Questions and answers

There is no date yet. Erumaru is in development and the beta opens when the game is ready to be played by strangers. People on the mailing list get the invitation first, that is the whole point of the list

The closed beta is free. The price of the full game on Steam has not been announced

PC with Windows, through Steam. Other platforms have not been announced

There is no release date yet. The Steam page comes first, and when it is up, a Steam button appears on this site. Until then the honest answer is: soon, but no date

Not published yet. Erumaru is a pure 2D game on Godot 4.6, so expect modest requirements, but the exact numbers come with the Steam page

Not yet. Everything on this site is art from the game, not gameplay. The first gameplay will be shown with the beta

Russian and English text. More languages have not been announced

PvE only. Every fight is against the mobs, elites, guardians and bosses of the lands, never against another player. There is no matchmaking, no ladder and no timer forcing you to click faster

A run is three acts of 13 floors plus a three-floor finale on the Spire, 42 floors in 60 to 90 minutes. Between fights you buy and merge heroes, assemble items from components, move perks around, pick relics and choose your path on a branching map. The fight itself runs on its own: up to 10 heroes against up to 10 mobs on an 11 by 11 board

Yes. A run is saved at any node of the map, and you can quit and come back later

There are crits and dodges, but they come from a seed: the same squad against the same enemies with the same seed always plays out the same way, so a fight can be replayed exactly. You can watch a fight at normal speed or skip to the result, it does not change anything

100 heroes, one for every pair of 10 peoples and 10 callings. Three copies of a hero merge into a two-star version and three two-star copies into three stars, as in classic auto chess. On top of that every hero levels up to 100 like in Dota, with Strength, Agility and Intelligence, ability ranks that unlock with levels, six item slots, four perk slots and an Awakening at level 100

The run ends when the Lantern's Heat hits zero: it starts at 5 and each lost fight costs 1, or 2 against elites, guardians and bosses. Rests give it back. A lost run still feeds the meta: the Lantern gains levels and remembers new heroes, items, perks, relics and lands

The Lantern has 50 levels, roughly 60 to 70 runs. After the first victory the Thickening opens: 20 steps of extra difficulty that stack. After the final boss the Descent begins: floors that keep going until your squad breaks, with a record table

The bones are the same: peoples and callings instead of races and classes, a shop with a shared pool, three copies make a star, synergies at 2, 4 and 6 units, a board seen from above. If you played Dota Auto Chess, you know how to start

Those are PvP games against seven other players. Erumaru is PvE: a roguelite run against the land itself, with a branching map, elites, bosses with phases and relics that change the rules. Heroes also grow far beyond stars: levels up to 100, six items, four perks, an Awakening. And nothing you build is thrown away by a lobby that ends

Components that combine into items, shop odds that shift with your level, and the idea that a cheap unit can carry a game with the right items

The branching map with fights, elites, shops, rests and events, relics that bend the rules of the run, and difficulty steps after you win

The closest single-player auto battlers on PC are Tales & Tactics, The Last Flame and Despot's Game. The comparisons on this site are honest about what they do well. Erumaru's own angle is the Dota-style hero growth, the ten peoples with their colours, and a post-apocalyptic world that gets its colour back as you win

A small team under the name Erumaru. The game is built in Godot 4.6 with C#, pure 2D. The battle simulation, the run, the meta progression and the full catalogue of heroes, mobs, items, perks and relics are in the game and are being balanced, the art is being drawn

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