Tap Ninja — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Tap Ninja - Season 4 is live! | 2026-03-20 | Season 4 has started!Participate in the Season 4 event of Tap Ninja and start a new Ninja run in the overblooming spring heights!Complete various seasonal tasks to unlock The Warrior of Sakura - Hiro skin and The Cherry Cliffs background!(The cosmetics are temporarily exclusive!)In this season each enemy has a chance to spawn as a regular Firefly, while each defeated regular Firefly will spawn two small FirefliesTo aid with the overflow of fireflies the row 4 upgrades in the Medal tree are available from the beginning for this season!Season 4 is active from March 20th to May 3rd! |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.16 is live! | 2026-03-02 | ● Getting ready for Season 4 ● (have to be unlocked) Seasonal game tokens - complete a full day of quests to get a token, exchange enough tokens for a random Hero of choice ● Opening or switching between Seasonal & Main game will now max out the Speed Step if your Energy timer is not depleted after Away income ● Ascension tree now displays purchasable skills further than the neighboring node ● You can now purchase a path of Ascension skills with one click ● Game performance in the Ascension tab improved ● You can now adjust the zoom level in the seasonal upgrade menu ● Increased the maximum zoom out on the Conquest map ● Removed the lock togg |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.15 is live! | 2026-02-04 | ● Hovering your cursor over the Hero profile will now display its name ● Pet tint tasks requiring using Amber now progress even in the Seasonal game ● Improved the visual clarity on pre-unlocked & perma-locked Ascensions Skills in the Seasonal game ● Some bug fixes |
| Tap Ninja - Season 3 is live! | 2026-01-02 | Season 3 has started!Participate in the Season 3 event of Tap Ninja and start a new Ninja run in the lifeless wastelands!Complete various seasonal tasks to unlock The Frozen King - Scorn skin and The Barren Peaks background!(The cosmetics are temporarily exclusive!)Be warned that this is an endurance Season - your Ninja is not able to increase it's Speed Step in the cold, and barely any enemies can be encountered in these wastelands!Season 3 is active from January 2nd to February 3rd! |
| Tap Ninja wishes you a nice New Year 2026! | 2026-01-01 | Yet another year passes while another begins.Let's take a look at how 2025 went for Tap Ninja:This year's most notable addition to the game was the Seasonal game mode (previously know as "Dimensions"). This new feature added the ability for players to start an almost fresh new game on every new Season's start with unique game modifiers featured for each one, and to race to finish the listed tasks.Players seemed to like the new feature, so more development time was contributed towards it by making each Season more unique from the rest and by adding a dedicated Seasonal upgrade tree with the v7.1.0 update!This year Tap Ninja saw the addition of |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.10 is live! | 2025-12-19 | ● Seasons will now start 14 hours after the weekly reset, instead of it starting right after the weekly reset! ● More Seasonal tree upgrades ● Seasonal Upgrades can now be upgraded at any point of the game (newly acquired points can still only be used with the next Season) ● Away income slightly buffed ● Randomness fixed for the ultimately last time ● Unlocking a Pet slot in a Seasonal game now requires having the appropriate Bond level from the unlocked Pets instead of the unlock being universal ● The achievement with the requirements of "Throw 5 Shuriken Vortexes without hitting any enemy" has been made more possible with the 'Ascend & use |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.9 is live! | 2025-11-02 | ● Seasonal task to defeat 5 million enemies has been reduced to 2.5 million ● During Season 2 triggering an Enemy Frenzy will now also trigger an extra Samurai Frenzy ● Firefly events - Coin drop Big & Coin drop MEGA now also spawn a Samurai Frenzy during Season 2 ● A few bug fixes |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.8 is live! | 2025-11-01 | ● Seasonal Upgrade tree can now be advanced by players that accidentally missed it the first time. Note that the 'Starting currency' upgrades might not give you the appropriate currency after the Season started! (this is a temporary fix only for this Season!) ● In Seasonal game, the pre-unlocked and perma-locked Medal upgrade levels are now deducted from the required amount to unlock the next Medal tree row ● A few bug fixes |
| Tap Ninja - Season 2 is live! | 2025-10-31 | Season 2 has started!Participate in the Season 2 event of Tap Ninja and start a new Ninja run in the woods overrun by angry spirits!Complete various seasonal tasks to unlock The Decayed Irbinok skin and the Grove of Souls background!(The cosmetics are temporarily exclusive!)This Season focuses on enemy quantity, so each Wagon drops three times the enemies, while Samurai Frenzy activates on every single Firefly 'non-regular' event!Season 2 is active from October 31st to November 30th! |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.6 is live! | 2025-10-30 | ● Away income boosted |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.5 is live! | 2025-10-29 | ● Away Income re-balanced & boosted ● Bags of Gold in the Amber store have been re-enabled ● Default hotkey for switching to/from Seasonal game changed from F12 to F10 ● Some bug fixes |
| Tap Ninja v7.1.0 is live! | 2025-10-25 | ● Seasonal upgrades added - complete Seasonal tasks to earn Seasonal points, spend them to make the next Season easier!● Each completed Season task gives a temporary GpS boost to the main game. Resets once the next Season starts● More dying compatibility added (use up to 4 different dyes to customize your heroes!)● Improved the custom dye look● New Rare Earth Warrior hero - Tateju● Away income has been boosted, now it takes into account all of the Pet abilities and average bonuses from Fireflies, previously it did not● Away Income upgrades rebalanced and are now additive instead of multiplicative (base Away Income: 10%)● Auto Battle toggle ad |
| Tap Ninja art contest 2025 winners! | 2025-09-30 | Thank you every one of you that participated and submitted a work of art for the Tap Ninja art contest 2025!Check all the submissions on the Discord server: https://discord.gg/WcgUKc8Fp5Here are the winners:Best Art:1st place: cgphantom (20'000 ) ArtStation2nd place: Unknownmara (10'000 ) Instagram3rd place: Morgan Cook (5'000 ) Instagram Special Categories:Best Hand Drawing: Nedryyy (756/763) (5'000 Amber)Best Painting: Companero (5'000 Amber)Most Blessed: KacpereK (5'000 Amber)Most Noire-Like: 24 (5'000 Amber)Best Stylized: Myaknroy (5'000 Amber)Artist's Pick (Game's artist's favourite): ЛЬвёшка (5'000 Amber)Best Animation: buzz tea (5'000 |
| Tap Ninja v7.0.11 is live! | 2025-09-22 | ● Preparations for Season 2 ● Note for Season 2 and onwards - Ascension Tree locked building unlocks will no longer be auto-unlocked, you have to unlock the appropriate Skill to build them in the Seasonal game ● Fixed the odd behaviors in randomizer for the final time ● Removed the 'Cloud save successful' toasts from where they are not supposed to show ● Bug fixes |
| Tap Ninja 4 year anniversary + v7.1.0 news! | 2025-08-31 | (artwork by )Four year ago on this date Tap Ninja's first version was released. A few days age this same game received the v7.0.0 update and broke the all time record on the concurrent players!The charity event also just ended today where we raising over $10'000 for the children's emergency fund under the Save the Children cause from numerous generous Tap Ninja players!Here are the planned features of the v7.1.0 update, which is scheduled to be released at around the end of this October:Temporary boosts to the main game for completing Seasonal tasks, which last until the next Season startsSeasonal game upgrades - complete tasks to unlock new |
| Tap Ninja v7.0.6 is live! | 2025-08-31 | ● Added the most important hero skin ● Lvl 14 Ore mine now generates more ore than lvl 13 Ore mine |
| Tap Ninja Charity event! w/ GIVEAWAYS (Last Day) | 2025-08-31 | The last day of the charity fundraising event has started!Giveaways of free Amber for every $200 donated!Come join in at Or simply donate and receive your rewards: https://donate.tiltify.com/@shamahan/tap-ninja-2025During this event you can unlock various rewards for donating certain amounts:An exclusive cosmetic Banner in Tap Ninja, unlockable only during this event! A paper letter written by me physically mailed to you! An art piece drawn by me physically mailed to you! A custom plushie pillow with your Tap Ninja character or pet! The top 4 contributors will also receive a custom, hand-made, stitching! The plushies are gifted from the Comfy |
| Tap Ninja Charity event! w/ GIVEAWAYS (Day 2) | 2025-08-30 | The charity fundraising event has started! Giveaways of free Amber for every $200 donated!We will be making a new hero skin for Demid!Come join in at https://www.twitch.tv/shamahan/During this event you can unlock various rewards for donating certain amounts:An exclusive cosmetic Banner in Tap Ninja, unlockable only during this event! A paper letter written by me physically mailed to you! An art piece drawn by me physically mailed to you! A custom plushie pillow with your Tap Ninja character or pet! The top 4 contributors will also receive a custom, hand-made, stitching! The plushies are gifted from the Comfy Morning store, use the code 'PLUS |
| Tap Ninja v7.0.5 is live! | 2025-08-30 | ● The issue with stunted income for end-game players should be fixed ● Further bug fixes to the randomizer problems in Seasonal game ● Fixes to cloud saving errors ● Fixed the Season end splash showing up randomly |
| Tap Ninja Charity event! w/ GIVEAWAYS (Day 1) | 2025-08-29 | The charity fundraising event has started! Giveaways of free Amber for every $200 donated!We will also be talking about the upcoming v7.1.0 update and what it's going to include! Come join in at https://www.twitch.tv/shamahan/During this event you can unlock various rewards for donating certain amounts:An exclusive cosmetic Banner in Tap Ninja, unlockable only during this event! A paper letter written by me physically mailed to you! An art piece drawn by me physically mailed to you! A custom plushie pillow with your Tap Ninja character or pet! The top 4 contributors will also receive a custom, hand-made, stitching! The plushies are gifted fro |