Checked log
Melvor Idle 2 news
The latest official Melvor Idle 2 post, dated 29 October 2026, names Jagex as publisher and sets Steam Early Access for 17 November 2026. This page is a log of that post and the ones before it, not a rumour column.
29 October 2026 — publisher and Early Access date
The news site and Steam both carried the announcement. The subtitle becomes A RuneScape Adventure. Jagex takes localisation support, marketing and platform support. Early Access is 17 November 2026, with 25 skills, level cap 99, Act 2, and the demo-save transfer repeated. I use this post as the current fact card for the whole site.
19 October 2026 — demo, and the skill-count split
The demo went live for Steam Next Fest (19–26 October) and was described as staying up for several weeks afterward. Act 1, level cap 60, about 10–12 hours to cap a skill, forward-compatible saves. The TL;DR says 22 out of 25 skills. The body says 21. Both lines stay on the demo page.
Earlier posts worth keeping
29 September 2026 set the Next Fest window and still did not give an Early Access day. 12 June 2026 described a combat update adding 12 skills, 731 items, 135 monsters, 40 spells, 34 prayers and 12 pets, and said Mastery Guilds replace per-item mastery. 13 March 2026 described a quest line from level 1 to 120 with quest bosses. 20 November 2025 named Ranching, Hunting and Beastcrafting. 24 April 2025 is the original announcement: $14.99, no microtransactions, Godot/C#, English-only Early Access, 29 skills and cap 120 as the full-game target.
A pinned Steam changelog through 27 October 2026 covers demo builds v0.11.2-alpha and v0.11.3-alpha, including a Steam Deck first-launch fullscreen fix. Those version strings are patch labels, not the 1.0 version.
The latest visible log entry is v0.11.3-alpha on 27 October. The thread’s first post still labels v0.11.2-alpha.4 as current. That first-post label is stale relative to its later entry; neither label establishes the version of the future Early Access release.
| Date | Post | Why it still matters |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Jagex + EA date | Current publisher and ship date |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Demo live | Free build and the 22/21 line |
| 29 Sep 2026 | September progress | Next Fest dates, no EA day yet |
| 12 Jun 2026 | Combat update | Mastery Guilds; snapshot counts |
| 13 Mar 2026 | March progress | Quest line and quest bosses |
| 20 Nov 2025 | November progress | Three new skill names |
| 24 Apr 2025 | Coming Soon | Price, engine, full-game target |
Editorial notes
These notes describe the public sources checked on 29 October 2026, not a private gameplay test. Missing values and source disagreements remain explicit.
Questions
Where is the official Melvor Idle 2 news?
news.melvoridle.com, mirrored in important cases on Steam news for app 3218350.
How often is this log updated?
When a new official post changes a date, a price, or a cap. The date at the bottom of each page is the last check, 29 October 2026 for this version.
Do you rewrite old posts?
No. A later number does not erase an earlier snapshot. Both stay dated.
Keep reading
- Release date — The timeline those posts add up to.
- Early Access — The 17 November build in one place.
- Roadmap — The infographics, labelled as plans.
- Publisher — The 29 October credit change.
In this collection
- Melvor Idle 2 roadmap — The Melvor Idle 2 roadmap is the studio’s own progress posts: demo in October 2026, Early Access on 17 November 2026, then a 12–18 month Early Access.
Sources, checked 29 October 2026
Source status: game facts rely on the developer's public material and its Steam listings unless an independent source is explicitly named below. Studio posts and Steam mirrors count as one source family. Several official URLs alone do not establish independent corroboration. Unknown values and conflicting statements remain identified in the text.
- 29 October: Jagex and Early Access — Current date and publisher, official source only
- 19 October: Demo — Demo launch and conflicting skill counts
- September progress — Historical Next Fest plan
- June progress — Update additions, not full-game totals
- March progress — Quests and story
- November 2025 progress — New skills
- April 2025 announcement — Price and engine
- Official news index — Canonical posts
- Official RSS — Dates and URLs
- Steam news API — Same announcements on Steam
- Pinned changelog — v0.11.x demo notes