Hey everyone,
Happy 2026! We've been a little quiet whilst we prepared for this announcement, but now it's time to share the news...
We're taking part in this month's Steam Next Fest!
From 23rd February you're invited to play a brand new version of the Let's Build a Dungeon demo. It will include updates to Campaign Mode and a first look at both Creative Mode and Just Build Mode.
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone that played the first version of our demo and completed the feedback form. The feedback you submitted helped us to make a lot of changes and improvements and we're incredibly grateful. We'd also like to thank our beta testers for reviewing an early version of the demo, we couldn't do this release without your help! (You can still join the list for potential future beta testing slots over on our website.)
There's less than two weeks to wait for the new demo to drop, and we'll be back with a full overview of everything that's new once the demo goes live on February 23rd. Until then, if you have any questions please drop them below and we'll do our best to answer. And if there are any of your favourite content creators that you'd like to see play the new demo, please let us know who we should try and reach out to. We love seeing new people play the game so would be fun to hear your suggestions!
We also have a big favour to ask. If there's any way you can support us on the first day of Next Fest by playing on Day 1, it would be a big help. The Next Fest algorithm (supposedly) uses the number of people playing to decide what to share more widely, and we'd really like to try and get Let's Build a Dungeon in front of some new faces!
Before we go, here's a preview of the new in-game menu art we've been putting together for this demo update. We're adding custom illustrations to each mode, so our artist Ryan put together a bunch of options for us to work through. Here's a look at a couple of the early sketches for Just Build Mode:
And here's a comparison of the concept sketch we picked as our favourite, next to the final in-menu image that you'll see in the demo.
We hope you're looking forward to trying out the new demo and playing Creative Mode and Just Build Mode for the first time. We're both excited and nervous to hear what you think.
Thanks as always for your ongoing support and we'll be back on February 23rd with a full overview of the new demo. Please leave any questions or content creators suggestions below and we look forward to sharing the next update in less than two weeks!
Thanks,
Springloaded