VAASA, Finland, June 15, 2026. Part Time Monkey and publisher Coyote Time Publishing today opened the free demo for Warena, a real-time tactical card battler, as part of Steam Next Fest.
Starting today, demo players can invite a friend to a 1v1 head-to-head match and battle directly. The demo also includes the first four levels of Warena's single-player campaign, where players learn the core tactics solo before taking on a friend. Ranked 1v1 with the competitive ladder arrives in the full release.
Warena is a real-time RTS card battler. Both players deploy troops, cast spells, and push down lanes toward the enemy base at the same time, with no turns and no waiting. Matches are decided by mana management and counter-timing. Hero Skills chosen before each match anchor different playstyles, and Runes unlock new cards and capabilities mid-fight, so the deck a player starts with is not the deck they finish with. Every card is earnable through play.
Warena is created by Tuomas Erikoinen, the artist who designed the original Angry Birds characters at Rovio. After leading art on Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio, and supervising Angry Birds Space, Erikoinen left Rovio in 2012 to found his own studios. His mobile games have passed 50 million downloads. Warena is his return to game design, built for PC.
"I love short, round-based games like Rocket League where you always want to go for one more round. There aren't enough of those on Steam, especially ones that don't demand hardcore commitment. I played a lot of Clash Royale and kept thinking: this would work on PC if you built it right. Warena is that game. The goal is simple. You finish a match, you check the clock, it's 3 AM, and you have no idea where the time went," says Tuomas Erikoinen, founder of Part Time Monkey.
The Warena demo is free to download now on Steam.
About Part Time Monkey
Part Time Monkey is a Finnish indie studio founded by Tuomas Erikoinen, original artist of Angry Birds. The studio develops competitive and experimental games for PC.
About Coyote Time Publishing
Coyote Time Publishing is a Finnish indie game publisher using data-driven market analysis to find and launch commercially viable indie games. Current catalog includes the creature-scanning metroidbrainia EMUUROM and the cyberpunk FPS metroidvania Voltage High Society.
Warena Demo Trailer: https://youtu.be/kmaaFmchAEQ
Media Contact
Interview requests: jussi@coyotetimepublishing.com
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4331100/Warena
Developer website: https://www.parttimemonkey.com
Publisher website: https://coyotetimepublishing.com/
Starting today, demo players can invite a friend to a 1v1 head-to-head match and battle directly. The demo also includes the first four levels of Warena's single-player campaign, where players learn the core tactics solo before taking on a friend. Ranked 1v1 with the competitive ladder arrives in the full release.
Warena is a real-time RTS card battler. Both players deploy troops, cast spells, and push down lanes toward the enemy base at the same time, with no turns and no waiting. Matches are decided by mana management and counter-timing. Hero Skills chosen before each match anchor different playstyles, and Runes unlock new cards and capabilities mid-fight, so the deck a player starts with is not the deck they finish with. Every card is earnable through play.
Warena is created by Tuomas Erikoinen, the artist who designed the original Angry Birds characters at Rovio. After leading art on Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio, and supervising Angry Birds Space, Erikoinen left Rovio in 2012 to found his own studios. His mobile games have passed 50 million downloads. Warena is his return to game design, built for PC.
"I love short, round-based games like Rocket League where you always want to go for one more round. There aren't enough of those on Steam, especially ones that don't demand hardcore commitment. I played a lot of Clash Royale and kept thinking: this would work on PC if you built it right. Warena is that game. The goal is simple. You finish a match, you check the clock, it's 3 AM, and you have no idea where the time went," says Tuomas Erikoinen, founder of Part Time Monkey.
The Warena demo is free to download now on Steam.
About Part Time Monkey
Part Time Monkey is a Finnish indie studio founded by Tuomas Erikoinen, original artist of Angry Birds. The studio develops competitive and experimental games for PC.
About Coyote Time Publishing
Coyote Time Publishing is a Finnish indie game publisher using data-driven market analysis to find and launch commercially viable indie games. Current catalog includes the creature-scanning metroidbrainia EMUUROM and the cyberpunk FPS metroidvania Voltage High Society.
Warena Demo Trailer: https://youtu.be/kmaaFmchAEQ
Media Contact
Interview requests: jussi@coyotetimepublishing.com
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4331100/Warena
Developer website: https://www.parttimemonkey.com
Publisher website: https://coyotetimepublishing.com/