Auto Chess, The Mother Of All Auto Battler Games

The title above is not exaggerating, Auto Chess is indeed the “mother” of all existing Auto Battler genre games. Among all the auto battler games in the world, Auto Chess is the first to appear.

For those who don't know about the game or even about the Auto Battler genre, the author will be happy to explain it.

Auto Battler and Auto Chess

As the name suggests, this game with the Auto Battler genre makes troops in the game play automatically. The task of the player is to develop a strategy to be able to win against the enemy, both from the placement of the pieces to the items used.

“Then, what's the difference with Idle games like ragnarok idle poring?”

The difference lies in the gameplay. According to some sources, auto battler is a real-time strategy game where you create your own army and fight automatically. Auto battler games usually have a chessboard-shaped arena and consist of several rounds.

In each round, you can recruit troops with the money you earn from each round, whether you win or lose. The aim of the auto battler is to create the strongest army and defeat other players.

Meanwhile, games idle, although you can make a team to fight the enemy, but the enemies you face are AI, not humans. Games idle you can also leave it for some time. that's the difference

With the use of a chessboard as an arena, it's not uncommon for auto battlers to also be referred to as auto chess. Later you will place all the troops you have on it like chess pieces.

Auto Chess, Founders and Gameplay

Coincidentally, in 2019, Drodo Studios along with Dragonest created a game with the same name as the game genre, namely Auto Chess. The publication of this game had become a trend center around the world.

This round-robin game will compete against eight players who will be pitted against each other randomly to fight for first place. Players will exit the game if their HP reaches 0.

Every first three rounds and rounds of five (except round 5), players will fight creeps that will drop items after defeating them.

Each piece (also known as a hero) has unique abilities, from throwing enemy pieces, freezing enemies, stunning them, to reviving dead pieces.

These pieces can be recruited as your troops by buying them using a certain amount of gold.

In addition to strengthening your pieces with a number of items, you can increase the level (star) of each piece by buying them back. Every piece you buy is a 1-star piece.

If you collect three 1-star pieces, they will combine into 2-star pieces and become stronger. Likewise, up to 3 stars.

No less important than strategy and troops is synergy. Each piece represents 2-3 specific synergies. If you can collect a number of synergies, then your pieces will get a profitable buff.

For players Mobile Legends, the explanation above at first glance is very similar to MagicChess. The answer is yes, it is. All auto battler genre games must have similar gameplay.

Auto Chess Facts: Starting From the Dota 2 Arcade Game

A fact that few people know is that Auto Chess was once a part of Dota 2. Before it was Dota Underlords, Auto Chess was the first to appear.

The story is, Drodo Studio released an arcade game (custom mode) in Dota 2 called Dota Auto Chess. The presence of this mod attracts a lot of attention from Dota 2 players.

Speaking of pieces, all the pieces used in this game come from Dota 2. For example, as above, there are Tiny, Sand King, Alchemist, Axe, and many more.

But due to disagreements between Drodo Studio and Valve regarding copyright, Drodo Studio decided to leave Valve and stand alone since March 15 2019.

Not long after, Drodo Studio collaborated with Imba TV, Long Mobile, Dragonest, to Epic Games to rebuild the game under the name Auto Chess and successfully published on April 18, 2019.

Considering that all properties (items, pieces or heroes) used to belong to Valve and Dota 2, Drodo Studio creates new items and pieces but with similar abilities to Dota 2 heroes. The comparison can be seen from the photo above.

You can enjoy this game by Drodo Studio on Android, iOs, PC (Windows), PS 4, PS 5, and Nintendo Switch.

FOMO Auto Battler – MOBA

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) also happens among game developers. Lots of developers want to make similar games with the aim of attracting players with their own style.

Not long after, developers started making similar mods, including Valve himself. It seems that Valve is aware of the feelings of loss and disappointment of the game players, so they make their own game called Dota Underlords.

At that time, playing Auto Chess and Dota Underlords using a smartphone required rather high specifications. This opportunity was used by Tencent by creating a “potato” Smartphone-friendly game called Chess Rush.

After that, other game developers started making auto battler games, such as NetEase (Onmyoji Auto Battler), Nuverse (Arena of Evolution: Red Tides), Riots (Teamfight Tactics), to Moonton (MagicChess).

Those are some things about the Auto Chess game, starting from the auto battler genre, gameplay, and development. If you like the information about Auto Chess, please write your opinion and request in the comments column.

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