Hallows Fall is back in Splinterlands, with pumpkins, stickers and spooky skins. The change that may matter most is one line about rewards, and the post barely explains it.
On October 13, 2026, Splinterlands announced that its Halloween event, Hallows Fall, has returned to Praetoria, the game’s world. The event adds haunted skins, Halloween stickers and limited-edition cosmetics across the game’s shops and reward chests. Tucked into the patch notes is a bigger change: starting with the second season of October, the cap on Modern Bracket winnings rises from 2% to 4%. The team says this will affect how its SPS token is handed out at the end of October, but it doesn’t say much more than that.
A Token Rally That’s Losing Steam
Splintershards (SPS), the game’s own crypto token, looks better at first glance than it really is. Over the past 90 days, SPS rose 41.4%, well ahead of the 21.5% gain for other gaming tokens.
The more recent picture is weaker. In the last month, SPS gained 8.9%, while gaming tokens rose 22.7%. Over six months, SPS is down 6.9% while gaming tokens are up 24.8%. In the last 30 days, SPS traded between $0.00369 and $0.004524. In the day to October 14, it slipped 0.7%, a little less than the 1.4% dip for gaming tokens.
This matters because SPS is part of what players earn. A bigger reward is only worth as much as the token behind it.
Lots of Skins, but Few Details on Rewards
Most of the update is cosmetic. New Spooky and Haunted skins are in the Rewards Shop, with one more Halloween skin in the Sparks Shop. Frontier Jackpots hide a pair of limited-print skins. From the second season of October, limited skins also show up in every type of reward chest. Halloween stickers are on sale for a limited time, and 25 new player-made stickers have been added to the Artisan Quarter. The promo image shows a jack-o’-lantern in a dark forest, two cards in Halloween skins, and stickers such as a frightened llama mage.
The fixes are small but real. A bug that stopped faster Ranged attacks from landing before a Volley attack is gone, binders now let players remove single pages, and cards on bracket cooldown can be filtered and offered in trades.
On the surface, this is a normal holiday update. But there’s a catch. The reward cap change is the only part that touches money, and it gets one short line. The post doesn’t explain what the 2% is a share of, or who gains from doubling it. If the cap limits how much of the reward pool one player can take, a higher cap would most likely help the top players more than everyone else.
Another Season, Another Skin Drop
This is a familiar pattern for Splinterlands. At the end of March, the team launched Eggstravaganza, a spring event for the first season of April. It brought themed skins to the shop, plus a ruleset called Eggceleration that gave every unit +1 to all stats each round.
That event at least changed how battles played. Hallows Fall, based on the announcement, does not list any new ruleset. It leans on skins, stickers and chests instead. When seasonal events are mostly new things to buy or chase, it is fair to ask: are they built for players, or for the shop?
The Game Looks Sharp, but Players Are Split
To be fair, the game looks good. Splinterlands uses bright, hand-drawn fantasy card art with framed character portraits, a lot like the card game Hearthstone. The style stays clean and easy to read, and the Halloween art fits right in.
But good looks only go so far. On Google Play, fans call it an addictive card game and praise owning their cards, earning tokens and the mobile app. One long-time player on YouTube said it has stayed fun for years. Other Google Play reviewers report crashes, transaction bugs and losses they can’t explain. Players are also split on cost. Some say the game is better than ever. Others say you now need to spend money to keep up, and miss the old chests.
Our fake-review check found that most of the reviews look genuine. But a group of generic, overly excited 5-star reviews, mostly around the May 2025 app launch, look fake. The YouTube comments look mostly real, with only one clear spam post.
Is the Community as Big as It Looks?
Splinterlands has 59,213 followers on X. The Hallows Fall announcement had about 1,279 views, 28 likes, 7 reposts and 2 replies when we checked. That is roughly one view for every 46 followers.
The replies tell a similar story. The post drew just two. One called the cosmetics “a spooky upgrade for sure.” That is very little fan reaction for a game that claims a community this large.
Other numbers look bigger: 10,000+ Google Play installs, 425,989 total YouTube channel views, and, by one listing, over 122,000 Discord members. But crypto Discord servers often fill up with inactive accounts. A Discord that size next to a post that barely cleared 1,000 views suggests the active audience is much smaller.
The Bottom Line
Hallows Fall brings good-looking Halloween art and a handful of useful fixes. But the update is mostly cosmetics, the one reward change comes with almost no explanation, SPS has lagged other gaming tokens for the past month, and the announcement drew very little real engagement. Until Splinterlands explains who the new reward cap actually helps, players chasing SPS should stay cautious.
