Development log

Updates

Where the game actually is, including the parts that slipped. Fortress Clash is now targeting the end of 2026, and there is more coming between here and there.

Road to launch

2026 in four phases

  1. IShipped

    Q1 2026

    Artwork

    • Style guide locked
    • Unit card illustrations
    • Fortress concepts
  2. IIShipped late

    Q2 2026

    Core engine

    • Turn and phase system
    • Card interaction rules
    • Balance pass one
  3. IIIIn progress

    Q3 2026

    Closed beta

    • Browser build
    • Beta invites go out
    • Balance pass two
  4. IVUpcoming

    Q4 2026

    Launch

    • Public digital release
    • Printed set ships
    • Tournament rules v1

Recent entries

What we’ve been doing

Studio

We've been busy. With life, mostly.

The honest version: Fortress Clash is running late. Life happened, then we kept “just fine-tuning” the gameplay, and then we spent a genuinely unreasonable stretch putting all the pieces together. There turned out to be a lot of pieces.

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