{"id":135632,"date":"2026-01-13T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196125"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:45:00","slug":"inazuma-eleven-victory-roads-second-major-free-update-kicks-off-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/13\/inazuma-eleven-victory-roads-second-major-free-update-kicks-off-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road&#8217;s Second Major Free Update Kicks Off This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/830ae3e695dd7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/830ae3e695dd7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"6ArR7UnwT8w\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ArR7UnwT8w?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Level-5 recently teased more updates for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/inazuma-eleven-victory-road-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road<\/a>, and alongside today&#8217;s news that the game has now shifted more than <strong>800,000<\/strong> units worldwide, it&#8217;s now announced the title&#8217;s second major free update.<\/p>\n<p>This second update is scheduled to take to the field on <strong>28th January 2026<\/strong> and will feature the opening of the Ares Route, along with various other features. This update follows on from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/inazuma-eleven-victory-roads-huge-new-update-kicks-off-next-week\">Galaxy &amp; LBX DLC<\/a>&#8221; in December 2025, which added new routes to the Chronicles Mode.<\/p>\n<p>Level-5 also mentions in this announcement how it will continue to provide &#8220;free content over the long term&#8221; for the latest Inazuma Eleven title. This includes additional route expansion and the official tournament system, Victory Road.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"23fd3c6631479\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/23fd3c6631479\/inazuma-eleven-victory-road.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/23fd3c6631479\/inazuma-eleven-victory-road.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Level-5<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of the sales milestone, Level-5 is also <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/InazumaSeries\/status\/2010942578175459559\">offering a new in-game gift code<\/a>. Input <strong>SKBMYLCKRKJZ<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll receive the following: Bond Star x 50, Inazuma Flower x 5 and God Hand Herb x 5.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the first major update for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/inazuma-eleven-victory-roads-huge-new-update-kicks-off-next-week\">our previous story here on Nintendo Life<\/a>. Apart from this, Level-5 has also revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/fantasy-life-i-the-girl-who-steals-time-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time<\/a> will be getting a major update in February. When we find out more, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:196067,195459,195711,194063 @ 1768298468 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Have you tried out the latest Inazuma Eleven game yet? How about the first major update? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Level-5 recently teased more updates for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, and alongside today&#8217;s news that the game has now shifted more than 800,000 units worldwide, it&#8217;s now announced the title&#8217;s second major free update. This second update is scheduled to take to the field on 28th January 2026 and will feature the opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}