Developer posts and news about this game.
🎨 Major Update 1.4.0 — The Whole Menu, Re-Plated Until now MEATBALLS looked like what it was: a game built fast, by a very small kitchen. Placeholder gems for items, coloured boxes for machines, and a few bosses who were literally a circle with eyes. Not any more. In 1.4.0 every
📖 Story Update 1.3.9 — The Kitchen Has Some Explaining To Do For a hundred years the village ate well. Then one night something in the Kitchen went wrong, and the food started fighting back. Every meatball Nonna rolls goes down the same belt, and nobody asks where the belt goes.
🧪 Update 1.3.9 — Side Effects May Include Being On Fire The kitchen fights back. This update adds five new status effects, a meatball that shows every bite you take, and a bell that ends the hunt for the last few enemies in each wave. It also carries an apology to everyone whose
🧾 Economy 1.3.8 — Nonna Has Seen The Books You told us you could buy the whole shelf. You were right — you could, at every single cart in the game. So we audited every coin the game hands out, found the faucet nobody knew was open, and halved the economy properly. 💰 Gold Is Hal
🔪 Bug Fixes 1.3.7 — The Prep Cook Was Not On The Menu A boss who kept turning up 40 seconds into a fresh run, a minigun upgrade that cost nothing, and two different reasons your frame rate was hitching. All caught, all measured, all fixed. 🔪 The Level 1 Ambush 😰 THE PREP COOK
Hopefully a major performance bump with this one. Moved some animations to the shared per frame renderer and it seems a lot smoother L8+
🍳 Sizzle, Streak & Sauce — Update 1.3.5 🍝 Chefs! This one is all about feel — reading the pan, riding the streak, and never losing your meatball under the UI again. Straight from your feedback, straight into the sauce. 🧑🍳 🔫 Combat & Feel ⚡ Beam weapons reworked — be
🎺 Update 1.3.4 — Face the Music Every boss in this game has spent a year fighting to a borrowed tune. Not any more. Also: an honest confession about the Additives, and a Knowledge screen that finally knows things. 🎼 Seventeen Bosses. Seventeen Themes. 🎻 Every single boss now h
🍝 Update 1.3.3 — Table Talk A generous helping between the big ones: talk to your table, earn your knife-marks, and get fitted by a very serious tailor. Grazie for every report and suggestion — most of this list started as one. 💬 Say Something (Co-op) 🎭 Emote wheel — hold T (o
🔧 Patch 1.3.2 A quick-fire fix round. You reported, we cooked. Grazie for the bug reports — keep them coming. 🩹 The Big One First 🧊 Fixed the freeze at the start of a run (and the stray story text box over the death screen). If 1.3.0 left you stuck on wave 1 unable to move — d
🍝 The Full Menu — Update 1.3.0 The biggest update MEATBALLS has ever had. Everything we've been cooking since launch, served on one plate — and every bit of it is us pushing hard toward the FULL RELEASE of the game, coming soon. All free. No microtransactions. Just more game. Ci
🛡️ Guard Up — Update 1.2.16 You can block now. And if your timing is good, you can throw the hit straight back. 1.2.16 gives every meatball an active defence, opens a Hall of Deaths that tallies what's killing you — and everyone else on Steam — rebuilds the front door from the g
Fixed an error on melee attacks causing a crash.
THE KITCHEN UPDATE You can cook your own meatball now. Head into The Kitchen from character select and mix, grind, pan-fry and plate one yourself. Get the fat ratio right, pick your spices, don't burn it — what comes out is a fully playable character you can take straight into a
Added 5 new enemies Fixed golden meatballs spans Reworked orbiting olives weapon Fixed achievement wording Added new melee weapon Added new punch hell matrix
✨ NEW FEATURES 👑 Bosses Reworked Top to Bottom The boss roster has had a major gameplay pass so each fight now has a stronger identity, better telegraphs, clearer punish windows, and much more memorable phase flow instead of just feeling like a bigger stat check. Prep Cook now t
Bug Fixes Fixed pressing escape issue Fixed Menu controller issues Fixed cursor still showing on controller Fixed end screen Fixed gold update on the shop Fixed saving now mentions it only saves to the start of the level Fixed minimap inproved
🍝 Update 1.1.10 — The Full Course The biggest Meatballs update yet is served. New ways to power up, coin-op contraptions and glowing shrines scattered across the arena, a legendary guest star, and a mountain of polish. Grab a fork. ✨ NEW FEATURES 🎴 Choose Your Upgrade on Level-
Updated levels and added some damaged areas
Show a stacked view by default on the pause menu and when you click on a stack it then asks how much you want to drop with a slider Beasteary show the actual sprites Multiplayer invite doesnt force the one accepting into the lobby it is now forcing them Multiplayer should show if