Garten of Banban 9 Mushroom: What Is Actually Confirmed
Will the mushroom appear in Garten of Banban 9? Euphoric Brothers has published no creature list, so here is what the official material does and does not say.
"Will the mushroom appear in Garten of Banban 9" is not a niche question. It pulls roughly 1,400 searches a month, which makes it the largest single non-title query for this game after the release date. The honest answer is short, and it is not the answer most videos give you: Euphoric Brothers has not published a creature roster at all, so nobody outside the studio can confirm a mushroom, a mascot, or any other specific entity.
This page separates what the official material states from what the community has inferred, and it will be updated the day the studio publishes anything that settles it.
What the official listing actually says
The Steam store page for Garten of Banban: Last Ticket to the Abyss (app 3895950) describes the premise in general terms. Its blurb promises that you "descend into the forgotten depths of Banban's Kindergarten" to "survive sinister horrors and unravel dark secrets hidden in every corner."
That is the entire official creature vocabulary: sinister horrors, no names, no count, no roster. The page lists no characters, and the official Euphoric Brothers product page does not either.
So when a page tells you the mushroom is confirmed, it is not quoting the studio. It is either reading the teaser for shapes it recognises or repeating another fan page.
Where the mushroom idea comes from
Three things keep this question alive:
- The teaser. The Official Teaser Trailer (Delvers) shows the descent itself, and viewers have read creature silhouettes into the footage. Reading silhouettes is legitimate; naming them as official is not.
- Series precedent. Every numbered entry so far has introduced at least one new mascot-shaped creature alongside returning faces. That pattern makes fans expect a new one here, and a mushroom-like design is a plausible shape for it.
- Fan archives. Several community wikis list characters for this entry, and those lists circulate widely. They are fan-maintained documents, not studio announcements.
None of those three is a confirmation. The first is interpretation, the second is expectation, the third is a secondary source that itself has no primary source.
What would count as confirmation
The moment any of the following appears, the question stops being speculation:
- a named character or creature in the Steam listing's description or screenshots captions
- a studio post or trailer that labels a creature on screen
- a store page section listing characters, the way some games publish a cast block
- a press kit or developer interview that names it directly
Until one of those exists, "confirmed" is the wrong word and "seen in the teaser" is the right one.
Why this matters for the release itself
The game is still undated. Steam shows it as coming soon with no date and no price, and no delay has been announced either. That means the marketing cycle is still early: the studio has shipped one teaser, three Steam-hosted clips and eleven screenshots, and nothing that resembles a full character reveal.
Creature reveals usually arrive closer to launch, so the absence of a roster now is expected rather than suspicious. The risk is the opposite one: pages that invent a roster to fill the gap, then get quoted as if they had a source.
How to read creature claims elsewhere
A quick three-step filter works on almost every Garten of Banban 9 page:
- Find the primary source. If the claim does not link to Steam, the Euphoric Brothers site, or a studio channel, it is a secondary claim.
- Check the verb. "Appears in the teaser" is observation. "Is confirmed" is a claim about the studio, and it needs a studio link.
- Check the date. A roster written before the teaser cannot be based on it.
Applying that filter to the mushroom question leaves exactly one defensible sentence: the teaser shows the descent, fans have read shapes into it, and the studio has said nothing specific.
The bottom line
The mushroom may well appear. New mascot-shaped creatures have shown up in every previous chapter, and the teaser is full of unlabelled shapes. But as of now there is no official confirmation, no published roster, and no named creature for this entry.
This page will change the moment that changes. If Euphoric Brothers names the cast, the mushroom question gets a one-line answer here instead of a section.