Evade

The 4th Anniversary Update — August 5th, 2026

• 16 Legacy maps returned to the vote (Legacy Construct, Crossroads, Elysium Tower, Facade, Jungle, Laboratory, Loop, Mansion, Mayday, Neighborhood, Nuclear Processing, Poolrooms, Scorching Outpost, Station and Trimp, with Legacy Elysium Moonbase and Library added August 10th). They stay in the vote until August 29th, 2026, then become special/exclusive.
• Dev maps FlatGrass and Line opened to public servers.
• Seven new nextbots: Best of Zach 2, Clark, DanTDM, Frosty, Kane Pixels, Polyester, Polyrhythm.
• New special rounds Keep Moving, Green Aura, Permadeath and Red Light Green Light; Imposter, Randomizer and Swap re-added.
• Legacy door bashing is back — above 50 speed you knock doors out instead of opening them. Vehicles re-added. Nextbots now deprioritise unreachable players and teleport after 7 seconds.
• Five anniversary cosmetics in the daily shop, a 20% gamepass sale, and code HAPPY4THBIRTHDAYEVADE for 40 Points.

Summer 2026 — July 18th to August 28th, 2026

• The codebase was rewritten "for better stability and optimization" (developer's own wording on the game page).
• Bubbles event currency, a 10-tier / 80-item battle pass costing 8,132 Bubbles in total.
• Nine new maps: Atoll, Camp Cliffwood, Coral Reef, Frutiger Falls, Inflatable Park, Ocean Drive, Outdoor Zoo, Ravaged Galleon and Water Park.
• You can now be downed three times before dying instead of two; a new downed UI shows who went down and to which nextbot.
• Gamemode voting and the Interloper Mission gamemode maps were removed.
• Codes Summer2026 (50 Points) and isurviveddatahaul (60 Points).

Evade x Darkest Hours — June 13th, 2026

Added the current wave of special nextbots: Baldi, Bacteria (Backrooms only), Defect (55% speed boost), Eyeless (50%), Pac Man (30%, Retro Maze only), Triple T (60%) and Trollge (50%). Rolling Giant (25%, Valley View Mall only) followed on June 26th.

How a round works

Four maps come up in a vote (three in the earliest alphas). The winning map loads, nextbots spawn, and the goal is the same on every map — survive 3 minutes. Higher map difficulty pays more Tokens and XP at the end. A nextbot touch downs you; if the round has more than two players, someone can carry and revive you (or use a Defibrillator or Revive Grenade). Go down a third time and you are out until next round. Finish the timer without going down, and without sitting in a camping spot, and you bank a Win. Every third round is a Special Round: Speed (1.4x player and nextbot speed, 1.1x rewards), Darkness (black fog, 1.2x rewards), Faster and Super Fast Nextbots (1.2x / 1.4x nextbot speed), Survive Bobo, Angry Munci, Mimicry, Incursion and more.

Controls that matter

WASD and Space; Ctrl or C to crouch and slide (sliding bashes doors); 1 selects your utility, 2 opens the usables wheel, F toggles your light, E interacts and picks up downed players, R looks behind you, T whistles to mark your position even when downed, O swaps first and third person, M returns to the menu, Tab is the leaderboard and N opens the VIP panel on your own server. All from the wiki's Controls table.

Tokens, XP, Points, Wins — and event tickets

Tokens (a.k.a. Cash) are the round currency and buy the four gear classes in the regular shop: perks (passive boosts — you can equip two since the Overhaul), utilities (last 1-3 rounds), usables (one use) and lights (for dark maps). XP only fills your level bar, and levels gate some items. Points come from daily missions and daily rewards and buy cosmetics. Wins just count clean survivals. Event currencies — Tickets were the first, in Halloween 2022; Bubbles in Summer 2026 — only spend in that event's battle pass, and event maps pay 25% more of them.

Skins and the Daily Shop

Cosmetics arrived in The Skins Update (September 4th, 2022) and are split into six types: cosmetics, item skins, characters (full-avatar skins such as Jard, Bobo and Trooper), nametags, unusuals and carry animations. They rotate through the Daily Shop every 24 hours in five slots for Points — item skins are the cheapest tier (15 Points for a Green Barrier), unusuals the dearest — and also come from codes, events and gamepasses. Nothing here affects gameplay; the wiki is explicit that all Robux products are cosmetic.

Voice chat and Casual

VC Only is a 30-player gamemode that requires Roblox voice chat to join and disables text chat entirely; it has been in the game since September 4th, 2022. If you are new, the wiki's own recommendation is Casual: infinite lives, 4-minute rounds, no reviving, and 0.8x rewards. Pro Servers need level 50+. Note that the in-round gamemode vote was removed on July 18th, 2026 with the Summer rewrite.

Movement, in one paragraph

Bunny-hop: jump the instant you land, every time. Air-strafe: turn the camera and the character the same way while airborne, alternating sides each jump. Slide-hop: hold slide while b-hopping without holding forward. The wiki says holding jump slows you, that a macro is unnecessary for plain b-hopping, and that a well-timed "flick hop" on flat ground can outrun Angry Munci. Colas, Speed Pads, Hermes Shoes and Stilts stack speed on top.