Games like Teamfight Tactics
Erumaru and Teamfight Tactics
Teamfight Tactics is Riot's free-to-play auto battler, released in 2019: eight players share a pool of champions, build items from components and fight each other round after round on a hex board until one is left. Sets rotate every few months and the game runs on PC and mobile. It is the biggest game in the genre and the one most people mean when they say auto chess
What they share
- The core loop: buy from a shop, merge three copies into a stronger unit, place your squad, watch the fight
- Components that combine into items. In Erumaru 10 components give 55 items, and sparks of Eru wake 25 of them into legendaries
- Shop odds that shift with your level: cheap units early, rare ones late
- Synergies that reward committing to a people or a calling, with thresholds at 2, 4 and 6
Where Erumaru goes its own way
- No other players. Erumaru is PvE: you fight the mobs, elites, guardians and bosses of the land, and difficulty comes from the map, not from a lobby
- No clock. You can think as long as you like, save at any node and come back tomorrow
- Heroes keep growing after three stars: levels up to 100 with Strength, Agility and Intelligence, ability ranks, six item slots, four perks and an Awakening at the cap
- A run is a roguelite journey: branching map, events, relics that change the rules, a finale against the Empty Mirror and a Descent after it
- Nothing rotates away. 100 heroes, 100 items, 100 perks and 100 relics unlock through the Lantern and stay
Side by side
| Teamfight Tactics | Erumaru | |
|---|---|---|
| Mode | PvP, eight players | PvE, single player |
| One session | one lobby, about 30 to 40 minutes | a roguelite run of 42 floors, 60 to 90 minutes, saved at any node |
| How units grow | stars from copies, three items | stars from copies, levels up to 100, six items, four perks, Awakening |
| Setting | Runeterra, rotating themed sets | post-apocalyptic world, ten peoples, ten lands |
| Price | free-to-play with cosmetics | closed beta free, full price not announced |
| Status | live, PC and mobile | in development, coming to Steam |
Who should try Erumaru
If you like building a comp in TFT but hate losing it to a lucky opponent at stage 4, or you simply want to play auto chess in the evening without the ranked anxiety, Erumaru is built for that. If what you love in TFT is outsmarting seven real people, it will not replace that
Questions people ask
Is there a single-player Teamfight Tactics?
TFT itself is multiplayer, with practice tools but no campaign. Erumaru is a separate game built around the same core with a single-player roguelite run instead of a lobby
Does Erumaru have sets like TFT?
No. The content is one world with 100 heroes that unlock as the Lantern levels up and never rotate out