Art Empires 0.33.0: A weekly challenge in the Arena

Sep 26, 2026

Art Empires 0.33.0 is live. The Arena has a new twenty-level challenge every week that pays resources, gold and platinum, starting early with Opening Night.

  • The weekly challenge: twenty Arena fights, each harder than the last, paying wood, other resources, gold and a little platinum the first time you win each level that week.
  • Your Arena's level sets how many challenge levels you can fight, and its upgrade panel says how many the next level opens.
  • The first challenge, Opening Night, is open now and runs to Monday, October 5. After that a new one opens every Monday at midnight Eastern.
  • Each week's top five on the challenge board win a card, from a random Legendary for first place down, with gold and platinum.
  • Challenge levels you win count toward the PvE leaderboard.
  • The Advisor tells you when a new challenge opens, and you can turn on a notification for it in settings.
  • Twenty-nine new card designs are on the wanted list, after the starter decks and the galleries, with the whole card filled in when you submit art for one. See submitting art.
  • Generate Entire Card with AI keeps any name, flavour or description you have already typed and writes only the empty ones.
  • Every button on the platinum page names what it pays for, and asks you to confirm before it spends. See money.
  • The City Planner stays current when you have the game open in two windows, so one no longer offers Add to plan for a build the other already planned.

Art Empires is my city-building empire game you play in your browser, and every card in it is a deviation submitted by the artist who made it. Play Art Empires at ArtEmpires.com, or read the full changelog.