Season #7 is open! The season will last for two months, from September 1st until November 1st.

It's a parallel world where all players start on equal terms. Everyone has GCL/GPL 1, equal 100 CPU from the start (which does not scale with GCL).

In order to spawn in the Season World and start playing there, you have to get access to this particular season. You can obtain Access Keys at the official store, in-game market or Steam Community Market. Season #7 access costs according to the following schedule:

• 5 Access Keys - August 13
  
• 4 Access Keys - September 1 (season start)
  
• 3 Access Keys - September 15
  
• 2 Access Keys - October 1
  
• 1 Access Key - October 15

Season #7 rules are described below:

This season's rules are almost identical to the Season 1, but with an exciting twist: the world is unequal! Upper areas are teeming with resources, while the lower areas present a more challenging landscape.

New resource items will randomly appear in all rooms, ready for the taking. Gather these precious items and transport them to special structures located in crossroad rooms to boost your season score. But beware! These structures are initially barricaded by massive walls, requiring you to dig your way through to reach them. The players who deliver the most score resource will claim the ultimate season rewards.

Other game changes: every player has constant 100 CPU, the market is not available, terminal structures can send resources only to your own terminals.

API documentation for the season is already available.

Season #6 is open! Spawning opens January 25th at 18:00 UTC. The game will start on February 1 at 18:00 UTC. This season will last for 2 months, till April 1.

It's a parallel world where all players start on equal terms. Everyone has GCL/GPL 1, equal 100 CPU from the start (which does not scale with GCL). The world will last until April 1, 2024. Then the season end and we will distribute valuable rewards among participants.

In order to spawn in the Season World and start playing there, you have to get access to this particular season. You can obtain Access Keys at the official store, in-game market or Steam Community Market. Season #6 access costs according to the following schedule:

• 5 Access Keys - January 19
  
• 4 Access Keys - February 1 (season start)
  
• 3 Access Keys - February 15
  
• 2 Access Keys - March 1
  
• 1 Access Key - March 15

Every season will have different rules. Season #6 rules are described below:

In this season, your starting position - whether closer to the resource-rich top or the more novice-friendly bottom - is an important factor in your overall strategy.

The season begins in a large area of 40 x 100 rooms. Prepare for a world that evolves daily, opening new rooms to the right and progressively closing those on the left. The first half of the season sees a steady pace of change, with one line of rooms opening and another closing each day. In the second half, the pace intensifies, with two lines closing for each new one that opens, heightening the sense of urgency and strategic depth.

Your mission is to claim and develop rooms as swiftly as you can. As the world moves, so must you. The energy you invest in upgrading each room becomes your beacon of triumph. When a room you've claimed closes, it's not a calamity but a celebration, as you're rewarded with score points equivalent to the controller progress it made from zero. Remember, energy spent on maintaining RCL 8 rooms doesn't count – it's all about expansion and progress!

As the season ends, the final territories will be closed and scored, marking the culmination of your strategic journey.

Other game changes: every player has constant 100 CPU, the market is not available, terminal structures can send resources only to your own terminals.

API documentation for the season is already available.

Season #5 is open! Join now and place your spawn in the new seasonal event. The game will start on June 1 at 18:00 UTC. This season will last for 2 months, till August 1.

It's a parallel world where all players start on equal terms. Everyone has GCL/GPL 1, equal 100 CPU from the start (which does not scale with GCL). The world will last until August 1, 2023. Then the season end and we will distribute valuable rewards among participants.

In order to spawn in the Season World and start playing there, you have to get access to this particular season. You can obtain Access Keys at the official store, in-game market or Steam Community Market. Season #2 access costs according to the following schedule:

• 5 Access Keys - May 26
  
• 4 Access Keys - June 1 (season start)
  
• 3 Access Keys - June 15
  
• 2 Access Keys - July 1
  
• 1 Access Key - July 15

Every season will have different rules. Season #5 rules are described below:

A new empty world is created. Every player has 100 CPU.
This season introduces Thorium, a unique and non-renewable mineral that is found in each room with a controller.
Both creeps and decayable structures, such as roads and containers, experience accelerated aging and decay when they come into contact with Thorium. This rate of decay increases logarithmically based on the total Thorium present on the same tile.
After mining Thorium, your mission is to transfer it to a special structure - the Reactor, located in the center of each game sector, and claim it. Each claimed Reactor consumes 1 unit of Thorium per tick, generating score points for the player who claimed the reactor. For every tick the Reactor operates continuously, the points awarded increase logarithmically.
Players with the most score points win the season rewards.

Other game changes: the market is not available, terminal structures can send resources only to your own terminals.

API documentation for the season is already available.

We are happy to announce that we're releasing Screeps: Arena to Early Access! After a long period in the Closed Alpha, the game is available now. If you have preordered an activation key before, you should be able to start playing immediately.

We have many plans for further development, and need your support to continue with this project.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1137320/view/3192497330287513155

Season #4 is open! Join now and place your spawn in the new seasonal event. The game will start on January 15th at 18:00 UTC. This season will last for 6 weeks, till March 1.

It's a parallel world where all players start on equal terms. Everyone has GCL/GPL 1, equal 100 CPU from the start (which does not scale with GCL). The world will last until March 1, 2022. Then the season end and we will distribute valuable rewards among participants.

In order to spawn in the Season World and start playing there, you have to get access to this particular season. You can obtain Access Keys at the official store, in-game market or Steam Community Market. Season #4 access costs according to the following schedule:

• 4 Access Keys - January 15
  
• 3 Access Keys - February 1
  
• 2 Access Key - February 15

Every season will have different rules. Season #4 rules are described below:

A new empty world is created.
Special unarmed caravans randomly appear in crossroad rooms to travel to another crossroad room. Every creep in a caravan initially carries 1 unit of a random commodity and accepts the same commodity.
Players are supposed to produce commodities, intercept those caravans and transfer the produced commodities to the correspondent creep to earn season score points.
Carriers will drop resources they don’t accept to the ground. They also will explode when damaged or blocked.

Other game changes: every player has 100 CPU, the market is not available, terminal structures can send resources only to your own terminals. Also, there will be no portals.

Season #3 is officially over! All rewards have been credited, read the full season chronicle:

https://screeps.com/season/#!/seasons/chronicle

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce that we migrated our official chat platform from Slack to Discord!

This is a quite big change for everyone, both community and us, and we want to explain the reasons behind this.

Discord is community-oriented. After all these years with Slack we have clearly seen that communities are not their priority. Slack is a business app for teams, and it severely lacks many features like persistent chat history or moderation tools. Discord, in contrast, is designed from scratch for communities. They even have the Partner Program for best communities, and we hope to achieve this level with your support.

Screeps franchise now consists of two games. Arena is under active development right now, and this will be the second game in our franchise. However, we still want to have one community of Screeps players that includes both games. A new player should become a part of this community whatever game they play, and interact with players from the other game. And dedicating just one channel for Arena is not very fair, we love this game very much and want to give more living space to it. Discord has many features to create a complex and powerful structure and navigate users to correct places that would allow to cover both games and not split the community into two parts.

Discord has in-game integration features. With the Rich Presence API it is possible to show your in-game status in Discord. It could show what game you are playing and what part of the game is active right now (for example, which arena). It also allows to create interactive features such as share, invite, or observe games. With Arena all these features will be in high demand and seem perfectly logical, and Slack does not support any of it.

Here is the invitation link: https://discord.gg/RjSS5fQuFx

Season #3 is open! Join now and place your spawn in the new seasonal event. The game will start on July 1 at 18:00 UTC. This season will last for 2 months, till September 1.

It's a parallel world where all players start on equal terms. Everyone has GCL/GPL 1, equal 100 CPU from the start (which does not scale with GCL). The world will last until September 1, 2021. Then the season end and we will distribute valuable rewards among participants.

In order to spawn in the Season World and start playing there, you have to get access to this particular season. You can obtain Access Keys at the official store, in-game market or Steam Community Market. Season #3 access costs according to the following schedule:

• 3 Access Keys - June 28
  
• 2 Access Keys - July 15
  
• 1 Access Key - August 1

Every season will have different rules. Season #3 rules are described below:

A new empty world is created (very swampy!).
Every player has 100 CPU.
Power banks do not hit the attacker creep back.
Power spawns can be built starting from RCL5, and their construction costs 10000 energy.
Power processing cost reduced to 10 energy per 1 power.
Spawns count reduced to 1 spawn per room regardless of the room control level.
Energy source capacity is doubled in every room with a single energy source.
Players with the most processed power win the season rewards.

Other game changes: power is enabled by default (and can't be disabled) on all controllers, the market is not available, terminal structures can send resources only to your own terminals.

API documentation for the season is already available.

Screeps: Arena will present a free publicly available playable demo during the entire Steam Next Fest on June 16 - June 22.

On June 19 at 16:00 UTC we are going to conduct an official developers-backed Livestream! Our TOP-1 champion Screeps player Tigga will share his experience with Arena and present some gameplay, and two dev team members will be available in chat to answer any your questions.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1137320/view/3031466372087984067
UPD: Full recording is available on YouTube:

Season #2 is open! Join now and place your spawn in the new seasonal event. The game will start on March 1 at 18:00 UTC. This season will last for 2 months, till May 1.

This is our newest game feature. It's a parallel world where all players start on equal terms. Everyone has GCL/GPL 1, equal 100 CPU from the start (which does not scale with GCL). The world will last until May 1, 2021. Then the season end and we will distribute valuable rewards among participants.

In order to spawn in the Season World and start playing there, you have to get access to this particular season. You can obtain Access Keys at the official store, in-game market or Steam Community Market. Season #2 access costs according to the following schedule:

• 5 Access Keys - February 15
  
• 4 Access Keys - March 1 (season start)
  
• 3 Access Keys - March 15
  
• 2 Access Keys - April 1
  
• 1 Access Key - April 15

Every season will have different rules. Season #2 rules are described below:

A new empty world is created. Every player has 100 CPU. New resource items (symbols) of 22 kinds appear in all rooms randomly from time to time. Collect and bring them to special structures (decoders) with the same symbol placed in all rooms with controllers (one decoder per room) to increase your season score. Note that only decoders placed in owned rooms are active. The more RCL is, the more season score points you get for decoding a symbol. World sectors are isolated from each other by huge constructed walls on the season start, so you have to dig your way to distant players. Players with the most collected resources win the season rewards.

Other game changes: the market is not available, terminal structures can send resources only to your own terminals.

API documentation for the season is already available.