UpdateConfirmed1 October 2026

Limbus Company's new chapter shipped with a bug that can stall a battle outright

Project Moon's October 1 update added The Shadowed and a known-issues notice to go with it. The worst entry stops battle progression under certain conditions, and the hotfix schedule hasn't been set.

Update — 1 October 2026

Project Moon has followed the hotfix with a full version bump. Ver. 1.116.1 is deploying to fix the known issues logged against 1.116.0, and the studio named three of them: Meursault could die when using "The Prince of La Manchaland" Identity against a certain boss in Main Story Chapter 10; restarting a stage under certain conditions in The Shadowed could leave the game unresponsive; and the game could also lock up when Excision Coins or Erasure Coins deleted Unbreakable Coins. The rollout started after 21:30 KST on October 1 with a delay of roughly ten minutes expected. Mobile players are the ones who have to wait. "This update will be deployed to Steam first," Project Moon wrote, because Android and iOS builds have to clear each store's review before they can ship — so until that clears, the studio is asking mobile users to play on Steam if they can, and says it will post separately when each platform is updated. You can confirm you have it from the version number in the bottom right of the title screen.

Update — 1 October 2026

Project Moon has now shipped the hotfix, and it does two things. The progression-blocking bug is not among them. In The Symbolic, the event that hands you a special assistive item after you die now triggers after a single death rather than three, and the item has gained an extra effect: Damage Dealt +350 inside that mode. Players who already turned the item down can go back to the relevant NPC and take it. Separately, the 5F boss in The Shadowed now spells out its own gimmick - the passive text explains that a Sinner with a certain buff winning a clash against a certain skill stacks a unique status effect on the boss, and that at five stacks the boss gains a new pattern whose clash ends the encounter. Because the fight was beatable all along and the text was the problem, Project Moon is refunding all Lunacy spent on Stage Continue in that encounter between 12:00 KST on October 1 and the hotfix going out, with the refund landing in the October 8 scheduled update. The studio also says a version 1.116.1 build fixing the remaining known issues from 1.116.0 is coming soon, and that it is going to Steam first: the mobile builds have to clear each store's review, so Project Moon is asking Android and iOS players to use Steam in the meantime and apologising for it. On difficulty more broadly, the studio is still only monitoring - it says it is watching status-effect amounts, skill power, damage and SP values across encounters to find where players are actually getting stuck, and has committed to nothing.

Project Moon pushed Limbus Company's October 1 scheduled update live and, a few hours later, published a notice listing what it already knows is broken. Four issues are named, and the studio says it will keep adding to the list as more are found.

What's broken

The one that actually stops you playing is in The Shadowed, the update's new content: under certain circumstances, battle progression becomes impossible. Project Moon does not describe the trigger, so there is no workaround to pass on yet.

The other three are cosmetic or presentational. Also in The Shadowed, part of one unit's name is incorrectly formatted as a Keyword and renders as "UNKNOWN". Elsewhere there are text errors introduced by the update, and some voice lines and subtitles either do not match each other or do not play at all.

No hotfix date has been given. The studio says it will post again once the schedule is finalised, and apologises for the inconvenience.

The difficulty question is still open

The notice also restates the position Project Moon took on September 24 about difficulty: it intends to watch how people actually play for a while before lowering the difficulty of anything it decides needs adjusting. That is a deliberate wait rather than a promise.

One piece of housekeeping landed alongside it. Two new limited packages going on sale on October 1, the Target Extraction Pack and the Identity Growth Pack, will now close four hours earlier than first announced - 06:00 rather than 10:00 KST on October 15.

Why it matters

Limbus Company was the fifth most-played game on Steam on October 1, which is what a big story update looks like in the numbers. A progression-blocking bug in the new chapter is the worst possible timing for that, and the lack of a hotfix date is the part worth watching.

Why it matters

A bug that can make a battle unfinishable lands in the exact content hundreds of thousands of players logged in for, and Project Moon has not said when it will be fixed.