Skygard Arena — patch notes and updates
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| Patch 1.1 - Balancing Update | 2025-10-09 | Dear Tacticians,It has been fantastic to see the enthusiasm of the community for PvP matches since the launch of Skygard Arena! Both ranked games and tournament matches have provided us with lots of insights on the power level of the various Champions and team compositions. Thank you for playing the game and for providing your very valuable feedback! 😍Today we are releasing a balancing update in order to maximize the number of competitive team compositions. We are reducing the difference in power level between the various Champions and nerfing some over-powered interactions. In particular, we are nerfing Daerio and Vallya while buffing Jorn, |
| Community Tournament: compete in the Launch Cup! | 2025-09-26 | Dear Tacticians,To celebrate the official release of Skygard Arena, we are organizing a new community tournament!Bring your best teams to the Arena, battle players from all over the world and outsmart your opponents to win the Cup! 🏆You can register to join the Launch Cup here. The Launch Cup will take place on Sunday 5 October. All details and rules can be found below.We can't wait to see you compete in the Arena!Team GemelliFormat & Rules ⚔️The Launch Cup will take place through 2 phases: Swiss Round & Playoffs.Swiss RoundAll participants will play 4 Bo1 matches in a Swiss Round format, against a different player each round.Each victory gr |
| Patch 1.0.4 - Easier Difficulty Mode & Bug Fixes | 2025-09-24 | Hi Tacticians,It's been 6 days since the 1.0 launch of Skygard Arena! A huge thank you to everyone who jumped into the game, whether you’re a new player or a returning veteran. Seeing so many of you diving into Skygard Arena and loving it means the world to us.We’ve read every piece of your feedback, and today we’re rolling out a small update to address some of the issues you’ve shared:To make the single-player experience more accessible, we are adding the possibility to play every campaign mission on an easier difficulty: in Story mode, all enemies will deal reduced damage.We are fixing a few bugs.Join our Discord server to share thoughts, h |
| SKYGARD ARENA 1.0 - OUT NOW! | 2025-09-18 | Dear Tacticians,The day is finally here: the 1.0 launch of Skygard Arena! Craft your strategy, dive into the Arena and lead your squad of Champions to victory in turn-based tactical skirmishes.What's new in the 1.0 update:The new Champion Seraphine, Angelic Queen of the Silver Kingdom;8 new relics with lots of synergies to discover;A new Arena: Seraphine's Throne Room;Major performance improvements;A lot of new AI teams to beat;The game is now playable on Steam Deck with dedicated default controls.Earlier during Early Access, we added Steam Achievements, a new opening cinematic, additional localization support (now available in Chinese, Germa |
| New Champion Preview : Seraphine - Avenger Persona! | 2025-09-17 | Greetings, Tacticians!Skygard Arena is officially launching TOMORROW! ːsteamhappyːThe 1.0 update will go live at 15:00 CET and will include a new Champion, Seraphine. We introduced her Celestial Persona in a previous post, today we are looking at her Avenger Persona.Let's dive into her story, her actions and her relics!LoreLegend tells of Seraphine, the angelic queen and founder of the Silver Kingdom, as a survivor of the Shattering that fractured the world of Skygard.A peerless magician, Seraphine fiercely guards her realm from external threats and never hesitates to join her armies on the battlefield.Adored by her subjects, she ignites in t |
| New Champion Preview: Seraphine - Celestial Persona | 2025-09-12 | Greetings, Tacticians!Only a few days left before the launch of Skygard Arena on Thursday 18 September!Today we are sharing an exclusive preview of Seraphine, the new Champion which will become playable with the 1.0 update. This post will focus on her Celestial Persona; a future post will introduce her Avenger Persona. Let's dive into her story, her spells and her relics!LoreLegend tells of Seraphine, the angelic queen and founder of the Silver Kingdom, as a survivor of the Shattering that fractured the world of Skygard.A peerless magician, Seraphine fiercely guards her realm from external threats and never hesitates to join her armies on the |
| Update 0.9.5 - New opening cinematic and much more! | 2025-09-04 | Hello Tacticians!We are getting closer to the official release of Skygard Arena on September 18th! We just released a new update which further improves the game with:A new fully voiced opening cinematicSteam achievementsGerman localizationSeveral adjustments to the difficulty of the campaignThe rework of a few Champions' spellsUX improvements and bug fixes.Please find below the full patch notes. Also, if you have enjoyed playing the game so far, feel free to leave a positive review, it helps us a lot! ːsteamthumbsupːThe dev team at Gemelli GamesPatch notes - v0.9.5New opening cinematic👀Let Na Jima tell you the origin story of Skygard, introd |
| Official Release on September 18th! | 2025-08-27 | Dear Tacticians,We are thrilled to announce that Skygard Arena will be officially launching on September 18th, with the release of 1.0 update!Check out the release date trailer:Watch Trailer on YoutubeWhat awaits you for the full launch?👉 New playable Champion Seraphine, with her 2 Personas: Angel and Avenger👉 New Arena for multiplayer mode: Seraphine’s Throne Room👉 Steam Achievements👉 Localization in German 🇩🇪 and Traditional Chinese 🇨🇳👉 New intro cinematic!The launch comes after 10 months in early access, improving and developing the game with the community. Thank you so much to all of you who played the game and provided feedback |
| QoL Update - v0.9.4 | 2025-08-19 | Hello Tacticians!We just released a new update for Skygard Arena which includes several quality of life improvements and various bug fixes. This should make the whole game even clearer and your experience smoother!Also, the game is very close to reaching 50 reviews, which would unlock the "Very Positive" reviews tag! If you have enjoyed playing Skygard Arena, feel free to leave a review, it helps us a lot ːsteamthumbsupːEnjoy the update and see you in the Arena!The Gemelli Games teamPatch Notes - Quality Of Life Update - v0.9.4New QoL Feature: Combat Log! We have added the combat log on the bottom right hand side of the screen during battles. |
| Patch 0.9.2 - Difficulty adjustment & UX improvements | 2025-08-12 | Dear Tacticians,Thank you to all of you who recently purchased the game and tried it for the first time! We read your feedback and decided to release a small update to fix some issues and improve the experience as soon as possible.Patch notes v0.9.2:Lowered difficulty of missions #1 and #2 by reducing health points of several enemy units.Fixed a bug that triggered a dialogue under the wrong circumstances in mission #2.In the campaign timeline, quests are no longer visible below the narrative description of a mission until you have completed that mission for the first time. They still appear in the teambuilder and inside a mission all the time |
| Major Update 0.9 - Localization & Relics! | 2025-08-07 | Greetings, Tacticians!We just released a new Major Update for Skygard Arena. The game is now available in Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese!The update also includes performance optimizations, changes to some of the Champions’ Relics and Spells as well as some UX improvements.Enjoy the update and see you in the Arena!The Skygard Arena dev teamPatch notes - v0.9 Major UpdateLocalizationSkygard Arena is now available in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese!OptimizationsCleaned several assets in the game, which reduces GPU VRAM usage in-game.Adjusted lighting and other visual elements in the Crystal arena and th |
| Base Price Adjustment | 2025-08-05 | Dear Tacticians,It’s been 9 months since the release of Skygard Arena in early access in November 2024!Thank you very much to all of you who have played the game, provided feedback or left a review on Steam. We are currently standing at 86% positive reviews, which is something to be proud of for our studio’s first game 🙂Sales to date and marketing strategyAs we get closer to the official 1.0 launch of the game (still scheduled for September - more on this pretty soon!), we have been thinking about our marketing strategy and potential avenues to bring more players to Skygard. As you might have understood, the unit sales to date have been disa |
| Early Access Update #12 | 2025-07-11 | Greetings, Tacticians!Skygard Arena just received its 12th update since the start of Early Access!This update brings lots of general user experience improvements, some performance optimization, several balancing changes for Raine, Aiden, Bu Shin and Aerica, and a bunch of bug fixes.Enjoy the new patch and see you in the Arena!The Skygard Arena Dev TeamPATCH NOTES - v0.8.2General User Experience ImprovementsOptimized the game to reduce vRAM usage.Added a sound effect when selecting a Relic in the Champion editor.In Relics’ descriptions, improved the font colour of the ultimate action when it is referenced.Adjusted the speed of the camera rotat |
| Steam Summer Sale & Community Tournament! | 2025-06-30 | Greetings, Tacticians! We hope you are enjoying the summer and surviving the heatwave! We have two pieces of good news for you.First, Skygard Arena is taking part into the Steam Summer Sale! Enjoy a 25% discount during the sale and purchase the game for only $14.99. With the recently released Major Update, there has never been a better time to try the game!Also, we are organizing a new community tournament: the Summer Edition of Arena Kings will take place on Saturday, July 5th! Prepare your most creative teams and play best-of-3 matches against other members of the community to show who's the best Tactician!--> Register on the Toornament pag |
| Quests Major Update - Out Now! | 2025-06-19 | Greetings, Tacticians! We just released a new Major Update, which brings a lot of replayability to the single-player campaign with the addition of Quests! Quests are new optional challenges specific to each mission. In addition, this update significantly improves the flow and the user experience in the campaign. We also made some gameplay and balancing changes to four of the late game missions and to a few Champions & Relics. We hope that you’ll enjoy this new content! If so, please consider leaving a review as it helps us a lot with visibility ːsteamthumbsupːSee you in the Arena, The Skygard Arena Dev Team ----------------------------------- |
| Early Access Update #10 ! | 2025-05-14 | Hello hello, Tacticians! We just released the 10th early access update for Skygard Arena, which includes improvements to a couple of missions in the campaign and several bug fixes. Enjoy and see you in the Arena! Team Gemelli -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PATCH NOTES - v0.7.6 CAMPAIGN Made it easier to scroll through the rewards received after a mission in the campaign. Slowing Ammo is now given as a reward for mission 3, while Stunning Core is now given as a reward for mission 4. In the mission The Tournament, Vallya is now equipped with the relic Slayer's Mace |
| Community Tournament, Eastern Games Festival & Special Discount! | 2025-04-23 | The Arena is calling for you, Tacticians! We have some exciting news, with the return of the Arena Kings community tournament this weekend, a Steam festival and a time-limited discount. Second edition of Arena Kings! We are delighted to be organizing the second edition of the Arena Kings community tournament. Join the competition to showcase your Tactician's skills and your original builds! Format The Arena Kings tournament will be split in 2 phases: Swiss Stage & Playoffs. Swiss Stage All participants will play 5 Bo1 matches in a Swiss Stage format. Each victory brings 1 point and each draw brings 0.5 points. At the end of the Swiss stage, t |
| The Progression & Relics Update is live! | 2025-04-18 | Dear Tacticians, We just released the 9th Early Access update for Skygard Arena, with some pretty big changes! Full patch notes below - here is the TL; DR: Artifacts are now called Relics! All players now have access to all Champions, Personas and Relics upfront in Arena mode! No need to spend time unlocking everything before creating mind-blowing team comps. We reviewed many Relics and implemented some pretty big changes, enabling new potential playstyles for Champions and new team synergies. Ready to play Jorn Juggernaut, Na Jima Cannon or Infectious Aerica?! And what’s better than testing these new team comps against other competitive play |
| Early Access Update #8 - Better UX! | 2025-03-07 | Greetings, Tacticians! As we released the revamped campaign last week, many of you who had already played the campaign tried to play the new version. We realized that the user experience to replay a mission could be clunky; so we are releasing a small update to fix this and improve your experience! These UX improvements will also be useful for the next major feature that we have planned, Quests! Check out our roadmap to learn more. Enjoy! Team Gemelli -------------------------- Patch notes - v.0.7.3 Campaign - User Experience After completing a mission that you had already completed, you are now taken to the firecamp of this mission, instead |
| Major Update #2: Campaign Revamp! | 2025-02-28 | Greetings, Tacticians! We just released a our second early access major update for Skygard Arena! As mentioned in our recent Dev Blog about our roadmap, the goal of this update is to significantly improve your experience during your first playthrough of the single-player campaign. To this end, we have changed the level design of several missions in the first half of the campaign, adjusted the associated rewards and reworked many dialogues to offer a more immersive and compelling story. The full patch notes are below. We hope you enjoy the update and invite you to give us feedback through our Discord server! Also, if you have enjoyed your time |
| The road ahead for Skygard Arena! | 2025-02-26 | Dear Tacticians, First of all, we would like to thank each of you who have played Skygard Arena in early access! Overall, your feedback so far has been very enthusiastic and your suggestions very relevant. This means a lot to us and motivates us to work as hard as possible to further improve Skygard Arena! The goal of this post is to share with you a couple of things: What we have learnt from the early access release so far; Our development priorities and what the roadmap looks like for Skygard Arena in 2025; Some very exciting news: we have signed a partnership with a China-based publisher to help grow Skygard Arena in Asia! Let’s dive in! L |
| Early Access Patch #6 - v0.6.11 | 2025-01-24 | Hello Tacticians, We just released an update with a few improvements and fixes - see the full changelog below. Thank you for playing Skygard Arena and stay tuned for future larger updates! See you in the Arena, The Gemelli Games Team ------ CAMPAIGN Added the final version of the artwork for the third chapter of the campaign, now with beautiful colors! Added improved versions of the soundtracks for the missions The Tournament and The Truths of a Clan Played dialogues in the camp now appear greyed out, and the exclamation point now disappears when all options have been played. This is not persistent across sessions yet. ARENA MODE Added an imp |
| The Christmas Update is here! | 2024-12-19 | Dear Tacticians, It’s Christmas season and we have our first Major Update for you - full of presents! We are adding a new mission in the campaign and introducing a new map for PvP battles. We are also implementing several changes to the spells and artifacts of some of the Champions, with the objective to maximize the number of fun and powerful team compositions. To that end, we are tuning down the power of some Champions that were too strong and very often used (Bu Shin Thunder…), buffing some less powerful Champions (Na Jima...) and making some changes to less picked Artifacts to make them more exciting to play. Finally, we are fixing some b |
| Early Access Patch #4 - v.0.6.7 | 2024-11-29 | Hello Tacticians! Here comes a bunch of bug fixes and UX improvements before the weekend! Campaign If you capture a pillar after the first respawn opportunity of one of your Champions, now this Champion will be able to respawn next turn. Previously, not controlling a Pillar when a Champion was supposed to respawn for the first time would prevent this Champion to respawn for the whole fight. Fixed different bugs in the mission Saving Archbishop Aiden Fixed a visual bug on the mission info panel in the mission Heavy is the head Removed the Skip Scene button which caused bugs in dialogues after using it Arena Mode On the Rewards Screen, added an |
| Play in the Arena Kings Community Tournament! | 2024-11-27 | Tacticians, the Arena is calling for you! We have been absolutely amazed by the enthusiasm of the community for competitive play since the early access release of Skygard Arena. We are thrilled to support the competitive scene by launching an official community tournament: Arena Kings! The first edition of Arena Kings will take place this Sunday, December 1st. Tournament Format The tournament will be split in 2 phases: The Swiss Stage, during which each player will play 4 to 5 Bo1 matches (depending on the total number of participants) At each stage, each player will face another player with the same win / loss record. After the swiss stage, |
| Early Access Patch #3 - v.0.6.6 | 2024-11-27 | Hello Tacticians! Thank you to all of you who played Skygard Arena since its Early Access release! Today we are deploying our third update. As requested by many of you, friendly PvP games will now count in your progression! We want to enable players who only play socially with friends to gradually unlock more content and more options for their teams. We are tuning down the difficulty of the very first mission of the campaign, which was a bit too challenging and could put off some players. Arena mode Playing a friendly match will now grant experience points for your account and mastery points for your Champions. Added an animation that shows y |
| Early Access Hot Fixes 0.6.5 | 2024-11-21 | Hello everyone! Thank you to all the people who played Skygard Arena since its Early Access release on Monday! We’re deploying our second update to fix the issues that you reported to us, thank you for your vigilance! Bug fixes Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze if a team used Aerica Sharpshooter and the Stunning Core Artifact against the Forest Sprites Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze in the mission Saving Archbishop Aiden When a player has a connection issue while loading a PvP game, the game now shows a popup that enables players to leave the loading screen UI/Polish Optimized and polished some of the environmen |
| Early Access Hot Fixes 0.6.4 | 2024-11-19 | Hello everyone! Thank you to all the people that played the game since yesterday, we hope you enjoy the new solo Campaign mode & the new Champions Vallya and Bu Shin! If you liked the game, please consider leaving a positive review to boost its visibility |
| Skygard Arena is Now Available in Early Access! | 2024-11-18 | Hello Tacticians! Today is the big day! Skygard Arena is now available in Early Access! To celebrate the launch, you can get the game with a time-limited 20% launch discount! Discover the all-new solo Campaign mode with 15+ handcrafted tactical missions! Na Jima enters the Tournament of the Ancients in hope to win a mysterious crown - but other contestants have different plans… This mode features its own story (starring all the Champions of Skygard you know), exclusive maps, enemies, rules, and music! Play the tried-and-true Arena mode! Battle online to climb the ranks in matchmaking or play casually against a friend. If you’re looking for a |
| The Big Changes Coming for Early Access and Dev Stream tomorrow! DEV BLOG #9 | 2024-11-14 | Dear Tacticians, Skygard Arena launches in Early Access in only 4 days! You’ll be able to discover all the new features in the game when it becomes available on November 18 at 5pm (CET). In this Devblog, we’d like to share with you what we learned from the demo and introduce you to the new features and updates coming for the Early Access launch. We were very glad to see that many demo players enjoyed the core mechanics of Skygard Arena, its colorful roster of Champions, and the artistic direction of the game. The addition of the Artifact system to personalize your Champions allowed you to create plenty of diverse teams and test different stra |