diff --git a/pkgs/games/openloco/default.nix b/pkgs/games/openloco/default.nix
index acaf1a9fbcf1..88776fb9ece5 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/openloco/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/openloco/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   fetchurl,
-  SDL2,
+  sdl3,
   cmake,
   libpng,
   libzip,
@@ -17,31 +17,36 @@ let
   sfl-src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "slavenf";
     repo = "sfl-library";
-    tag = "2.0.2";
-    hash = "sha256-C8BRl77fryD1aNW6ASD/orb8+hrAKBqmXjr2Z4JqX94=";
+    tag = "2.2.0";
+    hash = "sha256-U1InclhSF3pte2AhKUVYBYOXZagksDMkUWgFn5ZB/tk=";
   };
 
   openloco-objects = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/OpenLoco/OpenGraphics/releases/download/v0.1.5/objects.zip";
-    sha256 = "fe8943fabad8eb07cebab5354589abd7e798a705f7993bb4d9dab2122b4fe96e";
+    url = "https://github.com/OpenLoco/OpenGraphics/releases/download/v0.1.8/objects.zip";
+    sha256 = "sha256-ZYiR2UpGBAt79x39fwG7wd2mRwcSyz3AdIKTH+tQE8c=";
   };
 
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "openloco";
-  version = "25.11";
+  version = "26.04";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "OpenLoco";
     repo = "OpenLoco";
     tag = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-ohHTa5ow6wiq0GajqLcOwL9mnjocw+Od93SEaxCR2C0=";
+    hash = "sha256-tOvqDJfF6iG05EatUdWGp4wv8UDXdDs1frQ9FMF5myU=";
   };
 
   postPatch = ''
-    # the upstream build process determines the version tag from git; since we
-    # are not using a git checkout, we patch it manually
-    sed -i '/#define OPENLOCO_NAME "OpenLoco"/a#define OPENLOCO_VERSION_TAG "${version}"' src/OpenLoco/src/Version.cpp
+    # the upstream build process determines the version tag, branch
+    # and commit hash from git; since we are not using a git checkout,
+    # we patch it manually
+    sed -i '/#define OPENLOCO_NAME "OpenLoco"/a\
+    #define OPENLOCO_VERSION_TAG "${version}"\
+    #define OPENLOCO_BRANCH "master"\
+    #define OPENLOCO_COMMIT_SHA1_SHORT "b79ace0"'\
+      src/Version/include/OpenLoco/Version.hpp
 
     # prefetch sfl header sources
     grep -q 'GIT_TAG \+${sfl-src.tag}' thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -63,7 +68,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [
-    SDL2
+    sdl3
     libpng
     libzip
     openal