Attention commanders!
Together we’ve faced another year of fierce battles and grueling quests, and we’ve risen to the challenge. In overcoming these trials, we’ve grown and improved, and so too has Empires & Puzzles.
In the past year, we’ve made multiple quality of life improvements that make organizing and training your Heroes and Troops easier, as well as reducing the number of popups displayed over your bases. The game experience has also been tuned up in several ways, including re-balancing PvP battles, introducing new War and Tournament rules, higher level Titans, and making Paths of Adventure easier to complete.
The rewards for proving your mettle in combat have likewise grown. Through a series of targeted incremental improvements to multiple loot sources, rewards have seen a general uplift across the board. Some changes we introduced are still developing toward their final form, like Wanted Chests. We will soon be reverting the cooldown time on Wanted Chest from 23 hours to 12 hours and, coming in V76, the gem cost to skip the cooldown will scale down over time!
We’ve also added a suite of new features to make it easier for players to grow their Hero rosters with costumes from the Visiting Outfitter and quick leveling with Hero Coach and the Instant Power Summon.
Epic Troops are faster to level up, the Epic Troop Summon now includes ALL Tower Troops as a persistent addition and, coming in V76, it will also include a chance of receiving a different Legendary Troop every day! This new combined Epic Troop Summon with a daily legendary chance will replace Tower event-specific summons.
What’s next?
In the coming year, what we’re calling the YEAROFTHEALLIANCE2025, our focus will be on highlighting some of the many long-lived and tight knit alliances in our community that are the lifeblood of Empires & Puzzles. There will also be more activities for alliances to engage with together, such as Monster Island becoming a regular event, brand new community events where alliances can win rewards for all their members, and special recognition for the top-performing alliance in each Alliance Quest event. In the longer term, we’re working on several UI and quality of life improvements that should make alliance management and recruitment easier.
There will also be recruitment channels on our brand new official Empires & Puzzles Discord server, coming soon! As we expand the ways in which we connect with our player community, watch out for more official collaborations with some of the dedicated and talented content creators who are fans of the game.
Finally, as our birthday celebrations draw to a close, it’s time for our players to start blowing out candles and unwrapping gifts! Beginning next Monday, March 24th 2025, players will receive a special message and gift on their own game birthday – the anniversary of the date on which their game account was first created.
The party continues, but now you’re the guests of honor! To the players!