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An Episode is additional playable content to the base game. Subsequent episodes have increasing requirements in terms of the combat rating of the player character, and are arranged by tier.

Starting from Earth 3, upon release of an episode, all players with a minimum level (no CR requirement) can access an easier event version of its content, until the release of the next episode. While within, their CR is boosted to the minimum of the episode.

Since House of Legends (Episode), all episode content no longer has a CR cap regarding rewarding Source Marks, and all episodes are made permanently free to play as long as the minimum CR is reached.

While the story of episodes usually expands from the base game, the events that happen in episodes do not affect the base game (which can be considered to be taking place before all episodes). Episodes themselves form a continuity according to their chronological order of release.

Available Episodes[]

 2011 

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Episode 1: Fight for the Light[]

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Episode 2: Lightning Strikes[]

 2012 

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Episode 3: The Battle for Earth[]

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Episode 4: The Last Laugh[]

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Episode 5: Hand of Fate[]

 2013 

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Episode 6: Home Turf[]

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Episode 7: Origin Crisis[]

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Episode 8: Sons of Trigon[]

 2014 

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Episode 9: War of the Light Part I[]

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Episode 10: Amazon Fury Part I[]

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Episode 11: Halls of Power Part I[]

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Episode 12: War of the Light Part II[]

 2015 

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Episode 13: Amazon Fury Part II[]

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Episode 14Halls of Power Part II[]

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Episode 15: Bombshell Paradox & Corrupted Zamaron[]

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Episode 16: Desecrated Cathedral & Oa Under Siege[]

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Episode 17: Flash Museum Burglary & Unholy Matrimony[]

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Episode 18: Blackest Day & The Demon's Pit[]

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Episode 19: The Demon's Plan & Deep Desires[]

 2016 

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Episode 20: Blackest Night & Wastelands Wonderland[]

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Episode 21: The First Piece & Prison Break[]

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Episode 22: Phantom Zone & Science Spire[]

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Episode 23: Brainiac's Bottle Ship & The Will of Darkseid[]

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Episode 24: Darkseid's War Factory & Harley's Heist[]

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Episode 25: Iceberg Lounge & A Rip in Time[]

Episode 26: Wayne Manor Gala & Kandor Central Tower[]

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Episode 27: Amazon Fury Part III[]

 2017 

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Episode 28: Age of Justice[]

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Episode 29: Riddled with Crime[]

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Episode 30: Earth 3[]

 2018 

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Episode 31: Deluge[]

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Death of Superman[]

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Episode 32: Teen Titans: The Judas Contract[]

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Episode 33: Atlantis[]

 2019 

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Episode 34: Justice League Dark[]

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Episode 35: Metal Part I[]

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Episode 36: Metal Part II[]

 2020 

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Episode 37: Birds of Prey[]

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Episode 38: Wonderverse[]

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Episode 39: Long Live the Legion[]

 2021 

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Episode 40: World of Flashpoint[]

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Episode 41: House of Legends[]

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Episode 42: Legion of Doom[]

 2022 

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Episode 43: Dark Knights[]

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Episode 44: The Sins of Black Adam[]

 2023 

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Episode 45: Shock to the System[]

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Episode 46: Justice League Dark Cursed[]

 2024 

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Episode 47: Brainiac Returns[]

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Episode 48: Harley Quinn vs. Apokolips[]


Future[]

Upcoming story content packs are to be rebranded as "Chapters", with Chapter 1, "Day of Reckoning" (first of a 4-part arc, "Light and Rain") launching on 28 January 2025. Chapter 2 is expected to launce in 2nd quarter of 2025, Chapter 3 in 3rd quarter, and Chapter 4 in 1st quarter of 2026.

Notes[]

  • Game Update 151 changed Event difficulty to Story Mode difficulty (level 20+). All episode content that previously had an event version (episodes starting from Earth 3) now has a Story difficulty version. Open world parts of all episodes are now available from level 20+.
  • While The Death of Superman does not count towards the episode number, its feats are located in the "Episode" category, meaning the game does classify it as one.
  • Additional content to the game was originally labeled DLC packs and could contain new powers, upgrades and Legends characters besides new playable content. On March 31st, 2015, Episode playable content was separated from powers, upgrades and Legends characters that were previously included in similarly named DLC packs. DLC packs or episode content were included in an active membership or could be bought as single items in the marketplace, until June 2021 when all episodes became free to play.
  • Halls of Power Part II was the last quarterly episode, until Amazon Fury Part III, starting a new cycle of large episodes.
  • Episodes 15 - 26 were released on a monthly basis containing: one piece of content for large groups (raid, operation or alert) with the other piece of content for small groups (solo challenge or duo).
  • Previously, there were periods called Open Episodes during which most or all episodes were free to play with some limitations. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, episodes went free-to-play. On June 16th, 2021, this became permanent and episodes were removed from the marketplace.
  • Almost all On Duty instances that are pre-episodes or from the first 4 episodes (and still frequently in later episodes) are named directly after the location used in the instance. This has led to the location and the On Duty instances often being confused or referred to interchangeably, even though as the game expanded many instances now have multiple locations and often reuse old locations.

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