MADNESS: Project Nexus

MADNESS: Project Nexus launched on September 29, 2021 and has received sustained post-launch development from its two-person team ever since. The game received a major story content update on April 11, 2023 ("Legacy of the S-3LF Eater"), and since then the team has been building out a comprehensive modding and Workshop support system — a multi-year initiative with regular public milestones. Workshop modding tools launched in beta on May 24, 2024. Custom Scene Tools were released on November 2, 2024. By August 6, 2025, the team had shipped support for full custom cutscenes and multi-stage custom campaigns, describing ongoing cleanup and new features still in the pipeline. On February 16, 2026, a patch update confirmed that Vessels and Character Refs were nearly ready for public beta testing. The most recent update — a beta branch patch on April 15, 2026 — delivered the live beta for those Vessels and Character Refs systems, along with new modding tools including Custom Seats and support for Harmony 2.4.2 assembly loading. The developers have been explicit that they are not done. On the game's third launch anniversary (September 29, 2024), the developer wrote: "It's been three years since this 8-year project finally launched, and we're still adding content." The August 2025 post stated: "We're far from done with tinkering and giving you guys new features." No final update announcement or statement of completion has been made. The last developer communication was on April 15, 2026. As of today (August 24, 2026), that is approximately four months of silence — consistent with this team's historical pattern of updates every few months, and well within the established cadence.