With 2020 in the rearview, time to look ahead to hopefully better times and even more epic ways to play Empire & Puzzles! Our Community is more important than ever, so I hope you enjoy a quick sneak peek of the exciting new features we have planned in the year to come.
Looking Back at 2020
The year 2020 was an eventful one, to say the least. Our active and close-knit Community brought people together during these difficult times. Thank you everyone for joining us in our #PlayApartTogether campaign!
For Empires & Puzzles, we saw the following major additions to the game:
- Path of Valor (February)
- Season III (February)
- Tavern of Legends Event (May)
- 21 New Hero Costumes for Classic Heroes (May)
- Base Upgrades: new Hero Academy, new Stronghold levels, updated Alchemy Lab (June)
- New Event: Ninja Tower (October)
- 3 New War Rules (October)
- Updated Seasonal Events (Spring, Summer, Halloween, and Winter)
- New Event: Mythic Titan (December)
Coming Up in the First Half of 2021
Friendly Matches 
- Join an alliance and fight your alliance members just for fun!
- Available in February (Version 35)
Challenge Event: “League of Villains”
- Dark Lord is back with a vengeance in this All-New Challenge Event!
- Featuring updated rules, stages, and new Heroes
- Starting in February (Version 35)
Season IV - “Explorers of the Abyss”
- The story continues with Season IV - new Heroes, new map, new enemies, and more!
- All Season IV Heroes will have new Abilities: new skills that are activated in battle
- Coming up in Q1/2
New Costumes for Event Heroes
- Costumes are coming beyond Classic Heroes! New Costumes will be introduced for selected Event, Seasonal, and Monthly Heroes.
- The first new Event Hero Costumes will be introduced for the Seasonal Heroes of the Springvale Event
New Event: “Starfall Circus”
- Coming up in Q2
Wait, there’s more!
Coming up also this year…
- All-New Hero Upgrades: Grow your Heroes in power & level them up beyond the current max!
- All-New War Feature! More information coming up later this year!
- More Quality of Life changes to make playing even more enjoyable
- And much more, so stay tuned!
Thank you for reading our first Empires & Puzzles Sneak Peek of 2021. Don’t forget to share your thoughts on these upcoming features here on our Community Forum. Happy New Year 2021 and best of luck in the battles!
-Small Giant Games team