Season 17 Goes Live

The Lost Glitches has entered its 17th season, and the update is live now on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The release expands the card pool with 20 new entries, each with the potential to shift the competitive meta. Alongside the card additions, a New Season Tournament kicks off on March 20, giving players an immediate competitive outlet to test fresh archetypes and deck builds the moment the season opens.

The season arrives alongside a new batch of exclusive Mastery rewards. Players who climb the ranked ladder and accumulate Mastery points will have three new cosmetics to pursue: the Fire Dancer Avatar, the Rook Rider Frame, and the Season VS Banner, each tied to the season's visual identity and unavailable outside of it. Once the season closes, these rewards are gone permanently.

Mastery, Rankings, and How the Season Works

The seasonal loop in The Lost Glitches is built around skill-based progression rather than time investment. Players earn Mastery points by winning ranked matches, with the system structured into three branches, each containing four milestones and a final ultimate node at the end. Hitting those milestones unlocks the exclusive cosmetic rewards, credits, and other in-game resources that define each season's unique identity.

The Season Leaderboard tracks the top 50 performers throughout the season, with those rankings immortalized at season end. This creates a meaningful competitive axis beyond casual play. Whether a player is grinding for the Fire Dancer Avatar or pushing for a top-50 finish, every ranked win carries weight inside the season structure.

Dynamic Daily Challenges add a secondary progression layer, offering easy, medium, and hard quest tiers with scaling rewards. Weekly challenge-only cards, obtainable through no other method, give active players an additional reason to log in consistently. Monthly exclusive sleeves follow the same principle: challenge-locked and unavailable in the store.

New Cards and Meta Implications

The 20 new cards entering the pool with Season 17 represent a meaningful expansion for a game that currently houses more than 300 cards across its various factions. The Lost Glitches is built around five distinct syndicates, each with a defined playstyle rooted in the game's cyberpunk tech-optimist universe. Cards interact across faction lines and through archetype-specific skill mechanics, meaning even a small number of new additions can meaningfully shift which decks compete at the top of the ladder.

The ranked format rewards deep knowledge of card interactions, board management across the game's five-slot battlefield, and the ability to adapt builds in response to an evolving meta. With 20 new options entering that equation at once, the first weeks of Season 17 will likely see experimentation across all skill levels as players identify which combinations break through.

Draft Mode and the Competitive Structure

Alongside the ranked ladder, The Lost Glitches operates a Draft Mode that runs every Wednesday and Friday. In Draft, players build their decks on the fly from a selection of cards rather than bringing a pre-constructed list, removing collection depth as a factor and emphasizing raw decision-making and adaptability.

The monthly TRIALS tournament sits above the Draft format as the game's highest-profile open competition. Players of all levels are eligible to enter, with top performers advancing to the Masters tier, where stakes, rewards, and recognition increase significantly. The March 20 New Season Tournament attached to the Season 17 launch sits within this broader competitive framework, giving players a structured event to anchor the opening stretch of the season.

The Lost Glitches: Game Overview

Developed by Honig Studios and published by Mimunga, The Lost Glitches is a free-to-play TCG-RPG hybrid available on both Steam and the Epic Games Store. The game is set in a world called the Deep Sky, a cyberpunk network where players take on the role of a Glitch and align with one of the game's competing syndicates. Each faction has a defined strategic identity: some focus on aggressive creature deployment, others on defensive firewall mechanics, resource denial, or long-game board control.

The team behind the title includes veterans from Blizzard, Riot Games, Nintendo, PlayStation, and Meta, and the game launched into wider availability in April 2025 following a beta phase that attracted more than 240,000 registered users.

On the web3 side, The Lost Glitches integrates the $MEMORY token through the Loberis Protocol, a system designed to sit invisibly beneath the gameplay experience. Players earn Memory Fragments through ranked wins, with fragment accumulation influenced by PvP rank. Those fragments convert into soulbound Shards, which form the basis for a future $MEMORY token airdrop. The token is intended to serve as the ecosystem's primary utility layer, covering NFT card crafting, booster packs, cosmetics, tournament tickets, and the secondary card trading market.

The blockchain infrastructure runs on Xai, an Arbitrum-based Layer-3 network purpose-built for gaming that eliminates gas fees for players. This allows the game to offer onchain card ownership and trade-ability without the friction that has hampered adoption in other web3 TCGs.

The seasonal cadence, now at its 17th iteration since launch, has become the backbone of the game's retention model. Each new season introduces themed cosmetics that tie avatar identity to competitive rank, ensuring that progression feels meaningful and that the ranked environment resets with fresh stakes on a consistent timeline. Season 17 follows that pattern with the Fire Dancer Avatar serving as the season's central cosmetic trophy, available only to players who put in the ranked hours before the season closes.