Attention, Bone Breakers! The next update is just around the corner and it is humongous.

To roll out patch 1.6 we will need to close the server from 1st December at 5 pm (CET) until the day of the update.

Our tech-gnomes are inconsolable but now they are working at double time to get everything stage ready as quick as possible.

We will naturally let you know the moment the servers are back online! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to make sure you don't miss out!

The OMD Team

After a brief hiatus from updates, Orcs Must Die! Unchained is about to make a triumphant return with Open Beta Release 1.6, available to players in December. Players interested in getting a first look at this massive new update may tune into OrcsMustDie.tv on Friday November 18th at 6:00pm CT. Robot Entertainment will host a special episode of their “Orcs After Dark” live show in which the game’s developers will walk viewers through all of the new features.

Robot Entertainment has made sweeping changes to the game, bringing back the classic Orcs Must Die! feeling that players have been longing for.

• Faster and More Furious – Faster hero speeds, squishier minions, bigger physics – the classic OMD feeling has never looked and felt quite so glorious.
• Every Hero Rebuilt for Survival – Never again will players fear that their favorite hero can’t keep up in Survival Mode. Every single hero in the game has been rebalanced for Survival, giving players tons of hero combination options.
• All New Map Structure – There’s a whole new way to play through your favorite Battlegrounds in OMDU’s new difficulty tiers. Players must prove their worth before moving up to the next big challenge.
• Brand New Prologue – All new players will start with a brief campaign to get them started with all of the OMD knowledge they’ll need to bust heads in the Survival Battlegrounds.

A trove of treasures awaits players at all levels, including an overhauled game lobby, new ways to earn and upgrade traps, revised daily login rewards, tons more minions, and the return of Mr. Moneybags.



During the Extra Life stream, which will run from noon on Friday through noon on Saturday, Robot will be playing Orcs Must Die, Orcs Must Die! 2, and Orcs Must Die! Unchained while accepting donations to help a children’s hospital in Dallas. Donations are tax-deductible and all proceeds go to help kids.

Join us for 24 hours beginning at noon on Friday, live on OrcsMustDie.tv!

As an additional reward, Robot Entertainment will be sending a code for the brand new Miracle Worker Gabriella skin to all donors who choose to donate $10 USD or more. Donations must be made non-anonymously to the Robot Entertainment team in order to receive a code via email. Codes will be sent after fundraising concludes and after Release 1.6 becomes available in the coming weeks.

Greetings War Mages!

By now you’ve read our big announcement about the upcoming changes coming to Orcs Must Die! Unchained. We know the community is keen for news on when the update will be available and what to expect, but our teams here at Robot are still hard at work on it and we aren’t quite ready to reveal this information yet.

In the meantime, we’re launching an All Heroes event – not just for a weekend or a week, but until the next OMDU update. That’s right – ALL heroes will be guest heroes for the foreseeable future. We’ll have details on when to expect that next update available soon, but until that time we wanted to open up the entire pantheon of OMDU heroes for everyone to play and enjoy.

You may have noticed that we’ve been a little quiet lately. If you’ve been with us long enough, you know that being quiet usually means we’re thinking really, really, hard about something. In this case, we’ve been thinking really hard – and even arguing some – about a few big decisions to make for the game.

We’ve always seen community feedback as an important part of our development process. We read practically every Steam review, forum post, Facebook comment, support email, and Twitter reply out there.

When we look at the big picture from players alongside the server data, a clear picture starts to emerge– Survival is by far the most popular element of OMDU. With this portrait of the current game becoming clearer, we’ve been faced with some difficult discussions.

Despite tremendous efforts, Siege PvP mode just hasn’t worked out. As we’ve gone through various iterations on the game mode, we've ultimately seen only a small portion of our players actively playing Siege. More importantly, people who play Siege matches are less likely to continue playing the game at all after their match. This has been the case since the beginning of Open Beta, when matchmaking queues were shorter and games were more frequent. As some of the most passionate fans of Siege mode, it’s been difficult for us at Robot to come to terms with this feedback and data. Ultimately, the Siege game mode has a small hardcore group of players, but it isn’t building a healthy long-term community around itself.

As the game has grown, Siege and Survival modes have competed with one another more and more for development resources. The need to balance the traps, heroes, and gear for both of these game modes and develop each in consideration with the other is holding both modes back.

The most common piece of community feedback we get is that the game still needs to feel more like OMD and OMD2. We’ve always agreed with that feedback. Adding Survival and Endless modes to OMDU was a big step in that direction, and we can make them much, much better. The vast majority of our beta players came looking for that classic Orcs Must Die! feeling, and we can and will deliver it.

Siege mode is being removed from Orcs Must Die! Unchained as of the next update . We believe that competitive gameplay still has a future in Orcs Must Die!, but we’ve decided that Siege mode is just not the right fit for that. Competitive gameplay could return to OMDU, and if it does, it won’t be in the form of Siege.

Our focus will now turn entirely toward making Survival feel, look, sound, and play more like a clear evolution of OMD and OMD2. We’re doubling down on Survival mode to bring back the kick-ass OMD gameplay you love.

We will be doing an account reset with the next update of OMDU . The shift in the game has required changes to many of the existing systems and inventory simply won’t slide over into the new systems. All social connections – guilds, friend lists, friend referrals and their rewards – will remain intact, but any progress or content you earned through play will be reset so that all players can experience the new game equally.

Any gold that was purchased and then spent in the game will be put back into your account, and ALL players will get an additional $5 worth of gold if they login within the first two weeks of the new update.

This week will be all about answering your questions. On Tuesday September 20th at 3:00pm CT, tune into Insider Access on OrcsMustDie.tv. We’ll have a live Q&A session with Robot Entertainment CEO Patrick Hudson and Orcs Must Die Executive Producer Chris Rippy. On Thursday September 22nd, we’ll also have an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Design Director Ian Fischer over at /r/OrcsMustDie. We hope to see you there.

In the meantime, you can visit this FAQ to find answers to many of your additional questions about topics like launch and Founder Packs.

While we are saddened to see Siege mode going away, we are also extremely excited for the future of OMDU. We’ve got big plans for OMDU, and we are eager to prove it to our players.

All five heroes are available to play for free this week, so log in and give them a try!

All five heroes are available to play for free this week, so log in and give them a try!

All five heroes are available to play for free this week. Log in now to give them a try!

All five heroes are available to play for free this week. Log in now to give them a try!

Bionka, the orc queen, is back on her throne, and she’s leading a full-on orc revolution. The time to summon your magical armies through the rift is now!

Create guilds and invite your friends and teammates to join you. Chat together, work together, earn guild points together to unlock rewards for everyone in your guild.

You think you’re a real pro orc-slayer, huh? Put your magic where your mouth is. The 5-star rating system from previous Orcs Must Die! games has returned for Survival mode.

Your friends aren’t playing OMDU yet, you say? We just made it easier and more rewarding than ever to make new friends. Use the new Refer-A-Friend system to invite your friends to OMDU and you could both unlock amazing rewards, including an exclusive Blackpaw skin.

Remember when you fell madly in love with Orcs Must Die!? Two new compact and frantic maps bring back more of that epic defense feeling you’ve been missing in Orcs Must Die! Unchained.

Bionka, the Queen Momma, is the matriarch of the orcs and leader of the Unchained. Bionka is now available in-game, and her royal abilities and motherly love mean there’s never been a better time to be an orc minion!

Release 1.3 has all of this plus a mountain of other updates from balance adjustments to new bosses. Read the detailed patch notes.

All five heroes are available to play for free this week. Log in now to give them a try!