SuperTux

Dec 29, 2025

SuperTux 0.7.0 BETA 1

The SuperTux Team is ecstatic to announce the first beta release of v0.7.0. This is perhaps one of the largest facelifts to the base game since the introduction of Milestone 2! It features completely redone worlds, new artwork, new music; all from the ground up. As such, it may feel entirely different from the previous game, but the overall premise remains true to its roots.

It is a bit difficult to cram it all in one snippet over the years of this release’s development; so we’ll try to keep it brief.

Some of the most significant changes include:

  • A complete overhaul of World 1 (Thanks to RustyBox)
  • A complete overhaul of World 2, Rooted Forest (Thanks to RustyBox, Servalot, bruhmoent and FrostC)
  • New assets for Tux, Badguys, Backgrounds, Tilesets, and other Miscellaneous (Thanks to RustyBox, FrostC, bruhmoent and FilipOK)
  • Complete revamps for Gold Bomb, Igel, Spidermite (Tarantula), etc. (Thanks to RustyBox for graphics, MatusGuy for code)
  • Complete revamp for Ghoul. (Thanks to RustyBox for graphics, weluvgoatz for code)
  • Add new badguys (and an NPC!): Granito (& Big Granito), Root Sapling, Corrupted Big Granito, etc. (Thanks to RustyBox for graphics, MatusGuy for code)
  • New music (Thanks to SnugglyBun, Servalot, RodirodDude, bruhmoent, and Chitan)
  • Overhauled Bonus Island 1 (Thanks to FrostC, Servalot, weluvgoatz, RustyBox, bruhmoent, Sevenberry, and tylerandari12)
  • Revamped Level Editor and QoL changes (Thanks to Swagtoy, Tobbi)
  • New Cutscenes (Thanks to Narre, RustyBox and FrostC)
  • Local multiplayer mode (Thanks to Semphriss)
  • Android Revival & Improvements (Thanks to MatusGuy, Swagtoy)
  • Tux sliding, rock powerup, crawling, buttjump improvements (Thanks to weluvgoatz)
  • Tux dolls to unlock worlds (Thanks to provigz)
  • New Yeti Boss Fight (Thanks to MatusGuy)
  • New Ghost Tree (Thanks to Hypernoot, RustyBox for graphics, MatusGuy for polishing, FilipOK for hit sound)
  • Item Pocket (Thanks to MatusGuy)
  • Improved Autotile (Thanks to mrkubax10, tylerandari12, Eauix)
  • CMake Refactor + making the game actually build (Thanks to Swagtoy, MatusGuy, tobbi)
  • Glinting badguys (Thanks to bruhmoent)
  • Flatpak builds (Thanks to Swagtoy)
  • Squirrel default arguments (Thanks to provigz)
  • Switch to Simplesquirrel (Thanks to MatusGuy and provigz)
  • Display music metadata in the level editor (Thanks to James C. De Ricco)

And so so so many more from a ton of contributors, that probably all got missed!

Thank you all for the incredible patience, considering it took us a long time to get here. Please report any and all bugs you come across, especially those you consider game breaking, and also help with translation on the Transifex. We’ll quickly iron them out and will be available for a little while to crush any nasty issues. We have entered a feature freeze so no new feature requests can slip in for 0.7, especially those which change strings. You can also hop in our IRC and Discord (on the README), which are both bridged to each other as well to talk with us!

And of course… Thank YOU, from the bottom of our hearts, for keeping this game alive! – SuperTux Team

Download

More info and downloads at the GitHub release page!

Development Summary

Check out our latest Development Summary video to get a glimpse of some of the main new features!

Dec 24, 2025

SuperTux Christmas 2025 Newsletter

Hello SuperTux Community,

As a tradition, we’re releasing another Christmas Newsletter for this year.

It’s been a very eventful, busy, but also incredibly productive year for the development of SuperTux. As a result of our collective hard work over the past few years, SuperTux 0.7 is right around the corner. We will soon release a beta version for everyone to try out.

0.7 will feature more improvements, graphics and features than any release of SuperTux ever before. Of course, such a big release wouldn’t be possible without you - the SuperTux community. It has shaped this game to become what it is today, for which we’re incredibly thankful! As such, we would like to invite you to test the upcoming beta thoroughly and report any issues on the SuperTux bug tracker (see links at the top). Also, we’re always looking for new coders, testers, translators, level designers, etc. If you want to help, please consider checking out our socials (see links at the top).

Here’s a summary of the changes present in SuperTux 0.7. Don’t forget to check out the SuperTux Development Summary video at the end of the newsletter for an in-depth showcase of the major features and improvements.

Features

  • Various enemies, such as the Ghoul received a full rework, alongside a plethora of bug fixes and tweaks,
  • A completely revamped and modernized Level Editor (thanks to swagtoy and Tobbi),
  • Introduction of the Glinting mechanic, to accomodate for the removal of the frag level stat,
  • A completed revamp of the Yeti and Ghost Tree bosses (thanks to weluvgoatz, MatusGuy and Hypernoot)
  • The completion of the graphical revamp (thanks to bruhmoent, FrostC and FilipOK)
  • Reorganized credits,
  • New objects (e.g. Editor Comment, Big Snowball),

Music

  • Even more tracks were added to the game’s soundtrack from various contributors, such as bruhmoent and Servalot.

Thank you for playing SuperTux and we’re looking forward to another great year of SuperTux development in 2026!

Dec 24, 2024

SuperTux Christmas 2024 Newsletter

It’s Christmas once again, meaning it’s also time for our annual newsletter! Here’s a summary of the most important aspects of development progression, during 2024:

Worlds

  • Finished Bonus Island 1 remake.
  • Started work on the Bonus Island 2 remake.
  • First 2 worlds of Story Mode have been remade entirely (with the worldmap only left to be entirely finished).

Music

The game now includes tons of new music from various contributors. Credit to SnugglyBun, bruhmoent and Chitan.

Features

  • The introduction of the Item Pocket, replacing our previous Powerup Stacking mechanic with the aim to encourage more strategic gameplay.
  • Improvements to Zeekling behaviour.
  • Work on new Yeti boss behaviour has started, however it is currently work-in-progress.

Alongside that, many minor features and various improvements and bugfixes were made along the year!

Future plans

Regarding the long-awaited release of v0.7.0, we apologize for not meeting the estimated release months we’ve announced in the past! Development has been active lately and we will do our best to release v0.7.0 in 2025! Thank you for your patience!

We plan to additionally do the following before v0.7.0:

  • Merge all waiting Pull Requests on our repository, which are not drafts for the future or big reworks, not suiting our aim to try releasing during the year.
  • Perform some testing and apply bugfixes when necessary.
  • Call for contributors to help with translation on Transifex.
  • Revamp the Ghost Tree with new sprites and behaviour.
  • Include even more new backgrounds.

Regarding the future after v0.7.0, check out our Story Mode Roadmap for Story Mode future progression plans!

If you would like to help with development, you can contact us. Merry Christmas, and Happy SuperTux-ing!