Big Hops launched at the start of this year and is still one of my favorite games of 2026. Big Hops director Chris Wade revealed the update on social media, including that the free multiplayer update is set to go live on August 9. According to a Steam post announcing the update, Big Hops‘ multiplayer mode contains the full game, with all of the mechanics and features from the base game intact. But according to Wade, whom I chatted with after the update was announced, adding co-op to Big Hops was even more challenging than normal. He continued, “Our team has never made a multiplayer game, so it required learning everything fresh like a baby game developer.