Why "Auto-Chess" Games are Taking Over.

I thought this would be anything like chess, or even a game a chess player would like, my bad

There's actually a card game genre called "deck building". These are mainly physical though. The only popular right now AFAIK in a digital form is Slay the Spire but this one is a solo affair. In deck building games, players usually start with the same small deck of around 10 cards. There's a common pool where they can buy different cards from (each turn) to add them to their deck forming an unique deck as the game goes by. That's a different experience every time and it's fun to follow what deck your opponents are making. The Auto Chess genre reminds me a lot of that feeling that I get from playing physical deck builders 🙂

The main problem IMO is that you can't control your units/champions… Card games do have RNG but not at the level TFT has… let's take yugioh for example. There is some sort of RNG in the sense that you not always draw the card you need or your starting hand might not be as good. But the game has a lot of searching cards that help players to get the cards they need for their combos, on top of that you have access to the extra deck, cards that don't need to draw. In addition, you can have a side deck to help you counter specific combos or archetypes during matches. All this helps to reduce the RNG… oh and on top of that, you are in full control of your monsters all the time, you decide when to activate their effects; which monsters to attack or defend; you have access to spells and traps and hand-traps (most of them searchable in many archetypes) that can turn the table in your favor; heck even the graveyard can help you to protect your cards or increase consistency. Whereas in TFT you get a random set of champions; random items; you cannot even see (or at least I haven't figure out how) which opponent are you going against so you can prepare your unit formation, and then you have to hope that your brain-dead units focus the right target or decide to use their abilities. Is sad because I think this game would be massively improved if 1- you could control your units or at least decide when to cast an ability, and 2- if there was a shop where you could buy the items you need…

The only reason TFT gets popular is because people that suck in actual League are trying to get Twitch followers from playing TFT instead.
TFT is meant to fail and there is no hope for it, unless another company, which can create good games, takes over.

Dominion was the best.

you cant compare free downloads to people buying the game

3:00 also not true… u download the game automatically when u go into the custom game

But a meta will form. It always will. Prioritize units that appear as makes sense and hope your opponent doesnt get a more optimal line up.
At the time of this video Im sure the game was exciting but like always this game will be mostly solved. The only up swing is that no player has to depend on 4 team mates to enjoy the game.

TFT is number 3 in my opinion when it comes to auto chess.

Starcraft td did it first 🙂

autochess is so long, boring, and has no wow or fun moments. The only input by a player is a few seconds of selecting one or two things at the start of a round and thats it.. everything else is done for you..this genre will be dead af .
Its like hearthstone arena bu you just sit and watch the cards being played until there is a winner LOL.

Heart stone=Nova patra

It's a deckbuilding game. Kind of surprised it wasn't mentioned

Mods are where experimentation in the very foundation of game genres flourish. Modders do what professional studios view as too risky and unappealing. They're the ones who throw the shit at the wall until something sticks.

And yet modding support is falling by the wayside in gaming these days. Despite ALL the most popular genres of esports being born out of them. It's really unfortunate.

Hearthstone isn't a skill based game