Examination
Examination Events Schedule: Rolling Steel End Time and Countdown
Examination’s biggest update yet is live. Rolling Steel opened on August 28, 2026 and runs through September 24, giving players nearly a month to fight their way through its new content before it wraps.
Examination is a PvE horror shooter set inside a heavily irradiated nuclear facility that has been turned into a laboratory in the wake of the WE-30 outbreak, an infection that overran the city of Menlo. You drop in as one of the later waves sent to clear it, with the fate of the earlier waves left deliberately unexplained. It’s a heavy work in progress from creator MENLO-INFANTRY-DIVISION, and it still draws about about 3,400 players at a time, with more than about 65,000,000 visits and about 510,000 favorites to date.
Below is the live schedule, followed by a closer look at what’s running right now. Last updated October 20; we update this page as Examination’s schedule changes.
Upcoming events1 scheduled
"HALLOWED REACTOR"
MAJOR HALLOWEEN UPDATE
Oct 30, 3:00 PM – Nov 30, 5:00 PM ET
Reactor 4 expands with a chimera overhaul, private server commands, gun refreshes, and Halloween-exclusive quests and events.
Recently ended1 wrapped
"PLUTONIUM HEART"
THE REACTOR TWIST & CRIES
Sep 18, 3:00 PM – Oct 7, 4:05 PM ET
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Current and upcoming events
Rolling Steel, which the developer bills as the biggest update yet, is the marquee event on the calendar. It began on August 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT, 10:00 PM BST) and stays live until September 24, 2026 at 7:20 PM ET (4:20 PM PT), a window of nearly four weeks. It has been running well into its run and has a few weeks left on the clock.
This is a new-content update rather than a limited seasonal event, and it leans into a fresh combat challenge themed around Rasonia’s hardened forces — steel-tough enemies meant to test players who have already cleared the facility’s earlier threats. Interest has been strong for a project still in active development: more than about 14,000 players have marked themselves as going. Because the run stretches across most of September, there’s no rush to catch it in a single sitting; exact start and end times are shown in the schedule above.
No further events are on the calendar beyond Rolling Steel yet. As a passion project still in active development, the next major update doesn’t run on a fixed schedule — we’ll add it here once it’s announced.
Frequently asked questions
When does the Rolling Steel event end in Examination?
Rolling Steel runs until September 24, 2026, ending at 7:20 PM ET (4:20 PM PT, 12:20 AM BST the following day). It has been live since August 28, so it covers most of September.
What is the Rolling Steel update in Examination?
Rolling Steel is the game’s biggest content update so far, a new-content event that adds a fresh combat challenge built around Rasonia’s toughest, steel-hardened forces. It runs alongside the game’s core PvE horror-shooter loop rather than replacing it.
What time did the Rolling Steel event start?
It went live on August 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT, 10:00 PM BST). It has been running continuously since then and does not restart daily.
How many players does Examination have right now?
Examination typically has around about 3,400 players in the experience at once, and it has passed more than about 65,000,000 total visits since launch — sizeable numbers for a game the developer still describes as a work in progress.