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Ink Game: Playable Guards — What It Included
Ink Game’s Playable Guards update has already come and gone. The week-long event ran in late September 2025 and, true to its name, let players step into the guard role instead of only running as a contestant — a meaningful shift for one of Roblox’s most-played survival games. The developer billed it as an update “unlike anything else” for the game.
By the numbers, Ink Game sits among the platform’s giants: more than three billion visits, over 21 million favorites, and north of 23,000 players in game at once. More than three million people marked themselves interested in Playable Guards before it opened, a sign of how much appetite there was for getting on the enforcer side of a round.
Ink Game
PLAYABLE GUARDS
THE PLAYABLE GUARD UPDATE
Sep 21, 2:00 PM – Sep 28, 2:00 PM ET
A Playable Guards update lets Ink Game players take on the guard role, with six free power rolls handed out for tracking down the hidden Peabert character across the games.
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What the Playable Guards update included
The headline was right there in the title: guards became a role you could actually play, opening up the side of Ink Game’s rounds that the game had previously controlled. Alongside the new role, the launch came with a claimable bonus for players who explored:
- Six free power rolls handed out as a launch reward.
- Those rolls were claimed by tracking down a hidden character named “peabert” tucked away across the game.
Because the update focused on a new way to play rather than a stack of cosmetics, its value was less about collectibles and more about the change to how a match could unfold once the guard seat was in players’ hands.
When it ran
The event opened on September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM ET and closed exactly one week later on September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM ET. Since it has long since finished, there’s nothing left to claim here — this page stands as a record of what the update brought and when.
How it fit Ink Game’s update rhythm
Playable Guards was one entry in a steady run of updates for Ink Game, and the guard theme didn’t end with it. The following spring, an update called Extended Guard Support (April 2026) picked the guard theme back up. Around it the cadence has stayed roughly every few weeks — New Queue + Balancing and a Tug Of War rework earlier in 2026, a QoL update in late spring, and the Anniversary Update running through July 19, 2026. Seen together, that schedule shows a game returning to its guard mechanics more than once rather than treating them as a one-off.
FAQ
What was in the Playable Guards event in Ink Game?
The Playable Guards update let players take on the guard role themselves and handed out six free power rolls, which were claimed by finding a hidden character named “peabert” in the game.
When did the Playable Guards event end?
It ended on September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM ET, one week after it began on September 21, 2025.
Is the Ink Game Playable Guards event still going?
No — Playable Guards wrapped on September 28, 2025 and is no longer available to join.
Did the guard role stay in Ink Game after the event?
The update introduced the playable guard role, and the game later revisited it with the Extended Guard Support update in April 2026.