Style Showdown is a brand new gameplay mode for Dress To Impress, which was initially teased back on the 21st of January 2025.
There has been SO much hype surrounding the launch, and it was originally set to launch in the Valentine’s update on February 8th, but it was then pushed back to the upcoming part two of the Valentine’s Update, launching Saturday, February 15th. Well, there’s disappointing news…
Style Showdown has been described as a mix of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Survivor, with a completely new gameplay mode.
We’ve seen multiple sneak peeks, including the runway, the map, the theme music, and even the host; Lana.
We were all excitedly waiting for Style Showdown to launch on February 8th, as part of the Valentine’s update, but literally the day before the update launched, the team announced that the update would be split into two parts.
There were no mentions of Style Showdown not being ready.
We were told it was because the Valentine’s Update was too large, and they didn’t want to overwhelm us, so they were going to give us the Valentine’s Quest in part one (February 8th) and Style Showdown in part two (February 15th).
It now looks like Style Showdown wasn’t even ready in the first place, as they have now announced, again, literally the day before the launch, that it’s “not ready”.
We now have to wait until March 1st for it to launch, which will be 21 days late, from the original promised launch date.
Here is the announcement from the Discord and X:
“Firstly, our most important duty as an evolving game is to be fully transparent with our community.
Recently we’ve hit a few delays regarding Style Showdown. We feel the game-mode is not yet at its highest par to be released, so we are planning to move the launch to March 1st.
We completely understand how disappointing this might be, we share the same regard. We want Style Showdown to be as perfect as possible, and that requires us to have a little more time.
Our team has been working INCREDIBLY hard non-stop to ensure that this new gamemode will be equally fun and functional. The new game mode is very special and we are actively working to fully polish it.“
There has been a lot of backlash on social media post-Valentine’s Update, regarding the patterns removal and “rework”, in particular, and I would take a guess, that they were worried the negativity would continue or be fuelled by Style Showdown if it wasn’t absolutely perfect.
So it makes perfect sense that they would want to wait until the gameplay mode is perfect, before doing a full launch.
It just feels a bit “off” that the reason they gave for not launching it in the first place, on February 8th, was because they were worried about players being overwhelmed, when that was unlikely, it was just that Style Showdown wasn’t ready.
Now, we have to wait until the 1st of March to play the new gameplay mode, and it’s gutting.
As an apology, DTI have announced that they’re giving everyone 2x cash bonus for any cash you pick up over the weekend, for 48 hours from when the “second part” of the update launches, so if you don’t already have that pass, that’s a bonus.