---
title: "Phaser v3.85 Beta 2 Released"
subtitle: "The final beta release of Phaser v3.85 is now available on GitHub and npm."
date: 2024-07-23T17:05:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2024/07/phaser-v385-beta-2-released
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Phaser v3.85 Beta 2 Released

*The final beta release of Phaser v3.85 is now available on GitHub and npm.*

![image](phaser-v385-beta-2-released.png)

It's been a lot of hard work, but the final beta version of the Phaser v3.85 release is now available. Beta 2 can be downloaded from GitHub on the pre-releases page and from npm under the `beta` tag.

This version continues our efforts to make Phaser as stable and feature-packed as possible, putting us in a good position to be ready for the integration of our new renderer in Q3. This release also includes MatterJS v0.20.0. This upgrade brings the following changes to Matter Physics:

* Added support for high refresh rate displays with fixed timestep in `Matter.Runner`
* Added support for sub-stepping for higher quality simulations in `Matter.Runner`
* Changed to a fixed timestep by default in `Matter.Runner`
* Improved frame pacing and average performance up to ~6%
* Reduced average memory usage up to ~30%
* Reduced memory garbage collection
* Bug fixes and improvements

This release should be a seamless upgrade for anyone already on v3.80. Please check out the extensive [Change Log](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/master/changelog/3.85/CHANGELOG-v3.85.md) to see exactly what's new. Please test this release thoroughly and report any issues you find.

[Download v3.85 Beta 2](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/releases/tag/v3.85.0-beta.2)

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- **Phaser AE in the browser** (https://phaser.io/agent): the game's design, and a crew of bots that make its art, sprites, music, sound effects, logos, title screens, game UI, textures, shaders, 3D models and video, then build, test and publish the game. Every tool there is registered with Web MCP (`document.modelContext`, with `window.phaserDesk` for browsers without it), so an agent in the user's browser can call the tools directly once the user is signed in. Tools that make something spend the user's credits.
- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
- **Expansion packs** (https://phaser.io/packs): 358 packs in 20 families (163 free, 195 Pro) that every game is built from, on the Phaser AE kernel (https://phaser.io/kernel).
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- **Pro** (https://phaser.io/pricing): $20 a month for every pack, 8,000 credits a month, new packs early, and bonus credits every time the user tops up (only Pro subscribers get them). Nobody needs a plan to start: credits can be bought as they're needed. Or Pro for 30 days for 8,000 credits, without subscribing. Teams, for studios, is on its way: https://phaser.io/contact?about=teams.
- **An account**: sign in with Google, GitHub or Microsoft at https://phaser.io/login. Games made on any plan can be published and sold.

Read any page of this site as Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL (the home page is https://phaser.io/index.md), or by asking for `text/markdown`. The index for agents is https://phaser.io/llms.txt. On the site's pages, the browser's Web MCP also offers `phaser_ae_guide`, `read_page_as_markdown` and `open_phaser_ae`.