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Helldivers 2 Celebrated Liberty Day 2025 With Whack-a-Terminid and a Challenge

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The 2025 Liberty Day celebration in Helldivers 2 has ended following two days of limited-time content and community participation. The event ran from October 26 through October 27, 2025, and featured a browser-based minigame, a large-scale in-game challenge, and exclusive player rewards.

Liberty Day is held every year on October 26 in Helldivers 2 as a celebration of Managed Democracy under Super Earth. The event has been part of the Helldivers franchise since 2016, when the first Helldivers game introduced Liberty Day to commemorate its first anniversary. The October 26 date also marks the birthday of Arrowhead Game Studios’ Chief Creative Officer, Johan Pilestedt, who has been with the company since its founding in 2008.

For Liberty Day 2025, Helldivers 2 introduced a global challenge in which players were tasked with collectively killing 40 million enemies using the R-2124 Constitution ceremonial rifle by October 27. Completing this objective awarded all players with the Liberty Day Cape, an exclusive in-game cosmetic item.

But the real wildcard this year was Whack-a-Terminid, a browser-based minigame created by Arrowhead Game Studios for the 2025 Liberty Day festivities. The skill game allowed players to use their mouse to hit Terminid enemies that appeared randomly from eight possible holes on the screen. The timer decreased when players took too long to react or accidentally hit a Helldiver, and the game ended once time ran out. Players who connected their Discord accounts to the Whack-a-Terminid website could submit their scores to a global leaderboard. The game was available only during the Liberty Day 2025 event and was removed once the celebration ended.

Liberty Day 2025 took place shortly after the release of Helldivers 2 Patch 4.1.0 on October 23, which implemented performance improvements and bug fixes. The PC version of the game had experienced performance issues that resulted in a “Mixed” user rating on Steam. Arrowhead Game Studios stated that optimization efforts are ongoing and will continue for several months.In preparation for Liberty Day, Helldivers 2 added a time-limited in-game quest before the event began. The quest required players to defend pyrotechnic supplies on the planets Marfark and Zosma. Players who successfully held both planets through the start of Liberty Day received 55 Warbond Tokens as a reward.