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Doomward: Dungeon Autobattler is a roguelike autobattler where fights play out automatically. You prepare your heroes by hiring them, choosing their specializations, equipping them and setting the rules they follow in battle. Death is permanent, with no revives, so the choices you make before a fight determine how your party handles it.

Build your party

Hire heroes from a roster of classes, choose a specialization for each, and give them abilities borrowed from other classes. Set their combat rules, including which foes to target, when to save a powerful spell and when to drink a potion. Heroes can leave states on enemies for others to exploit: chill a foe, freeze it and shatter it, or coat a group in oil and set it alight.

Hits, kills and fallen heroes charge the Doombreaker, a party ultimate. Which hero answers the charge is decided by fate.

Choose your expedition

Every expedition costs Doom. Choose a route on the world map, where each location has its own weather, traps and foes. Forks offer choices such as a guarded vault, a quest or an uncharted door that offers greater rewards for greater risk. You can also take a contract and wager on how the expedition will go.

While the clock counts down, Harbingers lay siege to your town. Losing a siege ends the run. When the clock runs out, or when you are ready, climb the Monolith to face the Herald, a raid boss fought in phases. Your heroes must respond on their own to its telegraphs, adds and enrages.

Multiplayer modes

Co-op supports 2–4 players, with a shared Doom Clock and map, one guild for each player, shared fights and votes on where to go. Rival runs match parties in 1v1 or 2v2 using the same seed and clock, followed by a final battle between them.

PvP Arena also supports 1v1 and 2v2. Players draft heroes, bid blindly on gear and compete in a best-of-five match.

Challenges and online play

Daily Doom and Weekly Doom give everyone the same seed, with rankings on Steam leaderboards. You can add Edicts to any run to change its rules for a higher score. Online play is available through Steam, LAN or Direct Connect; Steam friends can invite one another or join a game, and players can communicate through in-game text chat.

The game has a dedicated controller interface with button prompts for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro, GameCube and other controllers. It works on Steam Deck, and controller buttons can be remapped. Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves are also supported.