Here's a recap of the announcements made in the Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond Special Update livestream!

Special Update Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9yqQq0xNI0

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond

Releasing on June 17, 2025, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, the newest title in the Shadowverse franchise, will be a free-to-play competitive online collectible card game available on the App Store, Google Play, Steam, and Epic Games Store.

It will be available worldwide in Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese (PC only), and Korean.



Several changes have been made to previously announced mechanics and features to ensure the best gameplay experience.

Shadowverse Park

One major change involves the World feature. After reassessing the fishing, mahjong, and dungeons minigames, we've redesigned the World into a designated space to socialize and play card battles: Shadowverse Park.

In Shadowverse Park, or SV Park for short, players can engage in a variety of activities using their personalized avatars, like battling each other in the lobby or forming a guild with friends. Players will also be able to dress their avatar up as one of the various in-game characters using visages.

Not only that, the park will be used to host online tournaments and other fun major events that will be open to players from all over the world.

Stay tuned for more details in future announcements!

New Mechanics

Super-Evolution
Similar to evolution points, players will have 2 super-evolution points they can use every match to super-evolve any follower, regardless of its rarity.

Super-evolved followers will activate both their Evolve and Super-Evolve abilities, gain Rush, gain +3 to both attack and defense, and cannot take damage or be destroyed by abilities during the player's turns. In addition, enemy followers destroyed by a super-evolved follower's attack will be blown away, knocking them straight into the enemy leader and dealing them 1 damage.

The addition of super-evolution is sure to add more depth and excitement to matches!





Bonus Play Point
This new mechanic allows the player going second to gain a temporary play point at any time, and can be used up to two times—once before their sixth turn and once after.

Updated Mechanics

Changes to Evolution
All followers will now gain a standardized +2 to both attack and defense after evolving, and +3 after super-evolving. Players will have two evolution points and two super-evolution points, allowing them to evolve a total of four times per match.

Changes to Starting Hands
Both players will now start the match with 4 cards instead of 3, and will both draw only 1 card on their first turns.

Crests
Several updates have also been made to the battle UI to make it easier to understand the current state of the match. One such update is the addition of crests.

Abilities given to your leader, now known as crests, can be easily checked on the bottom left of your screen. A player can have a total of 5 crests at a time.



Keywords
Additional keywords to represent several preexisting abilities have been added to increase the clarity and readability of cards.

For example:
- Intimidate: Can't be attacked by enemy followers.
- Aura: Can't be selected by enemy abilities.
- Barrier: Reduce damage taken to 0 once before being removed.

New Characters

Take a look at the new leaders of each class!

Portalcraft Leader: Dreizehn



Forestcraft Leader: Lovesign



Swordcraft Leader: Marie Malisse



Runecraft Leader: Kaori Yuihara



Dragoncraft Leader: Galan



Abysscraft Leader: Diawl



Havencraft Leader: Esperanza



A character called Eudie will also be in the game, and she'll become the players' guide and support them through game.

From walking players through battle-related tutorials to showing them how to navigate Shadowverse Park, she'll be a helpful mentor in many ways!

AI Tips

A new beta feature, AI Tips, has been added to practice matches.

Under Eudie's careful guidance, players will be able to naturally grasp the basic rules and strategies of battling. Turns have no time limit in practice matches so players learning how to play will be able to make full use of this feature.

Card Set Schedule

While Shadowverse released a new card set once every three months, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond plans to release a new card set once every month to month and a half from its release through to August, then subsequently at two month intervals.

Note that additional cards will no longer be released.

Liquefying Cards

In Shadowverse, players typically liquefied cards they didn't need for vials to make a specific kind of deck. However, this resulted in many players only having cards from one class, causing them to struggle when they wanted to experiment with other classes because they wouldn't have the cards to build another class's deck.

To solve this issue and encourage players to embrace the spirit of experimentation, players can only liquefy extras beyond the third copy of a card in Worlds Beyond. While this adjustment may make it more difficult to obtain cards through vials, additional systems and features will be added to make card packs easier to obtain.

- A daily free card pack.



- Missions that give up to 10 card packs whenever a new card set is released.
- A guaranteed Legendary card with every 10 card packs purchased.
- A prebuilt deck consisting of cards from the first card set and basic cards upon clearing the First Farer beginner missions. Players will have a choice between 9 different recommended decks, each having a powerful Legendary card.
- Missions and quests that reward not only card packs but other in-game items in Shadowverse Park.

Note that the daily free card pack does not count towards the 10 card packs for a guaranteed Legendary card.

Shadowverse Special Festival

We will be holding a special event in Japan on Sunday, March 23, at Bellesalle Akihabara. Players will be able to try a demo of Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond and watch both the Shadowverse Saikyo Team Tournament Powered by RAGE as well as the Shadowverse University League finals.



Entry will be free and a variety of other fun activities and performances will also held, so we encourage all players to join us for this special one-day festival.

Note that some events, including the Worlds Beyond demo, will be managed by a numbered ticket queue.

Visit the official Shadowverse Special Festival website for more details:
https://fes.shadowverse-wb.com/ (Japanese only)

The contents of each playable deck at the demo, as well as the included cards, will be revealed on the Shadowverse Special Festival website the day before the event. We have already revealed some of these cards in the latter half of the Special Update livestream and on our official X account, so players who missed out or who want a refresher should take a look!

Card Game Festival 2025

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond will be hosting a booth at Card Game Festival 2025, which will be held on May 3 and May 4 at Tokyo Big Sight.

Stay tuned for more details.

Cygames Background Art Exhibition 2024–2025

Backgrounds and key visuals from Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond will be featured at the Cygames Background Art Exhibition 2024–2025, which is currently touring Japan.

The next stop of the exhibition is at Musashino Art University from May 2 to May 13, 2025. Entry is free so we encourage players to stop by!

Visit the official Cygames Background Art Exhibition 2024–2025 website for more details:
https://exhibition-cygames.jp/ (Japanese only)

Shadowverse World Grand Prix 2025

A new international tournament, the Shadowverse World Championship, was announced during Shadowverse Next 2024. However, to commemorate the release of Worlds Beyond, the tournament has been revamped for a more sensational experience. Look forward to the Shadowverse World Grand Prix 2025!



It will be following the same tournament format as previous iterations of the Shadowverse World Grand Prix. Changes to the prizes have also been made, and while the special Shadowverse: Evolve card will no longer be included as an additional prize, the grand prize has been increased from 10 million yen to 100 million yen.

Contenders who have already qualified for the Shadowverse World Championship will automatically qualify for World Grand Prix 2025.

Stay tuned for more details on the number of contenders, qualification, and more in a future announcement.

Shadowverse: Evolve (Japanese Edition)

Worlds Beyond's first card set will be coming to the physical trading card game, Shadowverse: Evolve!

Releasing for the Japanese edition on July 11, not only will this new booster set feature cards like Oliva, Heroic Dark Angel—it will also be introducing the new super-evolution mechanic to the game.

Furthermore, to help new players jump straight into Shadowverse: Evolve, 2 brand-new starter decks and a special starter set containing both will be released on June 27.

The special set comes with stylish supplies, including card sleeves featuring Marie Malisse and Galan, as well as a set of dice.

All three products come with a serial code containing in-game items for Worlds Beyond. Stay tuned for more information.



Official Shadowverse: Evolve Website (Japanese Edition):
https://shadowverse-evolve.com/news/post-423

Shadowverse: Evolve (English Edition)

While the contents are slightly different, the English edition of Shadowverse: Evolve will also be releasing new products with purchase bonuses.

Official Shadowverse: Evolve Website (English Edition):
https://en.shadowverse-evolve.com/news/post-75

Preregistration

Pregistration for the game is now open on the App Store, Google Play, Steam, and Epic Games Store, along with a preregistration event that will reward all players with in-game items based on the total number of preregistrations once the game is released.



We encourage everybody to register as a total of 20 card packs’ worth of rupies and card pack tickets will be distributed if at least 300,000 players preregister.

Official Preregistration Website:
https://preregistration.shadowverse-wb.com/en/

Thank you for your continued support. We hope all players look forward to Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond!


Shadowverse Team