
🛠️ Bubbly update history
Official announcements the developer posts on Steam—patches, new content, and events—sorted by date. Click a title to read the full post.
October 2026
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10/7Wed🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.6.0Bubbly v0.8.6.0
ADDED THE CUSTOMIZE BOX: a new machine in the game room - step inside to customize your bubble, crosshair and pets, and to track every achievement.Default bubble skins: Orange, Pearl, Steel, Abyss and…
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10/1Thu🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.5.1Bubbly v0.8.5.1
ADDED The boss you select on the Locations map now glows around its outline, in the colour of the difficulty you picked. FITTS PROTOCOL: Immunity, 2X Points and 2X Size now show on the board while the…
September 2026
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9/29Tue🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.5.0Bubbly v0.8.5.0
ADDEDThe Bubble Machine in the submarine is open: feed it 1 mystery globe, pick a weapon and a bubble you own, choose AUTO-CLICK or MANUAL, and pop with no score, no timer and nothing to lose.HELIX DI…
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9/22Tue🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.4.1Bubbly v0.8.4.1
CHANGED HELIX DISCOVERY: The Ball fights differently. It no longer sits in a corner - it circles the DNA core, fast. You still get 10 seconds with your full weapons; then it attacks with the same blac…
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9/20Sun🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.4.0Bubbly v0.8.4.0
ADDED Pocket Flame, a new Rare weapon, free from your first run. Every 6 seconds a wave of fire rises from the bottom of the board and burns every bubble it reaches. Upgrades make it climb higher and …
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9/17Thu🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.3.1Bubbly v0.8.3.1
CHANGED PLAY button answers the press. While you hold it, it goes solid in the difficulty colour and reads GO! Catty's tutorial bubble needs click to pop instead of hover. A sleeping keepable's slot s…
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9/16Wed🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.3.0Bubbly v0.8.3.0
ADDED Four free weapons: Laser Pen, Electrotrail, Hand of Midas, The Plant. Each has its own intro ceremony.Five free keepables: Aim Bloom, Bubblife, Popvestment, Chill Pill, Cupcake.Extraction checkp…
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9/7Mon🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.2.2Bubbly v0.8.2.2
Changes Fitts Protocol: bubble points are round numbers now. A Default is worth 10, then 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 up the waves, and a Booster is worth 1000. Burger jackpots and skull charges scale wit…
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9/7Mon🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.2.1Bubbly v0.8.2.1
Changes Fitts Protocol: accuracy counts the bubbles you let vanish. Accuracy is now hits out of every chance you had - every click you made plus every bubble that shrank away unclicked. Letting bubble…
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9/5Sat🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.2.0Bubbly v0.8.2.0
NEW ARCADE GAME: FITTS PROTOCOL A new game on the bedroom arcade cabinet. No powers, no auto-pop - just you, your mouse, and bubbles that shrink away. Click the bubbles before they vanish. They appear…
August 2026
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8/31Mon🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.1.3Bubbly v0.8.1.3
Changes Helix Discovery: Nuclear Power is now truly nuclear - the blast wave hits every bubble, boss and mine with double your damage and can crit, and it burns away enemy fire - drone lasers, golden …
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8/31Mon🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.1.2Bubbly v0.8.1.2
Fixes HELIX DISCOVERY - fixed a freeze on death. Getting hit at the exact moment you picked a power (the Medkit especially) could leave the run stuck with the clock still running. The board now holds …
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8/30Sun🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.1.1Bubbly v0.8.1.1
Changes The Spine and The Core were re-tuned on every difficulty - The Core asks for far less XP at every gate, The Spine's later gates rise to meet it, and the old x24 wall between them is now a gent…
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8/30Sun🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.1.0Bubbly v0.8.1.0
Changes Bubbles popped now bank when you Extract. Your lifetime pop count - and the achievements and power unlocks tied to it - grows at the moment you extract, matching everything else the run banks.…
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8/27Thu🛠️ Patch / update v0.8.0.3Bubbly v0.8.0.3
Fixes Main game The run could freeze after alt-tabbing out and back - the board stopped responding while the menu, surrender and restart still worked. This is the soft-lock some of you hit more than o…
Source: official Steam announcements (updated every 6–24 hours). Titles and summaries are copyright of the original developers.