- The Night Mode Update is live! - 8 July 2026
We’re excited to mix it up this summer with new levels, new skins, and new tools. The Night Mode update is all about adding more variety to multiplayer. Launch back into the Clone Drone lobby with a brand new skin to take on new Team Battle levels.These updates are available NOW on Steam and will come to Xbox, Switch, PlayStation and Epic Stores very soon.Free Commentator SkinsCommentatron: I have an urgent announcement. The humans have been given free skins.Analysis-Bot: That is not an “urgent” announcement. We give humans free things all the time, like hammers and brain surgeries.Commentatron: All the humans have been given free skins that look like us. Analysis-Bot: They are allowing rotted flesh piles to inhabit a body that looks like ME??Analysis-Bot: I hate to ask, but did they give my skin… legs?Commentatron: Does this answer your question?Analysis-Bot: Hurry! Throw me into the t…
- What's in the Night Mode supporter pack? - 4 July 2026
Hello Humans! On the 8th July, the Night Mode Update will arrive with Supporter Packs and free content! What will be added to the game? Well the short list is:New Team Battle MapsFree Commentator SkinsNight Mode, Fast Lane and Horse Power DLC Supporter PacksThis post is focusing on the Night Mode Supporter Pack. Soon we'll show you more pictures of the Maps and free content too!The Night Mode Bots rule the arena after darkThese dangerous bots have more glowy bits than the Emperor.Who rules the arena after dark? The Night Mode robots! These deadly neon cyberpunks terrorize dark alleys and vacant server rooms. Join the robot gang by picking up the new Night Mode Supporter Pack. You get 5 new skins to remix for your human and an array of brightly colored swords, spears, hammers, and bows to choose from. You’ll shine in Team Battle and Last Bot Standing with skins and weapons that light up…
- Devlog: Big Changes and Announcements for Clone Drone - 22 June 2026
Hello humans!This is Erik, the creative director of Doborog. I come bearing news!Our next update comes out in the first half of July. Here’s what’s happening!Clonebux → Supporter Packs!With the next update to Danger Zone, we will be ending the sale of Clonebux, the in-game currency for purchasing premium skins and weapon models.Instead, in-game cosmetics will be sold as Supporter Packs: simple DLC bundles listed in the store.Why? Because you told us to! 🙂After launching the update that introduced Clonebux, a lot of people came out strongly against these types of microtransactions in an otherwise premium game. After discussing your comments with the dev team, it quickly became clear to us there was no form or implementation of in-game currency that would not create a bad vibe for people exhausted by them in other games.With Supporter Packs, we’re hoping to provide a simple, classy way f…
- Play the new Team Battle Update! - 26 March 2026
Hello Humans! The Team Battle Update is out!After spending almost 10 years in a booth together, Commentatron and Analysis Bot have finally gotten on each other's nerves. But they're too "smart" to fight themselves, they have humans to do that!It's time to grab your friends and pick a team to sort out their feud!The new King of the Hill maps are the start of our plan to provide more ways to play together in Team Battle mode! Capture and hold the central objective or explore the maps to upgrade your advantage over the other team. Stick together and multiple players can get the same upgrade which is really helpful for overwhelming your enemy!But that's not all, we've included Steam Workshop support in the level editor so you can create Team Battle levels for your besties!Which team will you pick? Play with the devs!At 5pm GMT / 1pm EDT Team Doborog will stream on Steam, Twitch and YouTube…
- The Team Battle Update - Trailer and Release Date - 20 March 2026
Hello Humans!For a little while now our team has talked about the work they're doing in dev logs. Making giant Commentator heads, writing new lines for them and improving the multiplayer connection experience!Now a lot of that work is done, we're in the polishing phase and we can finally announce when the update will arrive.That's right! The Team Battle Update introduces the new King of the Hill mode and you can play it on all platforms on March 26th!On launch day, you'll be able to join the Doborog team streaming on Twitch and Steam! We'll be playing on public servers with all of you so you can show us how amazing you are at being King of the Hill!If you want to play the mode early just go to your Steam library and select Manage > Properties > Game Versions & Betas then in the drop down menu you'll see "experimental"! Because the experimental branch is constantly being updated with the…
- Giant commentator heads! - Dev log - 9 March 2026
Hello Humans!Today we're talking to our artist Isaac about how the Commentators have been adapted to work with the new King of the Hill team battle mode!What are you working on right now? Recently I’ve been working on the King of the Hill update. I’m focusing on some holograms of Commentatron and Analysis-Bot, the visual effects, and how those will affect gameplay in that mode. I’m making key art, which we will reveal on the store page when the update launches!I’ve also helped playtest the new mode. The times we’ve played as a team have been the most fun I’ve had in Danger Zone. I was wondering why we didn’t have this mode before!What new visual effects have you added?We have a few things in the capture area. There are some hologram walls around the capture area that tell you who’s in control of the area. There are funny new holographic heads of Analysis-Bot and Commentatron. They need…
- How should connecting to multiplayer feel? - Dev Log - 2 March 2026
Hello Humans!As we've been building the new King of the Hill team battle mode, our new Server Engineer has been making sure everything about multiplayer works smoothly. Scarlett has only been with the team a few months but it's likely you've already felt the effects of her work! We asked her a little bit more about the technical side of the game to show you what has been happening "under the hood."What have you been up to?Oh gosh, so many things. Although my official title is “Server Engineer,” I work on a wide variety of things because we’re a small team. A big chunk of my time recently has been spent feeling like I’m cosplaying as a sysadmin, managing lots of computer systems and wrangling all the different servers and services we’re using behind the scenes. I’ve also been focusing a lot on improving the multiplayer experience, with fixing up our game servers and matchmaking alongside…
- Commentators and Map Design - King of the Hill Dev Log - 21 February 2026
Hello Humans!Today we have TWO of our team talking about their work on the new King of the Hill mode. The Commentators are busy and have a brand new job! Meanwhile, we're thinking about how to make the maps as fun as possible.Geoffrey, Narrative DesignWhat is the premise of the new King in the Hill mode?King of the Hill is the first team-based PvP mode in Danger Zone! In the lobby, players are divided into two teams with familiar captains: Commentatron and Analysis-Bot. There is an elevated zone in the middle of the map called “the hill.” The commentators push their human players to conquer the hill by any means necessary. The team that spends the most time on the hill uncontested wins the match. The losing team, uh, explodes. And that’s King of the Hill!Where did that idea come from?The idea of the commentators being team captains came from Erik. It was a great idea! I generally write…
- The winners of the Ride or Die Art Competition! - 17 February 2026
Hello Humans!The Doborog Team and Community Judges have taken their time looking over every single drawing, screenshot, video and voxel! A massive thank you to Niek, Myeh and TVCat for looking through all the art and helping us decide the winners! It was HARD to pick our favourites because there were so many incredible submissions for this competition. If you're not mentioned here, please don't feel bad. Thank you to everyone who submitted art to the competition!Here are the winners:Community PickThis was the category that you all voted in. Thank you for taking the time to look through all the amazing art. These three got the most votes! You chose well!N_ArtistFunnyBassistSquiddyBest DressedThis was a category to show off your favourite customisation combinations! You're all so fashionable! Our team and the community judges picked these three winners based on their amazing taste in robo…
- Experimenting with new modes and maps - Multiplayer Dev Log - 13 February 2026
Hello Humans!We’re starting a brand new series of dev logs to give you a look into what we’re making and how game development works!This is our first official announcement that new multiplayer modes will be coming to Clone Drone!Erik the Creative Director answered some questions to get you up to speed on where we are in development.All screenshots are work in progress levels. They'll look a lot cooler on release!Why are we adding multiplayer modes now?We’re a small team and that means we mostly focus on making one thing at a time, and for a long time that was Clone Drone in the Hyperdome!After the launch of Hyperdome and its big Skyscrapper Update, we took a moment to ask ourselves what we should do next. We always want to entertain and take care of our players, so we looked at what most people were playing. That was still Danger Zone.So we want to breathe even more life into this aweso…
- Vote for the winners of the Community Pick Award! - 9 February 2026
Hello Humans!The Ride or Die competition is officially over!Visit this page to vote for the winners of the Community Pick Award!The Doborog Team and our Community Judges will take the next week to decide on the winners. There have been over 100 entries so we’re carefully taking our time! Meanwhile it’s your turn to decide who wins the Community Pick award! Because there were so many entries, this voting form is very long but please scroll through and see as many entries as possible before you click submit! You will be able to vote for all of the art that you like on the form, so don’t be afraid to pick lots of them!Unfortunately there isn’t a way to include videos in the list. To help with this we’ve made an extra list with all the videos so you can see them, and labelled the videos in the voting form.Thank you for all your hard work making these entries. We can’t wait to announce the w…
- Hotfix 1.8.0.23 - 28 January 2026
Hello Humans! We're hard at work on fixing both the game and servers. Here's the list of bug fixes:Game:Invisible enemies - fixed numerous bugs that caused these and added logic to auto-kill themFixed placement of fire on fishing pole and picnic hammerNo longer plays an emote when customising weaponsLocalised weapon textFixed "This is not co-op" achievementFixed mounts not getting cleaned up when you lose and between levelsSettings menu "Get more" \ button opens in steam overlay instead of web browserTracked mounts so they persist if you reload your saveServers:Dynamic server capacity - servers will now start up and wind down based on demandFixed server crash related to player disconnecting while riding somethingThank you for your patience! If you "see" any more invisible enemies, let us know on Discord or via email!Team Doborog
- Multiplayer Connectivity Issues and how we're fixing them! - 21 January 2026
Hello Humans!Apologies for the server connection problems lately, and thank you immensely for your patience as we work to get things resolved.The servers have had stability issues because right now we're trying to upgrade how they work.Toward the end of last year, we hired a new server engineer who’s working hard to get everything back on track. (You may have already met them; say hi to ButterOverflow in our official discord!)We’ve got a mix of work we’ve done, work that’s almost done, and plans to improve things in the long term.What we’ve already done:Clearing finished matches: Fixed an issue where we weren’t properly cleaning up “old” games from our list of games to connect to. This would cause you to try to connect to a game which was no longer running, which was a major cause of failing to connect to public matches in late December/early JanuaryPrepared for futured updates: Interna…
- The Ride or Die Art Competition! - 7 January 2026
\Hello Humans! To celebrate the release of the Ride or Die update we’re running an art competition! Do your friends ride and die for each other in Co-op and battle it out in Last Bot Standing? Do you try to look fashionable on top of a Rip Rider? We’re giving away skins to the winners of 4 categories of artists! If you have screenshots or art of Clone Drones then enter them into the Ride or Die competition! RulesThe competition starts now! (January 7th)Submit your art through this form or email [email protected] except Best Dressed accept any form of art.Best Dressed will only accept screenshots from the game.Examples of accepted art: Pencil drawings, Clone Drone screenshots, 3D renders, photos of Lego, animations and many more!New art only, if it was submitted to previous competitions, it isn’t allowed.Art can be disqualified for any reason. Examples are: being offensive or being mad…
- Long Live the Danger Zone! - 18 December 2025
This is a mega-blog full of exciting announcements, bug fixes, and our thinking about premium skins. But first, a message straight from our cold, robot hearts:We’ve never been more excited about the future of Danger Zone! Thank you for supporting the Ride or Die update. New updates are in development for next year, including new multiplayer modes, a 10th Anniversary celebration, and community competitions! You’ve shown up for us, again and again over the past nine years, and we’re so grateful.Free Weapons and Quick FixesThe Ride or Die update launched Danger Zone into the future, but there were some bumps in the road. Here’s what's in the latest update:12 Free New Weapon Skins! A dozen new ways to obliterate your opponents! Many people pointed out that there were no weapon models you could equip without Clonebux. A bad vibe, now corrected with 12 glorious weapons. Free for all players!…
- The Ride or Die Update is out now! - 15 December 2025
Hello Humans! Today we ride into battle for our huge new update. Our biggest content update in far too long. The Ride or Die Update adds a sawblade unicycle called the Rip Rider and an extensive system for customizing your Human! Here’s a closer look at what we’re wheeling out.Got a need for speed? The Rip Rider is the fastest you’ve ever been able to move in Clone Drone. You’ll be across the arena before your enemies realise you’ve cut them in half! Practice the art of wheeled warfare on the Rip Rider in the new Challenge, both single player and co-op. Then take on your Ride or Dies in Last Bot Standing, where you’ll slice robots apart like a knife through glazed ham. Tip: You can jump on the Rip Rider! Leap and land on your opponents to slice them in two.Beginning with this update, your Human body is now more customizable than ever before!Previously, you could only pick from full robo…
- Steam Awards 2025: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone! - 24 November 2025
Hello Humans! We've been working on updates to Clone Drone, ever since its Early Access release and WE'RE STILL GOING! We're excited to be working on the next update for Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. It will include new things to ride, and new ways to customise your Human! For this year's Steam Awards we'd love to be nominated for the Labor of Love award. We're going to continue improving and adding content to the Danger Zone next year too because you're all so dedicated and have kept the game going all this time!Thank you for being the best community we could have asked for!- The Doborog Team
- Russian Multiplayer Connection Problems - 20 November 2025
Hello Humans,We’re sorry to tell you some bad news. As lots of you have pointed out to us, most players from Russia can’t connect to our multiplayer modes. Unfortunately this is because Roskomnadzor has decided to restrict access to specific services and our online game servers are included.All public and private multiplayer modes can’t be connected to, including:Endless Co-OpLast Bot StandingAll Co-Op ChallengesPrivate DuelsRight now we can’t fix this problem because it’s not the game that has broken, it’s an issue with general Russian internet service. We have heard that some community members have been able to connect to multiplayer through VPN services but with severely high ping. If you know of any work arounds that let you play multiplayer, let us and the rest of the Russian community know! We hope this changes in the future so you can enjoy the game but we don’t know when the res…
- Hotfix! Twitch Mode login + Unity Patch! - 20 October 2025
Hello humans!We just released a tiny hotfix that fixes two issues:Twitch Mode login - A while back the little link to log in to twitch mode broke. The new flow does not go via any dodgy links, and should be much easier to use. Let us know if you experience any issues with it!Unity vulnerability - Unity released an update for a security vulnerability that affected every game ever built in it, including this one! We have now updated to the latest version, and the only security vulnerability left in the game should be that the garbage room forcefield sometimes lets humans get through it.Please enjoy this more secure experience!Oh, but while you're here, did you know that we are working on a new big update???Look forward to an overhaul of Character Customization and the ability to ride around on a sawblade unicycle! Incredible!ok that's it. Have a good day!Cheers,Erik
- The Voices of the Looprunners - Building the Hyperdome Part 2 - 11 December 2024
Hello Humans! We interviewed the actors that are voicing our looprunner characters to see behind the scenes of making Clone Drone in the Hyperdome! Don't forget that the game will be out tomorrow! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401230/Clone_Drone_in_the_Hyperdome/ Team Doborog
