ARBS

ARBS — Auto Rogue Build Simulator
Plan everything. Control nothing.

ARBS is an auto-battling roguelike where the whole game is won or lost at the build screen. You assemble a hero, press go, and watch your build carve through — or crumble in — a 30-floor dungeon. There's no micromanaging the fight: your job is to engineer the build, then find out if it actually works.

⚙️ How it works

Build → press go → spectate. Your character auto-explores the dungeon on its own — clearing rooms, opening chests, fighting what it finds, and taking the stairs down. Combat is turn-based and fully automatic: the AI plays your skills by the priorities you set, so every run is a test of the system you designed, not your reflexes.

🔨 Build your hero

Every run is one identity stacked from a handful of choices:

• Class — Nine classes, each with a signature mechanic and its own skill tree. A Scrap Knight banks Guard and punishes attackers with counters; a Chrome Reaper stacks venom and detonates it; a Technomancer turns the floor into a kill-zone.
• Race — Your bloodline grants an element (fire, ice, lightning, nature, corrosion, or light) that procs in combat, plus stat leanings that shape your playstyle.
• Deity — Swear to a patron for a covenant that fires throughout the run, bending the rules in your favor (and sometimes against you).
• Skills & Gear — Spend points down a prerequisite skill tree built on resource generators and spenders, set your skill-use priorities, and kit out five equipment slots with passives from Common to Legendary.
• Subclass — At floor 11, fuse a second class's mechanic and tree into your own for build-defining combos.

🗺️ The gauntlet

Thirty floors. Three boss gates (10, 20, 30), culminating in a forced showdown with The Convergence — a towering, tile-crushing final boss. Loot deepens as you descend: material tiers climb floor by floor, and the right passives hand you the synergies that make or break a run.

✨ Features

• 🤖 Pure build-craft — set up the engine, then watch it run
• 🧩 Nine classes with unique mechanics, resource combos, and skill trees
• 🌋 Race × Deity × Passives for thousands of build permutations
• 🔗 Subclass fusion for dual-mechanic builds
• ⚔️ 30 floors + 3 boss gates of escalating loot and danger
• 💀 No safety nets — only synergized builds survive
• 🌐 English & Japanese, playable in browser or as a Windows download

💀 Synergy or death

ARBS doesn't carry weak builds. Sustain comes from mitigation and kills, not endless healing; greedy plans get punished; and a build that doesn't click simply won't reach the end. The payoff is the discovery — the moment your class, element, covenant, skills, and passives lock into a machine that runs itself all the way down.

Make the build. The dungeon does the rest.

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⚠️ Early Development Build

ARBS is a work in progress, not a finished game. The core build-and-battle loop is fully playable, but this is an early build — expect rough edges, missing pieces, and things that will change.

Not in yet / on the roadmap:

• 🔊 Sound & music — currently silent; audio is planned
• 🎨 Visuals & polish — minimal/placeholder art and effects; a proper visual pass is coming
• 👹 More enemy variety — the bestiary is still small and will keep growing
• 🌟 Advanced (ascendancy) classes — higher-tier class paths aren't implemented yet

Balance is still being tuned and features may change between updates. If you give it a try, feedback is hugely appreciated — it directly shapes where the game goes next. Thanks for playing an early build! 🔨