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Enshrouded Celebrates First Year Anniversary With New Updates & More

Sarah MusnickyBy Sarah Musnicky01/28/20254 Mins ReadUpdated:02/05/2025
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January 24, 2025, marks Enshrouded‘s first full year of Early Access. To commemorate the occasion, developers Keen Games have created a celebratory video highlighting memorable player moments from launch until now, reminiscing on the major content updates, milestones, adventures, and misadventures along the way. The Enshrouded team welcomes players to party using new socializing options like text and voice chat, festive cosmetics, and more as part of the fifth content update, Pact of the Flame, out now.

Keen Games promises good times to come, revealing the EA Roadmap for 2025 of features and content, building up to the full 1.0 release of Enshrouded PC and consoles in Spring 2026. Thanks to the overwhelming response and support from players and the gaming community worldwide, Keen Games can continue realizing their vision of the full version, responsibly developing and even expanding on gameplay elements.

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Keen Games and the extended Enshrouded team are proud to have such a fantastic community to craft, collaborate, communicate, and, most of all, celebrate milestones!

A Year of Enshrouded

All the audio featured in this trailer comes from real players and streamers, capturing the authentic spirit of Enshrouded. While the footage was reshot to match the trailer’s theme, it was all inspired by moments shared by these incredible creators-with their permission.

Enshrined Pact of the Flame Update promises more fun and play

One year and four content updates later, the fifth has launched today! Pact of the Flame is the latest content update and the first of 2025 includes several features that allow players to better connect with their fellow Flameborn.

With integrated text and voice chat that includes an optional “by proximity” setting, emotes, and new party-planning props like food and drink placements and coasters (gotta keep those tabletops pristine), all you need next is the friends to share them with. For solo players, don’t forget that the NPCs and lovely, pettable pets count.

Highlights of Pact of the Flame Features:
  • In-game text chat in multiplayer sessions
  • Voice chat: when enabled, current options are proximity voice chat or a global, server-wide, plus a new Social menu
  • Emotes! Express joy, frustration, and other feelings using the emote wheel.
  • First-person camera mode for building
  • New props, cosmetics, and materials with over 70 new items, two new building materials. New quests for more vanity items are available, including a special Serpent Warrior-themed set just in time for the new lunar year.
  • Twitch Drops: another new vanity set will be available via Twitch Drops — or simply by interacting with their Flame Altars and finding the items in-world
  • Several more additions, improvements and fixes coming soon.

Enshrouded – Pact of the Flame | Update 5 Highlights

Check out the full changelog here! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1203620/view/520829437562848300 The beautiful world used in this video is a copy of the Public Resource World 4.1 server, built by @delindsay! You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom.

Mark your calendars! Expect Full Launch in 2026!

Thanks to the support of over three million players, Enshrouded and its developers have been able to deliver on the features integral to the game’s vision and those requested by players, influenced by the Feature Upvote platform. The positive attention from communities consisting of players, creators, commentators, journalists, and media dedicating time and effort to the game has been overwhelming in the best way.

This support allows the team to continue responsibly building not just their ideal version of the game but to incorporate even bigger features, improvements, and quality of life they know the players enjoy. Player feedback has been and continues to be integral to their process to 1.0 and beyond. Keen Games is thrilled (and frankly, a little nervous) to share the full 1.0 release of Enshrouded is anticipated for Spring 2026.

Returning our focus to the present, Keen Games has almost fully completed its 2024 roadmap and proudly reveals the new 2025 Early Access roadmap plans to succeed in their delightfully surprising and humbling first year in EA.

Players already engaged in the game or jumping on for the first time in 2025 can expect new features like an event system using portals to thematic and exciting new worlds, base raids on separate islands, added weather events, teleportation to other servers, sharing worlds/builds with the community, a new biome that centers on the implementation of dynamic water, and so much more in multiple content updates spanning the year.

Players can expect other Enshrouded fun like community events, contests, and surprises yet to be un-shrouded as we venture towards launching 1.0

Continue the journey in Year 2 of Enshrouded

In just over a year, more than three million players have embarked on adventures across Enshrouded’s Embervale, enjoying five content updates, six patches, and 19 hotfixes by the indie self-publishers and developers Keen Games.

Enshrouded has maintained a Very Positive Steam rating since launching into Early Access in January 2024, and the team continues to keenly listen to their feedback as they develop the 1.0 version for PC and consoles, anticipated to release in Spring 2026.

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Sarah is a writer and editor for BWT. When she's not busy writing about KDramas, she's likely talking to her cat. She's also a Rotten Tomatoes Certified critic and a published author of both fiction and non-fiction.

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