turns out the answer had been written in all 12 languages the whole time — it was just being printed to a surface that is never on screen during couch play. It's on the plate now: LAST BREATH or THE GROUP FELL, how long you lasted, and who stayed up longest. …and it tells you what's coming The round doesn't just end anymore, it hands you the next one: NEXT — ROUND 2 · TINY BUOY — a cramped 1-seat float, one at a time Every card says what it does The deck used to be a set of two-word names. FRAGILE BUOY, WATERLOGGED, BAD BLOOD — no explanation anywhere in the game. All ten base cards now carry a one-line rule describing an effect you can actually verify while playing, in all 12 languages. The undertow is visible When the tide surges it grabs everyone who's underwater and not holding the buoy, and drags them down. That has always been in the game. Nothing on screen ever said so — you just lost control and assumed the physics broke. Now a vortex spins over anyone the sea has hold of, and it's on exactly the swimmers being pulled, nobody else. The arena has been shrinking since launch Every round the boundary you bounce off closes in by half a metre. You could feel it. You could never see it — the only visible edge in the water never moved, so by round 6 it was overstating the real boundary by 45%. There are two rings on the water now: a bright one on the real boundary, and a faint one where it started. The gap between them is the game closing in on you. Learning it The control card no longer prints straight through the RESTART and BACK TO MENU buttons — which is what the very first screen a new playe...
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• Announcements·12 Aug 2026Official

  1.2 CRUEL — Bad Blood, Waterlogged, and a deck that remembers

  It stopped being fair. On purpose. Two new cards, a run that finally picks up where the last one left off, and a menu that keeps score now. This is 1.2 — CRUEL, by name and by design. The deck stops repeating itself Every session used to deal the same five opening cards in the same order — leaving the round and coming back rewound the deck to card zero, every time, no exceptions. The back half of the deck (TINY BUOY, HEAVY TIDE, SHRINKING BUOY, WHIRLPOOL) was only reachable by surviving eight-plus rounds in one unbroken sitting. Not anymore: where you are in the deck is now its own counter, separate from the round you're on, and it carries over between runs instead of rewinding. Come back later and you pick up further in. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/9b29ea9ba10aa633fc4d1f06f5e85b19ba3b442f.png BAD BLOOD and WATERLOGGED join the deck The base deck grows for the first time since launch — 9 cards to 11. BAD BLOOD — every shove lands harder. It's the only card in the deck that touches how hard you can hit someone, and now it does. WATERLOGGED — the float's taken on water. It needs real depth under it before it lifts again, and until then it rides low. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/e4fa9a559b9ebbc2a4ac402bd5f34857b0bedc37.png THE LOGBOOK The main menu now keeps a running tally: total couch rounds played, total time survived, across every session you've ever had. It was already being recorded a month before launch — it just had nowhere to show until now. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46212340/12c6ca13203f3a02e9b62bf4398a08ce020cdb81.png 6 smaller cruelties The lobby now says exactly what it means: SOLO OR UP TO 4. Empty seats fill with AI Chums — couch only. Online still runs SURVIVAL, with real players, untouched. The bot crew rotates every round instead of freezing into the same three personalities for the whole session. Bots that can't reach the buoy now hold a standoff ring around it instead of drifting all the way out to the arena wall. Under KING OF THE BUOY, bots defend the sea...
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