One Frontier, Two Ways to Play
Practice instantly in the focused Showdown AI demo, then sign in to the Online Outpost for ranked matchmaking, decks, collections, tutorial progress, and booster packs.
The Trail Ahead
Goblins & Gunslingers Roadmap
The Wild Frontier now has two clear trails: an account-free Showdown demo for AI duels, and the account-based Online Outpost for ranked matches, collections, decks, and rewards.
Implemented & Under Verification
These features exist in current source. Public availability is confirmed after the deployed launcher, build manifest, game artifacts, and release smoke tests pass.
Core Lane-Based Duels
Browser beta with 7-lane combat, High-Rise targeting, Cover Tokens, AI play, and the current Season 2 rules. Full production rules-conformance verification remains.
Frontier Run Stage I
Legacy web beta with 150 trail HP, branching routes, shops, and stage rewards. Godot migration and automated journey coverage remain.
215-Card Season 2 Client Catalog
Current source contains exactly 215 unique cards: 181 Creatures, 33 Spells, and one Item across seven playable factions, Golem forms, and neutral cards.
Ranked Matchmaking Beta & Friend Duels
Ranked beta has rating-aware queues, server-reduced actions, a five-minute server clock, and signed pending choices that survive reloads in both player perspectives. Real two-account reconnect, load, and abuse testing remain; friend challenges currently live in the web account hub.
Deck Builder
Build and save 52-card decks with ownership checks, faction, Spell, and Item filters, and two-copy limits. Deputy selection, deletion workflows, and ranked custom decks remain.
Booster Packs & Collections
Five-card, rarity-weighted pack opening and atomic account grants are implemented. Production retry, distribution, and authenticated end-to-end verification remain.
Developer Blog
The archive, three public development updates, server-rendered article routes, dynamic post sitemap, and daily publishing dispatch are implemented. Newsletter, Discord, and indexing delivery still require production retry and alert verification.
Tin Plating Attachment Support
Tin Plating now occupies one persistent creature equipment slot in Godot and ranked authority. It grants +1/+2 and a one-hit Tin Shield, survives Gnome transforms, and enters discard when its host dies.
First-Login Tutorial & How-to-Play
A nine-step guided duel covers hand play, lanes, Cover, High-Rise, Spells, Deputies, and completion or skip. Fresh-account production testing and a dedicated resource lesson remain.
Individual Faction Pages
Guides are available for all seven playable factions; Golem forms are covered within the Gnome guide.
Showdown AI Demo
A focused no-account demo with computer duels, a perspective western table, music, animated turn cues, and optional particles.
Account-First Online Outpost
The account beta syncs collections, deck saves, packs, tutorial progress, and ranked queueing. The website profile remains a separate account hub; match history is not yet available.
Soundtrack & Duel Ambience
Menu and battle music, dedicated victory and defeat stingers, frontier wind, card impacts, and separate music and effects controls.
Riding Now — Summer 2026
Active work now centers on Season 2 card identity, deeper rules coverage, and the next campaign trail.
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Godot Desktop & Steam Release
No downloadable Steam release is live yet. Windows x86_64, universal macOS, and Linux x86_64 Godot account-client exports now pass cross-platform manifest, size, executable-mode, and SHA-256 development preflight. The standalone macOS app also passes local bundle, signature, and catalog-startup checks. Clean release provenance, native Windows and Linux testing, production signing and notarization, Godot Steamworks integration, real depot IDs, and a successful SteamCMD upload still block release.
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Season 2 Card Set
The 215-card client set includes Ricochet, Tin Shield, Ornery, Hoodoo, Rally, and the Gnome-Golem flip. The current pass checks printed behavior and portrait relevance across the complete active pool. Preview it in the card gallery.
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Frontier Run Stage II & Beyond
New campaign stages with harder routes, new reward cards, and escalating boss encounters.
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Advanced Card Targeting
Server-signed multi-step creature, hero, Cover Token, and empty Cover-lane choices now resume in both Godot and web clients, including player-two ownership and distinct-target history. Production two-account reconnect testing, generalized modifier expiry, and remaining rare card semantics stay in active implementation.
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Production Dust Checkout
The signed-in Stripe flow and secure fulfillment endpoint are implemented, but this remains a release gate until a real production payment, webhook, account credit, and cancellation path are verified end to end.
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Ore Spending Mechanics
Ore earned from multiplayer wins will unlock cosmetics, card backs, and profile customization.
Next on the Trail
Native packaging begins after the browser beta, account flows, and authoritative rules clear their release gates.
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Cross-Platform Native Builds
One engine, every platform: Steam, iOS, and Android built from the same Godot client — with touch-optimized UI and platform billing on mobile.
Down the Trail — Beyond
Long-range map markers — where the frontier is headed after that.
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Tournament System
Organized bracket tournaments with entry requirements, prize pools, and spectator mode.
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Card Trading
Trade cards directly with other players. Build your collection through the frontier economy.
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Seasonal Card Expansions
New card sets released each season with fresh mechanics, faction expansions, and meta shifts.
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Achievement Badges
Earn badges for milestones — first win, faction mastery, collection goals, and campaign completions.
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Weekly Challenge Events
Preset deck challenges with Dust rewards. New challenge every week to keep the frontier fresh.
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Public Deck Sharing
Shareable deck URLs with mana curves, card breakdowns, and one-click import into the deck builder.
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Individual Card Pages
Dedicated pages for every card in the game — stats, abilities, deck suggestions, and faction context.
Want to Shape the Frontier?
Practice against the computer in the no-account demo, or sign in to test synced collections, ranked matchmaking, decks, packs, and tutorial progress.