Obey the Insect God — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Obey the Insect God Soundtrack Out on YouTube! | 2026-10-06 | Love the soundtrack to the game? Now you can listen to the smash hit "Made By Charles" or "Puzzle 4" whenever you want!Check out the soundtrack to the game on YouTube: |
| Obey the Insect God -35% off during Steam Autumn Sale! | 2026-10-04 | Buy my game! It's -35% during Steam Autumn sale! |
| Patch Aug 29th - Volume Settings Save | 2026-08-29 | Game now saves your volume settings and auto applies them when you restart the game after exiting (game saves the volume setting when you enter a save room - so if trying it make sure to go in and out of a save room first). |
| Puzzle 11 Glitch Fix | 2026-07-01 | Fixed a glitch where the water splash animation wouldn't trigger a 2nd time on puzzle 11. |
| Obey the Insect God Developer Stream - End Game - 6/30 | 2026-06-30 | We’re going to finally live stream the end game! Join Josie and Charles in twitch at 8pm!https://m.twitch.tv/chunklefreaky/home |
| Obey the Insect God -25% Off for Summer Sale Event! | 2026-06-25 | Hey All! We're doing our first sale! Get OTIG for -25% during the Steam Summer Sale Event starting today! |
| Obey the Insect God Developer Stream - 6/8 | 2026-06-09 | Come join us on the stream to watch us take on the Worship Halls 1 in Castle 2! |
| Obey the Insect God Developer Stream - 8pm EST - 6/1 | 2026-06-01 | Doing another developer stream tonight at 8pm EST with Charles and Josie! Tonight we'll be going through the Labs in Castle 2.Join us on Twitch or YouTube! |
| Obey the Insect God Developer Stream at 8pm EST - 5/28 | 2026-05-28 | Come join us for another developer stream of the game! This week Charles and Josie will be tackling the Train!Streaming will happen on both Twitch and YouTube: |
| The Kalevala and Obey the Insect God | 2026-05-21 | Hey all!Niko is sending out the game to a bunch of press people in Finland and wanted me to put together a video talking about the game's connection to the Kalevala to send along with it. I figured you all may be interested in it too so I put it up on YouTube if anyone wants to watch it! |
| Patch 5/20/26 - Volume Adjustment | 2026-05-21 | -Turned down the overall volume on each volume setting based on feedback. -Fixed a typo. |
| Obey the Insect God Developer Stream at 8pm est - 5/18 | 2026-05-18 | Charles and Josie are going to do another developer stream tonight at 8pm est on Twitch and YouTube!This time we will be going through the tower of castle 1. |
| OTIG Developer Stream at 8pm Est! - 5/11 | 2026-05-11 | Going to be doing another developer live stream of the game with Charles and Josie tonight at 8pm est! Going to try and do the whole forest section tonight.Tune in on Twitch! (Also going to try to simulcast to YouTube and here - but not sure it'll work so Twitch is probably the safest viewing place). As always will also make the recording of the video available on the InsectGod YouTube channel tomorrow. |
| Patch 5/4/26 - Slope Jump Glitch Fix | 2026-05-05 | -Fixed a glitch where if you jump into the upward slope of a steeply slanted floor you can get caught in a side-jump animation. |
| Obey the Insect God Developer Stream at 8pm EST on Twitch! (5/4) | 2026-05-04 | Hey all!Charles and Josie are going to do another developer stream of the game at 8pm EST on Twitch!Check it out on the link below: |
| Patch 4/30/26 - Wolf Head Boss Glitch Fix | 2026-04-30 | -Fixed a glitch where system won't register that wolf head boss was killed and lock you in the room. |
| Developer Playthrough of Obey the Insect God | 2026-04-28 | Hello!Charles and Josie have been doing weekly live streams of the game on Twitch on Mondays and we've now uploaded the previous streams we've done on YouTube. We will continue to do these on Mondays - check out the latest one! (i'll try to remember to announce these on here next time). |
| 4/25/26 Patch - Fix for Jump Loop | 2026-04-25 | -Fixed an issue that popped up with patch on 4/22 where you can get stuck in a jump loop if hitting the jump button during certain frames while getting hit or getting up. |
| Insect God Actors and Developer Interviewed on GWJ Podcast | 2026-04-22 | Take a listen to a podcast that Charles, Josie and Christina recently got interviewed on about the making of the game! Gamers with Jobs Conference Call podcast episode 1019 - available now!https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nUv33AtGi8vuysvSNHbb0?si=3682d9a9f5354bdf |
| Patch 4/22/26 - Small adjustment to falling after getting hit | 2026-04-22 | -Made a small adjustment to the code when falling after getting hit to prevent animation freezing when running at lower FPS |
| Patch 4/19 - Backend Jump Physics for Lower FPS | 2026-04-19 | -Reworked how physics on the jump mechanic work in the backend code for when game is running at lower fps. |
| Patch 4/18/26 - Walled off Treasure Chests | 2026-04-18 | -Made it so walled off treasure chests in certain rooms can't be broken into until the barrier is destroyed so that Sampo Coins aren't accidentally lost. -Fixed glitch so now Big Sampo Coin in end game puzzles now gives 8 coins instead of 300 when picking up with non-spear weapon. -Fixed typo. |
| Patch 4/16/26 - Adjusted Impact Sound | 2026-04-16 | -Turned down the volume on impact sounds after feedback. -Fixed a glitch where if you fall into the fire pit in room 3 during giant chase and are running at 120 fps the giant can get caught in an attack animation loop. -Made it so player icon appears on room 199 when in the room. -Fixed a typo on one of the loading screens. |
| Changed GPU Specs Slightly | 2026-04-15 | Got some more testing info and lowered the minimum GPU slightly to a 1080 vs a 1080 TI and recommended from a 3080 to a 2080. GPU should ideally have 8gb vram to run the game.If you are running a 1080 I'd recommend testing with the demo first still to be safe.If you are running at this with a lower amount of system ram (or running a GPU below 1080) and the game seems to be running ok but then starts hitting lag when you get to the forest - try changing the system from "PC" to "SteamDeck" in the settings menu and then going through a loading screen and see if that fixes it. (All running as "SteamDeck" does is delete floor effects - lag in fore |
| Patch 4/12/26 - Tuonela Strike Teleport Glitch Fix | 2026-04-12 | Fixed a glitch someone identified where if you do a Tuonela Strike on an enemy while they are pressed up against the lower left corner of the wall in certain rooms with the spear weapon it teleports the player through the wall. |
| Patch for 4/10/26 - Sampo Health/Gravity Grenade pickup fix | 2026-04-11 | Fixed a glitch that was identified where if you fight the wolf head boss first and get the health increase you will get the health increase again when you fight the tank boss instead of the gravity grenade if you haven't unlocked the picked up health increase first. (Was also causing issues with the X marks on the map for these sampo yields that was also fixed) IF THIS GLITCH HAS ALREADY EFFECTED YOU - you will now just automatically have both the gravity grenade and health 1 increase available to unlock in the Unlock Sampo Yield menu. |
| Obey the Insect God Has Released! | 2026-04-10 | The game is out! Get it now! |
| BTS Video on Making of Game | 2026-04-06 | Hello all!I made a 5 min video on YouTube showing how the game was made including the digitized sprites - Check it out! |
| Adjusted In-Air Movement | 2026-03-20 | Made some tweaks to in-air movement so have more control when in both jump and fall animations post-jumping. |
| Release Date - April 10th 2026! | 2026-03-18 | The release date for Obey the Insect God has been announced! The game will be coming out on April 10th! |