Pawns of War

Pawns of War launched on March 10, 2025 as a free-to-play autobattler. Since then, FLARE has maintained a steady cadence of major content updates, feature patches, and balance hotfixes. Three named major updates have shipped since launch: "LOCATOR" (Update 1.0.2.0) on November 30, 2025, adding a full story campaign, a reworked turn-based combat system, and new characters and weapons; "ARMORY" (Update 1.0.2.7) on April 19, 2026, introducing a weapon customization workshop with over 300 attachments and a complete weapon parameter rework; and "PROLOGUE" (Update 1.0.3.0) on July 26, 2026, adding the first story campaign chapter, a reworked mission exploration system, expanded Auto-Battle abilities, and a new player progression track. Between and around these major releases, the developer has shipped frequent feature hotfixes — including on August 1, August 9, and August 12, 2026 — adding new characters, weapons, and game systems. The gap between major updates has ranged from roughly 3 to 5 months. With the most recent major update arriving on July 26, 2026, and hotfixes still landing as of August 12, 2026, the game is clearly in active, hands-on development. An August 2025 roadmap announcement also outlined a broad list of planned features not yet implemented — including an encyclopedia, map environment reworks, vehicle crews, pawn relationship systems, and camp-building — further indicating that FLARE views the game as a long-running, evolving project. The developer has not announced the conclusion of development.