Devolver Digital has announced its first-ever AAA game. All Army Attack, developed by BlackLight Games, is coming to PC in 2027, and it is not the kind of game you would expect from that sentence. This is not a gritty military shooter or a cinematic open-world epic. It is a chaotic, large-scale roguelike auto-battler in which the animal kingdom and the plant world join forces to fight a cosmic threat. If that sounds gloriously unhinged, that is exactly the point, and it is precisely why this announcement matters.
Devolver built its reputation on the opposite of AAA. Across more than a decade, the publisher became the home of bold, strange, fiercely independent games, from Hotline Miami to Cult of the Lamb, Enter the Gungeon and dozens of others that bigger publishers would never have touched. All Army Attack is Devolver stepping into the biggest budget tier in gaming without giving up the weirdness that made its name. That is a gamble, and it is also a statement of intent: the publisher believes a game about an army of animals and plants can stand shoulder to shoulder with the biggest releases in the industry.
What Is All Army Attack?
All Army Attack is a roguelike auto-battler, which means your job is not to control every unit in the fight. Your job is to build the army, and then watch it fight. You take command as a commander facing down a cosmic threat, recruiting unique troops and artillery from a huge pool of cards drawn from across the animal kingdom. Each battle is a test of the army you assembled: which units you picked, how you combined them, and how you spent the resources you earned along the way.
The loop is built for experimentation. Defeat your enemies, collect resources, and use them to develop powerful new units and call in massive reinforcements. Because every run draws from a large card pool, no two armies are ever quite the same, and the game rewards players who are willing to try combinations that look ridiculous on paper. A chicken with a rocket launcher sounds like a joke until it wins you a battle you had no business winning, and All Army Attack is a game that seems built around exactly that kind of surprise.
A Demo You Can Play Next Week
You will not have to wait until 2027 to see whether the idea works. A demo of All Army Attack will be playable during the Steam Auto-Battler Fest, which runs from November 16 to 23, 2026, and it is a generous one. The demo includes the game’s prologue, followed by six stages of increasing difficulty set in the Arid Wastes, a region that will put your army-building instincts to the test from the very first battle.
The demo’s numbers give a good sense of the game’s scale. There are three playable characters, 60 unit types, 25 unit upgrades, 40 treasures and more than 70 cards to discover, which is a lot of game for a free demo. It also includes a Treasure Shop that will only be available in the demo, so the version players try next week will have something that is not in the full game. And for the competitive-minded, the demo lets you challenge your friends online, so you can settle once and for all whose animal army is the best.
Fight or Flight, Special Ops and a Base to Build
All Army Attack is built around systems that give each run its own character. Fight or Flight lets you decide the fate of your troops: sacrifice a unit for an immediate advantage, or spare it and keep your army intact for the battles ahead. It is a small decision with real consequences, and it is the kind of choice that defines a roguelike, where every run is a series of gambles that either pay off or come back to haunt you.
Special Ops adds another layer. Each character and card has its own card pool, so the army you build around one commander will look completely different from the army you build around another. Combining cards from different pools is where the game’s wildest synergies live, and it is what will keep players coming back to try new combinations long after the first few runs.
Then there is the Base, the game’s meta-progression system. Between runs, you build up a town that boosts your bonuses and unlocks new content, so even a failed run leaves you stronger than before. It is a smart piece of design for a roguelike: it softens the sting of defeat without removing the challenge. And because this is a Devolver game, the Base also lets you put hats on your characters, which is exactly the kind of detail that tells you the developers understand their audience.
Why Devolver Going AAA Matters
The phrase first AAA game carries weight, and Devolver knows it. The publisher’s whole identity has been built on championing games that the big publishers overlooked, and its biggest successes, from Hotline Miami to Don’t Look Outside, which just landed on PlayStation and Switch, have come from trusting small teams with strange ideas. All Army Attack is that philosophy scaled up: a bigger budget, a bigger team in BlackLight Games, and the same belief that a strange idea, executed well, can find a huge audience.
It is also a sign of where the auto-battler genre is heading. Auto-battlers started as a mod scene curiosity and have grown into one of the most popular strategy formats on PC, and a roguelike take on the genre, with card pools, meta-progression and a demo built around a Steam festival, is a natural next step. Devolver entering the space with its first AAA title suggests the publisher sees the genre as a place where a big, confident game can make a real impact.
When Can You Play All Army Attack?
All Army Attack is scheduled to launch on PC in 2027, and the demo arrives much sooner, during the Steam Auto-Battler Fest from November 16 to 23, 2026. If the demo is anything like the full game promises to be, it will be one of the most talked-about free demos of the month, and a good way to find out whether your animal army has what it takes.
For now, the game can be wishlisted on Steam, and the announcement trailer is out now. Devolver’s first AAA game is an army of animals and plants fighting a cosmic threat, and honestly, it is hard to think of a better way for the publisher to announce its arrival in the big leagues.
Source: Devolver Digital / BlackLight Games via Games Press
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