Uppsala - 21 April 2026 - Nexile today unveiled that Jump King Quest, souls-like sequel to their cult-classic punishment platformer Jump King leaps out of Steam Early Access with 1.0 full release on the 25th of May this year.
Jump King Quest is a hardcore RPG that smashes Dark Souls and Super Mario together in the unending chaos of dynamic online co-op. Plus, there is a Smoking Hot Babe at The Top! Currently a PC exclusive in Early Access on Steam, it now approaches its final form.
With the full release, Nexile is not only adding new levels and bosses, the game as a whole has been reworked fundamentally - revamping UI and gameplay systems, fleshing out the story and making the experience fuller in every way. When they got their hands on a test build of the update, the small but tightly knit discord community couldn’t bear playing the old version until full release…
“Jump King Quest is far and above the most memorable experience i've had playing a videogame this year” - Dodacku (Steam User)
“Incredibly underrated souls like platformer game with big depth” - Mikless (Steam User)
The small but dedicated fanbase of Jump King Quest has steadily grown since it came out on Early Access, praising the game’s uniqueness even though it had a shaky start: Nexile clawed its way back up from a “mixed” review score to the current 86% rating on steam by listening to the community, delivering performance improvements and netcode bugfixes. Has this become a hidden gem just waiting to be found?
Nexile’s brain child completely steps away from the traditionally bare-bones style of the genre; blending the typical “get knocked down, get back up” mechanics of foddian games with a fully fledged fighting system, RPG mechanics, deep lore and optional (but hilarious) multiplayer features. Such a crazy mashup of genres has forced Nexile to be inventive: How do you die in a game with no checkpoints? How do you fast travel in a foddian game? How do you add 1-way platforms without trivializing precision jumping?
“We wanted to make something that was more than just a rage-game, and add a lot of stuff to find and tinker around with that makes it more fun for the players, not just the viewers!”.
But what does the Phantom Update actually mean for the game?
- A Smoking Hot Babe has finally been added, guarded by three crazy bosses in a huge end-game dungeon.
- New storylines and quests with rewards have been added all throughout the game.
- The UI and RPG systems have been revamped, making them both simpler and more interesting with added mechanics affecting movement and the varied builds.
Since Jump King Quest keeps the core jumping mechanic of its predecessor, there is a lot of transferrable skill from the original game - though this time, you’ll have to use your precision jumping skills in the chaos of combat. Thankfully, the new tools and systems let you adapt to the challenges in more ways than before, including through co-operation with friends or strangers (they are also adding guns to the game).
Jump King Quest offers tense exploration of a vicious, vast vertical world where everything wants to drag you down. It launches out of Early Access with its 1.0 “Phantom Update” on May 25th 2026. For more information and trailers, visit the Jump King Quest page on Steam.
Release Date Announcement Trailer
Steam Page
About Jump King Quest:
JUMP KING QUEST is the Action-Platforming-Climbing-Adventure-RPG follow-up to the original Tactical Leaping Adventure! It builds on the core gameplay and world of the original Jump King, but as a whole it is an entirely different beast - with added enemies, RPG mechanics, multiplayer and more! It first skipped onto Steam Early Access in February of 2025, and has seen much in the way of quality of life improvements and balancing fixes. Though since last summer, Nexile’s crew in Uppsala, Sweden have hunkered down to grind out the final stage of their gut-wrenching project.
Key features:
- Dynamic online multiplayer (the game is also fully playable offline)
- No Game Over: get knocked down, then climb back up
- Precise jump-combat inspired by classic fighting games
- A vast vertical world to explore with new 2.5D graphics and many strange characters
- 90+ weapons with unique moves and stats
- 25+ unique boss fights
About Nexile:
Nexile is a small and truly indie studio founded in 2019, based in Uppsala, Sweden. They are apparently dead-set on “bringing magic back to videogames” and “dragging gamers kicking and screaming” into a new experience. Building solely on the cult success of their original Jump King title and its subsequent updates, they have toiled for years to finally see their daring Jump King Quest project come to life. Jump King Quest launches on PC/Steam on May 25th. Visit https://nexile.se for more information.