Indie RPG Dread Delusion got its 1.0 release in May after two years of early access, but developer Lovely Hellplace had one more big addition left for the surreal adventure: a free “final content update” that focuses on Dread Delusion’s endgame.

The marquee inclusion is a new floating island in Dread Delusion’s sky archipelago, the corpse of a giant squid that you can only reach via airship, a vehicle unlocked in the latter stages of Dread Delusion’s main quest. 

“Explore the innards of an ancient squid as you traverse through the Cephalok, a magical creature filled with rare materials,” reads the official synopsis of the update from DreadXP. “Legends tell of some Wikkans who built a castle inside of its shell.”

It sounds like a perfect late game dungeon for Dread Delusion, whose Oneiric Isles are full of casual cosmic horrors like a spiteful god of abundance afflicting the land with a multigenerational curse of disease and a society of zombies who keep peace …

Despite a slew of curious Steam updates that have Elden Ring fans vibrating with anticipation for an imminent DLC release, FromSoftware’s parent company, Kadokawa, has stepped in to crush those dreams.

In an FAQ section from a recent financial report, the company gave an update about the development status of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC: “We are currently working hard on the development of DLC for Elden Ring but we have not announced a release date at this time.”

Sorry, Elden Ring DLC truthers—that doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you’d say if you were about to release an expansion on the RPG’s two-year anniversary in a few weeks as some fans have started to believe. It’s more likely the kind of statement you make to assure shareholders that development is going well. I wouldn’t expect to see the DLC until sometime in the company’s next fiscal year, which begins in April.

The report also notes that “various measures are currently in progress for…