Gods vs Horrors (v1.0)

A pantheon-building roguelike, Gods vs Horrors turns mythological drafting into a tense battle of planning, adaptation, and ruthless efficiency. Your army faces cosmic monsters in automated encounters, but the outcome rests squarely on the decisions made before the fighting starts: which deities to recruit, where to place them, and when to abandon a promising plan for a better one. The mood is cerebral rather than action-heavy, rewarding players who enjoy watching a carefully engineered strategy click into place.

Each run revolves around spending divine essence on immediate upgrades, rerolling the available roster, and raising devotion to unlock stronger tiers of Gods. Positioning matters as much as recruitment, since formations and enemy lineups demand counters instead of one universally dominant arrangement. Battles play out without random combat rolls, making victories and failures easy to read; players can speed them up when testing familiar setups or slow down to study crucial interactions. Six boss encounters introduce their own supporting enemies and battlefield effects, forcing builds to evolve rather than simply scale numbers upward.

The real draw is the enormous pool of possible combinations: 170 Gods drawn from ten mythologies interact with 90 run-specific blessings and 30 relics. Its progression system expands the range of options instead of handing out permanent statistical advantages, so newly unlocked content adds variety without making earlier challenges trivial. Difficulty modifiers and the Unknown Calamity mode give experienced players a harsher mixed-boss gauntlet once standard campaigns become familiar. Fans of Teamfight Tactics, Super Auto Pets, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, or Slay the Spire’s draft-and-synergy decision-making should feel immediately at home, while deterministic combat makes it especially welcoming for newcomers who want to learn from every loss.