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2025 · Board game · Card game

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond is a brand-new strategy card game from the popular Shadowverse CCG. With the newly added super-evolution mechanic and Shadowverse Park, among other brand-new content, there is lots to enjoy for both seasoned and brand-new players.

Released
17 June 2025
Platforms
AndroidWindowsiOS
Genres
Board gameCard gameRole-playingStrategy
Developers
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Publishers
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Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Fantasy
Country
Japan
Age ratings
ESRB E10+
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Japanese, Korean
Time to beat
2hmain story254hcompletionist

About

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond is a digital collectible card game developed and published by Cygames. It was released free-to-play for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS on June 17, 2025.

Worlds Beyond is a sequel to Shadowverse. It employs a similar anime art style, along with many cards and characters being reused, usually with different text and art. This game continues the employment of Shadowverse's unique mechanic, evolution, which employs the use of "evolution points" to boost cards and activate extra effects. A new mechanic, featured as the sale point of this game, is the Super Evolution mechanic.

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Gameplay

Worlds Beyond matches are structured between two people, or one person and a bot, where players play and draw cards from their deck. Each player is represented by a "leader" character, and the goal of the game is to bring the enemy leader's defense to 0 points. The game begins with both players drawing 4 cards from their 40-card deck. Decks are created through a deck-creating process, which occurs before the game starts, where players choose one of the seven classes ("-crafts") and creates a deck that incorporates cards from that specific class, as well as cards from the "Neutral" class, if so desired.

In addition to this, the "Take-Two" format, which was released on August 4, 2025, in Worlds Beyond allows for a "draft" style of gameplay, where players "take" a pair of cards 14 times, leading to a 30 card deck when the two starting cards are counted. Player's choose their class, and then begin drafting, leading to more variety in gameplay and increased strategic thinking.

Development

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond was directed by Yuito Kimura. Super Evolution, a mechanic that powers up the player characters, was added to differentiate the game from the predecessor.

Worlds Beyond was announced in December 2023. Pre-registration became available on 13 March, including various in-game rewards. It supports English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language options. The game was launched on 17 June 2025 for Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android.

Reception

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond generated $21.7 million in gross player spending in its first week, over four times the original Shadowverse's performance during the same period.

Worlds Beyond received generally negative reviews from players, with criticism over its microtransactions and monetization.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
AndroidBeta5 February 2025Worldwide · Worldwide 17 June 2025
iOSBeta13 March 2025Worldwide · Worldwide 17 June 2025
Windows17 June 2025Worldwide

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