Screenshots
Watch trailer on Steam ↗Topdeck Automat
Ludokultur · Published by Ludokultur · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
The roguelike auto-battler where your deck prints itself! Supply a brave worker droid with synergistic blueprints to defend the planet against hordes of alien invaders. Combine hundreds of cards with custom upgrades and infinitely stackable modules to discover broken builds.
Indie, Strategy · More free games
Command a worker droid to defend against alien hordes using synergistic blueprints in Topdeck Automat, an indie strategy game where your deck prints itself.
About this game
Feature List
Unique roguelike gameplay blending auto-battlers and deckbuilders
200+ cards with a free-form upgrade system for near-infinite combinations
100+ modules featuring passive effects to supercharge your build
50 enemy types with special abilities, elite variants and a dozen bosses to challenge your engine
30 unlockable characters that change how you approach the game and make each run unique
20 weather effects that randomly spice up your runs so you'll have to adapt on the fly
Daily challenges with game-changing run modifiers for extra variety
Extensive compendium to track your stats, progression, achievements and victory badges
Granular difficulty settings to find the perfect level of challenge (incl. no-permadeath mode!)
About the Game
Topdeck Automat combines the best of both worlds: auto-battler + roguelike deckbuilder.
Let Your Deck Auto-Battle
Draft from 200+ cards and apply custom upgrades to them to create a synergistic combat engine. Since your deck is shuffled and spit out at random by your printer droid, you will have to find ways to deal with the RNG: Chain effect triggers like crazy, and support your deck with 100+ stackable passive modules to push its efficiency to the max!
Designed For Replayability
Choose one of 30 unlockable characters every run, each one putting their own twist on the gameplay. No grind, all variety! Combined with 50 different enemy types and a dozen bosses to build around, no two runs are the same. Daily challenges and randomized weather effects will constantly keep you on your toes.
Play Your Way
Going for a loose from-the-hip playstyle? The game's difficulty settings (incl. an option to disable permadeath) won't lock you out of any content or achievements. Want to optimize every choice? Crank up the challenge and take full advantage of the game's transparency. Check your deck, collection, modules, run info and boss preview anytime!
Bury your enemies under a flurry of attacks, shield to stall until the storm defeats them for you, freeze them just before they land a devestating blow, go for huge critical hits, stack infection damage, boost your own speed for double-time printing, play the long economy game, or just mix and match all these strategies. The possibilities are endless!
Embracing Sci-fi Silliness
In a dark future, alien forces invaded Earth, seized control and destroyed all of humanity's means of resistance. However, the seemingly harmless worker droids were spared: office assistants, flyer printers, vending machines and the like. Hacked and reprogrammed for combat, they now march to take back the planet. You are one of them!
Human-Made Indie Labor of Love
Design & Code: Fabian Fischer (@Ludokultur)
Art & Animations: Victor Negreiro (@estivador)
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10+
- Processor: Intel i5+ or similar
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 GB
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Patch 0.7 "Impact"
Hi folks! Your favorite "printer robot vs. aliens" auto-battler is back again! 🤖In terms of full-version news, we recently completed the art for all cards and are now moving towards completion of all the A.C.E. characters and aliens. Stay tuned for more details on our release timeline!Today's demo patch ties up some loose ends and adds yet more quality of life, including some regularly requested features.Patch Notes - 0.7 "Impact"FeaturesNEW Cataclysm+ difficultyThis should nicely fill the rather large gap between Cataclysm and Apocalypse.NEW Ability to hide cardsIf you don't care about a specific card, mark it as hidden and it'll only show back up if you activate the new "show hidden cards" filter.NEW Option to start with an empty deckThe starter cards will be in your collection but not your deck. Some players prefer taking every card out initially and building back up, so now they have this shortcut available.NEW Boss warningsWhen hovering cards or Modules considered "dangerous" for a certian boss, the boss will show a red warning highlight to remind you to maybe check its effect.NEW Danger highlightsWhen choosing enemies, cards or Modules considered "dangerous" show a warning to allow you to see at a glance if your build might struggle against a certain enemy.NEW Bespoke impact particlesWhile we previously only had damage impact visuals, we now have individual effects for all "projectile" hits (damage, heal, shield, infection).MaintenanceTons of adjustments and tweaks to particle sizing and placement for different screen sizesMassive performance improvements, especially for late-game situations of "infinite" projectilesContinued tweaks to UI panel sizes and placements to prevent overlaps and edge casesBig revision of the German localization with lots of fixed typos and wording improvementsAs usual, a myriad of small bug fixes and tweaks all aroundIn other news, we're part of Steam Cyberpunk Fest (I mean, if a robot with a mohawk isn't cyber-punk, I don't know wha...Read full article on Community Announcements (Ludokultur)Patch NotesOfficial
Major Demo Update 0.65 "Makeover"
Hello again! This one is a doozy! ːsteamhappyːWe've joined forces with juice expert Calm Pewter (check out The Quizard's Domain) to bring you a shiny update to animation curves, particle visuals and the user experience as a whole. Most parts of the game's UI have been reworked already, but this is just the first iteration. We have a lot more planned!Patch Notes - 0.65 "Makeover"GameplayWeather Rework: There is now ONE specific weather per run that has a 50% chance of being active every day. This means weather is now an additional "build-around" factor next to the run's boss. Previously it was more "avoid losing to it", which meant players would often just ignore two or even all three weather effects. Some weathers were rebalanced accordingly.Structural Tweak: Deck size now increases when you reach the shop on an even day (2, 4, 6 etc.), instead of at the start of an uneven day. This doesn't directly make a gameplay difference, but it makes it easier to plan around the following day's deck size (and e.g. decide to buy another card in the shop).Visual OverhaulUI Rework: Most UI elements have been reworked and/or repositioned to have a better look-and-feel. Menu flows have been largely retained with some small optimizations here and there.Animated Backgrounds: We added a first handful of animated backgrounds. These will be chosen randomly per run and create a more immersive "moving through the environment" vibe.Overlay Cutscene System: For now this is used when a Core breaks (which was previously easy to miss) but we plan to add more in future updates. And don't worry, they're all skippable.Various smaller improvements:Added Haste / Slow shaders to A.C.E. combat modelsImproved animation curves and particle effects overallImproved visual clarity of the deck listImplemented background darkening when opening UI panelsMiscExecution Counter: All cards and Modules in the combat log will now show how many times they were executed during the last combat.Filter Shortcuts: You c...Read full article on Community Announcements (Ludokultur)Press Coverage
Check out the demo for Topdeck Automat, blending autobattlers and deck-builders
Topdeck Automat from Ludokultur who made the fun Rack and Slay has a demo out now, so you can try out this unique combo of autobattlers and deck-builders. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/check-out-the-demo-for-topdeck-automat-blending-autobattlers-and-deck-builders/Read full article on GamingOnLinuxPatch NotesOfficial
Demo Patch 0.64 "Sparkles"
Hi folks, thanks for checking out the demo! 🤖As promised it'll be updated regularly while we work on putting together the full game's content.Patch Notes - 0.64 "Sparkles"QOL: Sparkly shiny highlights! ✨Modules now highlight other relevant Modules (not just cards) on hoverCards now highlight relevant Modules on hoverAdded Infection entry to Damage list in combat log (was hotfixed last week)Helper robot now highlights character select button after first runEnd-of-combat Trigger effects now animate if they executeCards: Tweaks and a rework of a rarely used card. 🃏Mercy: removed Tech tag (it's now, appropriately, a tagless card)Michel's Apple: reworked to self-destroy for max health gainOintment: gained ConsumeEnemies: Two changes to strengthen enemy identity. 👽Omnigobbler: Heal 100 -> 80 | Consume 10% -> 20% | gains Damage on ConsumeSpike Mike: Damage 10 -> 10 | Shield 10 -> 20 | difficulty now scales its counter-attackMisc: 👷Renamed Power Enhancement to "Boost" (follow-up to the "Strength" -> "Power" change)Performance optimizations when spawning lots of cards simultaneouslyVarious wording improvements and localization fixesMinor UI tweaks and fixesIn other news, the game is part of Steam Deckbuilders Fest but as you can imagine with thousands upon thousands of games flooding in, it's a tough time to stand out for a tiny indie. So once again, thank you for every single wishlist, follow, and message. If you like the game, maybe tell a friend about it. It truly makes a difference! ♥️All the best, FabianRead full article on Community Announcements (Ludokultur)AnnouncementsOfficial
Demo out now!
IT'S HYPE TIME! 🤖🖨️👽The first official demo of Topdeck Automat is available now!Thank you, playtesters! ♥️Thanks to heavy internal as well as public playtesting and lively discussions on our Discord, the game saw huge improvements throughout the past few months, including:a complete overhaul of the combat UItons of visual improvements and "juice"an entirely new "Apocalypse" difficultyperformance improvementsbalancing, balancing, balancingDemo UpdateWith this update, the playtest will come to an end, but find its next iteration in the official demo release! Highlights of this update include lots of new artwork, a helpful combat log, a post-victory build check, as well as a shiny new character: the crit-focused Engineer A.C.E. 👷Patch Notes - 0.63 "Demo-lition"Gameplaynew character: Engineer A.C.E.added optional "performance test" after winning a run against a stat-counting target dummyStorm Damage increments per tick now increase over timeCunning Plan: Load 2 -> 1 | gained ConsumePractice Punch: gained TechArachaha: now deals extra damage equal to Infection on youAll-around tweaks to Enemy statsQuality of Lifeadded combat log to help you gauge the output of cards and Modulesadded option to show Enemy stats in Enemy draft windowhovering the deck list will now highlight cards in the collection (if open)added tags to Enhancement drafts to indicate which tags will be addedrandom A.C.E. button won't roll the already selected one anymoreadded warning before entering combat with inactive One-Punch A.C.E. effectadded some missing card highlights when hovering certain ModulesMiscall Modules now have original art (renamed a few)all Enhancements now have original artnew special frames for Enhancements in draftsadded explosion animation when a Core breaksadded particle effect for legendary draft rollsadded some card-specific sound effectsadded Elite enemy warning"Strength" is now called "Power"lots of UI and layout tweakslots of wording and naming improvementslots of minor fixesS...Read full article on Community Announcements (Ludokultur)
