Battlegenics

Battlegenics is a roguelike where you breed creatures made from words and arrange them into squads for real-time auto-battles. Each creature has four parts, and each part is a word; fusing creatures combines their parts and words into new combinations.

Breed your creatures

Defeated monsters become loot. Drag a fallen body onto one of your creatures to fuse them, potentially creating a word combination you have not encountered before. Breeding the same part twice gives it stars, while breeding relatives can reveal a hidden defect that may become the strongest part of your army with the right word.

Arrange word boards

Each creature carries a board of word slots that expands with every generation. Words that fit together light up and hit harder, and a board where every word fits “rings.” You can buy words, level them up and lock one in so its line never loses it. Arrange six creatures so their sentences set one another off.

Fight the hordes

Six creatures face hordes of hundreds in real-time auto-battles. Burns spread, chains jump, shields stack and bosses speak sentences of their own. Before each fight, a crystal ball plays out the battle in advance and tells you your odds.

Play together

Two players can play online co-op over Steam. Each builds their own squad, and both fight the same horde side by side. You can trade words, bodies and gear, or fuse your creature with your partner’s.

Modes and records

• Endless mode: the horde mutates after every boss.
• Today’s seed: everyone plays the same run, with one attempt.
• Ghost squads: fight saved armies of other players from the leaderboard.

The game also includes a dictionary of every word you have found and 46 achievements.