Athelan Battlegrounds Steam news

• Steam app typegame
• Steam App ID3572070
• PriceFree to play
• Release dateNov 25, 2026
• DeveloperAthelan Games
• PublisherAthelan Games
• Parent gameNot available

Genres: Indie, Strategy, Free To Play

Company pages: Developer: Athelan GamesPublisher: Athelan Games

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Athelan Battlegrounds Steam news

Athelan Battlegrounds news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• New Meta & New Tournament! - 13 July 2026

  This patch aims to shake up the meta and bring up 3 of our stragglers (Yi Fan, Skern & Takashi) while toning down mages. It is a rather important patch since if everything feels fine, we'll be using this new meta for the next tournament! Make sure to get your practice in during Friday Night Fights. While the day isn't quite set in stone yet, you may submit your application for the tournament on discord. Cash prizes will be the same as always, 150$ for first place, 100$ for second place and 50$ for third place. There will be 8 participants in a single elimination bracket.Features All multi hit skills have been reworked. They will now check for block on every hit, but once a hit goes through, all subsequent hits will go through as well. This should improve hit chance significantly.Adjusted hard currency pricing for some of the cosmetics.Added a feature in the REWARDS section where you'll…

• Announcing Friday Night Fights! - 12 June 2026

  Have you been thinking about Athelan but wished we had some players in queues? I'd like to introduce Friday Night Fights! Every Friday between 8PM and 11PM EST, everyone who'd like to play some games, learn and prepare for the next tournament can get on and queue up. This is a great opportunity for new players to learn, talk strategies on discord and master your teams.The next tournament will still have cash prizes but also special profile icons for the top 3! These icons will carry over to the full release of the game in December and no one else will be able to get them but you so make sure you hone your skills! Make sure to add it to your schedule, the first Friday Night Fights starts today at 8PM EST!

• The Puzzle Maker is finally here! - 14 April 2026

  Hey everyone! Welcome to the patch notes for demo build #82.Features The first version of the puzzle maker is finally here! With this feature you can create scenarios over a large board where you decide where everything goes. This feature is meant to learn at your own pace, get creative and dive deep into the mechanics of the game. Here is a list of features this version currently supports: Add/remove tiles, champions and hazards.Increase HP beyond the maximum or set HP to specific numbers.Set cooldowns, stacks and status effects on champions.Determine if a champion needs to be killed or not to complete the puzzle.Add flags that need to be captured to complete a level. In the future we plan to add many more things like special win conditions, traps, doors, etc so that you can even make mini D&D campaigns! This build also contains a significant change that allows players to play the game…

• New Champion: Guardian-0 is here! - 15 March 2026

  Guardian-0 is finally here!Designed specifically for defense, this construct is a great addition to most turtle compositions allowing for both close and long range defense. Its first ability is Barrier Protocol which shields a champion up to 6 tiles away. The shield prevents all damage and lasts 3 turns. While shielded, champions can attack, but not move. This means displacements CAN interrupt the shield! The second ability is Fortification Field. Each turn, an aura around Guardian-0 expands up to a maximum of 3 tiles. All allies within this aura take reduced damage. While those abilities can be incredibly strong, enemies can attack Guardian-0 directly to temporarily disable all of its abilities. It is especially vulnerable to ignite which deals a small amount of damage each turn for a duration, keeping it turned off. It is sure to bring a new layer of complexity to the game, allowing f…

• Patch Notes - Demo Build #56 - 2 March 2026

  We have some very significant balance changes this patch which should shake up the meta and bring some lesser used champions up.**Features**Made improvements to the logic of damage display. This can still be improved so we'll keep iterating.When you propose a draw and your opponent declines it, you'll now be notified in the in-game chat.Flying champions are now properly immune to the "rooted" status effect.The game now becomes a draw after 5 consecutive passed turns instead of 3.Champions that are channeling can no longer block.**Balance**Skern fell off from his glory days so we're bringing a little bit of tankiness back as well as more damage on his leap. Block chance increased from 15 -> 30%. Physical armor increased from 12 -> 15%. Leap damage increased from 10/6 -> 12/8.Takashi did not land well as an assassin namely because his conditional damage wasn't guaranteed and his multi hit…

• Watch the dev team stream! - 20 February 2026

  Throughout the Steam Next Fest, our team of 2 will be streaming whenever we can!Virtualmint who is our resident badass developer will be playing and answering questions about the infrastructure and all the cool decisions taken to get us where we are now with a very clean and efficient game.Meanwhile, CMBurns, our founder and designer will be challenging anyone willing to play against him! Now to be clear, he has only ever lost 1 match in our classical game mode. As such, he's issuing an open challenge to all viewers during the event: Hop on the free demo and queue up against him. Anyone who wins a match will be given a special profile icon commemorating this unlikely event!If you haven't already, be sure to wishlist the game and join our discord server. We plan to organize tournaments with cash prizes for our discord participants on a fairly regularly basis.Enjoy the next fest and we ho…

• Linux Support, Patch Notes and more! - 18 February 2026

  Hey everyone!We hope you've had a lot of fun playing in and/or watching the first ever Athelan Battlegrounds e-sports tournament! Congratulations to Aristocatt who sweeped the competition and walked away with the 150$ cash prize.As we head into Steam Next Fest, we wanted to add more quality of life features and a few final touches on champion balance based on our top players' feedback.Lastly, we attached a teaser image for the next upcoming champion: Guardian-0. Our second construct and first ever defensive champion. Learn more about its lore and stats here: https://www.athelan.com/guardian-0Here are the patch notes for demo build #43:Features Added a setting option to increase game speed to 1.5x, 2x or 3x.When holding ALT, colored health bars and status effects will appear above champions' heads. You can also toggle this option in settings.Diana's actual health is now displayed in her…

• New champion coming soon! - 27 January 2026

  Takashi is an assassin gone mad. He offers mobility, damage AND utility.ABILITIESWHIRLING DANCESpins and deals 5 physical damage to all adjacent targets 3 times.If all hits are successful, the targets bleed for 3 turns.If a target is already bleeding, they instead take 8 damage per hit.METSUBUSHITakashi throws an exploding egg up to 3 tiles away using line of sight. It then explodes into a cross.All affected targets gain +1 turn cooldown.STATSHP: 40Physical armor: 10Magic armor: 10Block chance: 35Movement: 4Movement cooldown: 0Board value: 1LORETakashi hails from Tsukiyo, a world where humanity evolved in ways eerily similar to feudal Japan on Earth. In the courts of lords and emperors, entertainment was a highly anticipated tradition. Leaders of every nation would gather and watch the elaborate performances of Noh and Kabuki theater, thinking themselves safe behind the palace walls. In…

• Demo releases tomorrow January 16th at 4:30PM EST! - 15 January 2026

  Hey everyone!We're finally at our first big milestone, the demo launch :DWe want to treat this demo launch like an early access, but with everything free. Each new player will be given enough currency to acquire all currently available cosmetics in the game as well as editor pages for your teams.Throughout the continued development of the full game, we'll be adding content to the demo such as new champions, features and other cosmetics. We'll also be hosting tournaments with cash prizes! So make sure you practice enough.We really want to build this game alongside players. Therefore, we highly encourage you all to join our discord: https://discord.gg/KpgA84p99MSee you all in the demo! Be sure to hop into the public chat channels also to discuss strategies with other players in game.

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