Zen World

Released: Jul 27, 2026
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Last updated: 10 Sep 2026, 11:10 GMT

Updates & announcements

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28 Jul 2026Developer post
Zen World 1.0 is now available!
Zen World has officially left Early Access! After years of updates, improvements, and community feedback, Version 1.0 is finally here. Thank you to everyone who helped shape the game along the way. Version 1.0 includes: Act 3 of the Campaign Enemy Kingdoms Two new Daily Challenge
Zen World has officially left Early Access!
After years of updates, improvements, and community feedback, Version 1.0 is finally here. Thank you to everyone who helped shape the game along the way.
Version 1.0 includes:
Act 3 of the Campaign
Enemy Kingdoms
Two new Daily Challenge modifiers
Updated graphics
Whether you've been with us since the beginning or are discovering Zen World for the first time, now is the perfect time to build your kingdom, explore the clouds, and enjoy the full experience.
Oh, and one more thing!
The previous Daily Challenge season has ended. Congratulations to our top 10 players:
🥇 1. crackken
🥈 2. Scattsound
🥉 3. L&Y31
4. king of the moon
5. mkahl10
6. Cadmia
7. elsanches
8. ricecripies
9. kyrkdaniel
10. LouisTherouxStuntDouble
A new season starts today. Good luck, and we'll see you on the leaderboard!
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17 Nov 2025Developer post
Daily Challenge is back with Season 11!
Server problems are resolved, and Daily Challenge is back! And with that, a new season has begun! Congratulations to the Season 10 champions of Daily Challenge. The leaderboard is as follows: 1. small idiot 2. Scattsound 3. L&Y31 4. peath 5. ricecripies 6. Cadmia 7. ChairmanL
14 Oct 2025Developer post
Leaderboards and daily interruptions
You may have noticed that Zen World has been experiencing some web API issues, which caused the leaderboards and daily challenge mode to stop working. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and for the delayed communication on that issue. We're working on resolving these pr
21 Apr 2025Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 10
At last, this season has ended! Congratulations to the Season 9 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: 1. mbutton15 2. small idiot 3. glc 4. Scattsound 5. ArtFlys 6. peath 7. L&Y31 8. Cadmia 9. ChairmanLMAO 10. Tandoo Medals has already been awarded. New
13 Apr 2025Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 10 is coming!
Season 10 of Daily Challenges is coming! Next week, on April 21th, a new season of Daily Challenges will begin once again! All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their achi
05 Aug 2024Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 9
At last, this season has ended! Congratulations to the Season 8 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: 1. mbutton15 2. glc 3. Scattsound 4. peath 5. ArtFlys 6. mkahl10 7. elsanches 8. Cadmia 9. UnicornLord 10. ChairmanLMAO Medals has already been awarded. Ne
29 Jul 2024Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 9 is coming!
Season 9 of Daily Challenges is coming! Next week, on August 4th, a new season of Daily Challenges will begin once again! All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their achie
25 Dec 2023Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 8
At the long last, this season has ended! Congratulations to the Season 7 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: 1. mbutton15 2. Scattsound 3. glc 4. peath 5. UnicornLord 6. elsanches 7. mkahl10 8. SparksV 9. L&Y31 10. ChairmanLMAO Medals has already been
18 Dec 2023Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 8 is coming!
The new Daily season is finally coming! This Christmas, on December 24 a new season of Daily Challenges will begin once again! All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their
06 Feb 2023Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 7
Congratulations to the Season 6 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: 1. mbutton15 2. robiz 3. Scattsound 4. glc 5. L&Y31 6. peath 7. Gorlo 8. UnicornLord 9. Ignisus 10. SparksV Medals has already been awarded. New season starts, all Daily Challenge Cha
30 Jan 2023Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 7 is coming!
The new Daily season is finally coming! Next Monday, on February 6 a new season of Daily Challenges will begin once again! All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their achi
24 Oct 2022Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 6
Congratulations to the Season 5 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: 1. mbutton15 2. robiz 3. rmac1 4. glc 5. Tied 5th place! Scattsound peath 7. Ancaluin 8. UnicornLord 9. Gorlo 10. DKforever24 Medals has already been awarded. New season starts, all Daily
Congratulations to the Season 5 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows:
1. mbutton15
2. robiz
3. rmac1
4. glc
5. Tied 5th place!

Scattsound
peath
7. Ancaluin
8. UnicornLord
9. Gorlo
10. DKforever24
Medals has already been awarded. New season starts, all Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
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16 Oct 2022Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 6 is coming!
A little bit overdue (again!), but it is finally coming! Next Monday, on October 24 a new season of Daily Challenges will begin once again! All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever disp
29 Jul 2022Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 5
Congratulations to the Season 4 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: 1. Enjoy The Game 2. mbutton15 3. Scattsound 4. robiz 5. Thisha 6. Tied 6th place! rmac1 Ancaluin 8. UnicornLord 9. peath 10. Gorlo Medals has already been awarded. New season starts, all
Congratulations to the Season 4 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows:
1. Enjoy The Game [No War]
2. mbutton15
3. Scattsound
4. robiz
5. Thisha
6. Tied 6th place!

rmac1
Ancaluin
8. UnicornLord
9. peath
10. Gorlo
Medals has already been awarded. New season starts, all Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
New season rules
Once again, we'll have new scoring rules for the new season. Now, only your first attempt will grant you full amount of points you've earned, second attempt will only give you 80%, third attempt - 20% less once more, and so on. The amount of attempts is unlimited.
We hope this rule will suit everyone, because on one hand you have only one true chance to earn the highest possible score, but on the other you'll still have chance to earn at least some score even if your game crashes or your ISP fails you.
The season will probably last about 2 months, expect more news on that later.
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06 Jul 2022Developer post
Update 6.5 - More Adventure Mode
Leaderboard A leaderboard is now available for the new Adventure game mode. It shows all time records as well as records set only in the last 7 days. Also, some Adventure mode related bugs were fixed. All changes: Adventure mode leaderboard is now available half tiles from boxes
Leaderboard
A leaderboard is now available for the new Adventure game mode. It shows all time records as well as records set only in the last 7 days.
Also, some Adventure mode related bugs were fixed.
All changes:

Adventure mode leaderboard is now available
half tiles from boxes modifier now works correctly
missing modifier description added
fixed a bug that made activating Zen Mode in other game modes possible
Zen Mode doesn't have a lighthouse button anymore
fixed a case where you could end an Adventure level without marking it as completed
saving an adventure level and continuing it twice doesn't break the game now
modifiers in Adventure mode now save and load correctly
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29 Jun 2022Developer post
Update 6 - Adventure game mode
Adventure game mode A new game mode is introduced to Zen World! In Adventure mode, you complete series of levels with various modifiers, picking you path through them, and keeping your tiles and other placeables between levels. If you fail to achieve the level goal or run out of
28 Jun 2022Developer post
Daily Challenge Season 4
Congratulations to the Season 3 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows: Scattsound belri833 mbutton15 Enjoy The Game UnicornLord rmac1 Ancaluin peath Gorlo glc Medals will be awarded later today along with the newest update. New season starts, all Daily Chall
Congratulations to the Season 3 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows:

Scattsound
belri833
mbutton15
Enjoy The Game [No War]
UnicornLord
rmac1
Ancaluin
peath
Gorlo
glc
Medals will be awarded later today along with the newest update. New season starts, all Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
New season rules
In the new season, we're experimenting with a limited amount of attempts for a Daily Challenge. You will only be able to start 2 attempts per day starting tomorrow.
Also, this season will be shorter than usual - only 4 weeks and will end on Jule 28.
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20 Jun 2022Developer post
Introducing Adventure mode and a new Daily Season!
A new game mode called Adventure will make its debut in about a week! It is a rogue-lite-esque series of levels where one mistake may mean that everything is lost, but on the other hand you can save your best placeable tools until the hardest levels. Testing this week It is not y
06 May 2022Developer post
Update 5 - Optimization and bugfixes
Optimization and bugfixes This is a preparational update before a large patch that will introduce a new game mode for the Zen World. For a long time now a few relatively common bugs have been plaguing the game making matches, it in some cases, unfinishable. In this update we've h
Optimization and bugfixes
This is a preparational update before a large patch that will introduce a new game mode for the Zen World.
For a long time now a few relatively common bugs have been plaguing the game making matches, it in some cases, unfinishable. In this update we've hopefully fixed most of those game-breaking bugs.
Also, game works faster now due to some optimization, most notably in the menu, but it should affect all gameplay on slower machines.
Patchnotes:

a couple of linked memory leaks that made the game unplayable sometimes have been fixed
people walking across the water should be correctly displayed as boats now
the world overview is correctly scaled after continuing a previous game
back button in the menu is positioned correctly now
a slightly better system to detect cheating is implemented
a few optimizations should make the game faster on slow machines
menu animations should not lag so much in slow machines
Space button now moves the camera to the last built town
numbers on the buttons in the inventory are more visible now
New game mode teaser and future of Daily Challenge
Here is a small teaser image for the upcoming big new game mode for you!
We won't tell more for now, but you can probably guess quite a lot from that image alone!
Another issue that was discussed a lot recently is limiting daily challenge to one try per day. We are willing to experiment with that in the same update that introduces the new game mode, so that you can play it instead of Daily Challenge if one try is not enough for you. That probably means that the new game mode will go live at the end of the current Daily season.
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28 Mar 2022Developer post
Update 4 - New Daily Season and Modifiers
New Daily Season The Season 3 of the Daily Champions has just begun! Congratulations to the top 3 players this time around: Scattsound mbutton15 dutpar These players, as well as the top 10 of the current leaderboard got their trophies to be displayed forever, congratulations! All
New Daily Season
The Season 3 of the Daily Champions has just begun!
Congratulations to the top 3 players this time around:

Scattsound
mbutton15
dutpar
These players, as well as the top 10 of the current leaderboard got their trophies to be displayed forever, congratulations!
All Daily Challenge Champions points are reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
We were considering limiting daily challenge to one try a day in the next season but decided against it for the time being. There will be a post in discussions later explaining in more detail why, but basically, most players rarely played more than one or two tries every day anyway.
New and reworked modifiers
Five new Daily Modifiers will be added this season, let us know what you think about them!
Also, some of the old modifiers were reworked, notably, there are now some modifiers that give extra items in the beginning of the match, and some reducing the starting tiles amount.
Following updates
The updates were not as frequent as we'd like them to be lately. We hope to improve this in the future, as there's been some reshuffling of the development plan and a new Adventure mode will probably be introduced in one of the next updates.
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Zen World

Updates & announcements

Zen World 1.0 is now available!

Daily Challenge is back with Season 11!

Leaderboards and daily interruptions

Daily Challenge Season 10

Daily Challenge Season 10 is coming!

Daily Challenge Season 9

Daily Challenge Season 9 is coming!

Daily Challenge Season 8

Daily Challenge Season 8 is coming!

Daily Challenge Season 7

Daily Challenge Season 7 is coming!

Daily Challenge Season 6

Daily Challenge Season 6 is coming!

Daily Challenge Season 5

New season rules

Update 6.5 - More Adventure Mode

Leaderboard

All changes:

Update 6 - Adventure game mode

Adventure game mode

Adventure leaderboard

New Daily format

Daily Challenge Season 4

New season rules

Introducing Adventure mode and a new Daily Season!

Testing this week

New Daily Season

Limited Daily attempts

Update 5 - Optimization and bugfixes

Optimization and bugfixes

Patchnotes:

New game mode teaser and future of Daily Challenge

Update 4 - New Daily Season and Modifiers

New Daily Season

New and reworked modifiers

Following updates