2026-03-09 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Sheldon_Team17
Save 75% OFF WARCANA on Steam in this year's Tower Defense Fest! 🏰Take on the mantle of a formidable magician in WARCANA, a new fantasy inspired base defense, RTS game with deck building mechanics! Face hundreds of thousands of unrelenting monsters in a battle royale between 30 mighty magicians. Build your deck. Prepare your defences. Summon your armies. Survive the onslaught. Be the last one standing!Plus save up to 75% OFF the Cat and Dog DLC packs until 19th March! 🐈🐕
2024-10-21 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/8f1a7f49466c14f36e8d45132d877afbfe70d684.png We're back with Patch 4 for WARCANA! But that's not all! We're happy to announce that the Single Player Demo is back! This patch is focused on balancing the game based on player feedback, as well as fixing a number of bugs! Here's the TL;DR: The Single Player Demo is back, with 10 campaign missions to play through! Fine-tuned the Battle Royale turn timings Added 10 new prebuild decks All hand cards now get discarded at the end of the round Tons of balancing and bug fixes! New Features and General Improvements - New Unit:
2024-09-13 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/cd56d443038998f437f5bebe5bb875ef64dd3644.png Hello again! We're back with our third post-launch patch for WARCANA! Once again, thank you for all of your feedback! We hope that this series of patches has made the game a lot more enjoyable for you! Here's the TL;DR for this patch: Main Building is immune to Attack Spells! New controls for power players! Pause Button in Single Player Bigger Smite with charges Wall balancing Devotion balancing changes Small campaign improvements Lots of bug fixes New Features: Interface-Setting: - “Set card animation speed” option added
2024-09-05 15:04 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/160c9e7a5469a03a0c4d4e7ecd8d484a962868d7.png Hi everyone! Thanks again for all of your continued feedback as we keep working to improve the game experience! This is a smaller hotfix that focuses on fixing Chinese and Japanese text issues and the difficulty of the Sabotage campaign mission! Here's what's included in this patch: Fixed an issue where Chinese/Japanese characters would disappear or the game would crash after showing too many cards. Fixed a rare issue where the game would crash when trying to connect to other players during matchmaking. Campaign Mission:
2024-09-03 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/2e6927a8372b0246a14a112fccb5c9b5c7ccdeeb.png Hey all! Thanks to all of your feedback since launch, we've now released our first patch for WARCANA! We're currently busy continuing to go through all of the player feedback and will be releasing more balancing patches in the near future! This first Patch focuses on: - fixing some unintended PvP strategies - fixing some campaign missions being way too hard - fixing some bugs related to the Void Forging and Fay Calling perk traits Changelog: Balancing: Crystal Lab card cost: 15 Structure -> 30 Structure Treasure Map card
2024-09-02 15:58 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
Thank you to all of the WARCANA players who have answered the call to war since launch! ⚔️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/8db9ac1eafac4e92a828560d1c1406d789cf3d08.png We've heard your feedback and will be releasing the WARCANA Balance Patch 1 tomorrow! This first Patch focuses on: - fixing some unintended PvP strategies - fixing some campaign missions being way too hard - fixing some bugs related to the Void Forging and Fay Calling perk traits Full patch notes will be shared tomorrow alongside the patch release! Thank you again for all of your feedback since launch! It's very useful and helps us
2024-08-29 16:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
Can you hear the drums of war beating? 🥁 WARCANA RELEASES TODAY ON STEAM! Take on the mantle of a formidable magician in WARCANA, a new fantasy inspired base defense, RTS game with deck building mechanics! Face hundreds of thousands of unrelenting monsters in a battle royale between 30 mighty magicians. Build your deck. Prepare your defences. Summon your armies. Survive the onslaught. Be the last one standing! Watch the launch trailer now: Key Features: 🛡️ Unique mix of base defense, RTS and deck-building genres 💥 Epic battles of massive proportions, with thousands of units 🖌️ Exquisitely
2024-08-28 22:03 UTC · PC Gamer · Jonathan Bolding
I'd like to introduce you to Warcana, one of the strangest and most surprising combinations of game genres I've ever seen. It calls itself a "real-time base defense strategy game with a unique deckbuilding mechanic." That's mostly right, but it's only a fraction of the story for so many reasons. The simple combination of two concepts becomes an entangling weed of game design that wraps around and warps every part of what might otherwise be familiar in Warcana... Read more.
2024-08-09 10:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/3ffab6343cd935cdddc023f3e52a5833d6dededc.png How’s it going everyone? We’ve got some important (and maybe slightly disappointing) news to share with you today. WARCANA’s original launch date was set to be the 15th August, however following the demo and player feedback, we’ve decided to push the launch date back by a couple of weeks to 29th August. The main reason for this slight delay is that we’re upgrading to dedicated online servers instead of the peer-to-peer connections we were using in the demo. This will increase WARCANA’s network reliability and improve the
2024-07-30 16:01 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/7d91a425a49d3f72776969761f17bdb8dd40def7.png WARCANA is a featured popular upcoming game in this year's Steam Tower Defense Fest! 🏰 Play the new WARCANA demo and wishlist on Steam now! WARCANA is a fantasy inspired real-time base defence strategy game with a unique deck-building mechanic! Take on the role of a mighty magician and face the challenge of surviving waves of unrelenting attacks whilst simultaneously summoning your own large armies! Lay waste to your rivals in either a battle-royale with up to 30 other players, or in a series of single player campaigns!
2024-07-23 10:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
Prepare your defences! Build your deck! WARCANA arrives on Steam on August 15th! Take up the role of a mighty arcane magician able to wield the ancient magic from five uniquely deadly factions, each with their own distinctive buildings, units, and spells! Build your deck and play cards strategically to control massive hordes of units in a bid to overcome enemies’ defences, securing victory before your own base can fall! Watch the trailer now: Plus, we've heard your call and the answer has arrived! The new and updated WARCANA demo is out now! Play the new demo for immediate access to new featur
2024-06-14 15:29 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/17214f6f5dec9638a13f43f8c4dc62a849573653.png Greetings arcane mages! We're currently streaming gameplay from the WARCANA Next Fest demo on Steam! Join our pre-recorded stream at 7pm BST on Saturday, as we see if our defences will survive the onslaught in WARCANA! 🛡️ ⏰ 7PM BST - 15th June {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/d4eca9c51d1d6ce2db62f900ce6d092bef593ffc.gif Like what you see? Play the WARCANA Next Fest demo for yourself and don't forget to wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022930/WARCANA/ Miss the stream event? Don't worry, you haven't missed out- we'
2024-06-12 13:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
Welcome to WARCANA, an upcoming deckbuilding battle royale! Combining a fantasy inspired world with base defence and deck building mechanics, WARCANA pits you against up to 29 other players in a battle royale where you'll need to play your cards right to reign victorious! Play your cards right or accept defeat! Watch the new trailer now: Take up the role of a mighty arcane magician able to wield the ancient magic from five uniquely deadly factions, each with their own distinctive buildings, units, and spells! Build your deck and play cards strategically to control massive hordes of units in a
2024-06-11 10:38 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/c757365f44d1305277cfb424dc491d4a4efbefe5.png Greetings everyone! Join us as we stream gameplay from the new WARCANA Next Fest demo! Join our pre-recorded stream at 11am BST as we prepare to face down the hordes in WARCANA! 🛡️ ⏰ 4PM BST - 11th June Like what you see? Play the WARCANA Next Fest demo for yourself and don't forget to wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022930/WARCANA/ Miss the stream event? Don't worry, you haven't missed out- we'll be playing the stream on our Steam Store page throughout Next Fest! Or even better, play our Demo until 17th Ju
2024-06-10 17:06 UTC · Community Announcements · sheldon_team17
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44534244/c757365f44d1305277cfb424dc491d4a4efbefe5.png Happy Steam Next Fest! The WARCANA demo is now live! Battle through the beginning of the single-player campaign and outlive your friends in the multiplayer Horde Mode! Play the demo today! Learn more about WARCANA at WARCANA.game To keep up-to-date, follow WARCANA on Twitter/X and join the community on Discord! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022930/WARCANA/
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