It's already freaking September.

I'm still playing Clickbait Tycoon. Pretty fun incremental clicker game. I wonder who made it, hint hint.

My Steam backlog continues to grow, and it's going to keep growing forever and ever. But I am slowly working my way through all of the motorcycle racing games I own before I inevitably need to buy others.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Wonderworks was announced. It looks shit. This video from Marcel Vos basically explains it all, and it looks like a pile of crap.

Every attempt at bringing the series back, minus RCT Classic, has been a shitstorm.

If you want to play a game that's "RCT, but modern", just play Parkitect instead. That game perfectly captures the vibe of being like the old RCT games but with some little modernizations. It's great.

Activities

• Hearthdle now includes Violet Hold cards.

• Hearthdle now has working spell schools.

• Fixed issues that prevented daily challenges from going out.

• If for some reason we do not publish a daily challenge, streaks will no longer be reset.

Seasons

• Breaking Ground has begun!

• There are three new actions you can take on pages - Woodcutting, Mining, and Foraging.

  • Fishing will return mid-season.

• We're building towards some big end of year goals... Goals that I wanted to achieve many years ago with our event system but they were too big at the time.

• The season is quite similar to last month's fishing-themed season, so there isn't much new going on, but it's worth the build up to what we have planned.

• Your skills now can earn experience and level up. Level 100 is the current cap.

Games

• Added a new Games section.

• You can see upcoming releases, recent releases, and all the games we have in our database.

• We also show deals! Right now this is limited to games taking part in Humble Bundles but will be expanded upon.

• You can filter by what system the game is for (modern systems only, for now anyway).

• We also have month-by-month breakdowns for upcoming game releases.

• You can now leave a review for any game on the site. Why not give Hearthstone a rating?

  • We ask you to review multiple points with ratings out of 10.

  • You can optionally write a written review as well.

• You can mark games as "Wanted", "Playing", and "Played".

Content

• Articles now have a subtle fancy background near the top before written content.

  • You've seen these faded blurry backgrounds elsewhere, like Hearthstone card pages.

• We can now embed live steam prices in articles.

• All articles with an associated steam game now show a promo block at the end of articles promoting the game.

Misc

• Fixed video embeds not appearing in threads, comments, and guides.

We're already on August on this year? Holy shit.

To start off, I finished Easy Delivery Co., and I have a review of it right here (go read it!). I'm still grinding out that achievement on Super Woden GP.

I tried to play Denshattack, but then found out that my old computer can't play it. Learn from my mistake and read the required specs of the game before impulse buying it.

I'm slowly, but surely working my way through my backlog. I have a shit-ton of motorcycle racing games that I need to play. I'm currently on MotoGP 15.

A small patch has been deployed to fix a few bugs that have been reported and add in some additional quality of life adjustments. Work is still going strong on the 0.6.0 patch that is coming in September.

Discord Connection

• You can now connect your Clickbait Tycoon account to Discord.

• You get a special in-game reward for doing so: The Daily Ping clickable!

Upgrades

• Added a button to purchase all available upgrades. This buys out the cheapest upgrades first and repeats until you are out of money.

Research

• Added 50 new researches for "Warm Blankets". Each provides 1% Daycare hatch speed increase. Most of these are for the late-late game economy where egg grinding is the most grindy.

• Knowledge Points from Breaking News and Contracts now scale with websites owned and buyouts earned.

Mugs

• Mug inventory is now 30 slots by default. This is a temporary tweak that is going to be changed in 0.6.0.

Bug Fixes

• Golden and Trending notifications should no longer hide behide fact checking countdowns.

• Hire and Upgrade tooltips now appear beside the panel instead of on top.

• The fact check bar can no longer take over other tabs, it stays to the newsroom.

• The custom styles applied to your writer no longer reset on prestige or buyout.

Our first patch in early access! We've had a great start to our launch and to keep the momentum going we're making some early game balance changes to help smooth out the onboarding process and to put good stuff in your hands sooner.

Pals

• Pals now can be unlocked after the writer questing is unlocked. No longer does this require the Office Tower room.

• Daycare room in the Office Tower now unlocks the Pal Expedition mechanic.

• Improved the UI to condense information and make it more clear which Pals are in your party.

• Eggs can now drop from publishing articles... more reasons to click.

• Pals now follow writers when they go on quests.

Quests

• Improved the end of quest popup to show all the rewards earned by completing a quest.

Balance

• Research tab now opens after 5 published articles (down from 10).

• Field Reporting now costs $500 (down from $1000).

• Tutorial Trending Topic now appears at article 3 (down from 7).

• Office room upgrade levels have been made more expensive and now also require knowledge points. More decisions to make!

• Click Bot Network empire upgrade now costs 1 Domain Point but clicks once every 10 seconds at the first rank.

• Click Bot Network empire upgrade has had ranks 2 through 4 see Domain Point cost reductions.

• Each additional website unlocked via empire prestige provides more Domain Points. Existing saves will now have additional points to compensate.

Name in the Game

• Early Access purchases can now use the Clickbait Tycoon website to submit a name of their choice into the game.

• This feature works with Pals. There is a random chance when hatching new Pals that you can encounter a community-submitted name.

• All submissions go through a human to verify they are safe before we add them to the game.

• Note that it requires a game update for us to push new names to the game, even after we accept the name submission.

Bug Fixes

• You can now correctly hit escape when any modal is open to close it. This mimics the controller functionality where "B" closes modals.

• When first equipping a mug the icon now correctly appears in the writer equipment frame.

• Fixed an issue with how Typing Speed was being calculated.

• Mugs with Caffeine now correctly apply stats.

• Mugs with Clout now correctly apply stats.

• The Click Bot Network empire upgrade now correctly progresses the publish bar.

We go silver instead of gold for an early access launch, right? Thank you to everyone who provided feedback during the closed beta test. It was invaluable in finding bugs and improving the user experience <3

This is our final major Early Access build for Clickbait Tycoon (Official Site | Steam). Full launch is next Friday, August 21 at Noon Eastern! It has been a journey and a half to get here and we can't wait to continue developing the game during early access and into the 1.0 release next year.

Visual Polish

• Best Value tags no longer cause hire buttons to increase in size when upgrades have been purchased.

• Moved the name of the quest you're on to keep the box the same size.

• Writer tab now has a more character sheet feel to it.

• Writer tab glows while any writer has unspent attribute points.

• Every research project and every achievement now has an icon.

• Questing now shows stats and rewards associated with that quest after first completion.

• Every quest now keeps a permanent career record

• Added a "Fog of War" to the quest interface so you can't see very far...

• Improved the appearance of our patch notes in the client

• Added comparison tooltips for items.

• Increased some character-related font sizes.

• Reworked the paper doll frame for gear and stats for each character.

• Inventory is now a grid with comparison tooltips. This works better if you have lots of gear.

• The Lab / Research tab has an updated appearance.

• Researches that require knowledge points will now show KP in red when you don't have enough.

Stats

• Words Per Minion increases your auto-attack speed.

• Plagiarism steals life from enemies.

• Renamed Serendipity to Luck. Yeah, it was a cool name but it wasn't immediately obvious what it did.

Accessibility

• Added an option for reduced motion (combat, news ticker)

• Added a new option for "boss fight pace". You can slow down combat to make it easier to hit attacks. This does not make fights weaker.

Boss Fights

• You can now switch between Weak Spot boss encounter style and Typewriter style.

• Typewriter is a DDR-inspired mini-game that instead of clicking on the boss weak spot, you instead can press keys on your keyboard (WASD or Arrows)

• Added new controls settings tab with rebindable fight keys.

Balance

• Building office rooms now costs Knowledge Points on top of money - 1 KP for your first room of a type, then it scales up

• Some researches now require Knowledge Point in addition to burning funds.

• Field Reporting (the quest unlock) costs $1K now, was $4K.

• Seed Funding is now useful: each rank starts every new website with $10K x rank x your website count.

• Six new permanent Domain Point upgrades keep gear through prestige.

• Hire mastery researches: own 30 of a hire to unlock its "Squads" project.

• Quills now drop from publishing! Also added research to make it more common.

• AI Summarization Tech is a newsroom button that makes your next article click ship the article out immediately.

• The Pen is Mightier I-X research now increases critical damage - helps fights!

• Boss money is now scaling based on quest length.

• More total Pal eggs can drop from more difficult quests.

• Quests will now always drop a piece of gear on their first clear.

• Early quests can drop 0 pieces of gear on repeated kills - go farm past the first few!

Fixes

• Clicks no longer pass through the pause menu (or any modal).

• Styled the dropdowns in settings to match the theme of the game.

• Steam Deck now defaults to Typewriter style fights with ABXY support.

• The writer now properly auto-attacks during boss fights.

• Added missing achievement icons.

• Writer experience gains from the gym are now correctly applying.

• You can now discard gear you no longer want in your inventory.

• Fixed a bug where the audio would be loud when you first open the game before adjusting to your volume slider preference.

• The writer tab now correctly scrolls.

• Made improvements to tooltips to help prevent them get stuck.

• Proof Reading now provides a popup asking if you want to turn on the accessibility option for it

• Fixed a resize issue when first unlocking quests.

• The Dressed for Deadlines achievement now asks for all 7 gear slots.

• Fixed a crash when equipping a mug.

• Removed old references to "Producers" (they're "Hires").

• Tooltips for Hires are no longer so tall and narrow - omg readability!

• Tooltips can no longer go beyond the bottom border of the game.

• Tooltips no longer cling to the edge of the game.

• Fixed quest map bouncing back to bottom on scroll

• Mugs now tell you what they do.

• Fixed the room building modal from appearing under the rpg strip.

• The Legal Department finally has its own icon.

• Attribute buttons on paper doll now align correctly.

Reelfest

• Fixed an issue with Realm Waters not having fishable fish.

The latest edition has unveiled the story of the year: Clickbait Tycoon has been officially announced!

Check out the store page to get your wishlists on and to learn more about the game. Clickbait Tycoon was supposed to be a smaller-scale game in the Out of Games Arcade but grew into something larger that simply required a full release on Steam.

Thank you to everyone who helped provide feedback and tested during our closed alpha and got us to this point so that we could launch into Early Access. There are still some systems that need more work which is why the game is entering EA, but it is is expected that we will have the game feature complete in 6-12 months.

A 10% discount will be available at launch, so August 21 through August 28 is your time to pickup Clickbait Tycoon at a great deal. We will be increasing the price when we leave early access and we will let everyone know in advance of that happening.

Thanks all!

Activities

• Added new activity types!

  • Mini Crossword - A 5x5 grid crossword puzzle.

  • Picture Crossword - Draw a picture given numerical clues.

  • Memory Match - Match the pictures up in pairs to complete the game.

  • Word Ladder - Start with one word and change one letter at a time to end at another word.

• Do note that although we support all of these now, we will be adding new activities with these types over time. We could dump a ton of new activities, but it's better for us to drip them out.

Arcade

• We now have a lobby system to find other people to play multiplayer on-site games with.

• Multiplayer games on Out of Games require you to be logged-in to an account in good standing to play.

• Lobbies have chat, as do our multiplayer games. You don't have to use it, but it can be fun to banter with your opponents.

  • Do note that like everything else on the site, chat is logged. Anyone breaking our rules on the site will have their permissions to participate restricted or will face account bans.

• Added our first multiplayer game: Loot Drop.

  • It's Connect 4.

Hearthstone

• Fixed an issue preventing game data imports due to Hearthstone's updated Unity version.

RPG

• Added more behind the scenes stuff for skills.

  • It's almost like this fishing thing is leading to something grand...

I'll add in, many years ago we had detailed this system for our winter on-site event and it was quite extensive in what we wanted to do. It was ultimately way too much work to make happen and there is a reason we rolled out a leveling system on the site earlier this year.

This year, we're going to be doing something very similar during December and January and over the next few months we will be growing towards it.

Seasons

• Fixed Arcade Hour daily challenge so it now correctly fires upon completing two arcade activities.

• Arcade Hour now can be completed even if you fail to successfully complete dle games.

• Manually fixed Arcade Hour for people who should have already earned it today.

General

Achievements

• Added over 80 new website achievements.

• Added a new Seasons achievement category.

• Added a new Reelfest achievement category.

• Added a new Professions achievement category.

• Achievements now have pretty popups again.

• Achievements can now fire through our websocket connection which means if something earns you an achievement while you're on a page, you'll be told about it.

Listings

• All listings are now more performant due to cache additions in how we build out pagination.

Activities

• Fixed an issue that prevented daily activities from appearing at midnight site time (Eastern US/CAN).

Private Messages

• Fixed the styling error which made replies to private messages centered.

Authentication

• Fixed an issue with Steam logins.

Hearthstone

Pack Opener

• Saved packs without a name no longer cause errors.

Mythgard

Deckbuilder

• Fixed an issue with 404s.

RPG

• Fixed a positional issue with casting your fishing line.

A few updates have been pushed out this morning for our Reelfest seasonal event.

Seasons

• Fixed an issue where fishing icon was on top of the scavenger hunt icon.

• Added a "GO" button to daily challenge prompts to help guide people to the correct location (these are in activities).

• Fixed an issue where water balloon buttons were not appearing on user comments.

• Fixed bad styling on mobile devices for the Tackle Log.

August reels in the first-ever season on Out of Games!

For those of you who were around "back in the day", you'll remember Oozefest and Snowpocalypse, two on-site events that we'd run on a yearly basis around Halloween and Christmas. Reelfest is a new imagining of the events system which we are now calling Seasons.

You can access information about Reelfest directly on the Reelfest page.

Seasons

Seasons are a monthly occurrence which brings something new and fun to Out of Games. The current plan is to bring Reelfest back next August but with additional content so that we can build on these themes every single year to make them truly amazing events. Based on your feedback though, we could always change our thoughts on this.

Season Pass

There is a free season pass available to everyone. Progression takes place by earning seasonal experience in our daily and seasonal challenges.

Inventory (NEW!)

Now that we have a concept of items on Out of Games, we also have an inventory system! Upon finding items in your travels on the site, they will be placed into your inventory. You can access your inventory at any time by clicking on your profile in the top of the website. Mobile users, check the navigation hamburger icon.

The inventory can hold 50 items by default. Each time you gain levels on the website you earn additional slots. Additional slots can also be purchased in the shop.

Marketplace (NEW!)

Many items can be exchanged with other users of the website via the Marketplace. Prices are decided by the community, so trade for what you feel is right. If you want to get back to the marketplace, you can find it on the primary navigation.

What is reelfest?

Reelfest is our first seasonal event. It takes place during August as is themed around fishing. We're all taking place in this on-site RPG and this month fishing is the key.

• Every 15 minutes you can cast your lure to try and catch a fish.

• Different areas of the site have different pools of fish.

  • Work as a community to pool together your findings.

  • Staff members other than myself have no idea about the internal mechanics of this, so they can also have fun with the community figuring out how things work.

• If your inventory is full when you catch a fish, it is automatically sold at the docks for vendor price.

Fishing?

Hell yeah! There are 30 different fish you can catch by casting your lure. Do note that where you are on the website matters as some fish only live in certain types of waters.

There is a location on the site called Headline Harbor. I wonder what pages those could be under...

It should be noted that any fish you catch and keep will stay in your inventory forever. They do stack up to 99, so Reelfest won't be capping out anyone's inventories. There may be use for fish in other events during the year if you hold onto them. There will also be fishing present in other events, it just won't be a main focus.

Tackle Log

Everyone that's been catching fish can see a log of all your catches in the Tackle Log. We also keep track of the highest size you catch for each fish... how large of fish are you catching?

Sand Dollars

Our new currency for Reelfest is Sand Dollars.

On September 2, all Sand Dollars will be convert to gold at a rate of 5 Sand Dollars to 1 Gold. So be sure to spend your currency during the month of August because you can't take it with you.

Snowflakes, our currency from Snowpocalypse will be staying around each year though. That was our promise years ago and we're keeping it at least for this year's run of it in December and January. There may be some other uses for them...

Water Balloons

Another throwable currency? You bet! Water Balloons can be thrown at members during the event so go and get each other soaking wet.

Note that as of launch our buttons for throwing balloons is only up on profile pages. This will be fixed by the afternoon, comments are supposed to have the buttons appear as well.

New Shop Items

You can head on over to the shop to buy Water Balloons and more inventory slots under the Reelfest category. We also have a few pins available featuring some of our harder to get fish. Spend those Sand Dollars!

New Scavenger Hunt

We have a reelfest-themed scavenger hunt now available. Check out Summer Treasure Dive!

This also marks the moment that we have activated daily activities on Out of Games. Each day a new activity will be published and it considered the daily one. Some of them will be focused on our on-site event so be sure to head on over to activities each day.

That's a word I bet you probably didn't know. I found it while looking for a J adjective, and it describes the beauty of a woman with a figure resembling the Roman goddess Juno.

For this month, not much has changed. But at the end of last month's thread, I mentioned becoming more of a Stardewer by the second. I'm currently on the degenerate strategy of crafting 99 staircases to get to level 100 of Skull Cavern. On the topic of Stardew, I've been seeing some friends of mine playing Sun Haven, which I know is another farming game, although it seems that the game has come under some controversy due to the creator's lack of payment towards the artists.

I haven't played my PS5 in like months. Hopefully I get back to it.

This month is also my birthday month, and it happens to be during the Steam sale too! I love my birthday so much. It and Christmas are almost exactly 6 months apart from each other, so I get a celebration every half year.

I got gifted Meccha Chameleon early, and I'm really excited to finally play it with the friends.

What are you guys up to?

I just played Calia Menethil and she resurrected a 3 cost minion instead of a Jailbird. Granted the Jailbird was played for 0 mana, but shouldn't it still count as 5 cost in the res pool?

Path of Exile 2

• Added Economy Hub with up-to-date pricing data for currency.

  • Unique Items is filling in too its just a lot of data.

• Added a small widget to the realm home to show quick exchange rates and popular items

Path of Exile 1

• Added Economy Hub with up-to-date pricing data for currency.

  • Curse of the Allflame league support is going to trickle in.

  • Unique Items is filling in too its just a lot of data.

• Added a small widget to the realm home to show quick exchange rates and popular items

Affiliate Programs

• We are now a member of the TCG Player affiliate program.

• Pokemon TCG Card and Sealed Product pages now have affiliate links.

Whiteout Survival

• Fixed an issue with the code redeemer

  • Century games changed the way code redemptions work

  • Now, you must go back to our tool to input your state number to continue using it

  • I am working on sending out messages to everyone who uses the tool to let you know

Apps

• Added a new page for our Companion App.

• Updated our page for our Hearthstone Deck Tracker plugin.

• Pages for our apps now automatically update when new versions are available for download.

Game Stats Platform

• We have background processing now of game stats.

• The initial rollout of this is purely on our backend and our Companion App (soon Deck Tracker Plugin) submits game stats to the service.

• This week we will begin exposing stats data to the front end of the website.

  • I don't expect it to be very useful right away due to a low population size.

Whiteout Survival

• Fixed an issue where gift codes were unable to be redeemed.

  • We had a small infrastructure issue that was causing redemptions to crash. Everyone should have the redemptions that were queues up now.

Hearthstone

• Made improvements to how we process collections that are uploaded from clients.

  • Includes adding support for Signature and Diamond versions of cards.

The Out of Games Companion Desktop application has been updated. You can find the latest updates at our dedicated companion page.

Companion is Windows only.

https://outof.games/companion/

Why Companion?

As Out of Games branches out into different games, so does the need to start building up data. For Hearthstone, this would come in the form of tracking games that are played so that we can begin to create insights on the website of what the meta looks like, live.

For Hearthstone, there are other tools that do the same thing; Hearthstone Deck Tracker and Firestone. You can run the Out of Games Companion alongside these tools but have your data also upload to our service to help us create a way to build out a free way to deliver the meta.

Out of Games has always been an ad-supported website. We've had a few paid features, like finding decks with your card collection, or being able to earn more experience, but we've never put content behind a paywall.

It's important we keep it that way.

Out of Games is not a premium-focused website. Our mission is to deliver top quality information about games to the audiences and so as a way of helping us do this and to support the endeavour, you can give us your gameplay data.

Companion supports Hearthstone right now, and not very in-depth yet. There are almost certainly problems. On initial release, our in-game overlay is not recommended for anyone being serious about Hearthstone because it isn't reliable yet. But, that's why we're releasing this as a beta test.

Companion is fast. Why? Because we aren't using clunky chromium-based frameworks. Everything is as native to the operating system as we can make it so it stays lean.

Patch Notes

• Added support for Hearthstone Collection uploading.

• Added support for Hearthstone game data uploading.

• You can optionally share your games played to our public feed (interface on Out of Games coming soon) so everyone can see what is being played. You can also decide to share the data anonymously; no username included.

• Added a basic deck tracker to see during matches.

  • It is not recommended for general use yet.

• Added a dedicated spot to see News from Out of Games on the home screen of the app.

• Added filtered News to the Hearthstone spot.

How you Can Help

• Give us your feedback.

• Tell us how this application can help you be a better gamer.

• What other games could we support to help you?

An update has been released for the Out of Games Hearthstone Deck Tracker Plugin, our first public release of the Stable branch.

You can find the latest version of our plugin for Hearthstone Deck Tracker at the following page https://outof.games/realms/hearthstone/decktracker-plugin/

Patch Notes

• Updated to work with the most recent version of Hearthstone Deck Tracker.

• Now supports uploading more than just Normal and Golden cards to your collection.

• Fixed an issue where uploads weren't working at all.

  • Do note that once uploaded, it takes a moment for the website to process your collection data, and many moments in the case where there are lots of users processing collections.

• Added new functionality for automatic updates of the plugin.

  • When a new version is detected, you can use the Plugins menu on Hearthstone Deck Tracker to select "Out of Games" and then hit the "Update Available" menu item.

  • You have to close Hearthstone Deck Tracker after clicking on update once it confirms that the update has been downloaded.

  • I recommend waiting a minute before reopening Hearthstone Deck Tracker just to make sure that everything updated smoothly.

• Added support for beta versions of the plugin.

  • We aren't opting anyone into this by default, nor can you opt-in right now because we don't have any beta versions. We will use the beta channel to test any larger features that could come to the plugin in the future.

Warning

If you are currently using the Out of Games / Out of Cards version of the Plugin (0.0.6 or 0.0.7) you need to delete the "OutOfCards.dll" and "OutOfCards.dll.config" files from your Hearthstone Deck Tracker Plugin directory before starting Hearthstone Deck Tracker with the new plugin. The new files are named OutofGames.dll and so they will not overwrite the old ones.

Nothing bad should happen if you run them side by side, it just will duplicate uploads and if you're on an old enough version, it's broken anyway.

I also recommend deleting the "Out of Cards" directory located at
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\HearthstoneDeckTracker

The reason? It starts you completely fresh with the new plugin version. If you don't, we migrate your settings over to the new build.

Hey all, smaller update today.

General

Accounts

• Fixed an issue where people logging in with BattleNet and Steam were unable to login to their accounts.

Deckbuilders

• The count of an individual card in a deck can not go above 50 in any situation.

  • Realistically this should be much less, but I'm keeping it loose in case some game ends up with a weird detail.

  • Yes, someone added 2 million of a card to a deck.

• All TCGs supported on the site now have their deckbuilders active.

Card Listings

• Added the "decks i can create" functionality to games other than Hearthstone.

Hearthstone

• Fixed an issue with our keyword pages not loading Fabled+ due to a slug collision with Fabled.

We're over a day in now for Violet Hold. How did you do with your pack openings?

Heyo! A new update has gone live on Out of Games. Here are the changes.

General

Backend

• Improved loading times for the site.

  • We had some downtime earlier today, a good problem to have when you're getting extra traffic, and some optimizations were made to keep things running smoother.

Hearthstone

Cards

• Imported a full set of data to catch a few cards that were missing from our database.

  • They were older cards, but still important that we have them. This shouldn't be an issue going forward since our patches are more intelligently handled.

Decks

• Added Hot, New, Top sorts to our deck listings.

  • A long time ago we had these, they caused some problems, we removed them. Now they're back and very performant!

• Made our URLs friendlier and SEO driven for decks.

  • We previously had custom pages for decks for all the classes, now we do the same thing for archetypes and the sorts.

  • This will be applied to other games on the site too as we roll out more updates to their pages. Hearthstone, as always, is our playground first for new features.

• PRO users can now filter decks by cards in their collections.

  • This feature requires a decent chunk of computing power on the backend, so we aren't able to offer it freely, however, we do show all users how much dust decks cost you to make.

  • In addition to this, you can also search for decks you can make but require a certain amount of dust (like 1600 dust so you can find a deck that you might be missing a legendary for).

Happy Hearthstone Violet Hold release day everyone!

Today we're putting out the second largest site update of the year - the first being our major redesign. There is a ton of stuff that is a part of it and I'm sure folks will find something that doesn't work quite right so be sure to let us know what doesn't feel good in the comments.

Some of the things in these patch notes were released over the prior two weeks, so if you've already seen them, don't worry, you aren't going crazy.

Let's jump right into it.

PRO

• Fixed the incorrect price displaying on the PRO page.

  • Previously this was showing some bad math and it made it look way more expensive than it actually was.

• PRO is the Out of Games premium feature. It removes ads when you browse which gives you a way better experience and it opens up more XP earns for your activity, points for our upcoming website cosmetic shop revamp, and is the best way you can support the site. Our cheapest plan is a year of Out of Games PRO for $15 CAD (which is around $11 USD). We don't have a subscription, it's a pay once and we won't charge you again until you decide to renew.

• Note that anyone who has previously been PRO and no longer has an active membership will be receiving an on-site message and email detailing the cheaper price point and how you can reactivate. We will also send you messages when your plan is about to run out as a reminder. Thank you to everyone who has supported Out of Games / Out of Cards / HearthStation in the past. You're seriously awesome for that and it is with your help that we've been able to come as far as we have. To think how little we had when the site first came online all those years ago... wild stuff!

General

Search

• Realms can now be searched

• Added a new feature which allows you to quickly activate site search with your keyboard. By hitting "Ctrl+K" ("CMD+K" on macOS) on your keyboard, the site search will highlight and give you a box in the center of your screen to start looking for things.

• More searchable things are coming in our next deployment. Stay tuned!

Collection Managers

• We have a brand new feature on the site for collection management. Our original collection management feature was... it existed.

• You can see your collection stats, add and remove cards, see your favourite cards, and even create binders (PRO).

• You can make parts of your collection public so that anyone can see the cards you've collected. If you want to show off your golden card collection for mages, you could make a custom binder for that.

• Note that binders are primarily a PRO feature, but everyone can create a binder to play around with it and share a smaller subset of their cards.

TCG Decks

• A large part of Out of Games has been the ability to share decks with other members of the community and the public. What if you don't want something to be public though? We now support three visibility options for your decks:

  • Public: Everyone on the site can see them, they will appear in listings.

  • Private: No one on the site can see them, you can share them with specific members.

  • Unlisted: Anyone that knows the URL can view your deck, does not appear in listings.

• Do note that staff can always see your decks. Anyone trying to do anything funny will get a swift banhammer (like spamming our database with nonsense).

Member Profiles

• Removed the Decks tab and replaced it with Creations.

  • Different types of guides you create will appear here now for others to find. That includes right now decks for various card games and for staff, our literal guides.

  • We only show a specific type of guide when you have created a guide for that thing already. So if you have no Hearthstone Decks, that won't appear in your profile.

Guides

• Comments no longer span the entire width of the website.

RSS

• RSS feeds are now detectable again in our site markup on news feeds if you use an RSS reader.

Advertisements

• Added a new siderail ad that will display on higher desktop resolutions on non-full width pages.

  • Currently testing the slot for the next 2-4 weeks to see how it improves our monetization.

• Fixed an issue where ads were causing layout shifts at the top of the site as they loaded in which was an awful experience. Yes, ads are still an awful experience. You can join Out of Games PRO for a low yearly cost if you want to support us <3

Deckbuilders

• We have a bunch of new deckbuilders. Looking forward to feedback on them to help change the way we integrate with each specific card game. Most builders right now are quite "generic".

Social Media

• We have resumed posting to our social media accounts when new news articles are written, though we will likely be posting other things too! Follow us on X, Bluesky, and Facebook.

Newsletter

• We are starting up our newsletter again, though we are targeting daily instead of weekly digests. You can opt-in via account management.

• I don't expect this to be immediately daily as we tweak things and test stuff out over the next week or two, but afterwards we're going full steam ahead.

Arcade

• You can now rate games on the arcade.

  • This is a rating for the game as a whole, not just that day's unique game (in the case a game has daily games like our "dle" style games.

Hearthstone

Card Pages

• Added a button to add the card to your collection.

• Added a button to favourite cards.

Decks

• Decks with 0 cards will no longer appear in listings.

Deckbuilder

• You can now press "/" on a keyboard to gain focus of the search box within the deckbuilder interface.

• Azalina Soulsever now correctly restricts deckbuilding to 20 cards.

Collection Manager

• Moved over the old collection manager to our new one.

• Do note that we have some work to do for Signature and Diamond cards still. That part of our card database needs some serious work.

• Originally I wanted this to go live with the previous Hearthstone expansion and most of the work was done for it, but my personal life got flipped upside down for a few months and so it got put on the backburner.

• Do note as well that currently our HSDT plugin is still not working. I'm going to be taking a look at that soon because we should be able to have automatic imports of your cards. There is also a dedicated Out of Games desktop application in the works though as well which will have this functionality (and for other games).

Data Importer

• We now automatically import basic Hearthstone patch data without the involvement of humans. Woo automation! This isn't the full picture, but expect very fast updates now when patches hit and there are data changes.

  • Long-term I'm looking to get more automated aspects out of Hearthstone patches so we can be the fastest to update our data.

• Fixed issues that were preventing data imports from non-client sources (battlenet) during card reveal period.

LEgends of Runeterra

Card Pages

• Added a button to add the card to your collection.

• Added a button to favourite cards.

Deckbuilder

• Rebuilt using our new deckbuilding technology so that you can once again create decks for Legends of Runeterra.. not that anyone asked for it.

  • This was one of those things that was never migrated over to the new site, so I'm glad to have it for the sake of history.

Collection Manager

• Moved over the old collection manager to our new one.

Data Importer

• Modernized our data importer.

Marvel Snap

Card Pages

• Added a button to add the card to your collection.

• Added a button to favourite cards.

Deckbuilder

• Rebuilt using our new deckbuilding tech so you can build decks again!

Collection Manager

• Added a new collection manager feature.

Important Notes

• We still need to do a data import for Marvel Snap. We are very out of date with our card data so please bear with us as we add that to our priority list again.

Magic The Gathering

Deckbuilder

• Added a deckbuilder! We support scryfall search terms to help find cards.

• Added a deck listing!

Data Imports

• Our data imports work again and we will be importing cards on a regular basis once more (daily at the very least).

Palworld TCG

• Palworld TCG releases on July 30, 2026. We are preparing! Join the Palworld TCG Realm.

• Added a starter database for Palworld's TCG.

• Added a deckbuilder. Note that we do not have a full idea of what the cards look like, so deckbuilding is not feature complete yet but you can mess around with decks.

• Added collection management.

Yu-Gi-Oh

Card Pages

• Added a button to add the card to your collection.

• Added a button to favourite cards.

Deckbuilder

• Added a very basic deckbuilder; There is still some custom work to be done.

• Also added deck listing!

Data Imports

• Our data imports work again and we will be importing cards on a regular basis once more (daily at the very least).

Path of Exile 2

• Added a new realm for Path of Exile 2.

  • Previously we were sharing the POE realm for 1 and 2 but decided in this case, they needed to be separate due to our tool and database integrations.

• Added listings for gems, items, and uniques. These are all quite early and based on initial datamining so we're still working on improvements to them.

• Our ultimate goal is to add in build guides for Path of Exile 2 and to support imports from Path of Building 2.

That concludes today's site update! Thanks for reading =)

Hello everyone. We are on the halfway month of the year already. Happy Pride Month everyone. I'm celebrating as we speak with my profile picture.

I've started EA Sports WRC, and after some driver updates, and a bit of luck, surprisingly I can actually run the game. I realize that my strategy of buying the game and hoping my computer can run it is not a great one, but it hasn't failed me yet so far. I definitely need a new computer though. One with more than 8GB of RAM and 475GB of storage space.

I'm representing Out of Games with my team logo.

And thus, I also tried to do something that I don't normally do. I've played around with this in other games before, but for the first time in any meaningful capacity... try to use the livery editor in a game. I don't usually touch on this because most people who know me know that my artistic ability is 0, but I went ahead to try to represent the Out of Games color scheme on the car.

If you're wondering who H. Morisoto and C. Supra are supposed to be, then they're both original characters I've been workshopping my brain for a long time. I actually took a playwriting class a while ago, and wrote a play about two race car drivers and these two are them.