Astral Heroes

Astral Heroes is a free-to-play collectible card game that launched on October 20, 2016. The developer (Apus Software) was active in supporting the game through several version updates: version 1.1 in August 2018 (adding 8 new cards and 3-color decks), version 1.12 in November 2018 (Spanish translation and balance fixes), version 1.13 in February 2019, and version 1.2 in April 2019 (replay system and new bots). After that, the developer's attention shifted away from Astral Heroes itself. In early-to-mid 2020, the developer focused on open-sourcing the game's engine and server code, framed as a Patreon milestone — a pattern often associated with a project winding down active commercial development. The final pieces of communication in late 2021 were announcements about releasing the studio's older game, Astral Masters, on Steam — a separate product, not new content for Astral Heroes. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced upcoming content, and no developer statements promising future updates to Astral Heroes. The last substantive update to the game itself was version 1.2 on April 2, 2019, and the last developer post of any kind was on November 1, 2021. The developer has been silent since then, and the pattern of open-sourcing the codebase and moving on to publishing legacy titles suggests the game has reached the end of its active development cycle.