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BALL x PIT drops Shadow Update

BALL x PIT drops Shadow Update

Dateline: 4/27/2026

The free The Shadow Update for BALL x PIT was released today.

From Devolver Digital:

The Shadow Update is available now, free for everyone who owns the game, and brings with it two new characters, 11 new balls and a whole lot more brick-breaking action.

The Shadow Update includes:

  • 11 game-changing new balls including new mechanics such as bending time, freezing enemies in place or teleporting unpredictably around them.
  • Two new playable characters: the Tiptoer, a deadly ninja who stays undetected by enemies at close range, and the Tunneller, a miner whose balls don’t stop at the edge of the screen, but wrap around it and come back in from the other side.
  • Four new Passives including the chaotic Full Metal Rapier, which sees each ball scaling its damage based on how many baby balls and enemies are currently on the battlefield, or the Arrow of Fate, which makes you immune to incoming projectiles and fires back a burst of baby balls whenever you’re hit.
  • A new building to construct in your base: the Guildhall. Build one of these and you can re-roll previously chosen character upgrades.

Experience all of this in The Shadow Update, available now on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 and mobile platforms.


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