Patch Notes | Aether Realms

Friends, titles, and a weekly Gauntlet

2026-09-20

A friends button in the header, next to your name, showing how many friends are online.
Add friends by name, accept or decline requests.
Statuses: Available, Play with me and Do not disturb, plus Idle and In a match automatically. Someone on Do not disturb cannot be invited.
Invite a friend straight into a match — they get a Join button on their screen.
Watch a friend's match live. You see the board and how many cards each side holds, never what they are.

Eight computer opponents a week, climbing from Easy to Hard, in the AI Match tab.
Everyone faces the same ladder each week. Beat a kingdom at its difficulty to clear the rung and take the coins.
Clear all eight for a 300 coin bonus and the Unbroken title. Resets every Monday.

All fourteen achievements now grant a title — First Blood, Giantslayer, Siegebreaker, Legend of the Realms and more.
Wear one from the Achievements panel. It shows on your name plate in a match and beside your name on the leaderboard.

Your last twenty matches are kept: result, kingdom, mode, opponent, rating change, turns, units destroyed and castle damage.

Pairs you with someone near your rating; the range widens the longer you wait, and with nobody else queued you are paired straight away.
Play the computer instead while you wait — it leaves the queue first, so nobody is sent to an empty room.
If someone is queued on the other board, you are told and offered a one-click switch. Before this, you both searched forever.

A match now opens on the matchup: both names, their titles and kingdoms, instead of a bare coin flip.
An accidental refresh walks you back into your match instead of abandoning it.

The lobby uses the full width of the screen, and the leaderboard and site info now sit side by side.
Every card in the game has its own page under Cards, listed by kingdom.
Fixed: a crash where a single malformed request could restart the server.
Fixed: a friend with the game open in a background tab no longer shows as offline.
Patch notes now live in the header, next to Lore & Kingdoms, with a dot when something is new since your last visit.

2026-09-19

2v2 with a friend: you and a friend against two computer players, with an invite link to share.
Find Opponent no longer pairs you with a player who has already closed the page.

Elf: Woodland Ward and Fleetfoot Ward now last until your next turn.
Adjustments across Dynasty, Human, Clock, Fallen, Beast, Orc, Elf and Dwarf cards.

Cards no longer slide out from under the mouse in 2v2.
A unit carrying a Shield now shows it, instead of surviving damage for no visible reason.
Fixed two players in a 2v2 room swapping seats and drawing each other’s cards.