Champions Tactics Winds Down Its Web3 Features

The tactical RPG Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles will progressively move away from blockchain functionality, the development team confirmed in an official announcement posted through the game's Discord. The decision follows upcoming changes to the blockchain infrastructure that supports the title's Web3 features.

The studio framed the change as a managed wind-down rather than a sudden shutdown. The stated goal during the transition period is to keep players able to enjoy the onchain game while giving everyone enough time to manage their assets. The team laid out a clear timeline of the steps ahead and said more details and reminders about each stage will be shared in the coming weeks.

Season Rewards Shift to Web2 Only

The first change arrives in the next few days. The current competitive season will conclude, and its rewards will be distributed with no Web3 components attached. As part of that shift, the season payouts will be rebalanced to reflect the removal of the Web3 rewards, meaning the end-of-season structure is being recalculated for a purely Web2 model.

This sets the tone for the rest of the transition. The card-battler is moving its reward economy off the blockchain entirely, and the season currently running is the first to feel the effect.

Wallet Freeze and Inventory Snapshot Set for May 27

The central date in the timeline is May 27. On that day, the studio will carry out a Wallet Freeze, taking a snapshot of player inventories. The snapshot will be based on each player's last connection to the game, capturing the contents of their wallet at that moment.

Those captured contents will then be replicated in-game. This is the mechanism that lets players keep using their collections after the Web3 layer is gone. According to the announcement, players will be able to continue playing with their champions even after the blockchain closes, and will also retain their VIP status and the perks attached to it. In effect, the assets a player holds at the snapshot become permanent Web2 game items tied to their account.

The same May 27 date marks the permanent closure of the game's Forge and Marketplace. Both systems will shut down for good, and the team is encouraging players to complete any forging or marketplace activity before the cutoff. Once the date passes, players will no longer be able to trade champions, list items, or combine traits through the Forge. Anyone with pending plans to forge a new champion or buy and sell on the secondary market has a limited window to act.

The studio reiterated the advice plainly, telling players to wrap up any forging or trading activity before the deadline. After that point, the collection a player owns is locked in as whatever the snapshot recorded.

What This Means for Players

The transition reshapes how ownership works in the title. Champions Tactics built its Web3 model around collectible figurines, also called Champions, that players could buy, trade, or forge as NFTs. The Forge system let players combine traits from existing Champions to create new characters with unique skills, while the Marketplace handled secondary trading. Both of those pillars are being retired.

What players keep is access. The champions in a player's roster at the time of the snapshot stay playable, and VIP status carries over. What players lose is the onchain layer, the ability to trade those assets outside the game, mint new ones through the Forge, or earn Web3 rewards from seasonal play. The game itself continues as a Web2 tactical RPG, with the existing champion collections intact but no longer linked to a blockchain wallet.

For players who acquired Champions on the open market, the change removes the resale route. The game's marketplace had previously listed some figurines at steep prices, with certain Champions tagged as high as 63,000 to 64,000 USD, though it was never clear that sales actually occurred at those figures. After May 27, that secondary market disappears, and the value of a collection shifts entirely to its in-game use.

Inside Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles

Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is a turn-based tactical RPG developed and published by Ubisoft, the studio behind franchises such as Assassin's Creed and Just Dance. The game launched on PC on October 23, 2024, available through Ubisoft Connect, and it stood as Ubisoft's first original Web3 title.

The game is set in the dark fantasy world of Grimoria, where players assemble squads of three collectible Champions and pit them against opponents in strategic player-versus-player battles. Its visual style and tone have drawn comparisons to Darkest Dungeon. The title launched with a roster of 75,000 unique digital collectible Champions, each carrying distinct traits and abilities. The game is free to download and play, blending free-to-use ethereal Champions with NFT-backed warriors. The ethereal Champions could be deployed in unranked matches and a limited number of ranked battles, while the full competitive experience leaned on owned Champions.

On the technical side, Champions Tactics was built on the Oasys blockchain, specifically using the HOME Verse chain operated by doublejump.tokyo and certified by Oasys. Oasys had been promoted as an energy-efficient network optimized for gaming, and has also attracted projects from Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and SEGA. The game was developed through a collaboration between Ubisoft's Strategic Innovation Lab and Ubisoft Paris.

The title represented Ubisoft's most ambitious blockchain step, though not its first. The company's Web3 experiments date back to 2021 with the Quartz NFT initiative and an earlier integration tied to Ghost Recon Breakpoint, both of which drew criticism. Champions Tactics arrived through a quiet launch in late 2024, at a time when major studios including Mojang, Valve, and SEGA had distanced themselves from NFT technology.

The wind-down places Champions Tactics among the Web3 titles that have stepped back from blockchain features rather than expanding them. For its existing player base, the practical takeaway is the May 27 deadline. The team has told players to complete forging and trading before that date, after which the snapshot preserves their champions, VIP status, and perks inside a future of play experience that will run without a blockchain attached.