The frontier now has two clear ways to play. The public demo is a fast, account-free showdown against the computer. The Online Outpost is the full Goblins & Gunslingers experience: sign in, build your collection, challenge other players, climb the ranks, and keep your progress.
A Demo That Gets Straight to the Duel
The demo no longer leads players into account, store, or online screens. It opens as a focused single-player match against the computer, with Options available for sound, music, and visual effects. That makes it easier to learn the rhythm of lanes, deputies, mana, and Gold before deciding to create an account.
Ranked Matchmaking at the Online Outpost
Account players can now enter a persistent ranked ladder. Matchmaking starts by looking for an opponent close to your rating, then gradually widens the search so you are not left waiting forever. Results are calculated from completed match records, and your profile shows both your current tier and the live frontier leaderboard.
Friendly and casual play remain available when rank is not on the line. Ranked rewards are recorded on the server, including Ore, Dust, wins, and losses, so reconnects and duplicate result claims cannot award the same duel twice.
A Rebuilt Western Duel Table
The board has been rebuilt around a layered western town with a stronger sense of depth. The darker perspective table keeps cards readable while transparent town, fog, and drifting dust layers add movement behind the match. Valid targets now appear when they matter instead of leaving permanent lane guides across the table.
The duel interface also has a new timber-and-brass End Turn control, clearer turn motion, improved button states, animated match banners, and a display face that matches the website's logo typography.
Music, Stingers, and Optional Effects
Original menu and battle music now crossfade with the state of the game. Wins and losses have their own stingers, battle music ducks at the right moments, and ambient wind sits underneath the score instead of fighting it. Dust, fog, sparks, and game-over particles can all be disabled from Options.
A Better First Match
New account players are taken through a first-login tutorial before reaching their profile. The tutorial introduces the board in context, then returns players to the Online Outpost with their account ready for collection building and multiplayer.
Dust, Boosters, and the Store
The website store is part of the account experience, not the public demo. Dust purchases use Stripe Checkout. Once Dust is on your account, it can be converted into booster packs through the collection economy. The checkout, conversion, reward, and duplicate-claim paths have all been tested against the live account backend.
Every Card Deserves Its Own Face
The full 211-card set has received a portrait relevance pass. Repeated placeholder art has been removed from the active mapping, and low-confidence images were manually corrected so beasts look like beasts, explosive spells look explosive, and named gunslingers read as frontier characters.
Steam Is Still in Development
There is not a downloadable Steam version yet. The roadmap previously listed Desktop App & Steam as shipped; that was inaccurate and has been corrected. Steam now remains In the Works until the Godot desktop builds, Steamworks integration, signed packages, depot upload, and install-and-launch checks are actually complete.
What Comes Next
This release is the foundation for the next season: deeper campaign encounters, more original card art, expanded rules support, continued multiplayer tuning, and a real native Steam release. The public roadmap now separates what is playable today from what is riding next.
Play the account-free showdown from Play, or sign in through your Online Outpost profile to build a collection and enter ranked matchmaking.