Catacomb Kids

Catacomb Kids has been in Early Access since February 2015 and remains explicitly unfinished. The developer, Tyriq (FourbitFriday), has been consistently transparent about the path to a 1.0 release throughout the game's development. On March 1, 2025, Tyriq announced that he had finished his work on UFO 50 and co-founded a new studio called Odd Object with the game's composer Stevie. He stated that Odd Object would first ship one new game, then return full attention to Catacomb Kids — "finally" pushing it to 1.0 — for the first time as a small team rather than a solo developer. That new studio game, Scrubbin' Trubble, launched on March 31, 2026. In the same announcement post, Tyriq explicitly confirmed that Odd Object's next endeavor will be returning to Catacomb Kids, bringing new development skills and team infrastructure to the project. He noted needing a few weeks for personal matters (moving house and a rest) before that work begins. As of today, October 8, 2026 — roughly six months after the Scrubbin' Trubble launch and that reaffirmation — there has been no further public communication about Catacomb Kids on Steam. However, the developer's stated timeline for personal matters was "several weeks," and no deadline was given for when active Catacomb Kids development would resume. Given the developer's history of long gaps between updates and the explicit, recent commitment to return to the game, the absence of posts since March 31, 2026 does not yet represent an unexpected silence relative to the developer's established communication pattern. The game has received sustained updates throughout its Early Access lifespan, including a full lighting system overhaul, save/load functionality, new player classes, new game modes, and extensive bug fixes. The most recent patch (0.2.4, March 1, 2025) addressed a significant backlog of crashes and bugs to keep the game in a playable state while the developer was occupied with other work.