
POPULATION: ONE
🛠️ POPULATION: ONE 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.
December 2025
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12/20Sat🛠️ Patch / updateUpdate On POPULATION: ONE PCVR
To safeguard our community from unfair play, starting today, new purchases of POPULATION: ONE on Steam and Meta PCVR will be paused. Existing PCVR players remain unaffected and can keep playing, unins…
July 2025
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7/3Thu📢 AnnouncementJuly 2nd, 2025 Change List
July 2, 2025 Change List General GameplaySummer Time Event: Water WarfareLive 7/03-7/10Get out your water guns and get ready for some wild rewards in our Summer time event.Experience an old mode with …
March 2025
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3/5Wed📢 AnnouncementMarch 4, 2025 Change List
General Gameplay Temporary Game Mode Schedule (March only) starting March 4 @ 11am PST: * 18 Player Phoenix Squads as the first slot and default * 24 Player Evolving Squads available Monday to Friday …
February 2025
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2/4Tue📢 AnnouncementFebruary 3rd, 2025 Change List
General Gameplay Evolving Map has been switched back to the Standard Variant with Ironworks integrated into the UGC/Sandbox location. Sandbox/UGC Gameplay Updated Featured Playlist with new maps. Stro…
December 2024
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12/11Wed📢 AnnouncementDecember 10th, 2024 Change List
General Gameplay Evolving Map has been switched to the Winter Variant with Winter Wonderland by morecowbell520 integrated into the UGC/Sandbox location Haptics Intensity Slider Custom Room Gameplay Al…
November 2024
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11/5Tue📢 AnnouncementNovember 4th, 2024, Change List
November 4th, 2024, Change List ------------------ General Update Meta Haptics Studio Integration All haptics are now played through the new Meta Haptics Studio Integration for a better experience and…
October 2024
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10/16Wed🛠️ Patch / updateSmall Backend Update
Hey POP1 Community, Today we are launching a small backend update for improvements to real-time messaging and friending. You may notice an update required to launch POP1. See you in-game!
August 2024
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8/28Wed📢 AnnouncementAugust 27th, 2024 Change List
August 27th, 2024 Change List ------------------ General Gameplay Phoenix: Final shifting zones are now ~20% smaller Sprint: Lowered sprint speed 8.2m/s -> 7.75m/s Sprint: Increased sprint duration an…
July 2024
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7/31Wed📢 AnnouncementJuly 30th, 2024 Change List
July 30th, 2024, Change List ------------------ General Gameplay Battlezone progressive damage timer now only counts up while the player is alive. Sandbox Fixed large saved groups not being able to sp…
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7/16Tue📢 AnnouncementJuly 15th, 2024 Change List
July 15th, 2024, Change List ------------------ Phoenix Royale Redeploy time can now be reduced by Teammate's actions: kills, squad eliminations, revives (via defibs or redeploy), and opening crates. …
June 2024
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6/25Tue📢 AnnouncementJune 24th, 2024 Change List
June 24th, 2024, Change List ------------------ General Update Implemented essential improvements for better backend stability Note: On Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024, around 8am Pacific, we’ll conduct sched…
May 2024
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5/29Wed📢 AnnouncementMay 28th, 2024 Change List
May 28th, 2024, Change List ------------------ Phoenix Royale - Going Live June 6 POP1’s largest Battle Royale update yet! Preview Weekend March 31 - June 3 Phoenix Royale Gameplay - Going Live with P…
March 2024
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3/27Wed📢 AnnouncementMarch 26th, 2024 Change List
Gameplay Gun Balance Changes Tec9: Min Damage increased 10->12 DT11: Base Damage decreased 13->12 MP9: Base Damage decreased 23->21 Uzis: Damage Falloff Distance increased 20->28 M60: Min Damage decre…
December 2023
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12/7Thu📢 AnnouncementDecember 6th, 2023 Change List
December Monthly Match Rewards (Ends Dec. 31st) Play an active game mode (Squads, Deathmatch, and Co-Op Bot Battle, etc.) to make progress towards the monthly rewards! Monthly Matches Tiers: * Powder …
September 2023
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9/13Wed📢 AnnouncementSeptember 12th, 2023 Change List
September Monthly Match (Ends September 30th) Play an active game mode (Squads, Team Deathmatch, and Co-Op Bot Battle, etc.) to make progress towards the monthly rewards! Monthly Matches Tiers: * Pink…
Source: official Steam announcements (updated every 6–24 hours). Titles and summaries are copyright of the original developers.