Funguys Swarm - January 2026 Update

HEY Funguys!

Welcome to the January 2026 Funguys Swarm Dev Update!

Our fourth major update, the New Characters Update, is live now!

In this blog, we introduce six new characters and reveal a new system where skills and passives now have rarities. We’ll also cover new gameplay mechanics, including Shrines, Luck, and Armor.

Finally, we showcase brand-new content, such as fire curses and blessings.

New Characters

We're adding not 1, not 2, but 6 new characters this time!

Here they are:

• Groovba: Debuffs deal +20% damage for each Nature card you have. Enemies killed by debuffs have a 2% chance to drop a half heart.

  
  

• Joomba: After standing still for 3 seconds, gain +50% damage, plus +5% for each Sky card you have.

  
  

• Fuzzbug: Start with 1 pixie that damages enemies. Pixies are affected by amount modifiers. Gain +1 projectile for every 2 Night cards you have.

  
  

• X-Olotl: For every 4 Beast cards you have, spawn a copy of yourself that deals 50% of your weapon damage. Dash cooldown is reduced by 5% per Beast card. After you dash, gain +50% attack speed for 2 seconds.

  
  

• NutsNBoltz: You can now find Nuts in the arena. Nuts charge your mecha by 5% and grant +50% movement speed for 5 seconds. Nut bonuses are increased for each Earth card you have.

  
  

• Chimpy: Convert all HP into Armor. HP pickups no longer drop. Taking damage while armored causes an explosion, dealing 100 damage. Explosion damage increases by 20% for each Nature card you have.

Check out two of their many bonkers abilities

Fuzzbug:

[This is a bug. We will not fix it.]

Fuzzbug scales with Night cards, she starts with 1 pixie and gets more pixie the more for every 2 night cards she has.

X-Olotl:

[Every clone makes him slightly angrier.]

X-Olotl summons clones of itself for every 5 beast cards she has, passive or active cards both count.

Skill & Passive Rarity

[How was the Savage Fist? Legen—wait for it—dary.]

Skill and Passive now have random rarity each time you level up. More gacha mechanics, more fun.

Here are the rarity levels:

• Common

• Rare

• Epic

• Legendary

Each higher rarity will give a higher stat boost. E.g., Legendary Green Heart will give more hearts than Common Green Heart.

Skills levels are also reworked a bit. Skills now maxed at level 10, mutation at level 5 and 10.

Shrines

[Stand here for 5 seconds to receive mild anxiety]

Shrines: New interactable you can find in arena. You must stay within them for a short time before they give you their rewards.

Funguys Evolutions are now also findable in Funguy Shrines instead of getting it every 5 and 10 minutes.

Armor

Armor shrines drop Armors. 1 hit = 1 armor. You lose 1 armor for 1 hit from any enemy.

Luck

The higher your luck, the higher the skill and passive rarity chance.

[I'm feeling Lucky!]

You can also find the Luck skill passive to increase it even more. Try a luck-focused build!

5 New Fire Curses and 3 New Fire Blessings

[Shroomba be like: This is fine. 🔥🙂]

That handsome ball of fire is Death Follows, the highest-level fire curse at level 30. Think your extra lives will save you? Psych! Death Follows comes back for you after you revive.

We hear you like fire curses, so we add some more. Here they are:

Fire Curses:

• Infused Projectiles - curse lvl 10

Enemy ranged projectiles move faster.

• Slowing Heat - curse lvl 15

Spawn slowing fields that reduce your movement speed.

• Internal Catapult - curse lvl 20

Fiery meteors fall around you.

• Scorching Treasures - curse lvl 25

Resources and XP Beans expire after a duration.

• Death Follows - curse lvl 30

A mass of death appears and slowly moves toward you. Touching it results in instant

death.

Fire Blessings:

• Treasure Hunter - blessing lvl 5

An additional bonus when picking up resources.

• Lucky Cards - blessing lvl 15

Chance for Rare cards to appear more often.

• Forest Power - blessing lvl 15

Chance for all damage you deal to be critical hits.

We also increase the Fire Curse up to level 30 for those of you who like a bit more heat.

4 New Skills

We release 4 new skills with this update:

• Infernal Escape - Dash skill.

Your Dash is replaced with a leap into the sky. After a delay, you land and deal damage to all enemies in the area.

• Sexy Totem

Every time you pick up 10 XP Beans, summon a totem that deals constant damage for its duration.

• Water Snek

Spawn a slithering Water Snek that damages and slows enemies it passes through.

• Frog Support - Weapon Skills

Spawn a frog that shoots projectiles based on the ranged weapon you use.

What is next?

That’s all for now, folks. The next updates are already in the works, including:

1. More arenas

We know you've been waiting for more arenas.

2. New characters, and more:

   Get ready for more characters and more content!

Thank you,

Stairway Games