Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road’s Ares & Fabled Seed DLC to Release on January 28
Developer LEVEL-5 has announced the second major free content update for its “hyperdimensional football RPG,” Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road.
Titled “Ares & Fabled Seed DLC,” the highly anticipated content is officially scheduled to launch on January 28, 2026.
This news follows the game’s recent milestone of surpassing 800,000 copies sold since its initial release.
The update will introduce new features, most notably the opening of the Ares Route within Chronicle Mode.
This route will allow players to enjoy a blazing football drama about boys and girls striving for the very top of the sport.
Chronicle Mode is one of the game’s core features, enabling players to scout over 5,400 characters from the entire history of the Inazuma Eleven series.
As an incentive for all players, LEVEL-5 will also distribute a special item called the “Fabled Seed.”
This powerful item grants every player the ability to upgrade one character of their choice to the Fabled rarity tier.
The Fabled rarity, which surpasses the Hero tier, was first introduced in the game’s previous major update and provides characters with exceptional customization, including the ability to switch between all character builds and reassign special moves.
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road was released on November 13, 2025, and is currently available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam.
The title is the latest entry in the franchise and features a new protagonist, Destin Billows (Unmei Sasanami), in Story Mode, alongside the competitive online tournament mode, Victory Road.
This “Ares & Fabled Seed DLC” follows the first major content injection, the “Galaxy & LBX DLC,” which arrived on December 21, 2025, just one month after the game’s launch.
In adjacent announcements, LEVEL-5 confirmed several other projects.
The second and final volume of the Inazuma Eleven Complete Edition Manga, which continues Mark Evans’s story, is also scheduled for release on January 28, 2026, in Japan.
Additionally, a new mobile game, Inazuma Eleven: Cross, is in development, with a closed beta test planned to begin on January 29, 2026, exclusively in Japan.
The studio also confirmed a collaboration with Bushiroad’s Cardfight!! Vanguard, with Inazuma Eleven characters set to appear as cards in a Booster Pack slated for mid-June 2026.
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