Auto battler

An auto battler, also known as auto chess, is a subgenre of strategy video games that typically feature chess-like elements where players place characters on a grid-shaped battlefield during a preparation phase, who then fight the opposing team's characters without any further direct input from the player.

Auto battler games typically feature multiple players competing against each other as individuals, similar to a battle royale.

When one team is completely defeated, with none of that player's units being able to continue fighting, the loser takes a penalty to their hit points, and the game moves on to the next phase.

[4] The popularity of the mod, with it having over eight million players by May 2019, led to the creation of the genre that had a number of other games being released.

[8][9] In November 2019, Blizzard Entertainment introduced their own take on the genre, Battlegrounds, in their card game Hearthstone.