Mycopunk leaves Early Access with version 1.0, a new playable character and a PS5 release

Pigeons at Play's four-player co-op shooter reached 1.0 on 20 October 2026, adding the Mycologist, a new weapon, a cryo grenade, a new region and hats, with a 50% launch discount on Steam.

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Mycopunk, the co-op shooter from Pigeons at Play and publisher Devolver Digital, left Early Access on 20 October 2026. The 1.0 release is out on PC through Steam and, for the first time, on PlayStation 5, where Gaming Trend reports it is also part of PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium.

Up to four players work as a clean-up crew for the SAXON corporation, sent to a moon to deal with a fungal outbreak on New Atlas. The game entered Early Access in July 2025.

What 1.0 adds

The headline addition is a fifth employee, the Mycologist. The developers describe her as a member of the first expedition to New Atlas after the outbreak, stuck there for over a year. Her abilities are Sporelift and Fungal Skewer, plus a passive infection mechanic that works as a resource for her upgrades. Players have to rescue her in a mission called Expedition Alpha before she can be used. In a post the day before launch, the team said the idea behind her was "what if someone got fungussed, and lived?"

The rest of the list from the 1.0 patch notes:

• The Diffraction Driver, an ion scattergun that fires in a short cone. Spinning up its halo narrows the cone and adds range. It unlocks after level 10.
• The Snowball Grenade, a cryo grenade unlocked from a new region, X11-B, whose missions are pitched as the hardest yet.
• A new mission type, Population Control, and a small special assignment to find a couch for the HUB.
• Hats, most of them earned through Fulfillments, a new in-game achievement system.
• Sit emotes, a reworked HUB and a redesigned drop pod, with old skins carried over to the new model.
• Full translation of all text, plus balance changes to several enemies.

Missions now fail if nobody makes it back to the drop pod.

Price and patches

On Steam the game is £12.99 ($14.99 in the US) and launched with a 50% discount. A Supporter Pack DLC came out alongside it with a chrome skin for each employee, reload animation variants and two exotic skins that give Glider and Scrapper new character models. Two patches followed within two days, fixing achievements, progress tracking and a missing cape, and removing the old enemy intensity setting, which the developers said had stopped doing anything in an earlier update.

Sources

• Mycopunk breaks free of Early Access with 1.0 launch on PC and PS5 (Gaming Trend)
• 1.0 IS HERE!!! (Steam)
• Mycopunk on Steam (Steam)

Image: Image: Pigeons at Play / Devolver Digital via Gaming Trend