Independent developer Leyline has announced Guildrun, a roguelike autobattler coming to PC via Steam in late 2026. The team behind the game includes lead designers from Hearthstone and The Bazaar. A demo is available now.
Here is an overview of the game, via Leyline:
About
Guildrun is roguelike autobattler. At the creative core of Guildrun are lead designers whose credits include Hearthstone and The Bazaar. With Guildrun, they blend the replayability from auto-battlers and roguelikes into an experience where no two runs feel the same. Players build a team of unique heroes into an unstoppable force. They explore deadly rifts and evolve their builds run after run through traits, items and relics to crush waves of monsters.
Built With the Community, From Day One
Leyline built Guildrun with their players, for their players. From the earliest stages of development, the studio opened up a closed alpha to players who wanted to help shape the game, growing to over 3,000 testers playing hundreds of hours before a Steam page even existed. Today’s demo launch is the next step: a public invitation to a wider community to jump in and experience the game themselves.
Key Features
- Start Small – End broken. Draft a team of unique heroes, level them up to crazy power spikes and combine their abilities with items and relics to discover countless synergies and combinations.
- No Two Runs Feel the Same – Run-to-run, read what you’re offered. The team you build will never be the same twice.
- Play at Your Own Pace – Short 20 minute runs that you can play at your own pace and open, save and close anytime.
- Progress Through Eight Difficulties – Every successful run unlocks a harder challenge for the next. Stack fresh modifiers to climb up the difficulty ladder, then hit Endless mode to chase the top of the global leaderboards.
- Weekly Patches and an active Community – Since Leyline launched the alpha in January of this year, they have been updating and evolving the game every week.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.