diff --git a/pkgs/games/ddnet/ddnet-18.2-nixos-libcurl-brotli-disable.patch b/pkgs/games/ddnet/ddnet-18.2-nixos-libcurl-brotli-disable.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..577cfa3811e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/games/ddnet/ddnet-18.2-nixos-libcurl-brotli-disable.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -ur ddnet-18.2/src/engine/shared/http.cpp ddnet-18.2-nixos-libcurl-workaround/src/engine/shared/http.cpp
+--- ddnet-18.2/src/engine/shared/http.cpp	2024-04-30 20:27:51.000000000 +0200
++++ ddnet-18.2-nixos-libcurl-workaround/src/engine/shared/http.cpp	2024-05-05 21:17:33.792870233 +0200
+@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@
+ 	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_URL, m_aUrl);
+ 	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1L);
+ 	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, GAME_NAME " " GAME_RELEASE_VERSION " (" CONF_PLATFORM_STRING "; " CONF_ARCH_STRING ")");
+-	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, ""); // Use any compression algorithm supported by libcurl.
++	// curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, ""); // Use any compression algorithm supported by libcurl.
++	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "gzip, deflate"); // NixOS libcurl workaround: don't use brotli
+ 
+ 	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, this);
+ 	curl_easy_setopt(pH, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, HeaderCallback);
diff --git a/pkgs/games/ddnet/default.nix b/pkgs/games/ddnet/default.nix
index e21325198de2..eaf6a5e08b78 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/ddnet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/ddnet/default.nix
@@ -35,21 +35,25 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "ddnet";
-  version = "18.1";
+  version = "18.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "ddnet";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    hash = "sha256-kAMKeYYMCFMgG3+G/05DwA3mj4JkJdrXadjFUMPDAbM=";
+    hash = "sha256-KerV174GPF2htfaQo5gRFLgpnGf9UoS0zQ/yd/SDFkQ=";
   };
 
   cargoDeps = rustPlatform.fetchCargoTarball {
     name = "${pname}-${version}";
     inherit src;
-    hash = "sha256-8mUo2I5FsA3ym/hrlGaUW8yltLuh/0H6wetCbzvRga0=";
+    hash = "sha256-cAz98SspJ5QFjw7rXtdmfShllAx89pg+PUs20bkmBCg=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    ./ddnet-18.2-nixos-libcurl-brotli-disable.patch
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cmake
     ninja