Games like Despot's Game
Erumaru and Despot's Game
Despot's Game by Konfa Games, published by tinyBuild, is a roguelike auto battler from 2022: you lead a crowd of naked humans through a labyrinth, turn them into classes with items, pick mutations and watch them fight. It is funny, fast and mostly single player, with an optional asynchronous mode against other players' squads
What they share
- A squad that fights on its own while you decide what it becomes between fights
- Roguelike structure: rooms, loot, upgrades, a run that ends and starts again
- Classes defined by what a unit holds. In Erumaru callings are fixed per hero, but items and perks still bend what a hero does
Where Erumaru goes its own way
- Erumaru's units are named heroes with their own mechanics, lore and portraits, not interchangeable humans
- Auto chess economy: shop, shared pool, stars from copies, synergies of peoples and callings
- Slower and deeper: 42 floors, 60 to 90 minutes, levels to 100, six items and four perks per hero, relics for the squad
- Strictly PvE. No mode against other players at all
Side by side
| Despot's Game | Erumaru | |
|---|---|---|
| Mode | PvE, optional asynchronous PvP | PvE, single player |
| One session | a run of about 30 to 60 minutes | a roguelite run of 42 floors, 60 to 90 minutes, saved at any node |
| How units grow | items that set a class, mutations | stars from copies, levels up to 100, six items, four perks, Awakening |
| Setting | absurd sci-fi labyrinth | post-apocalyptic world, ten peoples, ten lands |
| Price | paid | closed beta free, full price not announced |
| Status | released on Steam | in development, coming to Steam |
Who should try Erumaru
For Despot's Game players who want the same autobattle roguelike loop with characters they can get attached to and a run worth an evening
Questions people ask
Is Erumaru as funny as Despot's Game?
The tone is different: a post-apocalyptic adventure with dark notes, where survivors fix, paint, haggle and joke but take the trouble of the world seriously