Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional — patch notes and updates
Stored observation / content update:
Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Small Update + Thank You! | 2026-10-07 | Hello hello! What a week and a bit it has been! First things first, and that is a HUGE thank you to everyone who has come out to support the game, buying it, playing it, reviewing it, recommending it, streaming it, sharing it in any kind of way - it really does mean the world to me.What started out as a little project to prove to myself I could make something on my own after becoming unemployed turned into something really special to me. I honestly didn't expect an Installer screen to make me feel a way - to instantly bring back memories of installing RPG Maker XP on my Nana's computer with my brother or helping my dad install printer drivers |
| Steam Deck Verified! | 2026-09-17 | Howdy!We're not far off from the release of Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional now, momentum is picking up and to go with that Valve has now marked the game as Steam Deck Verified!It's a small win but it means a lot to me as I've been a huge fan of the Steam Deck since it was announced and it's my favourite way to play games. That makes it of course my favourite way to play AVS03.Check out the cool landing page! |
| Release Date Announcement - 28th September | 2026-09-10 | The time has come, and we're nearly there. Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional will be releasing on the 28th of September, 2026. Like in a couple weeks.Below is a new trailer, every shot has something new in it and there's plenty more that's not been shown yet. Hope you enjoy! The full game includes:24 WeaponsPinball, Solitaire, Mines, Firewall, and more inspired by the 2000’s computing era. Now with more variety, more weapons that fire directly at enemies, passives, targeting high HP enemies, status effects and more.50 DriversTransform how a weapon usually works with bespoke upgrades. The more you level up a certain weapon the more opportu |
| Demo Update 1.2 - Drag and then also Drop | 2026-07-14 | Gidday, last time I promised y'all a nice little update with some new content in the demo for being so patient with the upcoming release. So that's what I've decided to do, along with the help from some incredible community members in the Discord. Check out the new trailer:I said maybe a new weapon, well it's been a minute so here's two weapons. Also a new enemy type, status effects for weapons and some fixes/improvements.Two things I had to include in this update is the drag and drop feature, something I'm still working out how to best strategise with myself. It's quite a handy tool when you want to drag a vapor.exe away from the Defrag Coll |
| Warmfix Update and 38,000 Wishlists! | 2026-05-02 | Hello! Long time no see, basically just wanted to share how things are ticking along and let y'all know that the demo has a new minor update - think hotfix but it's like time has passed so a warmfix if you will, with some much requested QoL additions and a couple nasty bugs that affected a small amount of folks.Main thing is, update! Below is the changelog, it's not incredibly exciting but the nicest part is the ability to speed up certain animations like the level up slowdowns, BigWave progress and Plugin Installers. There's a new setting to control the speed of some things and in BigWave or Installer you can hold down Click to speed things |
| 13,000 Wishlists and Next Fest | 2026-02-24 | Howdy howdy, back so soon but also like a day or so late with this. Just wanted to recap on the launch of the demo, how it went and Next Fest. I'll have more updates on what's coming next and the exciting things to look forward to in a future post.Stats are cool, over 6,000 players have come through to play the demo, Wishlists have more than doubled to now 13,000! Somehow over 500 of you have played for more than 3 hours, like stop! It's only a demo! Overall I couldn't be happier with the response, 10k before Next Fest was a pipe dream goal I wasn't really sure could be reached, but here we are after lingering around 2,000 last month.How did |
| Demo Available Now and What's New | 2026-02-13 | Gidday, I'm back! First and foremost I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined in on the previous playtest. Over 2000 people signed up and over 1000 played the sample, including a Twitch streamer I personally enjoy, Squeex. With over 100 responses to the survey linked on the main menu, I was able to get a fair idea of what y'all liked and some of the really annoying issues found. Thankfully not a lot of bugs were encountered and essentially all that were reported have been rectified with this demo build, I'm sure there could be a couple new ones though. There were a handful of annoying choices I'd made that have also been swi |
| Playtest Tomorrow, Be There. | 2026-02-01 | Howdy all, just a quick update on what’s coming very soon, and a little recap on how things have gone so far. The fun part is that the first playtest for Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is happening tomorrow on the 2nd of February. I’m really excited to get some quick and nasty feedback on where it’s at.This playtest will run for at least a couple of days and is subject to extension, but don’t worry if you miss it because there will likely be another one in a week or so. The demo will also be in NextFest later this month.The intention was to run this a lot earlier and only for a small audience. However, my goal of 100 playtest signups h |