Hey everyone,!

From the heart of the Hollow Lands, a new legend begins.

The Journey: From Card Shop to Legend

• Local Tournaments: Weekly casuals, Swiss brackets, and shop events earn you rare cards, Rep Points, and Village Prestige.
  
• Regionals: Explore Wind, Water, and Fire-themed metas with rotating rules and challenges.
  
• Nationals: Duel in floating cities, underwater arenas, and crystalline spires. Face elite NPCs and players.
  
• The Reverie Cup: The dream-bound world championship where the battlefield bends to your will.
  

Real TCG Progression Meets Magical Realism

• Play casuals, climb ranked, and explore formats like Highlander, Draft, Tag Duels, and Budget.
  
• Build dream combos and test them across shops and events.
  
• NPC duelists use competitive, hand-tuned decks.
  
• Relationships evolve, rivalries grow—your legend is yours to write.
  

A Real Card Shop Feel

• Trade cards, talk meta, and spectate duels.
  
• Shops are alive with culture—gossips, rivalries, and spontaneous trades.
  
• NPCs remember you and unlock new events and tag-team duels.
  
• Mid-duel trades, deck lending, and character arcs await.
  

Systems That Support the Fantasy

• Pseudo-Smartphone: Tournament standings, events, and social info at a glance.
  
• Card Binder: Browse, sort, and filter your entire collection from the duel table.
  
• Trade Groups: Arrange meetups and negotiate deals with NPCs.
  
• Achievements: Unlock content by defeating bosses and gaining access to rarer formats or legendary cards.
  

Hello Primateria Community!

Card Changes and Balancing Updates

• Soul Devouring Crab
  The effect now reads "From mana" instead of "On fusion," providing more flexibility on when to use this ability. It also opens up new synergies with cards like Adventurer's Toolkit, so deck builders rejoice!
  
  
• New Rules for Disabled Cards
  At the start of a player's turn, any of their disabled cards will become bound instead. This change is intended to weaken strategies that fully lock down a player by occupying all their zones.
  (Note: Disabled cards will still become enabled/unbound at the end of their owner’s turn, as before.)
  
  
• Enhancements, fixes, and other small changes
  Many bugs were fixed—especially in Daily Deck. Thank you to everyone who reported them!
  

New Artwork: Convoy Bison

Primateria Reburn is Coming!

“A bold new TCG adventure fusing single-player exploration with a vibrant social hub—build your deck, explore shops, collect cosmetics, challenge fearsome AI and real players alike, and leave your mark on the Primateria world!”

Overview

Game Concept

• Explore Shops & Collect More Than Just Packs
  Visit multiple in-game shops to find exclusive card packs, powerful items, and rare cosmetic collectibles.
  Customize your avatar, deck box, and board to truly make your mark.
  
  
• Primateria Battles: Single-Player & PvP
  Single-Player: Tackle advanced AI opponents and experience the evolution of the popular symmetric boss battles. Each encounter is deeper, harder, and full of surprises.
  PvP: Challenge friends or match against other players to test your newest combos and strategies. Climb the ladder or create custom lobbies for friendly skirmishes.
  
  
• Social Hub
  Hang Out & Interact: Join a dynamic social space populated by both players and AI characters. Discuss deck builds, seek advice, or simply relax and share your latest pack pulls.
  Trades & Drafts: Trade cards with others to complete your collection or host thrilling draft events where each choice can lead to your next great synergy.
  Tournaments & Events: Compete in organized tournaments—both casual and high-stakes—and participate in seasonal events that keep the meta fresh and exciting.
  

Early Development Sneak Peek

Final Words

Servers will remain open, and the feedback, Daily Deck entries, and analytics from the original Primateria will help inform and shape Reburn. We can’t wait for you to explore this new social frontier of Primateria and share your thoughts on the evolving TCG experience!

Hello Primateria Community!

Complete Artwork Collection

New Achievement: Tribute

Card Changes and Balancing Updates

• The Zealot: Effect now reads "up to 2" instead of "2", allowing more flexibility in the zone locked format.
  
• Cursed Coin: Resolves with "add this card to your hand" instead of creating a copy to prevent exponential cloning.
  
• Battlemage: Effect is now restricted to once per turn.
  
• Ignis Snail: Only triggers on the opponent’s turn, making it still usable defensively, but preventing free board wipes with other self-damage cards.
  
• Painful Exchange: Draws 2 cards instead of 3.
  
• Pandemonium Lost: Now causes "damage" instead of "discard".
  
• Wide-Head Miner: Disables itself if no draw is possible.
  
• Cataclysm: Effect now reads "up to 3" instead of "3", allowing more flexibility in the zone locked format.
  
• Egg Snatcher: Can now play from both damage and discard piles.
  
• Slime, the Jam: Effect was changed to "On damage (by battle): create as many level 1 tokens as possible. From damage: discard all tokens in your arena, play this card". This simplifies the card without taking away from the token multiplying nature.
  
• All-Mother, Aian: To prevent some unintended OTKs, now requires 5 materia to be played and the effect can no longer be copied.
  
  

  Steam Store Overhaul

  
  
  We’ve refreshed our Steam Store assets with new artwork to better showcase Primateria’s unique style and gameplay. Visit the Primateria Steam Page and check out the updated visuals!
  
  
  
  

  Daily Deck Milestone

  
  
  A big thank you to everyone participating in the Daily Deck challenge! We’re thrilled to see almost 2,000 daily deck and random deck challenges so far! Your continued support and creativity make this feature a cornerstone of the Primateria experience. Our team is having a ton of fun facing your decks every day! Keep them coming!
  
  

  Additional Updates

  
  
  
  
  
  • Multiple bug fixes and minor improvements.
    
  • Minor UI tweaks for a more seamless user experience.
    
  
  
  
  
  

  Final Words

  
  
  As always, we’re incredibly grateful for your feedback and support. Primateria has been out for nearly a year now, and since day one, we've been dedicated to enhancing your experience—releasing patches, hosting events, running giveaways and art contests, and so much more, all made possible by your amazing support.
  
  In our last announcement, we hinted at some exciting news for the future of Primateria. While we’re eager to share these plans, we’re still working hard to finalize the details before making an official announcement. It’s taking a bit longer than expected, and we appreciate your patience as we get everything ready.
  
  In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to Join Our Discord or follow us on Instagram @yfritgames to stay connected and share your thoughts on the latest updates. Feel free to shoot us a message through our contact form on our website www.yfrit.com, or send us an email at contact@yfrit.com. We've also recently completely migrated to Bluesky as a new social media platform, you can follow and contact us there too.
  
  We hope you enjoy these new features and can’t wait to hear what you think!
  
  Thank you,
  Yfrit Team

Hello Primateria Community!

Here’s what’s new:

Daily Deck Feature

Zone Locking

Redesigned Attack Experience

Keyword Tool Tips

Artwork Contest

Steam Community Items

• 6 Trading Cards
  
• 5 Emoticons
  
• Badges for Level 1-5 and the Foil Badge
  
• 3 Profile Backgrounds
  

Additional Updates

• A range of new micro-feedback has been added for actions like trying to attack the deck directly or playing high-level cards without fusing, helping new players understand mechanics better.
  
• Improved AI behavior for a more challenging experience.
  
• New artwork for 3 cards, additional to the 3 from our community artwork contest!
  
• Minor card effect changes to improve synergies and overall game balance.
  
• As always, we’ve fixed multiple bugs and made several performance improvements.
  

Final Notes

Deck Editor

• Players can now create, edit, save, and delete their own custom decks using the cards they have unlocked. These decks can be used to start endless runs and quests.
  
• Difficulty dynamically changes to balance runs using custom decks. Adding more cards to your deck will make the run more challenging.
  

Boss Rush Quests

• We've added a new era with 4 new quests, introducing a boss rush mode where all battles are boss battles.
  
• The new quests feature new super-bosses at the end, providing extra challenge and requiring advanced strategies to defeat.
  

Additional Updates

• 7 new Equipment items have been added.
  
• 7 new achievements to unlock.
  
• 5 new cards have been added.
  
• Abandoning a run now grants experience similarly to losing a run.
  
• Some card arts have been replaced.
  
• Balancing changes include a rework of the "Convoy Bison" card, improved monster parties for initial floors to reduce frustration, and a rebalanced unlock progression to encourage exploration of new cards.
  
• We've also implemented multiple bug fixes, small changes, and optimizations to improve game performance and stability.
  

Quality of Life Improvements

• Card rewards are no longer mandatory when winning battles; they can be skipped.
  
• Divine Sacrifice and Transmutation nodes can now be skipped.
  
• Special unlock conditions for the legendary cards are now available in the gallery.
  
• Information about the current challenge is now displayed on the Battle screen.
  
• Difficulty is now clearly displayed on the quest selection screen and on the ending screen if you choose to keep your deck.
  
• Multiple bug fixes and other minor changes.
  
• The tutorial now explains the attack on deck mechanic.
  

Gameplay Changes

• Battles now give two cards as reward instead of one.
  
• Balanced the Battle in Waves node; it now has a battle phase, and the difficulty was adjusted.
  
• Balanced boss battles: improved AI and adjusted combos accordingly with difficulty.
  
• Balanced run difficulty: you can now only keep your deck for one era instead of all quests; the difficulty of the next quest when keeping deck was also increased.
  

Cards Changes

• Skin Wearer can now only target cards in the backrow. It could easily steal a powerful high level card and deal a lot of damage in a single turn, and the only way to prevent that was by removing it from the arena. Now, it can be countered by moving the high level cards to the front row and only leaving weak cards in the back.
  
• Ethereal Beast was removed from the enemy card pool, and is now a player-only card. If left alive, its effect of attacking mana would always do guaranteed damage to the player, without offering any kind of counter-play apart from removal.
  
• Convoy Bison was also removed from the enemy card pool, but for the opposite reason. Using any removal effect would easily circunvent its defensive effect and trivialize battles, making them way easier than was intended.
  
• Monster Grasshopper and cards with "on play: attack" effects will no longer appear during the 2nd turn onwards on the Battle in Waves node. These cards would instantly activate on summon, which would do guaranteed damage without a chance for counter-play. By restricting them to the 1st turn, when the player arena is still empty, those effects won't be able to trigger.
  

Here's the issues this Playtest tries to address

• Bosses had way more cards than the player and difficulty at beginning of runs was too steep due to small number of cards in deck;
  
• Rewards could not be skipped, making decks too big, especially on late game, and shops were too far in-between;
  
• First quest boss was too difficult for new players;
  
• A "complete run" (doing all quests) was too long of a challenge;
  
• Keeping the same deck throughout all quests made the game too easy for experienced players;
  
• Difficulty of quests and runs was not clear, as it wasn't explicitly displayed;
  
• Battle in Waves node was too punishing for most of the decks, especially due to the lack of a battle phase.
  

How to Join the Playtest:

Here's the issues this Playtest tries to address

• Bosses had way more cards than the player and difficulty at beginning of runs was too steep due to small number of cards in deck;
  
• Rewards could not be skipped, making decks too big, especially on late game, and shops were too far in-between;
  
• First quest boss was too difficult for new players;
  
• A "complete run" (doing all quests) was too long of a challenge;
  
• Keeping the same deck throughout all quests made the game too easy for experienced players;
  
• Difficulty of quests and runs was not clear, as it wasn't explicitly displayed;
  
• Battle in Waves node was too punishing for most of the decks, especially due to the lack of a battle phase.
  

How to Join the Playtest: