Welcome to 2026 - Survival Game Mode, Solo Training Mode, and MORE!

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Welcome to the year of 1.0 Responders!

We’re so excited for 2026, and all that the year will bring to No More Room in Hell 2. 1.0 is still on track to launch in the first half of the year (more on 1.0 below) but we’ll have a couple of Early Access updates leading up to 1.0 launch!

Exact dates for these updates are still not set in stone. We spent all of 2025 working to get monthly Early Access updates to players, and we’re really proud of what we accomplished! However with hindsight, that push did come at the cost of optimization, and at times the quality of the content that made it into the live game.

This newspost is hefty, as we’re looking to cover multiple topics! So go make yourself a coffee, grab one of those sweet treats you snagged over the holiday, then lock in for a lot of No More Room in Hell 2 Early Access and 1.0 information!

1.0 Launch

All of our hard work, the countless hours that you’ve played, and the feedback that you’ve provided will culminate at our 1.0 launch. This update will be our official “feature complete” version of the game (We still plan on releasing post-launch/live content, more on that below!)

We’re still not ready to share everything, but here are 2 big things coming with 1.0 -

Survival Game Mode:

Survival will be our second game mode, and a brand new way to play No More Room in Hell 2. Survival plays like your favorite classic game modes from the late 2000’s. Responders will have to secure objectives then hold out against an onslaught of Zombies with increasing difficulty. Unlike our current game mode, Survival will push our players into fights!

1.0 will ship with multiple Survival maps, which are quite more compact than existing objective maps.

Solo Training Mode:

We’re excited to announce that the 1.0 version of No More Room in Hell 2 will feature solo play! Solo Training Mode will have its limitations, as you’ll be going into maps alone natively on your pc and not on servers. We also have to remove all progression (and character permadeath) from the solo training mode, as it can easily be turned into a farming tool that breaks the economy and progression of the larger game.

Economy Reset and Progression Account Wipe

In September, we announced that 1.0 would be coming with an account wipe, and that is still the case. 1.0 will completely change the way our economy and progression work, and a lot of the rewards that you’ve earned in Early Access will either be obsolete, overpowered, or even meaningless in the 1.0 system. We will however reward you for the hard work that you put into Early Access!

Players will be rewarded for participating in Early Access, their account level, and their number of Nightmare tokens. These rewards will also feature 2 brand new customization items, logos and patterns that can be placed on most customization items!

These items are only available to players who participated in Early Access, and will not be available to earn or purchase as of the launch of 1.0.

Early Access Participation

All Early Access Participants will receive this very cheeky icon (wait until you see what it does in the dark!)

Account Level

Players who reach account level 20 will receive a mask that reflects the battle they went through during Early Access

Players who reach account level 50 will also receive matching gloves

Players will also receive a logo that highlights the account level that they reached during Early Access! We’ll have patches for 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100, your rewarded patch will be the closest to your level, rounded down.

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Nightmare Tokens

Players who earn 10 Nightmare tokens will receive this unique pattern.

Players who earn 100 Nightmare tokens will also receive this pattern.

Players will also receive a logo that highlights the number of Nightmare tokens they earned during Early Access! We’ll have patches for 1, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1500, and 2000, your rewarded patch will be the closest to your level, rounded down.

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Remember that 1.0 is planned to launch during the first half of this year, so you still have a few months left to earn rewards!

Early Access & our upcoming Genesis patch (0.8.0)

1.0 is very exciting, but we’re still a few months and a couple of really exciting patches away from that big moment. Updates preceding 1.0 won’t feature a ton of new content, and will instead prioritize optimizing the current state of No More Room in Hell 2’s gameplay and performance.

Patch 0.8.0

Our early February patch will consist of a lot of updates to current features, and a classic inferno-inducing explosive throwable that we are very excited about!

Melee Combat

Genesis is going to bring a lot of changes to melee combat, which should have a big impact on the feel of close quarters combat in No More Room in Hell 2.

Changes include:

• Combat and movement are now slower for both zombies and Responders, bringing it closer to the feel of the original.

• Small changes to weapons reach, which should help hits feel like they register correctly more often.

• Slight animation changes to help differentiate between attack types.

• We’re reintroducing head shake, and giving players the option to enable it and control it’s strength via an in-menu slider.

• Slight balance refinement to stamina

Perk Pass #2

At the end of 2025 we took a pass at heavily nerfing some of our strongest perks, and now we’re back in 2026 with perk pass #2. These perks won’t be receiving nerfs to the extreme degree that perks in the first pass had, as those were the “baddest actors”, but each of them will be nerfed. This pass isn’t the finish line, but will act as a bridge between what came in 2025 and some more Perk changes coming at a later date.

The Perks that are getting a pass with Genesis:

• Limbo

• Quiet Steps

• Outdoor Champions

• One for One

• Longer Battery

• Vulture

• Grenadier

• Builder

• Hard Blow

• Teddy Bear

• Hitman

• Eagle Eye

• Penetrating Shot

• Steel Chamber

• Steady Hand

• Overkill

• Tight Shot

• Mohawk

• Steady Shot

• Hellfire

• Locked On

• Averaging

Responder Progression Update

Currently Responders hit max level (50) fairly quickly, and earn 8 perks by that level. Hitting max level quite quickly makes the permadeath game loop feel a little shallow, as players have limited progression past that point. Genesis will uncap Responder levels, and offer players 2 additional perk slots at level 75 & level 100.

These changes work in tandem with our scaling down of the power level of perks, so that a level 100 character with 10 perks feels just right for Nightmare.

Avatar Customization

In our preparation for 1.0, and this is a big one, Genesis will finally allow players to customize their characters!

Customization will include:

• Head

• Hair

• Eyes

• Skin Tone

• Voice

Molotov Cocktail

Genesis will also bring a new throwable explosive, the fan favorite Molotov Cocktail! 

This one works exactly as you expect: throw the bottle, and awash hordes of zombies in FLAMES!

That is not all though, even more is coming with Genesis so stay tuned!

Post Launch Content:

We are way too early to reveal any post 1.0 launch content, but we’re already working on content for 1.1 and beyond!

No More Room in Hell 2 is still in Early Access, and your feedback is shaping every step forward. Report bugs in-game, on Discord, or at https://nmrih2.com/support.

Stay safe out there,

The NMRIH2 Dev Team

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