Update history

Update news for CLIMAX CONNECT. The game is under continuous development and improvement.

August 18, 2026 (ver 0.2.7)

A major expansion of our written content: the How to Play guide has been rewritten from the ground up, and our strategy guide series has begun.

How to Play guide overhauled

• The How to Play guide is now roughly three times longer. New chapters — Setup and Reading the Board, Energy and Costs, Reading Effect Text, and Game Modes — explain every zone on the board and every effect header (On summon, Optional once per turn, When your Life is broken, and more) one by one.
• Fine rules that used to be discoverable only in-game — the first-turn restriction, attacking on the turn a monster is summoned, how field cards behave — are now written down.

Strategy guide series begins

• We are publishing strategy guides as an ongoing series. The first batch is five articles: Deck Building Basics, The Seven Colors and How to Choose Yours, Energy Management 101, The Complete Guide to Connect, and Mastering Evolution and Fusion.
• Cards quoted in articles appear with their artwork — tap one to see its effect on the spot.

August 13, 2026 (ver 0.2.6)

A new card, Machine Swordian, plus balance changes centred on Machine decks and a clearer way to pick targets.

New card

• Machine Swordian (cost 4, colorless, Machine, ATK 40 / HP 30) — While in your hand, when your life is reduced you may trash 2 colorless cards from your hand to summon it for free, right in the middle of your opponent’s turn. Then choose 2 enemy monsters; they cannot attack this turn. It also draws a card when it attacks. A card for turning a losing board around.

Card adjustments

• Sieg Dragon — Cost 9 → 20. Its cost reduction changed from "Human monsters you control × 3" to "the number of monsters on BOTH fields × 2". It no longer asks for a specific deck, and gets cheaper the fuller the board is.
• Machine Shield — Cost 2 → 1. HP +30 → HP +10, and it now draws you a card when equipped, so equipping it costs you no cards in hand.
• Buster Cannon — Cost 5 → 4. It gained a new effect: when the equipped monster attacks, deal 10 damage to all enemy monsters.
• Machine Repair — Cost 2 → 3. Changed from adding a Machine monster from your graveyard to your hand to summoning it straight onto the field (cost 4 or less). During CLIMAX you summon one more. The summoned monsters can attack the same turn.
• Mother City — Cost 10 → 8. Its effects are unchanged, so it is easier to get down.
• Blood Frenzy — Now can only be played when there are 2 or more purple cards in your graveyard. It can no longer come down out of nowhere on turn one.

Picking targets is much clearer

• Whenever you pick a monster on the field — an evolution base, fusion material, or the target of an effect — you now tap the card on the board directly. Until now you picked from a list on a separate screen, which made it hard to tell which one you were choosing when identical cards sat side by side.
• Only the cards you can choose light up; everything else dims. When you pick several, they are numbered in the order you chose them.
• Effects that pick from your graveyard, deck or hand still use the list as before.

August 13, 2026 (ver 0.2.5)

The deck-out rule has changed, and ranked matchmaking bugs are fixed.

• [Rule change] Running out of cards — If you have to draw with an empty deck, you lose. Previously the player with more life cards won when a deck ran out, which meant you could win even though your own deck was the one that ran dry — a confusing outcome. Cards that draw extra are powerful, but keep an eye on how much deck you have left. The rule is now written in the how to play guide and the in-game help.
• [Fixed] In ranked matches, leaving the screen with "Home" while waiting for an opponent left you in the queue. This is why the waiting-player count looked higher than it really was.
• [Fixed] A match already in progress could be hijacked by another matchmaking result while you were queued. This was why an opponent could suddenly stop responding, leaving you waiting until the turn timer ran out.
• Ranked matchmaking now has a 60-second cap. It looks for a similar rank first, and after 60 seconds it matches you regardless of rank. As long as one other player is waiting, you will never wait longer than 60 seconds. This is a big improvement for high-point players, who had the hardest time finding an opponent.
• An estimated wait time is now shown. It counts down ("about N seconds to go") so you can decide whether to wait or come back later. If nobody else is waiting yet, it tells you that instead.
• While queued for a ranked match, the free match, create room and join room buttons are disabled, so you cannot end up waiting in two places at once.

August 13, 2026 (ver 0.2.4)

You can now view cards from inside the strategy guides. A settings-screen bug has also been fixed.

• Cards now appear with their artwork in the body of a strategy guide. Tap one and its cost, attack, HP and effect text open right there — no more jumping back and forth to the card list while you read.
• Card names and effect text inside a guide automatically follow the language of the guide (Japanese, English or Spanish).
• [Fixed] In the Display section of Settings (⚙), a long label could overlap its switch and make it impossible to tap. Labels now wrap onto several lines, and you can toggle a setting by tapping anywhere on its row.
• Each item in the settings panel now sits in its own bordered box, so it is clear which label belongs to which switch.

August 13, 2026 (ver 0.2.3)

We have opened a strategy guides section.

• Added a strategy guides section. We will publish longer reads over time — how to build decks, how to get the most out of Connect and CLIMAX, and more.
• [Fix] Opening the how-to-play guide or update history and then pressing "Back to the game" left you with an extra tab. Pages on this site now open in the same tab.

August 13, 2026 (ver 0.2.2)

We have added an FAQ page.

• Added an FAQ page answering 19 questions — cost, supported devices, moving to a new device, account recovery, how ranked matches work, and the details of CC Stones and the gacha (in Japanese, English and Spanish).
• The top page now shows an introduction to the game and a summary of the rules while it loads, so you can read it on a slow connection or with JavaScript turned off.
• Added a link to the FAQ in the menu on every page.

August 12, 2026 (ver 0.2.1)

We have set up support for players who lose access to their account.

• If you can no longer sign in — a lost phone, a device change that went wrong — contact us and we can restore your account. Our contact address is at the bottom of every page.
• When you write in, adding roughly when you registered, your record, and the decks you use alongside your player name helps us find the right account faster — other players may share your name.
• The surest route is still to issue a transfer code in advance from your profile screen. Try it before you switch devices.

August 12, 2026 (ver 0.2.0)

Now available in English and Spanish!

• The whole game is now available in Japanese, English and Spanish. Switch from "Language" in Settings (⚙).
• On your first visit the language is chosen automatically from your browser settings.
• All 180 cards — names, effect text, effect tags, races and colors — are fully translated.
• Everything that appears during a match is translated too — the battle log, card selection screens, error messages and the preset deck descriptions.
• Spanish card text now uses HP / ATK for stats, matching what the game screen shows.
• The How to play, Card list and Update history pages now have English and Spanish versions too. Switch any time from the links at the top of the page.
• Switching language keeps you on the screen you are already on. Your connection is not dropped, even mid-match.
• [Fix] Card names in the CC Stone prize catalog were still showing in Japanese.
• The card type at the bottom-left of a card is now shown as an icon. Hover it (long-press on a phone) to see the type name, and there is a full legend under Settings (⚙) → "Effect tag glossary". This also means race tags no longer get cut off on cards with long race names in English and Spanish.
• [Fix] The card detail showed "—" for Race on cards that have two races.
• [Fix] Switching language with a card detail open left that one card in the previous language.
• [Fix] The effect text in the effect ticker could still appear in Japanese.
• Dragon Rookie: the on-summon draw now requires 4 or fewer cards in hand, down from 6.
• [Fix] Munias’s card detail showed its fusion requirement as "undefined type monsters ×2". It correctly reads 2 monsters with cost 3 or higher (the in-game check was always correct).
• [Fix] Electro Gigavolt showed its evolution requirement as Human only. It correctly reads Human & Yellow (the check was always correct).
• [Fix] On some cards, the effect text shown in the card detail and effect ticker did not match the actual effect.
• [Fix] Corrected the Japanese wording in the log when returning cards from the graveyard to your hand or deck.

August 11, 2026 (ver 0.1.3)

Task List rewards have been increased substantially.

• Daily tasks: first win of the day 50 → 100, three games today 30 → 60.
• Win milestones: every tier from 1 to 50 wins raised to 300, and 100 wins to 1500 (200 wins stays at 500 and 500 wins at 1000).
• Title rewards: Bronze through Diamond all raised to 300, Master to 600.
• If you already claimed a reward at the old amount, we delivered the difference automatically. You can see it in the Task List under "Claim history" as "Reward increase difference" (your balance is already updated).

August 11, 2026 (ver 0.1.2)

A new card and a rules clarification.

• [New card] Munias (SR, colorless, Dragon): Fusion of 2 monsters with cost 3 or higher. Ability (optional, once per turn): send 1 fusion material to the graveyard, look at your opponent's entire hand, and put 1 of those cards on the bottom of their deck. Our first fusion monster with no race requirement!
• Munias's Rainbow Rare and Super Parallel (alternate art) were added to the gacha, bringing Super Parallels to four.
• [Ruling change] If an inherited equipment card no longer meets its equip conditions after an evolution or fusion, that equipment is now sent to the graveyard.
• [Fix] Abilities that send a fusion or evolution material to the graveyard (such as Gran Omega) were shown as usable (green glow) even with no material available.
• [Fix] On the small cards in the deck builder and deck list, the Parallel Rare effect covered the artwork and made it hard to see.

August 11, 2026 (ver 0.1.1)

• 🎉 Launch gift! Every player gets 1,500 CC Stones as a first-login present, waiting in the Task List. Claim it from "📋 Task List" on the home screen (once per player). That is ten gacha pulls to get you started!

August 11, 2026 (ver 0.1.0)

Major update! CC Stones, the gacha and the Task List have arrived.

• [New] CC Stones have arrived — an in-game currency you earn by playing (PvP win +30 / loss +10, CPU win +15 / loss +5). Check your balance any time on the home screen.
• [New] The Task List is here! Claim CC Stones from daily bonuses (first win of the day, three games today), win milestones (eight tiers from 1 to 500 wins) and title rewards. Includes progress bars and a claim history, and the home button gets a red badge when something is ready to claim.
• [New] The CC Stone Gacha is open! 150 stones per pull for prizes you can get nowhere else. There are no duplicates, so every pull gives you something new.
• Gacha prize 1: Mirror Rare versions of R cards (alternate art with the same holo finish as SR).
• Gacha prize 2: Rainbow Rare versions of SR cards (alternate art whose sheen turns rainbow).
• Gacha prize 3: Parallel Rare versions of UR cards (with a shimmering animated effect).
• Gacha prize 4: four gacha-exclusive card sleeves (Stellar Prism, Golden Crest, Nocturne Rose, Aurora Wing).
• Gacha prize 5: three gacha-exclusive battlefields (Starfall Arena, Blazing Lava Field, Abyssal Temple).
• The prize catalog page shows every prize's drop rate and whether you own it, all at a glance.
• The gacha has its own stage! Lights come on one by one in the dark and a gacha ball appears in the centre. The ball's color (silver, gold or rainbow) tells you the rarity — and it can be upgraded after you tap it. Rarely, the stage lighting changes color for a guaranteed result.
• The "?" button on the gacha screen explains how it works — prize types, ball colors and what each effect means.
• Reorganised the home screen into three sections: Battle, Cards and CC Stones.
• Deck building improvements: cards you own alternate art for get a "✨art" badge, and you can switch art from the card detail.
• The first Super Parallels (special alternate art) are included: Chain Draw, Rabbit Girl and Machine King Gran Omega.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.78)

Card adjustments and bug fixes.

• [Fix] For "look at the top 3 cards" effects (such as Call of Dracula's Castle), the whole effect used to fizzle and the revealed cards vanished when nothing matched. Now all three are revealed and the rest go to the graveyard (or the bottom of the deck) as written.
• Frozen Wolf Diviser: on-summon effect changed to "destroy 1 card on your opponent's field with cost 5 or less" — it can now target monsters too.
• Dragon Rookie: added "On summon: if you have 6 or fewer cards in hand, draw 2 cards".
• Realm of Mythical Beasts: while in hand, its cost now drops by the number of Mythical Beasts you control. Its bounce effect returns equipment and fusion/evolution materials to the opponent's hand as well.
• Chimera: on defeating an enemy monster in battle, it now draws 2 cards in addition to gaining +10 HP and ATK.
• Roar of the Beast King: now reads "choose up to 3 Mythical Beast monsters with cost 3 or less from your deck and put them onto the field (they cannot attack this turn)".
• Electro Burst: cost changed to 1 and damage to 30.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.77)

Card adjustments and bug fixes.

• Trooper Galeo: changed to ATK 20 / HP 60.
• Navigator Ante: now reads "On summon: add 1 Pirate monster with cost 3 or less, or 1 blue equipment card, from your deck to your hand" — it can now search the whole deck.
• Electro Girl: evolution cost changed to 2. "Always: attack twice" was replaced with "On evolve: gain multi-attack (2×) for this turn only".
• Blood Frenzy: removed the "cannot attack this turn" restriction on the Zombie Soldiers it summons — they can attack right away.
• [Ruling] A monster that cannot attack still counts as a monster that has not attacked, so it can be used for costs such as Grandra's sacrifice.
• [Fix] Dracula's Pact and Cursed Treasure could not select multiple monsters with the same name from the graveyard.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.76)

• Blood Frenzy: monsters summoned by this effect can no longer attack the turn they arrive.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.75)

Substantial card balance pass, strengthening the Pirate, Zombie and Spirit themes.

• Navigator Ante: on summon, look at the top 3 cards of your deck and add 1 Pirate monster or blue equipment card to your hand (the rest go to the bottom).
• Pirate Ship John Weego: dropped the Pirate buff and now reads "Always: your blue equipment cards cost 1 less".
• Gunner Dan: added "On summon: draw 1 card" (the free summon by discarding equipment is unchanged).
• Blue Pirate Sword: ATK bonus reduced from +20 to +10, and gained "On equip: draw 1 card".
• Trooper Galeo: new effect implemented. When your Life is broken (from hand, optional), if you have 6 or more equipment cards between your graveyard and energy zone you can summon it without paying its cost. On summon: draw 3 cards.
• Dracula's Castle: renamed to Call of Dracula's Castle. The revealed cards you do not take now go to the graveyard.
• Zombie Soldier: added "On destroyed: draw 1 card".
• Blood Frenzy: now reads "put 2 Zombie Soldiers onto the field from outside the game".
• Dracula's Pact: now reads "put 2 Zombie monsters with cost 2 or less from your graveyard onto the field (they cannot attack this turn)".
• Electro Girl: evolution cost changed to 3.
• Cursed Treasure: now reads "choose up to 2 Zombie monsters in your graveyard and place them in your energy zone (they produce energy this turn)".
• Great Spirit: cost changed to 12. Its summon cost drops by the number of Spirits in your field and graveyard, and it gained "Always: your Spirit monsters gain +10 HP and ATK". The end-of-turn mass heal is unchanged.
• Spirit Robe: cost changed to 1. It now has "Always: HP +10" and "On equip: draw 1 card".

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.74)

• Added a "𝕏 Share result" button to the result screen so you can post a win, rank points or a new title to X in one tap (#クライマックスコネクト).

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.73)

• Moved the "Rank table" button between the ranked-match description and the rank display so it is easier to find.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.72)

• The Master ranking is here! Players who reach Master can open "👑 Master ranking" on the PvP page to see every Master's position and points. Compete for the top.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.71)

• Streamlined how matches start: for PvP you pick the mode first and the deck second, and you can review your deck list while waiting for a match.
• CPU battles now start by choosing CPU deck → difficulty → your deck, which tidied up the home screen.
• Added a link to our official X account (for the latest news) at the bottom of the home screen.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.70)

• Rank icons are here! Bronze through Master icons now appear on rank displays and titles, and "📖 Rank table" on the PvP page lists every rank and its points.
• Players at Master now see their position within Master. Aim for the top!
• Fixed a bug where a deck with fewer than 40 cards could be assigned to the CPU.
• Fixed the ranked-match theme sometimes not playing during normal ranked play.
• Player names containing offensive words now have the offending part masked with asterisks.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.69)

• Grandra and Gravedigger Ghoul now read "send a monster you control that has not attacked to the graveyard" — monsters that already attacked cannot be sacrificed.
• Added a 🔄 refresh button to the PvP page to update the online count and open rooms immediately.
• Reverted the black border that had appeared on mini cards in the deck list.
• Fixed removed cards sometimes lingering in a deck as blanks. They are now stripped from server-saved decks too.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.68)

• Card changes: removed "Heaven's Blessing" (it is taken out of your decks automatically). Count Dracula is now ATK 40 / HP 60, Hand Reset costs 3, and Dragons and Humans in Harmony costs 1.
• Spirit adjustments: Red and Blue Spirits now only buff HP, while Green and Purple Spirits only buff ATK.
• Fixed being able to act after the PvP turn timer hit zero. The countdown is now corrected against server time, and expired actions are rejected server-side.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.67)

• Fixed "draw then choose" effects such as Electronauts leaving a card-selection screen stuck on screen when used with an empty deck. Effects and selection prompts no longer run once the game is decided.

August 10, 2026 (ver 0.0.66)

• Rematches are no longer available in ranked play — the Rematch button does not appear on the result screen.
• Effects that draw and then return cards to the deck (Mage Suiren, Hand Reset) now draw as many as they can when the deck is short, instead of causing an instant loss by decking out. Normal draw effects are unchanged.
• Card changes: Electronauts now costs 1. Count Dracula's revival from the graveyard is now once per turn including same-named cards.
• All tutorial lessons are now unlocked from the start, so you can begin wherever you like.

August 9, 2026 (ver 0.0.65)

• Changed the room visibility setting from a checkbox to Private/Public buttons (private by default). Harder to mis-tap, and it explains what the current choice does.
• Fixed the PvP page heading being squashed under the "Home" button on phones.

August 9, 2026 (ver 0.0.64)

• The PvP page now has an open-rooms board. Mark a room public when you create it and its number is listed there for anyone to join with one tap.
• It is now easier to find someone to play at any time. Keep a room private and it still works exactly as before, for friends only.

August 9, 2026 (ver 0.0.63)

• The PvP page now shows how many players are online and how many are waiting for a match (refreshed every 10 seconds).

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.62)

• The card shown when you tap for details is about 1.5× larger, making the effect text and type easier to read.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.61)

• Fixed the yellow highlight and 👇 marker in the tutorial being offset from the card you need to use. They now sit exactly on the card, matching the fanned hand.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.60)

• Your user ID in the profile is hidden by default to stop people reading it over your shoulder. Press Show to reveal it; Copy still works while hidden.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.59)

• Added a dedicated battle theme for ranked matches, switching between the normal and CLIMAX versions to build the tension.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.58)

• You can now equip a title! Your current title shows on the home screen, and Change lets you swap in any title you have earned.
• Added a VS screen showing both players' names and titles at the start of any PvP match (ranked, free or room).
• Merged the record display on the home screen into the profile screen.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.57)

• After switching accounts with a transfer code, you can go back via "Return to previous account" on the profile screen.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.56)

• Ranked matches are here! Play for points against opponents near your rank. There are five tiers: Bronze → Silver → Gold → Diamond → Master.
• A win is +100 pt (+300 pt against a higher rank). On a loss, Bronze and Silver lose nothing, Gold −20 pt, Diamond −80 pt and Master −120 pt.
• Reaching each rank grants the title "Season 0 ", visible on your profile.
• Reaching Master unlocks a special reward: Electro Gigabolt Super Parallel, an alternate beach artwork. Set it from the card detail in the deck builder.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.55)

• Changed the PvP turn timer from 90 to 120 seconds.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.54)

• Free Match is here! Press Start matching under Free Match on the PvP page and you will be paired automatically with a waiting player.
• Added a 90-second turn timer to PvP. Running out ends your turn automatically, and three timeouts in a row counts as a surrender. This keeps matches moving — thanks for your cooperation.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.53)

• Data transfer is here! Issue a transfer code from your profile, then enter it on the new device from "Transfer data to a new device" on the title screen to move your account, decks and record.
• The code is valid for 24 hours and can be used once. You can keep playing on the original device after transferring.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.52)

• The profile screen is here! From home you can change your player name, check your user ID, view the record stored on the server and delete your account.
• Decks are now saved to the server against your account and sync automatically when you create or edit them.
• Match results are now recorded to your account on the server — groundwork for ranked matches and titles.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.51)

• Laid the groundwork for accounts. An anonymous account is created automatically on your first visit (no email or sign-up, and nothing changes about how you play). This is the base for data transfer, ranked matches and titles.
• Added how account information is handled to the privacy policy.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.50)

• Fixed the screen sometimes freezing when a match started — a regression introduced by the hand-display change in ver 0.0.49.
• The default "CPU deck" in CPU battles is now the first deck you have saved.
• Tidied up the home layout and moved the Tutorial below the Cards section.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.49)

• Fixed cards at the edge of your hand running off screen on desktop once you held 10 or more. The overlap now tightens automatically so every card stays visible.

August 8, 2026 (ver 0.0.48)

• You can now tap unusable cards in your hand and read their effects from the card detail.
• Card adjustments: Arc Dragon (send exactly 2 energy to the graveyard for cost −4) / Hero Dragon Ray (+10 max HP at end of turn) / Undead King Meiner (ATK 50, evolution cost 3, at the end of turn during CLIMAX put a random Zombie from your graveyard onto the field) / Chimera (cost 3).
• Removed the card "Meteor Fall". It is taken out of your decks automatically.
• Fixed being unable to summon when an on-summon effect had no valid target. It now shows "The effect did not activate!" and the summon goes through.
• You can now tap a card in the deck list to see its details.

August 4, 2026 (ver 0.0.47)

• Removed player icons. The icon picker is gone from the title screen, so you can start playing faster.
• You can now pick the CPU's deck from the same deck-select screen you use for your own.

August 4, 2026 (ver 0.0.46)

• Changed how matches start: pressing the PvP or CPU button opens a deck picker first, and you choose your deck before entering the match.
• We also tidied up the "Active deck" dropdown and the "Auto-build deck" button on the home screen (auto-build is still available from the deck-select screen).

August 4, 2026 (ver 0.0.45)

• Fixed field cards such as Castle of the Demon Duke being wrongly shown as unusable and refusing to be played.

August 4, 2026 (ver 0.0.44)

• Rebuilt the "can I play this right now?" check on a new system that covers every card and every effect condition. Unplayable cards are dimmed.
• Added a new hit effect — a slash and sparks — on monsters damaged by attacks or effects. Also fixed the attack animation playing when HP merely changed from an effect.
• Beefed up the CLIMAX transition with a shockwave and rising embers for a hotter moment.
• Standardised on the binder version. The title screen's "Card list" now opens the binder too.
• Fixed the display glitching when hovering a battlefield in the deck customisation screen.

July 28, 2026 (ver 0.0.43)

• Moved the opponent's face-down hand into the space right of their console and swapped the Life and energy rows.
• Changed the display options in the settings panel to slide switches for readability.

July 28, 2026 (ver 0.0.42)

• Added "🎨 Custom" to the deck builder — set your battlefield, card sleeve (new) and cover card in one place.
• Five card sleeves are here! Face-down cards (your Life and your opponent's hand) show your deck's sleeve, and your opponent can see it too.
• Each deck in the deck-select screen now shows its battlefield and cover card, so you can tell them apart at a glance.
• Switching Parallel art now happens in the detail view you get by clicking a card.

July 28, 2026 (ver 0.0.41)

• Fixed the sparkle being misaligned with the artwork on UR and above.

July 28, 2026 (ver 0.0.40)

• The card list became a Card Binder — a leather-bound album with 3×3 pockets across a two-page spread that you flip through to browse every card.
• Holo finishes and SEC effects render exactly as they do in game. Supports search, type and rarity filters, color tabs, sorting, and click to enlarge.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.39)

• Fixed being unable to scroll your hand horizontally on phones.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.38)

• Unified the layout on UR and above so the bottom of the artwork lines up exactly with the bottom of the card.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.37)

• Adjusted Rebellion Strike's artwork so the full figure is visible.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.36)

• Pulled back the framing on Rebellion Strike's artwork.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.35)

• Adjusted the framing on Rebellion Strike and Connect Bird so the face sits in the centre.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.34)

• Rebellion Strike's artwork is finished — an awakened knight cloaked in a rainbow aura.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.33)

• Fixed horizontal scrolling breaking on phones as your hand grew.
• Removed the "(cost n)" label from the spell Play button.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.32)

• Added two cards — Connect Bird (SR, blue/colorless: spend Connect −1 to draw 2) and Rebellion Strike (UR, colorless, cost 0: during CLIMAX, spend Connect −4 to send one enemy monster to the graveyard).

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.31)

• Shrank the action buttons and removed the extra "(cost n)" labels for a cleaner look.
• Tightened the glow in your hand — cards that do not meet their Connect, CLIMAX-only or graveyard-count conditions no longer light up.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.30)

• Applied the cyber design to the phone battle screen and shrank the UI to about 80% so your hand can be shown larger.
• Evolution and fusion material selection now uses the same picker as card effects.
• Added "Card details" to the action buttons so you can read the selected card's effect at any time.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.29)

• Nudged the energy numbers so the total no longer spills outside the dial.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.28)

• Switched the energy readout to a clearer diagonal fraction — remaining energy large, total at the lower right, in white inside the circular gauge.

July 27, 2026 (ver 0.0.27)

• Gave the battle screen a cyber look — regenerated the circular gauge as a near-future HUD, changed the frames to neon circuitry and switched the numerals to a tech font.
• Made the Life number easier to read, softened the arc of your hand, and went back to horizontal scrolling on phones.

July 26, 2026 (ver 0.0.26)

• Redesigned the circular gauge as a medallion matching the gold frame. At Connect MAX (level 5) it erupts into flames.
• Fixed action buttons being unclickable under your hand, and moved the opponent's Connect orbs to match your side.

July 26, 2026 (ver 0.0.25)

• Retuned the desktop battle screen — the console is back in place and the circular gauge now juts downward (upward for the opponent). Fixed the Connect orb orientation too.
• Life is now a decorative number with a heart, and your opponent's hand shows as a row of face-down cards on desktop. Frames use a CSS gold border.
• Removed the ℹ button from your hand, since hovering or touching already enlarges the card.

July 26, 2026 (ver 0.0.24)

• Adjusted the desktop battle screen — fixed the arc of your hand and grouped the action buttons above it on the right. The decorative console frame is back, with a larger circular gauge breaking out of it.

July 26, 2026 (ver 0.0.23)

• Retuned the battle layout — a more pronounced hand arc placed to the right of the console on desktop, and reordered enemy Life/energy plus tucked-away top-right buttons on phones.
• Gave the End Turn button its own yellow-and-brown design and moved it, along with Skip, to the right.

July 26, 2026 (ver 0.0.22)

• Simplified the battle console into a cleaner panel design.
• Your hand now fans out in an arc. Hover or touch a card to enlarge it.

July 26, 2026 (ver 0.0.21)

• Major battle UI overhaul — Connect orbs now ring a large energy dial, and your energy cards, Life and deck/graveyard sit in a gold-framed console (mirrored for your opponent).
• Grouped the action buttons into a bottom bar and turned Skip Set into a round button.
• Surrender moved into the settings (⚙) panel.

July 23, 2026 (ver 0.0.20)

• Added an introduction to the top page — features, recent updates and links to the other pages.
• Added contact details to every page.
• Fixed unknown URLs to correctly show the 404 page.

July 23, 2026 (ver 0.0.19)

• New game logo, with monsters drawn inside the letters. The app icon and favicon were updated too.

July 21, 2026 (ver 0.0.18)

• Added "Clear cache and reload" to settings, for when images or videos look out of date. Your save data is not affected.
• Fix: Hero Dragon's on-summon mass destruction was asking you to choose a target.
• Fix: boost and cost-reduction effects that count colors were ignoring the second color of dual-color cards.
• Card change: Legendary Sniper Jimobei's ATK reduced from 100 to 40.

July 20, 2026 (ver 0.0.17)

• Greatly strengthened the hard CPU — it now simulates the board each move to pick the best play. It no longer misses winning lines and chooses effect targets far better.

July 20, 2026 (ver 0.0.16)

• Effect descriptions in the card list and card detail are now generated from the same source as the card itself, eliminating wording mismatches.
• Adjusted Legendary Sniper Jimobei's artwork so the face reads clearly.

July 20, 2026 (ver 0.0.15)

• Added the new Sniper race with four red/blue cards — Legendary Sniper Jimobei (SR), Crack Sniper Urugaima, Defence Force Pengishigao and Apprentice Sniper.
• Card changes: Night Bat (cost 1) / Kobold Lookout (effect changed) / Hero Statue / Dracula's Pact (cost 1) / Connect Dragon / Hero Dragon (destroys all monsters with 30 HP or less) / Twin-Fang Beast Garm (cost 5) and more.
• Standardised card text on the " type" wording and tidied up the phrasing on several cards.

July 18, 2026 (ver 0.0.14)

• Reverted the effect layer of URP and SEC cards to its original order (behind the monster).

July 18, 2026 (ver 0.0.13)

• Retuned Lucifer's entrance movie.
• Moved the effect layer of URP and SEC cards in front of the monster (experimental).

July 18, 2026 (ver 0.0.12)

• Remade Lucifer's entrance movie and centred it so the whole video is visible.

July 18, 2026 (ver 0.0.11)

• On-summon effects and the CPU's actions now pause during a UR-or-above entrance animation and play back in order once it ends.
• Fixed the SEC entrance animation going black partway through.

July 17, 2026 (ver 0.0.10)

• Extended the SEC entrance animation to about 6.5 seconds.

July 17, 2026 (ver 0.0.9)

• Removed the dark band at the top of UR and above so the full artwork is visible.

July 17, 2026 (ver 0.0.8)

• Fixed a border showing behind the card name on UR and above.

July 17, 2026 (ver 0.0.7)

• The SEC card "Lucifer" now has its final artwork — a six-winged angel descends.
• Added the first SEC-only entrance animation — a special movie plays when Lucifer is summoned.

July 17, 2026 (ver 0.0.6)

• Reorganised card rarities — R (old R and SR) / SR (old UR) / UR (old SEC) / URP (Parallel UR).
• The top rarity, SEC, has arrived — special cards with a full-card effect video and their own entrance animation.
• Added the first SEC card, "Lucifer" — a cost-12 god with 100 HP / 100 ATK. Its cost drops with your Connect Level, and during CLIMAX it can double the damage one enemy takes.

July 15, 2026 (ver 0.0.5)

• When your hand grows from a draw, it now scrolls to the right automatically so you can see the new card (toggleable in settings).

July 13, 2026 (ver 0.0.4)

• New battlefield art — added five fields themed on SEC monsters (Hero Dragon Ray, Undead King Meiner, Electro Gigabolt, Machine King Gran Omega and Dreamy Alice).
• Set it from the field picker in the deck builder.

July 13, 2026 (ver 0.0.3)

• Made the mini cards in the battle screen larger on desktop and smaller on phones.
• On phones, you can now scroll horizontally to select every card once four or more are on the field.

July 13, 2026 (ver 0.0.2)

• Overhauled the card list — search by name and effect, filter by color, type, rarity and cost, and click an image to enlarge it.
• Added per-color pages to the card list (red, blue, green, purple, colorless, yellow, pink).
• Added a news panel to the home screen.
• Redesigned the battle field — the artwork you choose now appears in each player's own field zone.
• Moved the version label below the title logo.

July 13, 2026 (ver 0.0.1)

• Split the title screen and the home screen apart to clean up the navigation flow.
• Added a PvP hub page — ranked match, random match (coming soon) and create a room.
• Added a version number to the title screen (managed as ver 0.0.x until release).

July 12, 2026

• Added Parallel cards, a collectable alternate-art feature. Pick an art in the deck builder and your opponent sees it too.
• Adjusted the default volumes (music 15%, sound effects 20%).
• Published the card list, how-to-play guide and update history pages.

July 11, 2026

• Added a portrait layout for phones — phone play is now standardised on portrait orientation.
• Implemented Connect, our signature system — build up orbs (Connect Level 0–5) to unleash powerful effects.
• Added new Connect cards: Connect Charge, Connect Fairy, Connect Burst and Connect Dragon.
• Added a tenth tutorial lesson on Connect.
• Card changes: Hero Alma (evolves at Connect 4), Hero's Sword, Great Mission, Pirate Ship John Weego (now a field card) and more.
• New artwork for several cards: Electro Gigabolt, Machine King Gran Omega, Hero Dragon Ray and Dreamy Alice.
• Tidied up the effect tags (condition tags first, gain/loss tags last) and introduced the Connect notation.

July 10, 2026

• Renamed the game to CLIMAX CONNECT and added a new logo.
• Added a fullscreen cut-in when summoning a top-rarity SEC card.
• Added a ticker on the right of the screen that shows each effect as it triggers (toggleable in settings).
• Reworked the battle layout with a circular player gauge, a large Life readout and an energy dial.
• Introduced frame colors on the board: steel for equipped, rainbow for evolved and purple-gold for fused.

Early July 2026

• Overhauled the tutorial — hands-on lessons on a real board covering everything from basic controls to fusion and CLIMAX.
• Added drag-and-drop for summoning and attacking.
• Added rematches and automatic reconnection after a disconnect.
• Share and import decks with deck codes.
• PWA support (add it to your home screen to play fullscreen)
• The card detail screen now breaks down where each stat modifier comes from.

Contact: climaxconnectinfo@gmail.com