Shadow Realm Community Expansion: closed beta launched! (News)

Following seven months of design, development and tests, the Shadow Realm Community Expansion is moving out of alpha phase and entering a more mature “closed beta” phase! The team grew further and now all areas are covered, from sound to icons to particle (FX) effects. If you can’t wait for the release any more, you can apply to join the closed beta right now!

An Article by Hiliadan

About 100 bugs and issues corrected, 3 alpha test PBEM games with the development team, 1 development journal with about 30 short log entries revealing bits of the expansion, the alpha phase has seen a lot of progress! Most of the content designed for the expansion is now implemented and working. The custom campaign is already on good tracks: the 1st of 3 scenarios is completed and the story for the other two has been broadly drafted.


The Shadow Demons are coming!

Goal of the closed beta:
– finish the last bits that need to be designed or polished
– improve balance
– test the compatibility of the expansion with other mods and adjust things to increase compatibility when possible and easy to achieve

If you’d be interested to test the expansion before anyone else and help us achieve the goals above, please contact Hiliadan, comment this article or post on the forum.
Let’s seize the opportunity of this article to acknowledge the huge contribution of Gladis to the alpha phase (hours of systematic testing!) and thank many times all the other testers: Marcuspers, BBB and Markymark!

A manual of the expansion is available online on a dedicated page on the AoW3 Wikia. The fantastic team behind the expansion is listed, as well as all the content and concepts from the expansion! Speaking about content, the team of volunteers working on the expansion decided to drop the Dark Elves. They remain playable as a separate mod but won’t be integrated in the broader content.


The Mentat is contributing brillantly to the Community Expansion by designing sorely missed icons for new abilities!

The plan is to move to open beta in a few months, and then release the expansion on the Steam workshop a few additional months after.