Shadow is the second of three free updates planned for 2026, following January’s upgrades and endless mode, with a third update planned for July.

This update follows the Regal update released earlier in the year, with additional coverage linked for more details.

Four new passive abilities expand strategic options: Full Metal Rapier, Arrow of Fate, Argent Stopwatch, and Sword Breaker, each altering damage, immunity, momentum, or on-screen enemy interactions.

The update highlights ball synergies, including combos with area effects and sequences that spawn more balls, plus interactions such as Full Metal Rapier enhancing damage with enemies and baby balls and Arrow of Fate converting enemy projectiles into baby balls.

Eleven new ball types arrive, including Venom, Time, Erosion, Time Bomb, Timestop, Warp, Sniper, and Heart Swallower, each offering unique effects like paralysis, area control, health drain, delayed explosions, field freezes, rapid teleports, wall-piercing blasts, and life-stealing dynamics.

Additional ball-scale passives add depth to gameplay by modifying damage, immunity, momentum, or defense in unique ways.

Ball x Pit is available on multiple platforms, including Nintendo Switch family, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Android, iOS, PC via Steam, and Xbox Game Pass, with the Naturalist update slated for July 2026.

A new Guildhall building is added, enabling players to re-roll previously chosen character upgrades, as part of Ball x Pit’s Shadow update.

Ball x Pit’s next major update, Shadow, arrives on April 27, 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch players, bringing a host of new content.

The Shadow update introduces 11 new balls with special powers, two new characters, four passive upgrades, and the Guildhall as new content.

Details and context come from a Steam blog post and a Soul Kiwami article in Final Weapon, with broader game coverage cited.

Two new playable characters accompany the update: The Tunneller, who fires balls that wrap around the screen, and The Tiptoer, a fragile ninja who stays undetected at close range but has lower health and damage.