30 August 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
The Last Ridge — a new pre-finale mission and the Grapnel, an enemy that drags you across the ice.
- New Mission 11, "The Last Ridge": seven turns on a ridge of narrow passes, with every enemy type the campaign has taught you fighting on the same board. The Frostmaw is now Mission 12.
- New enemy, the Grapnel. Its shot barely wounds — instead it hauls whoever it hits one square back along its chain, out of the doorway you were holding and into whatever else is aimed at you.
- The chain is shown before you commit: a brass arrow and a brass square tell you exactly where you will be standing when everything else strikes, and the End Turn damage readout already counts what happens to you there.
- A Grapnel cannot drag what it is already standing next to, so for once the safe move is to close the distance rather than keep your range.
- Halfway through the mission a second rime vent opens on the Beacon's own row, so simply staying out of everyone's way stops being enough.
- Two new coaching cards: one for the chain, and one that finally explains why nothing you do ever moves a Rime Golem.
- Everything you had already unlocked carries over: if you had finished the campaign, Continue drops you into The Last Ridge before the Frostmaw.
25 August 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Deep Winter — a new tenth mission and two new enemies that break the rules you have been playing by.
- New mission: Deep Winter, the last leg before the Frostmaw. Seven turns on the campaign's most open board, with the middle deliberately left bare — you will need the room.
- New enemy: the Hoarfrost Wisp. It has no front and no back. Wherever it settles, all four squares around it freeze at once — the one it aimed at and the three it did not. Never crowd it; kill it at reach, or drop it down a crevasse.
- New enemy: the Rimeskitter. It moves and bites only corner to corner, so the square directly in front of it is the safe one and a body in its lane blocks nothing at all. Wall its corners instead — and note that one shove flips which half of the board it can reach.
- Two new lesson cards teach both of them the first time you meet them, and each enemy has its own sound and its own figure on the ice.
- Everything you had already unlocked carries over: if you had finished the campaign, Continue drops you straight into the new mission before the Frostmaw.
20 August 2026ImprovementClaude Fable 5
The whiteout finally arrived — the storm builds mission by mission from a clear night to a howling wall you fight inside.
- The storm is indexed to the mission: mission one is a clear night, mission ten is a howling wall. In between the fog thickens and gusts, the sun dims, far snow curtains build and the aurora fades behind it.
- The spindrift deliberately thins out around the board itself and the screen veil stays out of the play area, so the storm can be brutal without hiding what you are fighting.
- Impacts kick and roll the camera along the direction of the blow, kills freeze for 80 milliseconds, the struck figure flashes white, and frost scorch marks are left behind.
- The world is alive between fights: breath plumes in the cold, mist over the pits, snow puffs as you glide, aurora shimmering off the rock faces.
- Thin ice now visibly stresses under a standing body before it breaks.
- Only the genuinely hot things glow — the beacon flame, crevasse mouths, golem cores, Rimewright stone and eyes — composited so the overlays stay clean.
- Fixed a repeating pattern in the snow texture and a picking error on taller figures.
- The camera, telegraph timings and every effect duration are unchanged.
15 August 2026ImprovementClaude Fable 5
Whiteout is a 3D game now — the same top-down tactical grid, rebuilt out of real ice, real figures and real light.
- The whole board is now a three-dimensional ice shelf. Crevasses are actual holes with glowing depths, and thin ice is a cracked pane over one of them that drops into the pit when it breaks.
- Every unit is a sculpted figure that turns to face where it moves and strikes — your Ranger, Warden and Scout, all ten enemy kinds, and the Beacon, whose brazier burns bright or gutters depending on how well it is holding up.
- All the telegraphs you already know how to read kept their exact meaning: red threat tiles, green combo tiles, blue safe squares, steel glance squares, dashed intent arrows and the cyan cairn call are all still there, just drawn into the new scene.
- There is a world around the shelf now — a low arctic sun casting real shadows, aurora ribbons, stars, falling snow and a drifted snowfield. The menus float over the board seen from a low angle, and the camera glides into playing position when you deploy.
- Fixed: mouse hover never worked anywhere in the game. Moving the pointer now parks the cursor and the inspector on the square underneath it. Touch keeps its two-tap rule and the pad is unchanged.
- Damage numbers, hit plates, health pips and every panel, legend and touch control stayed exactly where they were.
14 August 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Two new missions, two new enemies and the campaign’s third boss — the Rimewright, who does not hit harder, he just keeps making more of them.
- Two new missions slot in before the Frostmaw finale. The Glass Field is a board about flanking, and The Rimewright is a full boss fight against the thing that has been raising the golems all along.
- The Rimeguard carries a wall of ice-plate and always faces the square it means to strike. Your shove, hook and flare skid straight off that face for nothing — go round it, or shove another enemy into it, because their blows are not shielded.
- The Underfloe swims under the ice and surfaces behind your line, so a wall of bodies does not stop it. It still has to come up somewhere, and the ghost shows you where — stand on that square and it never breaches.
- The Rimewright makes a Cairn Call every second turn, marking a square in cyan where a Rime Golem will rise at the end of the turn. Stand on the square and nothing comes; shove him and the call breaks.
- A Rime Vent cracks open on the Beacon’s own row partway through the boss fight, chipping it every turn until somebody kills it. It is the clock on that mission.
- Three new hand-painted enemy tokens, a plate marker that shows exactly which way a Rimeguard is looking, and three new coaching cards so nothing on the board is a guessing game.
5 August 2026ImprovementClaude Sonnet 5
Two new missions, two new enemies and a second boss now stand between you and the Frostmaw.
- New missions 'Old Ice' and 'The Warlord's Stand' come before the finale.
- Rime Vents never move, but sweep their entire row and column every single turn.
- Rime Golems cannot be shoved, hooked or displaced by anything you have.
- New boss: the Ironclad, a heavy ranged raider whose shots punch through to the tile behind their target.
26 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Whiteout now plays on a phone — thumb-sized controls, a tap-to-look-tap-to-act board, and a board that is finally the right shape.
- Whiteout is now playable on a phone. Turn the handset sideways and every control is sized for a thumb.
- Tapping the board is deliberate: the first tap on a square looks at it and tells you what is standing there, and a second tap on the same square moves or strikes. A slipped finger costs you a look, never a turn.
- A new PAUSE button sits in the top bar on touch, so sound, How to Play, restart and quit are reachable without a keyboard.
- The party cards, Use Ability, Skip, Undo and End Turn are all full-size buttons on touch, and every menu row is too.
- Fixed a long-standing display bug: on wide screens the board was being stretched sideways by up to a third, so square ice tiles drew as rectangles. Everything is correctly proportioned now.
- Mouse, keyboard and gamepad play is unchanged — one click still moves.
25 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 4.8
Attacks now land with real weight, and the game keeps coaching you past the first mission.
- Every attack — yours and the enemy's — now lunges into its target and lands with an impact burst and a screenshake, so tactics finally feel like blows instead of numbers.
- Heavy hits hit harder: a Frostmaw avalanche and a Beacon strike kick the screen more than a wolf's nip, and setting up a friendly-fire combo flashes gold.
- Coaching no longer stops after mission one — the game now teaches you the blocking trade and warns you about the Frostmaw's avalanche the first time each one matters, then leaves you alone.
22 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 4.8
Whiteout's tactics got teeth — coordinated pack AI, blocking that costs you, permanent upgrades between missions, and a boss with a signature attack.
- Enemies now think as a group. Wolves close on the same explorer from different sides, so one step rarely dodges both, and nothing wastes its turn walking at a square a packmate already claimed.
- Every enemy type behaves like itself. Ice Brutes shoulder past a healthy explorer to reach the Beacon but stop to finish a wounded one, Raiders back off to keep their firing lane open, and the tough ones watch their footing near a crevasse.
- Standing in a charging enemy's path no longer stops it for free. It halts where you stopped it and takes a bite out of you instead — the board shows you that price before you commit, so blocking is a real decision.
- Clear a mission and the camp opens a supply cache: take one of three pieces of kit, permanently, for the rest of the expedition. Fifteen options across five caches, from longer shoves and hooks to a burning flare and an anchor that hurts anything you slam into a wall.
- The Frostmaw fights like a monster now. Every second turn it rears back for an AVALANCHE, a three-square-wide slam instead of a single square — never line the party up in front of it.
- The whole campaign was rebalanced around the new tactics: sitting still or running away no longer survives the night.
13 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 4.8
Sharpened the End Turn damage preview so it never over-counts when one strike sets up another.
- The predicted damage you see before ending your turn is now exact even in chain reactions: if a hit will kill an explorer or an enemy, later blows aimed at that same square are no longer counted as if the target were still standing.
- Squares report exactly what actually lands — so a swing you have already dodged shows faintly and costs nothing, and the number you read is the number you take.
13 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 4.8
Whiteout gets a real cinematic intro and a DAWN victory cinematic, plus a more honest threat preview and cleaner overlays.
- A new camera-directed intro cinematic with voice-over flies over the camp — the aurora, the burning Beacon, your three explorers — before revealing the Frostmaw waiting out in the storm.
- Winning the campaign now plays a full DAWN victory cinematic with narration, instead of a plain text card.
- The damage preview no longer over-counts: when two enemies race for the same square, only the one that actually gets there is counted, so End Turn tells you the truth.
- Pause, mission-complete and game-over screens no longer print their controls on top of the gameplay controls — the bottom-left text is readable again.
- The How to Play guide now correctly calls the combo tiles green squares to match the board.
13 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 4.8
Whiteout now teaches itself — every incoming attack is painted on the board, and a voiced expedition leader walks you through your first mission.
- Every square an enemy will strike this turn is now painted red and labelled with the damage it deals — and it updates the instant you act, so shoving a wolf visibly cancels its attack before your eyes.
- When you pick an explorer, safe squares light up blue and dangerous ones stay red, so you can see at a glance where it is safe to stand.
- The End Turn button now tells you exactly what ending your turn will cost you, and turns green when nothing lands.
- The briefing and the top bar now state both ways to lose: the Beacon burning out, and every explorer falling. Losing your whole party ends the run, and the game no longer hides that.
- A voiced expedition leader coaches you through your first mission, and a new How to Play page explains the rules from the menu or the pause screen. Put the cursor on any enemy, explorer or patch of ice to read exactly what it does.
- The whole expedition and every creature in it are now hand-painted, so a wolf finally looks like a wolf against the snow instead of a grey smudge.
8 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 4.8
A true boss finale arrives, plus within-turn Undo and difficulty options.
- New final mission, "The Frostmaw" — a hulking ice-titan boss too heavy to shove into a crevasse, so you survive it by wounding and driving it off the Beacon.
- New Undo button (Z / Left Trigger): take back your moves and actions any time before you end your turn, so a misread is a rethink, not a restart.
- New Difficulty setting in Options — Easy, Normal, or Hard — changing how much punishment the Beacon can take while keeping every board a fair, solvable puzzle.
- The storm now builds toward the boss: the late missions foreshadow the Frostmaw and the victory screen gives it a proper send-off, with a new roar and menacing frost aura.