Strongblade - Puzzle Quest and Match-3 Adventure

Strongblade is a free-to-play match-3 puzzle game that launched on September 14, 2023. The game is built around a live service model: it features rotating seasonal passes (a Winter Season Pass launched December 12, 2023; a January "Pirate Brig Treasure" season launched December 29, 2023; a November "Pirate Island Treasure" season launched November 23, 2023), paid "Golden Pass" premium tiers, competitive in-game events against other players, and a continuously expanding level pool (100+ new levels were added in the November 2023 update alone). The store description explicitly highlights competing "in heart-pounding in-game events against players from all over," reinforcing the ongoing, player-vs-player seasonal structure. This is a game designed by its nature to receive new seasons, events, and content indefinitely — it is never "done" in the traditional sense. Developer communications went quiet on Steam after December 29, 2023, but this is common for mobile-origin free-to-play titles whose primary update cadence is communicated through the game client itself rather than Steam news posts.