UFO 50 news & patch notes

Japanese language added.

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• More performance optimizations.

Block Koala

• Level Editor: Fixed a bug in the code editor where you could place a fountain that went past the right edge of the level

• Level Editor: Fixed crashes in the code editor when placing fountains near the right and bottom edges of the level

• Level Editor: Fixed a bug in the graphic editor where you could place a block on top of flowers and fountains if it happened in the same frame as moving

Bug Hunter

• Removed a dead frame in the movement system that could affect speedrunning.

Campanella 2

• Fixed bug where you could get a glitched game state by doing a frame perfect pause during a transition.

Elfazar's Hat

• Fixed 2P Bonus Game erroneously displaying P1's lives for both players.

Grimstone

• Fixed: Two townsfolk in Heston would say "0" after defeating Gobbler, instead of their normal dialogue.

Mini & Max

• Fixed a bug that could cause the completion time to read AM instead of PM or vice versa.

Mortol

• Fixed a bug where you could clear the wrong data (1P data / 2P data) when starting a new game.

Bug Hunter

• Fixed: When shooting from an elevated position, you could not target another, disconnected elevated position.

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• Fixed a rare crash that could occur in the pause menu when connecting and disconnecting controllers.

• Various performance optimizations, focusing on games with the most slowdown (e.g. Grimstone, Porgy).

• Other minor improvements.

Avianos

• Fixed a bug that caused ancestors to remain scrambled after moving on to an unscrambled scenario.

Bug Hunter

• Fixed: Movement prediction wasn't working properly for the Traverse module.

• Fixed: Movement prediction wasn't working properly for pushing bugs into bug spray.

• Fixed: Transport and Tunnel were not comboing with Power Up.

• Fixed: If your final bug died from energy cubes dropping in at the end of round, you didn't win the game like you were supposed to.

• Fixed: When activating modules, you could use simultaneous inputs to select supposedly unselectable areas.

• Fixed: French intro text was getting cut off.

Campanella 2

• Fixed some bugs with level generation.

Grimstone

• Fixed: Some text was always displaying in English irrespective of the Language setting.

• Fixed: In groups of 8 enemies, two enemies could overlap each other.

• Fixed: CHACHA affects the entire party but the text would refer to a single target.

Hyper Contender

• Fixed: When using the code PAST-RULE, Donkus could crash the game.

Lords of Diskonia

• Fixed: The failed scenarios stat wasn't working properly.

Mini & Max

• Fixed: When certain cave enemies laid their eggs in item blocks it would crash the game.

• Fixed: When projectiles thrown by cave amoebas passed through other enemies, it created slowdown.

• Fixed: Softlock in Mini & Max if you enter the evil Hexan town from the left side (requires moving a block).

Night Manor

• Fixed: Using the garage opener displayed a blank text box if the garage door was already open.

Vainger

• Makes player shot collision hierarchy consistent.

UFO 50 has been shortlisted for Best Game at the 2025 GameMaker Awards! Honored to be part of this fantastic group of games.

Most of the UFO 50 team has been using GameMaker to develop games for a long time... even before we started working on UFO 50 together! Suffice to say, it's been instrumental to us and many other indie developers and we're hugely appreciative to the GameMaker team for their hard work over the years.

ːufocampː If you'd like, you can vote for us here until Dec. 9: opr.as/GMA25-Vote

Thanks so much!

From now through December 1, every in-stock item in Fangamer's UFO 50 collection will ship for free within the US and at a discounted international rate, in addition to building up store credit for future orders! If you're in Europe and the UK, you can also get free shipping from Fangamer Europe.

ːufocampː Worldwide: https://fanga.me/r/ufo50-bf2025

ːufocampː UK & EU: https://fanga.me/r/ufo50-bf2025-eu

Some new merch for you, as part of our UFO 50 Merch Collection at Fangamer:

• Night Manor Shirt - Zero bad dreams while wearing this awesome tee

• Party House Pins - You'll be the life of the party! (Not guaranteed to cancel out trouble.)

Hope you enjoy!

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Valbrace

• Fixed crash when casting WHIRLWIND.

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• Fixed an issue where a game's attract mode could cause win times to be overwritten incorrectly.

• Addressed an issue with the in-game timer that could affect times slightly in certain games.

Bushido Ball

• Fixed: Player 2 Selector was displaying incorrectly.

Lords of Diskonia

• Fixed: Panning the camera during a shot could temporarily render the disk invisible.

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• More performance optimizations across the board, but in particular: Golfaria, Lords of Diskonia, Porgy

• Lowered the amount of times that the collection/games write to disk.

Block Koala

• Fixed bug in Level Editor that prevented you from inputting a "P" (Player).

• Fixed bug in Level Editor that prevented you from placing black 2 and 3 blocks along the bottom/right edges.

Combatants

• Fixed a bug where the battle sound could get stuck looping indefinitely.

Golfaria

• Fixed a bug where the ball would brake excessively against the edges of pits.

Hyper Contender

• Fixed a freeze that could happen if Yogo used his claw arm to latch onto a moving platform near the edge of the screen.

Lords of Diskonia

• Fixed a bug where going from Match Mode into Streak Mode meant that your units would end up randomized.

Mini & Max

• Fixed: You could get softlocked if you quit immediately after killing Gearface.

Mortol II

• Fixed: Knight's slashes were not being destroyed.

Planet Zoldath

• Fixed a bug that caused warps to only work in one direction.

• Fixed a bug that caused metamorphed trees to turn invisible.

Rail Heist

• In Rescue Mission, if you break any of the walls around Brand, you now gain control of him and he can escape.

ːufocampː In case you missed it, you can pre-order the UFO Companion guidebook from Fangamer (shipping in February 2026): https://www.fangamer.com/collections/ufo-50/products/ufo-50-players-guide

100+ pages of tips, tricks, maps, stickers, and original artwork that covers all 50 games in UFO 50! A jam-packed guide that's fun to flip through, even for those who have already mastered the collection.

Can be bought standalone via the above link or as part of the Nintendo Switch Deluxe Physical Edition (unfortunately, this deluxe physical edition is only available in the US). UFO 50 Collection at Fangamer: https://www.fangamer.com/collections/ufo-50

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• Performance optimizations across the board.

• Lowered the amount of times that the collection and specific games try to save.

• Various improvements to localization.

Avianos

• Fixed bug with Fog of War in Multiplayer that could expose your army to your opponent.

Campanella 3

• Fixed: If you exited the game during the Bonus Stage the library record stat would erroneously display STAGE 6 (one beyond max).

Grimstone

• Fixed: When naming your party, you were limited by the number of characters in the original name.

Quibble Race

• Fixed a bug that caused "very steady" quibbles to be described as just "steady."

Warp Tank

• Fixed a bug where you would explode when warping off-screen in a place where that shouldn't happen.

• Fixed a broken checkpoint state which could occur in one specific place.

Fun UFO 50 event happening this weekend (August 29-31)!

Cherry Rush is a three-day charity marathon organized by members of the UFO 50 community to show off the game and raise money for Partners in Health, a nonprofit that works to provide high-quality healthcare around the world to those in need.

During the event, skilled players will be taking turns collecting ːufocherryː in all 50 games in UFO 50. There will also be races and other fun challenges.

See the Cherry Rush website for more info: https://www.cherry-rush.org/

Hope you can check out the stream! First run is BARBUTA on Friday, August 29 at 8am PT.

Hey, everyone! Wanted to let you know that UFO 50 has just been released on Nintendo Switch, in case you're interested or know someone who might be! Thanks to Hidden Trap for assisting us with this port. Obviously this console release has taken quite a bit of work, but we still have plans for Steam: more languages (like Japanese), more bugfixes, and more optimizations. Thanks so much for your support! We hope you enjoy the game on Switch and look forward to further improvements on Steam. ːufocampː

• Fixed an issue where one puzzle would be unsolvable under certain conditions.

• Fixed an issue with things being temporarily invisible after teleporting.

• Fixed an issue with ladder visibility.

• Fixed a potential crash when idling on Game Over screen.

• Fixed a bug where lightning was failing to warn before striking.

• Fixed an issue with an enemy attacking from off-screen.

• Fixed a bug where music wouldn't change as you transitioned between screens.

• Fixed: Barbuta "ROOMS SEEN" stat was not counting properly, making the gift impossible to obtain.
• Fixed: Crash when assigning a pad in Joypad Config.

• Various performance optimizations.
• Fixed: Speed records for completing Avianos and for completing the whole collection inadvertently shared the same variable. Note: Players who already completed all 50 games likely have incorrect times for Avianos speedruns. Unfortunately, we're unable to recover that data. Sorry about that. :(
• Fixed: Interface for viewing your whole collection completion times was inconsistent with how it's handled elsewhere.
• Fixed: Changing language in profile settings didn't change the language of the Mood setting.
• New: You can now reset joypad controls back to the defaults by holding both shoulder buttons on the Joy Config menu for 2 seconds. This was needed for Steam Deck players especially.
• Some attract modes that were broken were re-recorded.

• Tweak: The first campaign scenario now shows a single grunt instead of a row of grunts, since it was confusing when juxtaposed against the tip about forming columns.
• Fixed: Hit boxes on enraged grunts were too large, causing them to sometimes get hit by assassin daggers that should miss them.
• Fixed: It was possible to glitch the SLOW-DOWN cheat and get unlimited moves.

• Fixed: The AI was making some minor reasoning errors in its building logic when gods were scrambled.

• Fixed: When a Dragonfloosh turned into an egg, its drone did not die right away and could be rescued by a new Dragonfloosh spawning in.
• Fixed: Pushing a drone into anti-energy produced a larvae that could still fly.
• Fixed: Pushing an invincible Dragonfloosh onto bug spray caused a repeating audio glitch.
• Fixed: In making movement predictions, the game didn't properly account for pushing Dragonflooshes in or out of invincibility range.
• Balance: Dragonflooshes no longer will spawn a drone if a preexisting drone already protects them.
• Fixed: Using Resupply to add a third anti-energy created an explosion instead of an egg.
• Fixed: There were inconsistencies in what would happen if you pushed an egg into anti-energy. Now, it should always cause eggs to hatch.
• Balance: Cost of Burst lowered to 3.
• Fixed: Maximize now applies its effect to Maneuver and Engage.

• Fixed: Crash after entering the line-of-sight of a destroyed Spiderbot in Guin's Antarctica mission.

• Fixed: Playing a draft battle would disrupt the highest level stat shown in the record box on the library screen.
• Fixed: The text "DRAFT YOUR CONTENDER" wasn't localized.
• Fixed: The AI would attempt to deflect Brazz's rockets at times when it wasn't possible.

• Balance: Now ensures that in Streak mode and 2P Full War mode, both players will receive the same 3 initial skill options.
• Fixed: The aiming skill was occasionally misleading, implying collisions that wouldn't happen in practice. This is now fixed in 90% of cases.
• Fixed: The "scenario losses" stat wasn't saving properly.

• Fixed: Missing wall in the book interior.
• Fixed: If you earned the angel wings but didn't collect them and left the screen, they would vanish permanently.
• Fixed: Hard to do, but if you died during Gearface's self destruct program, it would prevent you from ever destroying Gearface.

• Fixed: Fights with 10+ hazards improperly used the spawn rate from the previous round instead of the maximum spawn rate as intended.

• Fixed: Running over a blob could cause the player to spin out indefinitely.

• Fixed: If you had two werewolves in different forms in your rolodex, you could not specify which one you wanted to fetch with Driver or Private I.
• Fixed: In versus mode, during player 2's chance to tie, if they triggered a mid-party scoring via Photographer or Greeter, they would suddenly lose the game.
• Fixed: Using Magician caused the next card revealed by Watch Dog or Spy to become inaccurate.

• Fixed: If you walked in or out of the dungeon while the boomerang was carrying an item, the item could be permanently lost.
• Fixed: Accented characters in non-English languages were not translated into the alien alphabet.

• Fixed issue where drop shadows were drawn in front of acid pits.

• Fixed a depth issue with special exit capsule.

• It's now possible to have Player 1 on keyboard and Player 2 on a single connected gamepad.
• Added a fail safe to prevent one gamepad from being assigned to both players.
• Made it possible to assign "no gamepad" to a player by pressing a keyboard key instead of a gamepad button when prompted.
• Memory optimizations for potential performance gains.

• Prevented the minigame from generating unwinnable maps.
• Fixed a statistics inconsistency.

• Fixed: Dying and reviving in Santonio church would sometimes cause "invisible walls" to appear in town until you left town.
• Fixed: Spaces missing between "STAT UP!" text during level up.

• Fixed: Could walk through a wall in the Wild Zone to return home.

• IGF Audience Award Voting
• GDCA Audience Award Voting

Pilot(s) Quest

• More cut off strings fixed in non-English languages.
• Keyboard glyphs won't be displayed in prompts while using Steam Deck.
• You can now reroute different controller devices to different players from Joypad Config.
• Dynamic controller reassignment automatically ensures that connected controllers are paired efficiently. For example, if only 1 controller is connected, it will always be assigned to player 1 and not player 2.
• Various small adjustments.

• Made UFOs explode if they go off-screen, in the rare case they clip out of bounds.

• Fixed: Crash when charge bar tried to charge more than 3 bars.

• Ironed out a number of level generation edge case bugs.
• Shortened attract mode.

• Fixed a minor graphical glitch with the wave score display.
• Prevented certain transitions from being able to cancel out of a Game Over state.

• Fixed: Game did not continue to Part 2 after rescuing a captured owl even if all the missions were complete.
• Fixed: Could get stuck in an infinite death loop in the final area of Octavio's Antarctica mission.

• Fixed: Crash when water strider enemy fell into pits or drowned.

• Fixed: An issue with floor heights would sometimes cause the player to bump into "invisible walls" on the map.
• Fixed some localization issues: Equipped items were only being displayed in English and some stats weren't lining up properly in non-English languages.
• Fixed: Dead players could still use their skills from the map menu.
• Fixed: Healing dead players from the map menu would revive them.
• Fixed: At level 40, Rufus wasn't actually getting his SURVIVE Level 3 perk.
• Fixed: Certain enemy attacks that inflicted BLINDNESS, POISON, PARALYSIS, and CONFUSION on the player were always resisted, regardless of the player's RES stat. (Fixing this does make some enemies trickier to fight... but also more interesting?)
• There was a staircase that appeared after a certain boss was defeated but would disappear if you left the dungeon and returned. This led people to believe they were softlocked if they left before using the staircase, even though they weren't. Now the staircase never disappears.

• On Rescue Mission, if you freed Brand by breaking the floor below him, it did not count as a rescue.
• It is now possible to replay the ending so that you can see improvements in your star count and associated ranking.

• Fixed: Issues with boss and player getting pushed out of the arena during final boss fight.
• Fixed: Flickering on orbs and head when final boss' final form moves.
• Fixed: Flickering on certain objects when respawning on final boss' final form.
• Change: Made final boss fight's final form arena slightly narrower (2¼ screens wide instead of 3).

• Fixed: Crash when attempting to move the Formid Head warp cursor out of the level bounds to the East or South.
• Fixed: Enemies could initiate combat while making a wish.
• Fixed: Red Knight didn't properly give Red Coin in all appropriate circumstances.

• Worked together with Warlocs (localization group) to fix text that was cut off or going out of bounds because of text limits. There are still some existing cases that we're aware of - we'll include fixes for those in future patches.
• Made some slight tweaks to marked letters in our fonts to make them read better in non-English languages.

• Various text issues fixed.

• Fixed a bug where exchanging from Rod back to Blood Sword would equip you with Normal Sword instead, until you respawned.

• Fixed: If red ants began combat with zero health, they would win the fight.
• Fixed: Retry Mission confirmation was not working properly with analog sticks.
• Fixed: In some maps multiple food was being generated in one space.

• Added protections to prevent softlocking in the elevator.

• Fixed a bug with how driving over dirt manipulates speed.
• Fixed busted collision with zombies and slime bursts and waves.