Changelog

Every Deadlight release.

Version, build number, date, and what actually changed. The version is what the stores show; the build number is ours, and it tells you which upload a version came from.

Google Play
1.7.0build 41

Live since 30 August 2026.

App Store
1.7.0build 41

Live since 30 August 2026.

Next
1.8.0build 43

In development. Expected late September 2026.

In developmentbuild 43

1.8.0 Coming next

Neighbours, a bus, and every language rewritten.

  • The other crew. Another group of survivors lives two houses down. Meet them on a run or from the watch post, decide what to do when they knock, and end up allies who trade and warn you, or in a feud that ends in a showdown.
  • Room for everyone. A school bus in the school lot. Clear the school, then get it running, and five people ride out instead of three.
  • Lights on. Bring the hospital's generator home and every treatment in the infirmary heals more.
  • A quest for every profession. Fifteen signature quests, and new personal quests keep arriving through the run instead of stopping after the first.
  • Every language, rewritten by hand. The whole game reads right for men and women. Spanish is neutral Latin American. German and French events that showed raw labels are fixed. Korean particles, Russian and Arabic plurals, Arabic right-to-left layout.
  • A bigger shelter. Six beds, eight with the bunks upgraded, ten at their best. Runs can also start with one or two survivors.
  • Expeditions you can read. Each location shows a risk band for the party you have picked, a successful run always brings home at least one food and one water, and the recap tells you when a place is picked clean.
  • Choose your board. The classic task board is back as an option in Settings.
  • Fixed: the bunker objective text asked for more than the quest required. Privacy options and consent for EU players.
30 August 2026builds 40, 41

1.7.0 Live

The safehouse is finally something you build.

  • Build your base. Improve nine rooms, or add a rain catcher, a garden or a watchtower.
  • Long runs. Twice the days, not twice the danger.
  • A trader calls every five days and takes his cut.
  • Three new main objectives, and an in-game guide to how it all works.
  • Tonight's raid weighs defence against threat and warns of a horde the evening before.
  • Setup rerolls are now limited.
  • Fixed: friendships collapsing for no reason.
24 August 2026builds 38, 39

1.6.1

  • Banner ads and optional rewarded aid (a supply drop, a repair boost, a weapon), with frequency tuned from the server rather than baked into the build.
  • The QA menu is gated out of release builds.
22 August 2026builds 36, 37

1.6.0

Your people can finally change.

  • People change. Survive the worst and move a skill point. What they gave up is scarred for good.
  • Fixed: infection no longer rises from bad news, only from wounds.
16 August 2026build 35

1.5.6

The biggest update since launch. The group can finally get out alive.

  • An ending. Repair the vehicle and escape. Only three seats, so the last choice of a run is who you leave behind.
  • Hunger, thirst and exhaustion make people worse at everything, not just fill a bar.
  • Strangers at the door can join you. The group can grow, not only shrink.
  • 21 quests, now with deadlines and real consequences.
  • The Ledger remembers every run: who died, and what you earned for next time.
11 August 2026build 34

1.5.5

  • The game no longer crashes if the device's audio player fails; the music simply stops. Fixed a rare crash when starting a run before content had finished loading.
24 to 26 July 2026builds 31 to 33

1.5.3, 1.5.4

  • Google Play Billing updated; crash reporting added so rare failures reach us.
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.
4 to 9 July 2026builds 27 to 29

1.5.0 to 1.5.2

Deadlight arrives on the App Store.

  • iOS release. The same game on iPhone and iPad.
  • Complete story translations in all nine other languages.
  • More games from ZiBa, linked from Settings.
1 July 2026build 23

1.4.0

  • Hand-drawn portraits with real expressions that react to what happens in your run. Pick each survivor's face from a roster of young adults and elders, men and women.
27 June to 1 July 2026builds 19, 20

1.2.0

  • Active quests appear as a strip on the board. Tap it to open the Quests screen.
  • Ten new events, including tense zombie encounters with lasting consequences.
  • Dozens of missing German and French event translations added.
  • Fixed a rare freeze on the phase recap screen.
23 June 2026build 17

1.1.0

  • A Quests button next to the team icon for one-tap access. The first-run guide shows your active main quest.
19 to 29 May 2026builds 7 to 11

1.0.0

Launch on Google Play, and the first month of updates.

  • Ambient music that loops through the game, and a mourning track for one phase after a death.
  • Five cooking events, a post-run summary, and reminder notifications with a toggle in Settings.
  • Portraits blink and react. Repair costs show materials needed versus on hand. A dog quest worth +15 defence.
  • An End Phase button on the board. Survivors are men or women, and the narration says so.
  • A main menu with Continue Run and New Run. Progress is saved after every phase.

Finding your version

On Android, open the Google Play listing for Deadlight and expand "About this app"; the version is at the bottom, and your phone's own Settings, under Apps, shows the same. On iOS the App Store listing shows the version under Information and in Version History. When something goes wrong, the version plus the day and phase of the run is enough for us to find it.

Updates are free. Runs saved in an older version keep working after an update.