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Devolver Digital Reveals Its First ‘AAA’ Game, All Army Attack
Devolver Digital promised to reveal its first AAA game. It did, although naturally there was a catch. Together with developer BlackLight Games, the duo revealed All Army Attack, a large-scale roguelike auto-battler coming to PC in 2027.
Its status as the publisher’s first “AAA” game is less about production budgets and more about the three words conveniently sharing the same initial. Underneath the joke sits a game about building increasingly ridiculous armies of animals and plants to fight an invading cosmic threat.
Players begin as a Commander recruiting troops and artillery from cards, before using resources earned in battle to develop stronger units and call in enough reinforcements to eventually put hundreds of soldiers onto the battlefield. It gives Devolver another very different take on roguelike progression after the chaotic ricochets of Ball x Pit and ahead of Tenjutsu’s martial arts runs through Kuroboro City.
Every Battle Can Cost Part of Your Army
Simply assembling the biggest force available is not necessarily the safest strategy. Players can choose when to sacrifice troops for greater rewards and when preserving a valuable army makes more sense. Characters and maps also come with different card pools, so units, factions, and battlefield setups interact differently from one run to the next.
Individual soldiers can be modified, crafted and mutated as a run develops, while progression continues away from battle through a home base. Earned currency can be invested into the town, permanent bonuses and additional content, including, because this is still Devolver, hats for the troops.
Steam Demo Deploys November 16
Players will not have to wait until 2027 to find out whether commanding several dozen chickens is viable military doctrine. A limited-time demo will run during Steam Auto-Battler Fest from November 16 to 23, beginning with the Prologue before opening the Arid Wastes across six escalating difficulty levels.
The demo includes three playable characters, 60 unit types, 25 unit enhancements, 40 treasures and more than 70 cards, alongside a demo-exclusive Treasure Shop for refining builds. Players can also challenge friends online after putting their armies together.
BlackLight Games previously developed Cluckmech Oasis, another roguelike built around heavily armed animals, but All Army Attack significantly increases the scale by replacing defensive survival with armies that can eventually number in the hundreds.
Devolver may not have suddenly transformed into the publisher of a conventional blockbuster, but technically, at least, its first AAA game has arrived.
All Army Attack can already be wishlisted on Steam, with its full PC launch scheduled for sometime in 2027.
