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Familiar Territory

Steam Workshop games and Source 1 mounting bring familiar experiences into s&box, alongside big performance improvements, new lighting tools, and achievement-based weekly rewards.

by matt
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Rethinking

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Neck & Neck

The citizen has a neck now, the game jam finalists are neck & neck, and we've been hunting down bottlenecks.

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  1. 22 SEP 2026 This Is My Jam. We're still game jammin', parties are bigger & better, and we've got scripting, smaller shaders, cleaner shadows, and more new toys for creators. chat_bubble 17 arrow_outward
  2. 15 SEP 2026 Update 26.09.15 A new drawing API, razor-sharp GPU text, improved host migration, game hover cards, and Block Party. Plus mesh editing tools, performance gains, Mac and Linux improvements and a price drop. chat_bubble 16 arrow_outward
  3. 08 SEP 2026 Update 26.09.08 This week we've got 2D physics and a ton of UI changes with a new layout engine, CSS Grid, inline text, menus, scrollbars and a new color picker. Plus better frame pacing, navigation improvements, and more. chat_bubble 18 arrow_outward
  4. 01 SEP 2026 Update 26.09.01 A new main menu, personalized game discovery, native Linux support, major UI rendering improvements, game jam announcement and the road ahead. chat_bubble 28 arrow_outward
  5. 19 AUG 2026 Update 26.08.19 A small developer focused patch with some editor & movie maker QOL. chat_bubble 24 arrow_outward
  6. 05 AUG 2026 Update 26.08.05 New rendering guts: Slang shaders, Vulkan 1.3, rebuilt Bloom, DLSS, and static shadow caching — plus a big mesh & mapping editor haul. chat_bubble 21 arrow_outward
  7. 22 JUL 2026 Update 26.07.22 This week's update brings improvements to mapping tools, bug fixes, and our first developer preview of AnimGraph 2. chat_bubble 13 arrow_outward
  8. 15 JUL 2026 Update 26.07.15 This week's update brings major terrain performance improvements, talking NPCs with lip-sync & subtitles, editor gets a docking system overhaul and a ton of mapping tooling. Plus our usual stream of performance improvements and bug fixes. chat_bubble 15 arrow_outward
  9. 08 JUL 2026 Update 26.07.08 First-party weapons/inventory 🔫 screen-space shadows 🌗 editor MCP tools 🤖 targeted addons 🎯 viewport gizmo 🧭 faster clutter 🚀 and a ton of fixes 🛠️ chat_bubble 19 arrow_outward
  10. 01 JUL 2026 Update 26.07.01 Minor patch this week with fixes and optimizations. chat_bubble 11 arrow_outward
  11. 24 JUN 2026 Update 26.06.24 A ton of Rust assets for your games to use, more discovery work to promote new experiences, more fixes, more features, more optimizations chat_bubble 18 arrow_outward
  12. 17 JUN 2026 Update 26.06.17 A new arcade racer 🏎️ play maps from other games 🗺️ code archives are private 🔒 more editor tools 🔨 more optimizations 📈 and our plans for the future 📔 chat_bubble 23 arrow_outward
  13. 10 JUN 2026 Update 26.06.10 Improved reward system earn items by completing goals 🎁 Humans got a makeover 💅 Games load faster ⚡ Twitch API 🟪 And more! chat_bubble 20 arrow_outward
  14. 03 JUN 2026 Update 26.06.03 New physical audio simulation 🔉, rendering optimizations 🚀, game discovery that rewards quality and shows what's updated 🆕, terrain editor QOL, and much more 🤯 chat_bubble 21 arrow_outward
  15. 27 MAY 2026 Update 26.05.27 A smaller, maintenance focused week - audio system rewrite, physics optimizations, and a load of bug fixes. chat_bubble 15 arrow_outward
  16. 20 MAY 2026 Update 26.05.20 This update introduces new tutorials, random drops, a platform chat system, a new welcome screen, rendering and audio API additions, performance improvements, and a wide range of editor and rendering fixes. chat_bubble 16 arrow_outward
  17. 18 MAY 2026 Hackweek (May 2026) Weird and interesting things we got up to during hackweek, voxels, gaussian splats and more chat_bubble 25 arrow_outward
  18. 13 MAY 2026 Update 26.05.13 AI thumbnail punishment, more discovery updates, FSR3 upscaling, a big physics update and more. chat_bubble 34 arrow_outward
  19. 06 MAY 2026 Update 26.05.06 New review system tags, a big push on performance and loading times, moderation tools and our usual new editor features. chat_bubble 20 arrow_outward
  20. 29 APR 2026 Post Release The day after the night before chat_bubble 59 arrow_outward
  21. 28 APR 2026 Release Every journey starts with a first step, this is ours. s&box is now available to buy on Steam. chat_bubble 72 arrow_outward
  22. 22 APR 2026 Update 26.04.22 One week to go for release, packing in all the last minute goodies. Like auto-lodding, 2D spritesheet support, media framework rewrite, a ton of spring cleaning and some big fixes and optimizations. chat_bubble 23 arrow_outward
  23. 15 APR 2026 Update 26.04.15 Developer Preview is closed 🛑, UI batching big FPS gains 🚀, tying up all the loose ends 🪢 chat_bubble 41 arrow_outward
  24. 08 APR 2026 Update 26.04.08 Sandbox open source 🎈, documentation open source 📃, games menu makeover 💅, Doo visual scripting 🪛 and the usual bug fixes chat_bubble 32 arrow_outward
  25. 01 APR 2026 Update 26.04.01 New shadows are finally done, Sandbox got saves, we attended DreamHack and more! chat_bubble 18 arrow_outward
  26. 25 MAR 2026 Update 26.03.25 A future looking roadmap 🛣️, standalone games license 🪪, morphs + faceposer 🥸, and more! chat_bubble 14 arrow_outward
  27. 18 MAR 2026 Update 26.03.18 Demo recording for Movie Maker 🎬, Sausage Survivors 2, more editor features and more fixes! chat_bubble 10 arrow_outward
  28. 11 MAR 2026 Update 26.03.11 🛠️Fixes, Optimizations, Mapping, Sandbox progress and more! chat_bubble 14 arrow_outward
  29. 04 MAR 2026 Update 26.03.04 Clutter is here! 🌴🌴 Performance boosts 🚀, UI rendering overhaul, main menu polish 💅 and more Sandbox features! chat_bubble 12 arrow_outward