Repetition Handled For You
Multi-Battle repeats the same Stage or Floor automatically, so solved content stops asking for an input on every single turn.
- CombatTurn-based, team-based
- PriceFree to play, in-app purchases
- PlatformsPC, Mac, iOS, Android
- PublisherPlarium Games Ltd
- Repeat runsMulti-Battle, in Auto
What Auto and Multi-Battle Actually Are
Two things are worth separating. Auto means the game takes the per-turn decisions in a battle you are watching. Multi-Battle is the named feature that runs the same Stage or Floor over and over automatically, in Auto, with no further input from you.
Plarium documents Multi-Battle for the Campaign, Dungeons, Doom Tower and Faction Wars. Those four are also, not by accident, the content you end up running many times rather than once. How many repeats you get, and what changes that, moves between patches and between accounts, so take those numbers from the game in front of you rather than from any guide, this one included.
What you hand over is judgement. Automation resolves turns from an order of priorities fixed in advance rather than from a read of the fight, and that is the trade in every game that offers it, not a quirk of this one. The useful mental model is a patient, tireless button-presser: it never gets bored, never misclicks, and never changes its mind. Judge it on that and it earns its place. Expect a strategist and it will let you down at the worst possible moment.
The Work It Does Well
Multi-Battle earns its place on problems you have already solved. A Campaign stage you clear with a comfortable margin. A Dungeon floor you could run with your eyes shut. Anything where the outcome stopped being in doubt some time ago.
That is the honest value of the feature: it converts solved content into background time. A turn-based design asks for an input on every single turn, which is fine the first time and tedious the fortieth. Repeating a stage automatically is what stops repetition from eating the part you actually enjoy.
It doubles as a blunt testing tool. If a line-up cannot survive a stage without you, you have learned something about the gap without spending much attention to find it out.
Where Playing Manually Still Wins
Switch it off for anything new. A first attempt is information gathering, and handing it over throws the information away.
Switch it off for anything close. When the margin is thin, the result turns on the order you do things in, and an order of priorities fixed in advance is not the same thing as reading the fight in front of you. The same goes for any battle where one badly timed ability drops the whole team.
The rule of thumb is short. Multi-Battle is for content you have proved you can clear. Playing by hand is for content you are trying to clear. Most frustration comes from having those two the wrong way round.
Automating Without Hollowing Out the Game
Clear a stage by hand once before you ever set it repeating. You need to know what winning looks like before you can notice it failing to happen.
Watch the first repeat instead of walking away. One minute of attention tells you whether the margin is real or whether you got lucky.
Treat a run that starts failing as a diagnosis rather than a dice roll. Setting it going again does not fix anything; a stronger champion in the weak slot, or going back to playing it yourself, might.
And keep some battles manual on purpose. Anyone who has never run their own team by hand cannot say why it loses, and that is a worse position than a slightly smaller pile of rewards.
What You Get
A Per-Fight Decision
Worth treating as a choice you make each time rather than a setting you switch on once and forget about entirely.
Auto Is Not Idle
Multi-Battle repeats battles you have started. It is not a promise that anything continues while the game is closed.
How to Start
- Install free on desktop through Plarium Play, or on mobile through the App Store or Google Play, and play the opening battles yourself.
- When a stage stops being a challenge, set it repeating with Multi-Battle and spend your attention on the one after it.
- The moment a repeat run starts failing, take it back and play it by hand to find out what the team is missing.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What exactly is Multi-Battle?
- The named feature that runs the same Stage or Floor repeatedly and automatically, in Auto, with no further input from you. Plarium documents it for the Campaign, Dungeons, Doom Tower and Faction Wars.
- Does auto-battle play as well as I do?
- No, and the gap widens the tighter a fight gets. Automation matches you on patience and repetition and loses to you on judgement, because it works from an order of priorities fixed in advance rather than from a read of the fight.
- Is it still a game if the game plays itself?
- Fair question. The answer is that automation belongs on the parts that stopped being a game a while ago. Keep the decisions where decisions still matter and it adds time rather than removing play.
- Can I leave it running and walk away?
- You can step away from content you have already solved, which is what Multi-Battle is for. Do not confuse it with idle progression, though. It repeats a stage you set it going on; it is not a promise that anything happens while the game is closed.
- Should a new player use it straight away?
- Better not. The opening battles are where you learn what every ability does, and skipping past them means reaching the hard content without the knowledge the easy content existed to teach.
- Does it behave differently on PC?
- Combat is the same game whether you are on Windows, Mac, iOS or Android. A desktop mainly makes it easier to watch a run and spot the turn where things went wrong.