Games like Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Erumaru and Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Hearthstone Battlegrounds is Blizzard's auto battler mode inside Hearthstone, free-to-play since 2019: eight players pick a hero with a special power, recruit minions from Bob's tavern, triple them into golden minions and fight each other until one remains. Minion tribes, tavern tiers and a steady stream of new seasons keep it changing
What they share
- Recruit from a shop, triple copies into a stronger unit, lean into a tribe. Erumaru's peoples and callings play the role of tribes
- Shop tiers that unlock as you invest: in Erumaru the Reach level sets both how many heroes fit on the board and which ranks the shop can roll
- Placement matters: who stands in front, who is protected, who dies first
Where Erumaru goes its own way
- No opponents. Erumaru is PvE: a roguelite run against mobs, elites and bosses with phases
- A real board instead of a line of minions: 11 by 11 squares, melee and ranged heroes, movement, abilities with mana, auras and summons
- Heroes grow with levels, items and perks over the whole run, not only by tripling
- Between-run progression: the Lantern remembers new heroes, lands and relics after every run
Side by side
| Hearthstone Battlegrounds | Erumaru | |
|---|---|---|
| Mode | PvP, eight players | PvE, single player |
| One session | one lobby, about 20 to 30 minutes | a roguelite run of 42 floors, 60 to 90 minutes, saved at any node |
| How units grow | triples into golden minions, tavern tiers | stars from copies, levels up to 100, six items, four perks, Awakening |
| Setting | Warcraft characters | post-apocalyptic world, ten peoples, ten lands |
| Price | free-to-play, optional season pass | closed beta free, full price not announced |
| Status | live | in development, coming to Steam |
Who should try Erumaru
For Battlegrounds players who enjoy the build but not the lobby, and for anyone who wants their units to be characters with abilities and gear rather than cards
Questions people ask
Is there a single-player Hearthstone Battlegrounds?
Battlegrounds is a multiplayer mode. Erumaru is a separate PvE game with a similar recruit-and-merge loop and a full roguelite run