- Security Advisory (patch 1.28) - 7 October 2025
Gang Beasts patch 1.28 comes out today for currently supported platforms. The 1.28 patch addresses a recently disclosed security vulnerability that can compromise the security of games made with specific versions of the Unity editor. Unity has published resources for patching versions of the Unity editor with this vulnerability (this includes Unity 2021.3.33f1, the build of Unity that Gang Beasts patch 1.27 was made with).To remove the potential for this vulnerability to be exploited it is important to delete older versions of Gang Beasts and install patch 1.28 as soon as you can.Gang Beasts 1.28 also makes back-flipping less difficult compared with patch 1.27.The 1.28 release does not include new stages or costumes or other content and modifications but we plan to give more information on development this month.The key modifications and fixes made in the 1.28 build are:implemented patc…
- Improved Glass Destruction (Update 1.27) - 12 August 2025
Gang Beasts update 1.27 releases today on all supported platforms. This patch focuses on bug fixes with some limited aesthetic improvements, as well as a number of background modifications needed for subsequent updates, including planned support for crossplay. The glass has been cleaned and polished to make it shinier, fixing a number of glaring issues with the glass fracture system. The key modifications and fixes made in the 1.27 build are: StagesFixed an issue with character walk cycles when lifting objects/characters on stairsFixed glass fragments blurring on LighthouseFixed some colliders on Chute to make sausages fall as expectedFixed some stability issues with bricks on GirdersModified camera on Subway (to constrain camera movement within set bounds)Modified shipping container to stop them from detaching prematurely on ContainersOptimised the glass fragmentation system CostumeFix…
- Construction Site Clean Up (Update 1.26) - 12 February 2025
Gang Beasts Update 1.26 is releasing today for all currently supported platforms. This update focuses on bug fixes, and has no new content. The key modifications and fixes made in the 1.26 build are: General Fixed an issue with audio levels on the menu screen Fixed an issue with confetti not triggering in the Waves mode Fixed an issue with controller haptics not triggering in online game sessions Fixed an issue with enemies only targeting other enemies in Waves Fixed an issue with enemy names showing when player characters are eliminated in Waves Fixed an issue with the eyes of concussed and idle player characters not closing in online game sessions Fixed an issue with the 'Special Delivery' achievement/trophy unlocking in error Costumes Fixed an issue where some costume parts made characters spawn and ignore input or have no player colours or costumes Fixed an issue with some costume p…
- Masterfully silly brawler Gang Beasts gets surprise update with driveable cranes and Hitchcockian bird attacks - 20 November 2024
Gang Beasts is one of the games I think of when I recall the golden days of video game expos, before Covid rolled up and nuked the business model. It casts you as one of several jellybaby pugilists, fighting for dominance over such locations as Ferris wheels and the tops of speeding vans. All of the characters are 1) seemingly drunk, and 2) subject to real-time physics. Your abilities consist of 1) punching, headbutting or kicking people, perhaps knocking them out for a few seconds, and 2) grabbing people and things and either hoisting them skyward like a wrestler, or hoisting yourself skyward like a toddler climbing onto Mummy's head. The only way of defeating people is to hurl them off-map. Read more
- Is It a Bird? Is It a Crane? (Update 1.25 Crane Stage) - 20 November 2024
Time to get to work - our new stage, Crane releases today! Crane is a brand new stage included in today’s 1.25 update. Located on the docks of Beef City, this stage will see players attempting to not fall off a large static Crane. This stage includes the first implementation of our new driveables system, with players being able to jump into the Crane cockpit to take the controls. Don’t stay there too long though - the skies of Beef City are now filled with aggressive birds ready to take you for a quick flight. Survive long enough on Crane and these avian menaces will begin to target you with aerial divebombs to pull you into the skies. The birds are relentless too, so much so that they may even follow you over to another particular stage. In order to celebrate the successful integration of our feathered friends into the Beef City natural ecosystem, we have also included some new bird Ki…
- Newly Articulated Gang Beasts (Update 1.24) - 22 August 2024
Gang Beasts Update 1.24 is releasing today for all currently supported platforms. This update is primarily focussed on bug fixes, and there is no new content. The key modification to Gang Beasts in this update is the implementation of a new Interactables System that will allow us to streamline how in-game objects are managed and interacted with in the game engine. This system improves performance by organising interactable objects into optimised lists, therefore making Gang Beasts interacting with the stages faster and more efficient. This change should fix a longstanding issue where Gang Beasts would target the air, instead of the intended target, when too many colliders were in target range. The introduction of this improved Interactables System should help the game feel more responsive and intuitive. It has also been introduced to allow us to experiment with more interesting interact…
- Addressables and Aggressables and Bugs, Oh My (Update 1.23) - 13 June 2024
Gang Beasts patch 1.23 is releasing today for all currently supported platforms. There are a number of bug fixes in the 1.23 release but no new stages or costumes. The key modification to the game in this build is the implementation of Unity’s Addressables Asset System, the adoption of this system standardises and optimises the process for testing and releasing game content. The Addressables implementation is a significant modification to the game and we expect the 1.23 build to trigger some limited stability issues on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. The instructions for fixing this issue are: Windows: Open File Explorer Go to this path replacing 'YourUser' with the users name on the computer you are playing on - C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\LocalLow\Boneloaf\Gang Beasts Delete the folder called com.unity.addressables macOS: Open Finder Go to path replacing YourUser with the users nam…
- Is It a Crane? (Patch 1.21.1) - 14 February 2024
Is It a Crane? (Update 1.21.1) Roses are red, Violets are violet, Is It a Crane? It is a Crane! It has been ten full years of cartoon violence since the Gang Beasts 0.0.0 pre-alpha builds were published on Valentines Day 2014. For ten years the foaming masses of Beef City have slowly coagulated into gelatinous agglomerations of hostility, spreading through the grim streets of the Meatropolis. We're profoundly thankful to have an audience and community for Boneloaf's games and toys and for the miscellaneous scenes of silliness and callous brutality demonstrated in Gang Beasts over the last decade. A glut of technical debt have made it increasingly frustrating and difficult to release frequent fixes and content in the last 2-3 years. We've been working with Rocket Science and Unity to pass/remove these limitations for some time and expect to build to a more stable release cadence from thi…
- Is it a Bird? (Patch 1.21) - 4 October 2023
Gang Beasts patch 1.21 is releasing today for all currently supported platforms! The 1.21 patch addresses a number of miscellaneous issues which will allow us to focus on new content in subsequent updates. The 1.21 build does not include new stages or costumes and is focused on these fixes (see below for more information). A new stage and new costumes will be released soon, once we’re confident it is ready and subject to it passing quality assurance. The key modifications and fixes made in the 1.21 build: General • New languages! We now support Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified) and Chinese (traditional). • New Menu font to improve legibility. • Tweaked buoyancy physics across all stages that use buoyancy. • Improved Tentacles AI on the Aquarium stage. • Addressed the problem of players being randomly kicked from local games. • Corrected left and right grabs when interacting with ob…
- Gang Beasts devs plan to resurrect the drunken putty-people brawler’s spiritual successor as their next game - 21 July 2023
The devs behind flailing fisticuffs multiplayer game Gang Beasts have revealed their hopes to resurrect its predecessor as their next major project, a decade after Boneloaf’s second wobbly wrestling hit took off and derailed their initial plans. Read more
- Gang Beast dev Boneloaf is prepping for a return to its original project: Grim Beasts - 20 July 2023
Boneloaf - the developer behind multiplayer brawler Gang Beasts - is looking to move onto its next game in the near future. According to marketing and communications manager Connor Clarke at Develop 2023, the studio is considering a return to its original project: Grim Beasts. "Funnily enough, Gang Beasts was always the second game in a trilogy," states Clarke, sitting by the beach last week. "If you search back to the initial post on the Gang Beasts website back in 2013, you’ll see we were working on a game first - I won’t point it out, I’ll let you try and find out what it is - that will be basically the next thing we want to work on." Doing exactly that won't provide blog posts on the official website, which appear to be missing as of writing. However, if you do dive into the past you will uncover results for Grim Beasts. Several gameplay demos exist - many of which will seem very fa…
- Choice Cuts From the Boneloafery (July 2022) - 26 July 2022
It's Quiet...Too Quiet It's been difficult to give much information on Gang Beasts in the last 8 months (since the Trawler stage came out) as we build Boneloaf's development and operations teams with support from Robot Teddy. We’re working with Robot Teddy, Coatsink, Multiplay, and Lockit QA to hire more development, testing, and operations staff to support more frequent content and bug fixes and to build more exhaustive production and support processes. This will mean more communication from us, and to release more stable builds of the game for you. We're currently testing modifications, fixes, and stage and costume content for the next Gang Beasts release (more information to come pretty soon) and have made this post to summarise what else we're working on and to give information on some other fun Gang Beasts stuff. Escape from Beef City Some of the population of Beef City have slippe…
- A New Stage Approaches - 9 December 2021
Welcome, everyone! You may notice that there’s a brand new update to Gang Beasts, and we know it’s something you’ve all been waiting for, so we won’t keep you in suspense. Trawler has arrived! A brand new stage, filled with a deteriorating fishing trawler in an isolated sea and a whole shiver of sharks. That’s right, the lifeless black eyed creatures themselves will hop aboard and try to take you for a swim. By “deteriorating fishing trawler”, we mean the stage will become just that. Survive long enough from either the assaults of your friends or the deadly sea swimmers, and the stage will begin to sink (quite literally). Remember to not let go for as long as you can, we all know what's awaiting in the murky depths. On top of the deterioration of the stage, you’ll also have two interactive crane systems with fully functioning mechanical levers to get yourselves familiar with. On top of…
- Changelog 1.17 - 28 June 2021
Released on 16 June and updated on 25 June, 2021 Known Issue: the XInput toggle in Settings has been temporarily removed. This will return soon! The game will only support a maximum of 4 Xbox controllers locally until this is back, but any other controllers will still support up to 8 players! Switched to a new matchmaking system. General optimisation pass over various stages, including Wheel, Aquarium and Tower. Made a general pass over most stages with eliminated player issues. Fixed various infinite loading screen bugs when playing online. Loading screen changed to correctly show loading progress. Changed online loading system to reduce chances of missing objects when playing online. Reduced loading times. Fixed issue where objects or players would not load on various levels online. Fixed an issue on Train that could make matches incorrectly result in a draw. Camera on Wheel no longer…
- New Matchmaker BETA testing - 21 May 2021
If you would like to find people to test the new Matchmaker or to just talk about Gang Beasts, join the community run Discord server here: https://discordapp.com/invite/gXh2HRH
- M1 Macs will be supported in Q3/Q4 - 18 March 2021
We are aware of the issue with the M1 Macs. They are supported in a later version of Unity and we are going to upgrade our Unity version later in Q2 /Q3. We will have support available for Gang Beasts then.
- It put up a good fight, but Update 1.16 is finally here! - 4 February 2021
The Loading Screen Bug We are happy to announce we have fixed the notorious loading screen bug, that has been plaguing some people, and we wanted to explain a few things to help shed some light on why it took so long for us t o fix it. The bug initially was just incredibly hard to reproduce internally, which is the first step towards finding out what was actually happening. To find it we had to create a new debugging tool for the server and client builds to help us track it down. With this new tool we managed to reproduce the issue consistently, and in a way that we could generate logs to help guide us to a solution. This highlighted to us that in fact, it was several bugs manifesting as one! All of which we have fixed and should never rear their ugly heads again. You may be wondering why we released the previous update with such a glaring bug? Well, to put it simply, it hasn't turned u…
- Amusing multiplayer party game Gang Beasts has a huge update and big sale - 9 December 2020
Gang Beasts from Boneloaf is the super-silly party game that sees various gelatinous characters engage in brutal fisticuffs and it's bigger and better than ever. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/amusing-multiplayer-party-game-gang-beasts-has-a-huge-update-and-big-sale
- Gang Beasts Aquarium Update (build 1.13) - 9 December 2020
Some of you may already know this but the Aquarium Update (build 1.13) has now been released! This update has a new Aquarium stage, an updated Wheel stage that works online, a series of super hero/villain costume sets, and numerous fixes for stages, online, and gameplay issues. General: Updated the game engine to Unity 2020 (from Unity 2017). This was a significant upgrade and although we've fixed a massive amount, there may be a few bugs we haven't caught yet with the transition. Unity 2019 dropped support for 32-bit Linux operating systems, as such Gang Beasts can now only support 64-bit Linux operating systems. Fixed an issue preventing bloom from working. Updated the project to be able to build and test on consoles again. Updated graphics settings to fix a few issues with the transition from 2017 to 2020. Mac builds now use Metal as its primary graphics API, as such there should be…
- Punch your hearts out - 26 November 2020
