Stop Dead

Released: Oct 5, 2023
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 03:19 GMT

Updates & announcements

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22 Dec 2025Developer post
CU2.5 Hotfix 1
The final boss can now be completed more than once per launch of the game. Entering the elevator too soon after defeating the Final Boss will no longer cause a loss. Dropped items can now be re-grabbed. Some items may be unaffected. Let me know if this remains an issue. I am inve
The final boss can now be completed more than once per launch of the game.
Entering the elevator too soon after defeating the Final Boss will no longer cause a loss.
Dropped items can now be re-grabbed. Some items may be unaffected. Let me know if this remains an issue.
I am investigating issues with new achievements not being properly unlocked or appearing in the data page. I thing it has something to do with save games, because everything is working fine in the engine. If you have this problem, please send me your save games so I can investigate!
This will likely be my last update until the new year. See you then!
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18 Dec 2025Developer post
Surprise! HERE'S AN UPDATE! Also - 70% off!
First, some important news: We are fully indie again! What does this mean for the future of Stop Dead? The 1.0 patch is content-complete . However, there are few things keeping us from releasing it: Localization. We have players who do not speak English, and we want to be able to
First, some important news:
We are fully indie again!
What does this mean for the future of Stop Dead?
The 1.0 patch is content-complete. However, there are few things keeping us from releasing it:
Localization. We have players who do not speak English, and we want to be able to support them for 1.0.
Quality Assurance. Stop Dead has grown to be a pretty big game, and while I've gotten pretty fast at running through it, only I (Amber) remain able to test it at the moment.
As we do not have a large team to work with anymore, these things are far harder to achieve. We don't have the money to pay a team to translate it into all our planned languages, and QA for an entire game is extremely hard to do for one person.
We are considering different avenues to be able to release 1.0, and will let you know when we have solutions to these issues!
Thank you for sticking with us for as long as you have! To show our gratitude, we have decided to release all of the remaining maps for Stop Dead this update! We have also back-ported a couple 1.0 features and bug-fixes!
Enjoy, and happy holidays <3
- Amber
Patch Notes:
!! This update will wipe ALL LEADERBOARDS !!
NEW MAP: Rematch
NEW MAP: Jail
NEW MAP: Test of Motion
NEW MAP: Canal
NEW MAP: Search and Destroy
NEW MAP: Fortress
NEW MAP: Descent
NEW MAP: One
NEW MAP: The End
10 NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
Back-ported 1.0 Feature: More Accurate Timer
Back-ported 1.0 Feature: Smoother Ghost Playback
Throwables can no longer be re-grabbed until they hit something. This fixes a number of design issues, including certain exploits.
Fixed a bug that could cause time saves by pausing
Fixed a spot in Subway that could cause a random death
Fixed certain achievements being impossible to get
Sliding through many different breakable objects now destroys them
Ground Damagers now have a knock-up effect. This makes logical sense, and acts as a slight nerf, making them less likely to chain damage
Updated credits
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25 Feb 2025Developer post
Time To Get Excited about Stop Dead 1.0!!!
A little tease of the all new look that will be arriving "soon" (TM). Make sure to like and share the post, so all of your friends can play as well!
30 May 2024Developer post
Content Update 3 News...
Hey all! In case it wasn't clear yet, we're going to be pushing Content Update 3 back. Why? Because We're making it bigger. How much bigger? A LOT bigger. As I write this, the game is undergoing a complete visual overhaul, including a completely redesigned UI, new buildings, envi
12 Apr 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 15
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! We are looking into problems with saves that cause S+ scores to be incorrectly unlocked in some levels. Unless we figure out the above issue (or some other issue pops up), this
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
We are looking into problems with saves that cause S+ scores to be incorrectly unlocked in some levels.
Unless we figure out the above issue (or some other issue pops up), this will be our last patch before we release Content Update 3.

Added Motivation Levels - This is part of a new mechanic we will be expanding upon in Content Update 3.
Added a new graphics setting: Arms Resolution
🛑 Optimized health and points pickups to use object pooling
🛑 (tentatively) Fixed an issue with perfect jumps that caused inconsistent height
Adjusted color grading on player arms
🛑 Hid certain entries from the Itemdex that should not exist in this version of the game
Adjusted visuals of target waypoints
Made some post process adjustments
Fixed an issue that caused cutouts to function improperly in Orientation
🛑 Fixed an issue that could cause some dialogue to not properly trigger events or play when the HUD was hidden
🛑 Raptors max leap distance has been decreased
Fixed some collision issues with Iris doors
🛑 Increased strength of FOV speed scaling
Made the achievement “Skill Issue” easier to get
Slowmo from breakable objects now only triggers when the player is moving at a high speed.
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02 Apr 2024Developer post
Patch Schedule Change, and a Content Update 3 Sneak Peek!
Hi all! Just wanted to pop in and give a lil' update! We missed last week's patch because Amber had a migraine. All. Week. She's better now though! We're doing a TON of work on Content Update 3 right now, and things are going to get REALLY involved. As such, we're planning on doi
15 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch 14 Hotfix
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Fixed an issue that caused your own runs to have the wrong color on leaderboards. Changed Dev leaderboard entries to have a different color, as the one we were using is also used for runs you have challenged.
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Fixed an issue that caused your own runs to have the wrong color on leaderboards.
Changed Dev leaderboard entries to have a different color, as the one we were using is also used for runs you have challenged.
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15 Mar 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 14
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped. Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle. Field of View n
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

Field of View now scales slightly with speed. The degree to which this occurs can be changed in the “Accessibility” settings.
Added new setting: “Speed FOV Scaling” in Accessibility
The Ghost Customization UI has been changed. Options now appear in a grid with icons when you select the thing you want to customize
Fixed several issues with UI input and gamepad/keyboard switching.
Tooltips have had their visuals updated to match the look of the game. Tooltips now appear when using a gamepad.
Improved performance of leaderboards and the Map Select screen by pooling score display widgets.
Adjusted dropped weapon particle effects.
🛑 Added a new achievement: “Proud of you”. Unlocks Pride Trails.
🛑 Added 10 new ghost trails.
🛑 Fixed an issue that could cause the “Jump Off” prompt on Grind Rails to not properly disappear.
🛑 Fixed an issue that could cause the game to fail to function properly if a save game become corrupted.
🛑 Leaderboard runs from developer accounts now have special visuals and a “[DEV]” tag.
🛑 Grab/toss cooldown has been changed from 0.5s → 0.0s.
🛑 Items dropped by the player are now ungrabbable for 0.25s.
🛑 (Tentatively) fixed an issue that could cause Fire Mech to fly away into the sky.
🛑 “Forklift Certified” is now simply an achievement for defeating the forklift.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused the forklift to not take damage to the vehicle portion.
🛑❗ Fixed some issues that caused infinite points to be possible in some levels.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused the Input Display to sometimes fail to show an input.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused “Have At Thee!” to be unattainable. Sorry about that, Felipe.
🛑 A Zweihander has been placed in Colosseum.
🛑 Kai should stub her toe even less (fewer inconvenient wall bounces)
🛑 Adjusted the opening door in Hotline.
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01 Mar 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 13
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped. Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle. Fixed an issue
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

Fixed an issue that allowed the player to grab things through walls.
Fixed an issue that caused small, fast-moving throwables to phase through certain things.
Grabbing should be less likely to grab things off the screen.
Fixed an issue that caused grabbing to sometimes be unresponsive.
Fixed an issue that caused hats to have collision sometimes
Fixed an issue that caused the “hardhat” hat to not fade out when close to the camera.
Added a tutorial for Grind Rails in Highway.
Added a tutorial for Advanced Usables in Light Step.
Added an additional check to ensure auto-grab for dropped weapons only triggers when the player kills the enemy.
Wall climb cooldown 0.15s -> 0.5s. This is not the nerf you think it is.
Wall climb minimum duration 0.25s → 0.15s
Wall climb maximum duration 0.5s → 0.3s
The climb duration changes mean that climbing doesn’t go quite as far by default, but the next change makes up for it.
🛑 You can now “Climb Hop”. A new “Climb Hop” binding has been added in Input Settings. Climb Hopping has special animations, sound, and has chaining built in. Climb Hopping is a short boost upwards and in the direction of your movement input. If you are a “Hold Jump to Climb” user, this triggers on release of Jump, OR press of your Climb Hop binding. You can still hold backwards input or let the climb time out to perform the old climb jump.
🛑 Fixed an issue with Engineer that caused her to not properly cancel actions. Will this fix the getting stuck bug? Stay tuned, I guess.
Light Step has been changed to be more friendly to new players.
🛑 Added a “Disable Easymode Prompt” option in UI settings.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused sample start text to be visible when the “Easy Mode” prompt appeared.
🛑 The player is no longer blocked by enemies, with one exception: Enforcer-class enemies still block the player.
🛑 Fixed paintings blocking the player when they should not.
🛑 The Anvil’s (and related throwable’s) grab boost now scales with distance to the player. This prevents an exploit that allowed for infinite aerial boosts.
🛑 The Anvil (and related throwables) no longer bounce as much.
🛑 Good Boy’s behavior should be more consistent after the phase change.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused Good Boy to take inconsistent damage after changing phase.
Forcefield launcher vacuum effect (not the launch) speed has been doubled.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused perfect jumps to clamp your speed if you released jump before the perfect jump triggered.
🛑 (Tentatively) Fixed an issue that caused some enemies to be launched by explosions when they should not have.
🛑 The Level Start Safezone now gives a high acceleration value while the player is inside of it. (This removes the requirement for an instant double slide in many levels, making running them much more enjoyable)
❗🛑 Reworked routes in Gap.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused “But I Didn’t Stop Moving!!!!” to be impossible to get.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused ghosts to not properly display their visuals.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused “Collector” progress to appear too often.
🛑 Adjusted the placement and size of all win volumes. Improved win volume visuals.
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23 Feb 2024Developer post
Content Update 2 Hotfix 2. Yes, Really.
Undid the Sliding preventing Vault change because I changed my mind Fixed some problematic collisions in Museum I'm going to go take a nap...
Undid the Sliding preventing Vault change because I changed my mind
Fixed some problematic collisions in Museum
I'm going to go take a nap...
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23 Feb 2024Developer post
Content Update 2 Hotfix
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped. Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle. Kai should now
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

Kai should now stub her toe less
Kai should be more gentle when dropping things now
Vault can no longer trigger while sliding
Walkable floor angle while sliding is now lower
Eased up on climb angle values
Good Boy no longer explodes barrels, damaging himself
Adjusted the placement of some meshes in In Motion
The Laser Sword had a larger damage zone after being thrown
Fixed paintings falling off into space when they take damage while held
Umbrella is MORE POWERFUL
Explosive barrels are now immune to Melee damage.
Easy Mode is now even easier
🛑 Fixed focus loss and mouse loss issues with the new Easy Mode prompt.
❗ Fixed an issue with Going Under that made it more skippable than it should be.
Removed an unnecessary button/door combo in Gap
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22 Feb 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Content Update #2
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped. New Stuff Added 7 new maps: Museum, Theft, Subway, Gap, Good Boy, The Fall, and Introductions. Ad
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
New Stuff

Added 7 new maps: Museum, Theft, Subway, Gap, Good Boy, The Fall, and Introductions.
Added the Itemdex: As you find new items throughout the City, you will unlock a preview of them in the Itemdex. You can click on the items in the Itemdex to read up on them, inspect them, and view your usage stats. The Itemdex is locked behind the new achievement: “Collector”.
Added Ghost Customization: Unlock new hats for your ghost, choose your ghost’s color, and choose from a selection of trails! Ghost Customization is locked behind the new achievement: “Caught the Bug”
Added 18 new Achievements! 7 of these are hidden. One of them is the funniest one we’ve ever added.
Added 1 new boss: Good Boy. He’s just a good little boy. Just a widdle guy. He just wants to pway :(
Added 4 new enemy types: Raptor, Explosive Raptor, Laser Drone, and MOSQ1-T0-Class Combat Drone .
Added a new sound that plays on player death.
Added a new movement Mechanic.
Added a new throwable: Shark Plush. He loves you.
Added a new throwable: Baguette.
Gameplay Changes

Standing still now kills the player via damage rather than instant death. It is very fast. This is an early introduction for a mechanic we will expand upon.
🛑 Climbing has been adjusted. Climbing can now move at non-90-degree angles to a certain extent. Player aim no longer affects the angle at which the player is launched from the wall. Climb launching now has a 0.2s delay before the launch is actually initiated. Climbing can be canceled at any time without launching by initiating a slide. This change will screw with your muscle memory. Give it some time; climb-chaining is still possible. It’s just less jank. Please let me know if this change breaks any WRs in levels that have not already been wiped by this update.
🛑 Difficulty Selection has been reworked. There are now 3 modes: Normal (all game features enabled), Easy (Leaderboards disabled, but achievements and run saving still enabled), and Custom (replaces assist mode; disables run saving, leaderboards, and achievements.)
🛑 Difficulty can be changed from the pause menu, and it has been moved to the top of the Accessibility menu.
A prompt to enable Easy Mode now appears if you die more than 15 times in a level.
🛑 Ghost recording frame rate: 10 → 30. This change will only apply to ghosts uploaded on this patch and later.
🛑 Kai now has a shadow at her feet.
❗* Several Levels have received gameplay adjustments: Going Under, Hallways, Take a Hit, In Motion, Keep Pace, Light Step. *Not all of these have been wiped.
A number of levels have had adjustments to their throwable placement. There are some fun throwables that go unused in high-level runs that we wanted to see get more use, so they have been moved to more convenient locations.
Ninjas now have more obvious visual effects when stunned after a dodge.
Ninjas now have a slightly longer stun after dodging.
🛑 There is now a 0.2s quick window where you can auto-grab the last dropped weapon if you press grab immediately after an enemy dies (recommend against holding it before).
Grab Attacks have new visual and audio effects when the player is grabbed.
The achievement unlock widget now shows the achievement description and lasts longer.
Bugfixes

🛑 Improved performance in Shipping.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused sliding uphill to have a greater penalty than it should have.
Fixed an issue that caused vault to trigger on surfaces it should not.
Fixed an issue that caused slide bouncing to trigger on surfaces it should not.
🛑 Fixed a bug that could allow an S+ to unlock when it shouldn’t.
🛑 Fixed some issues with UI scaling on tutorial UIs
Fixed an issue that caused health bar highlights to be inaccurate.
Fixed an issue that caused suppressor mines to not shoot properly.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player to vault on vehicles.
Improved vehicle damage consistency.
I’ve probably forgotten a lot of stuff too. Anyways… Enjoy!
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02 Feb 2024Developer post
Patch 12 Hotfix
Fixed an issue with propane tanks that allowed them to be held and thrown after exploding. Fixed an issue that caused all ghosts to have the same color. Added Grind Rails to some spots in Hallways.
Fixed an issue with propane tanks that allowed them to be held and thrown after exploding.
Fixed an issue that caused all ghosts to have the same color.
Added Grind Rails to some spots in Hallways.
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02 Feb 2024Developer post
Stop Dead now has a speedrun.com page!
Find it here! This has been requested many times since the demos last year. Glad we were finally able to get it together! Go wild, y'all.
02 Feb 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 12
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! We are hard at work on Content Update 2. Unless something major comes up, we are going to refrain from patching the game further until it is ready. Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! 🛑 If you reach the win zone
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
We are hard at work on Content Update 2. Unless something major comes up, we are going to refrain from patching the game further until it is ready.
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!

🛑 If you reach the win zone before defeating the target, and die without finishing the level, the time it took you to reach the win zone will appear on the loss screen.
🛑 Wall bounce restitution = 0.8*velocity, rather than setting to 400 exactly. No longer applies a slow effect.
🛑 Tightened requirements for a wall bounce to occur.
🛑 Wall climb speed now scales with velocity, to a max of 800.
Slide-bouncing has been added. When you hit a wall while sliding, you will now bounce off of it at half the speed you hit it.
🛑 Wall Climbing has a UI element displaying changes and time remaining.
🛑 Moved the "start" progress bar to a more obvious location on the Start UI.
🛑 Start UI now has a sound and better animation to indicate when input can begin.
🛑 You can now tap "jump" to force a climb jump early.
🛑 If you are using the "Hold Jump to Climb" option, you can simply release the "jump" input to do this.
🛑 The Space Bar on the input overlay now flashes yellow when you perform a Perfect Jump.
Propane Tanks now consistently explode 1s after being triggered.
Fixed a calculation error with Grind Rails that caused them to be inaccurate when beginning the grind.
Fixed a calculation error with Grind Rails that caused them to have inconsistent speed across their length.
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19 Jan 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 11
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! Added a new robot. 🛑 The Player and Ghosts now have various particles that respond to movement. 🛑 Added a native input overlay. Can be activated in the UI settings. 🛑 DNF now
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!

Added a new robot.
🛑 The Player and Ghosts now have various particles that respond to movement.
🛑 Added a native input overlay. Can be activated in the UI settings.
🛑 DNF now displays next to the timer on the UI, in addition to the win zone.
🛑 Split the velocity bar into a yellow “Up Velocity” bar, and the regular “Horizontal Velocity” bar.
🛑 Ghost nameplates now fade out close to the camera.
Brought the Jump Buffer over from Experimental.
Brought the Revolver over from Experimental, with a better sound.
Input method detection is more accurate now.
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05 Jan 2024Developer post
Introducing the Experimental Branch, and Changing our Patch Schedule
The Experimental Branch Sometimes we have ideas that we think would improve Stop Dead, but might have unintended side effects. Rather than shipping these to the main version of the game, we've decided to create an "Experimental Branch!" To enable the experimental branch, right-cl
05 Jan 2024Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 10
Thank you for playing Stop Dead! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! 🛑 Adjusted visuals in the Engineer fight to make the phase change mechanic more clear. 🛑 Fixed an issue that cause the run timer to cut the leading 0’s in the displayed time.
Thank you for playing Stop Dead!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!

🛑 Adjusted visuals in the Engineer fight to make the phase change mechanic more clear.
🛑 Fixed an issue that cause the run timer to cut the leading 0’s in the displayed time.
Improved performance in the Engineer map.
Improved water, fog, and hologram visuals.
Removed Christmas Visuals
Fixed some bugs with grenade behavior.
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22 Dec 2023Developer post
Patch 09 Hotfix
Combo Multiplier affects Time Bonus. Mainly because I didn't feel like doing a big wipe just before christmas. Time Bonus now factors in combo bonus when displaying on the HUD.
Combo Multiplier affects Time Bonus. Mainly because I didn't feel like doing a big wipe just before christmas.
Time Bonus now factors in combo bonus when displaying on the HUD.
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22 Dec 2023Developer post
Stop Dead Early Access Patch 09
This is our last patch of 2023! Thank you for playing Stop Dead this year! We look forward to bringing you Content Update 2, and eventually a full release next year! Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community! Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the chang
This is our last patch of 2023! Thank you for playing Stop Dead this year! We look forward to bringing you Content Update 2, and eventually a full release next year!
Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

🛑 Made Innocents feel less unfair.
🛑 Made some adjustments to Hotline.
Made some adjustments to Aggro.
Made some adjustments to Going Up
Improved performance of physics overall.
Improved performance of destructible meshes.
Fixed an issue that caused Fire Mech landmines to not shoot properly.
Fixed an issue that caused particle effects from projectiles to appear in the wrong place.
🛑 Fixed an issue that caused grabbing to be inconsistent under some circumstances.
🛑❗ Fixed an issue that caused Combo Multiplier to affect Time Bonus.
🛑 Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the DNF text to not appear.
🛑 Added ~~[REDACTED]~~
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Updates & announcements

Enjoy, and happy holidays <3

Patch Notes:

!! This update will wipe ALL LEADERBOARDS !!

A little tease of the all new look that will be arriving "soon" (TM).

A LOT bigger.

😉

New Stuff

Gameplay Changes

Bugfixes

The Experimental Branch

Changing our Patch Schedule