All Army Attack is Devolver's take on the army-based auto-battler
All Army Attack is all about building the biggest and baddest force you can
I've made it no secret since we started Rogue that 9 Kings – the indie darling from publisher Hooded Horse – is one of my favorite early access games right now. It swings in that once-niche genre of "auto-battler" and puts its own spin on it.
Well on Tuesday, Devolver announced All Army Attack, a new game from Blacklight Games and published under the Devolver Digital banner. It's a colorful auto-battler that asks you to spend wisely between battles as you amass a giant army to take on increasingly more dangerous battles.
As a big auto-battler enjoyer, I latched onto it almost instantly when I jumped into the preview build (provided by Devolver).
The basic idea is extremely simple. You play as a hero, which specializes in a certain kind of unit. (Take the buff chicken, for example, which has a lot of animal units and is able to spend some extra gold each round to summon cheap chicken units onto existing tiles). Rounds consist of a shopping/building phase and a battle phase. When you purchase a unit in the shop, you put them down on a little plot in your base. Each unit then has an ability, some of which activate each round, while others activate when you place them. So it becomes all about keeping useful plots that regularly trigger their abilities while upgrading (three of the same plot stacked on top of each other give a free, higher-level unit for you to place) and then disposing of weaker plots. Or that's what it initially seems like, at least.