PokéSurvivor updates and patch notes

2026-10-13: Every run counts

Changes and balance

• No more anti-cheat checks: every run counts for the leaderboard and your records, and nothing you earn is taken away.

2026-10-12: Overtime and less random rifts

New

• Overtime: from minute 60 on, wild Pokémon keep getting stronger (more HP and more damage), faster and faster. Before, with maxed upgrades, some runs never ended; now the best ones will last about an hour and a half.
• The game now updates itself when a new version is out: within 5 seconds if you are in the menu, or after your run if you are playing (without losing anything).
• A "What's new" button (this window) with every change to the game.
• Easier to read numbers: 2, 5 and 8 no longer look alike.
• Pick the normal or shiny version of your partner right from the main menu, under it.
• New upgrades for each Pokémon: Critical Hit (+3% critical chance per level, crits deal x1.5 damage), Card reroll (+1 level-up card reroll per run) and Ban (block moves so they never show up in your cards; pick them in Upgrades).
• Move shortcuts (in Upgrades, for each Pokémon): choose which move always goes in each slot, for example Confusion always on 1, for muscle memory.

Changes and balance

• Rock Slide deals less damage (21 instead of 26): it defeated almost twice as many as the average move.
• Level-up card rerolls are no longer earned by defeating bosses: you get 1 free per run and can buy more in Upgrades.
• Rift legendaries no longer always drop x10 tickets: they drop one half of the time (they used to always drop 2, which was too many).
• Co-op: if your networks cannot connect to each other, the room says so and keeps retrying, instead of playing laggy through a slow server.
• We moved to new servers so the game can stay free: you may need to sign in again (with the same account and password, or with Google). Your save and your Pokémon are unchanged.
• Gacha: shinies no longer come out as duplicates. If you roll one you already have, you get another of the same rarity that you are missing.
• Less random rifts: every time one does not show up, the next one is more likely (at most 2.5 minutes without a rift).
• Legendaries you have not beaten yet show up 4 times as often in rifts.
• Healers heal more the harder you hit, but with diminishing returns and a cap (2.5x at most).
• Stronger melee attacks: while one is active you take 25% less damage, and they reach 25% further and deal 20% more damage.
• Co-op: choosing which held item to keep now pauses the run for everyone (it used to keep going and you got hit while choosing).
• Co-op: while someone is choosing a fusion, the run pauses for everyone.
• Co-op: if the host switches tabs or their game stalls, the run pauses for everyone until they are back.
• Runs shorter than 1 minute no longer count for the leaderboard.

Fixes

• Removed broken records from the leaderboard caused by the minute 84 bug (the clock kept running while the game was frozen) and a few impossible ones. If you had one, your next run counts again.
• iPhone (Safari and Chrome): sometimes you could not switch moves by tapping the icons, especially with your other finger on the joystick. Buttons also sit above the home bar now.
• In runs longer than 84 minutes the screen went black, the game froze or you kept levelling up forever. Now you can play for as long as you survive.
• If the game ever crashes, the run ends by itself and is saved (time, defeated, records and leaderboard) instead of being lost.
• Very long runs were sometimes flagged as cheating and did not count for the leaderboard.
• Co-op: if the host switched tabs, enemies stood still and everyone else got a free advantage.
• iPhone: holding your finger on the joystick brought up "Copy / Select all".
• iPhone: fullscreen sometimes did not show up. Now the button explains how to get it (Share and "Add to Home Screen").

2026-10-11: Bonds

New

• Bonds: defeating a legendary lets you fuse moves that fire at the same time from a single slot (up to 4).
• A button to reroll the level-up cards.

Changes and balance

• More rifts.
• Weaker psychic moves and healers.
• Level-up card upgrades (speed, cooldown, experience, magnet, armor and power) can only be taken a limited number of times.
• On mobile, the Pokémon details show alongside; logging in is faster and the x10 gacha can be closed.

Fixes

• Black screen in runs longer than an hour because image memory filled up.
• Tickets were lost if the tab closed before the run ended: now they are saved as soon as you pick them up.
• An upgrade bought right after saving was charged but not applied.
• The game froze forever if something went wrong mid-run.

2026-10-10: More challenge

New

• Bosses and legendaries with 4 telegraphed attacks that get enraged at half health.
• 12 new moves and 8 new ways to attack: boomerang, chain, mines, meteors, turret, dash, trail and spray.
• Mid-run events (single-type hordes, golden hour, lost Pokémon) and Meowth and Gholdengo running away loaded with coins.
• Statues for big Pokémon.

Changes and balance

• Harder: fewer but tougher enemies.
• Levelling up is slower, tickets are rarer and bosses drop a x10 ticket one time in three.
• Faster loading.

Fixes

• Straggling enemies vanished in front of you: now only off-screen.
• Menus and screens overlapped the top bar.

2026-10-09: Mobile and English

New

• Play on phones and tablets with a touch joystick, and install it as an app.
• The game in English and Spanish.
• Settings screen with automatic graphics quality.

Changes and balance

• Fewer but stronger enemies on screen.
• Giga Drain becomes Grass Knot (no more healing).

2026-10-08: Missions, rifts and co-op

New

• Daily and weekly missions, achievements with medals and titles, and a public profile.
• Held items, move evolutions and enemies that heal, shield, summon or explode.
• Rifts leading to 18 legendary arenas, one per type, and weather that changes the fight.
• Co-op with your friends list and leaderboards.
• Upgrades for each Pokémon, a slot-machine ticket gacha and a type chart.

Changes and balance

• Camera further out and enemies that walk around obstacles.

2026-10-07: First version

New

• First public version of PokéSurvivor.

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