Apex Legends Season 29: Overclocked Guide and End Date

you opened a game and forgot which season it is. It happens to the best of us, and by “best” I mean people who have hobbies outside the Ring. As of right now, apex legends season 29 is the one running, officially titled Overclocked, and it started May 5, 2026. It ends August 4, 2026, at which point Season 30 shows up uninvited, same day, no gap, like a landlord raising rent the moment your lease ends.

The Season You’re Currently Losing In

Season 29 goes by the name apex legends overclocked, and it introduces Axle, the 28th playable Legend and the first fresh face in a full calendar year. She’s a Skirmisher, meaning she moves fast, dies fast, and makes you feel briefly competent before a Wraith outplays you anyway. Her kit: Drift passive for movement precision, Nitro Gate tactical for speed-slides usable by anyone on the map (yes, including whoever is currently shooting you), and Kickstart, an enemy-seeking drone ultimate for people who enjoy pointing and clicking on their own terms.

Detail	Value
Season number	29
Season name	Overclocked
Start date	May 5, 2026
End date	August 4, 2026
Duration	91 days
New Legend	Axle (Skirmisher)
Rollover time	17:00 UTC

Why You Should Care About the Apex Legends New Season

Every apex legends new season resets the meta so your carefully memorized loadout becomes garbage overnight, which is the entire business model. This time it’s Deathbox Respawns (revive teammates at their corpse instead of hauling a banner across the map like a medieval courier) and Chain Healing, which speeds up squad recovery. Both changes reward exactly the aggressive, fast-rotating playstyle that Axle was built for, because apparently the developers wanted synergy and not, say, mercy.

Dates, Because Apparently You Need Them Written Down

The apex legends season 29 release date was May 5, 2026, timed to the “May the 5th” pun the marketing team has clearly been saving since childhood. If you missed it, the game has continued without you, shockingly.

The apex legends season 29 end date is August 4, 2026, at 17:00 UTC. Mark a calendar, set an alarm, tattoo it somewhere, I don’t care how, just stop asking the loading screen.

Meet Your New Least Favorite Legend

The apex legends new legend axle storyline is simple: a hypermobile racer from Salvo who “shakes up how you build your squad,” per Respawn’s press copy, which is corporate-speak for “counter her or lose lane control.” Expect her Nitro Gates littering every ranked match until the community collectively decides she’s either broken or forgettable. There is no third option.

What Comes After: Apex Legends Season 30

Once Overclocked’s 91 days are up, apex legends season 30 begins the same day, August 4, 2026, no downtime, no breathing room, no cutscene of gratitude. Respawn has also confirmed this is the final season supported on the original Nintendo Switch, so if you’re still playing on a decade-old handheld, that’s less a hardware limitation and more a personality trait.

Patch Notes, or: What They Nerfed This Time

The Overclocked midseason update, covered in the apex legends patch notes dropped June 22, 2026, dialed back Valkyrie’s fast-skydive tech and kept adjusting Conduit after her pick rate rocketed to the top of the meta. There’s also continued anti-cheat work, including detection for a reverse speed hack, because someone out there really needed a program to freeze mid-air like a smug hummingbird.

The Ranked Grind, Reduced to a List

• Each season is split into two ranked halves via a mid-season soft reset.
• The apex legends ranked split hits Master and Predator hardest; lower ranks barely notice.
• You get to climb the ladder twice per season, so twice the opportunity to suffer.
• Ranked rewards lock in at your peak rank reached, not your rank at season’s end.

All the Apex Legends Season Dates You’ll Forget by Tomorrow

Season	Name	Start	End
27	Amped	Nov 4, 2025	Feb 10, 2026
28	Breach	Feb 10, 2026	May 5, 2026
29	Overclocked	May 5, 2026	Aug 4, 2026
30	TBA	Aug 4, 2026	~Nov 2026 (est.)

Full historical apex legends season dates going back to 2019 exist if you enjoy nostalgia or procrastination; either way, the pattern is a reliable three-month cadence Respawn has held with near-religious consistency, occasional 84-day sprints excluded.