Tiny Auto Knights news & patch notes

Great news!

We fixed some issues and Tiny Auto Knights is now officially Verified on Steam Deck!

That means you can play the whole game without any issues on your Steam Deck. But this also means that

A) the game is running great on Linux based systems and

B) it works well with only controller input!

So if you don't own Tiny Auto Knights yet (or want to gift it to a friend with a Steam Deck) now is the perfect time as we also have a 50% discount for a limited time!

• Burn is now reduced by 50% instead of 33% per activation

• Nerfed Zombie from spreading 50/100/150% to spreading 33/66/100% of the remaining Poison

• Fixed Nun to not target dead allies anymore

• Added filter to deck menu to make it easier to find heroes with similar traits and mechanics

• Fixed virtual keyboard for Steam Deck

• Various small fixes

Knights,

Today we’re rolling out one of the most requested features for Tiny Auto Knights — a brand-new game mode:

⚔️ Play with Friends

You can now create your own lobbies and battle directly against your friends!

What’s included:

• 🏠 Create private or public lobbies

• 👥 Friends can join by searching for the lobby name

• ⚔️ Face off in real-time matches

• 🔁 Whoever survives the longest, wins the game

Whether you’re looking to prove who the real tactician is, experiment with wild builds, or just mess around with friends, this mode gives you full control over who you fight and when.

This update is a big step toward making Tiny Auto Knights a more social and competitive experience, and we’re excited to see what kinds of rivalries (and friendships) form because of it.

As always, your feedback shapes the future of the game — let us know what you think and what you’d like to see next!

Thanks to the Steam PvP Fest we also have a big discount of 40% for you: So this is really the perfect time to pick up the game for yourself or to tell your friends to finally get it, so you can battle each other!

See you in the arena, Mumpitz Games ⚔️

Greetings, Knights!

Things are heating up in the kingdom. Our latest update for Tiny Auto Knights is officially live, and it’s our biggest one yet. Whether you’re a seasoned strategist or a new recruit, there’s never been a better time to jump into the fray.

🔥 New Mechanic: Burn

Watch the battlefield glow! We’ve introduced the Burn mechanic. Specialized attacks and abilities can now ignite the battlefield under your enemies, dealing damage over time and melting through even the toughest defenses.

🛡️ 12 New Heroes Join the Roster

To celebrate the new fire mechanic, we are adding 12 brand-new heroes to the game! From pyromancers and flame priests to dragons and hell hounds, these heroes are ready to redefine your team compositions and set the arena on fire.

❄️ Steam Winter Sale: 35% OFF!

The Steam Winter Sale has begun! If you’ve had Tiny Auto Knights on your wishlist, or want to gift a copy to a friend, now is the perfect time.

Grab Tiny Auto Knights at 35% OFF for a limited time!

Patch Notes Summary:

• New Status Effect: Burn (applied to the battlefield itself and damaging everyone touching it).

• New Heroes: 12 fire-themed heroes added to the pool.

• Balance Changes: Adjusted existing hero stats to account for the new Fire meta.

• Visual FX: New animations for fire and burning effects.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback. Good luck out there, and try not to get singed!

— Mumpitz Games

Hey Knights!

If you’ve ever watched your brave little squad charge heroically into battle… only to immediately get flattened because you maybe made a “strategic oversight,” then this category was practically invented for us.

Tiny Auto Knights has been nominated for “Best Game You Suck At” in the Steam Awards! And honestly? We couldn’t be more proud. 😄

If our chaotic battles, sneaky enemies, and “why-did-I-put-my-healer-in-front” moments have ever made you laugh, cry, or facepalm, we’d be incredibly grateful if you took a moment to vote for us.

👉 Cast your vote on top or on the Steam Awards page and help Tiny Auto Knights claim its rightful, slightly embarrassing throne!

Thank you for your support, your enthusiasm, and your relentless determination to get better (even when the Knights have other plans). ❤️

Onward, Knights! – The Tiny Auto Knights Team

• Fixed a start up crash (super rare) when you had a not finished run from before 1.2.0 in which you have one of those damage items available for purchase:

  • "Deal 1 damage for 3 times" (Rare)

  • "Deal 1 damage for 4 times" (Epic)

  • "Deal 1 damage for 5 times" (Legendary)

  • Those items are not available anymore from 1.2.0 onwards

• Fixed Death Knight not killing ally in front if the ally has a temporary health boost

Watch us play the game!

No commentary, but you will see what the actual game looks like!

• Buffed Death Knight

  • Before End of Turn --> Kill the ally ahead and absorb 50/100/150% of their attack and health.

  • Now End of Turn --> Kill the ally ahead and absorb 100/150/200% of their attack and health.

• Nerfed Monk

  • Before Before Attack --> Gain 1 Armor for every 3/2/1 Cleanse of this hero.

  • Now Before Attack --> Gain 1 Armor for every 6/4/2 Cleanse of this hero.

• Changes to damage items found in shop:

  • Only common "Deal 1 damage to a hero" and legendary "Deal 1 damage to a hero for 2 times" available now

  • 2 times dealing damage now also correctly triggers all heroes on the second time

• Added new survival mode music

• Changed the visuals of the line for selecting a hero (level up rewards)

• Nerfed Thief by giving him 3 Charges

• Nerfed Minotaur by changing the effect

  • Before "Deal the same damage to 1/2/3 additional random enemies."

  • After "Deal 50/100/150% of the amount as damage to random enemy."

• Changed rarity of Jester from Epic to Legendary

• Selling a hero for 0 Coins doesn't trigger "Coins gained" effects anymore

• Changed the visuals of the line for selecting a hero (level up rewards)

• Fixed gamepad controls in Customize menu

• Fixed deck matching where it was possible to get matched against Custom decks while playing with the Default deck

• Slightly desaturated the background in shop + battle to highlight the interactable parts more

The knights have assembled ⚔️ Tiny Auto Knights is officially live! 🎉

After months of tinkering, testing, and polishing, our little battlers are ready to charge into action. Build your team, plan your formations and watch your heroes do the fighting (and sometimes the flailing); all in glorious auto-battling chaos!

💥 Launch Special — 35% OFF!

To celebrate release day, Tiny Auto Knights is available now with a 35% launch discount for a limited time!

And if you’d like to go the extra mile in supporting us, check out the Supporter Pack: it’s packed with exclusive cosmetic goodies and gives you a chance to help our small dev team keep making games like this. 💖

🛡️ Join the Community

We’d love to see your wildest formations, funniest defeats, and most triumphant wins! Join us on Discord!

From all of us at Mumpitz Games — thank you for your support, feedback, and enthusiasm. You’ve helped make Tiny Auto Knights possible.

Now go forth and claim victory, commander! 👑⚔️

The Tiny Auto Knights Dev Team

Watch us play the game!

No commentary, but you will see what the actual game looks like!

Sharpen your blades ⚔️ Tiny Auto Knights is almost here! Your squad of pint-sized heroes will soon face epic auto-battles packed with strategy, charm, and chaos. Recruit, combine, and upgrade your knights to create unstoppable synergies and conquer the leaderboards.

🗓️ Release Date: November 7, 2025 🛡️ Add it to your wishlist now and be ready for launch day!

Watch the Official Release Date Announcement Trailer:

Mighty Knights, we’re thrilled to announce that Tiny Auto Knights will be part of Steam Next Fest!

Our updated demo is now live! With new features, balance tweaks, and plenty of fresh challenges for your tiny warriors. Jump in, build your army, and test your tactical prowess! We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback as we keep improving the game.

Play the demo and add the game to your wishlist:

Thank you for standing with us, noble knights! 🛡️

Heroes

• Changed Warden effect: "Ally gained debuff -> Give 1/2/3 cleanse to a random ally"

• Changed Death Knight effect: "End of turn -> Kill the ally ahead and gain 50/100/150% of their health and attack"

• Changed Thief effect: gained stats don't scale with gained coins anymore, you always get +1/2/3 no matter how many coins you get per event

• Changed Ranger effect: deals now an additional 1 damage per 10 Attack

• Changed Necromancer effect: changed stats of summoned Skeletons from "1/3/5 Health and Attack" to "1 Health and 3/6/9 Attack"

• Changed Bloater effect trigger from "Start of battle" to "Start of turn"

• Changed Guardian: removed Charges

• Fixed Rogue to be able to target always the correct enemy with the highest Health

• Buffed Toad from +1/2/3 Health to +2/4/6 Health. As you cannot sell him for the same amount anymore this should make him at bit more useful.

• Buffed Adventurer from +2/3/4 Health to +2/4/6 Health

• Buffed Warden from "Give +1/2/3 to random ally." to "Give +1/2/3 to random ally for 2 times."

• Buffed Mercenary effect from 2/3/4 to 2/4/6 damage

• Buffed Chieftain effect from 2 to 3 charges and changed his base stats from 3/3 to 6/5

• Nerfed Herbalist effect by adding a max value of 30 for the health she can give to each ally per effect trigger

• Nerfed Drummer effect by adding a max value of 100 for the attack, health and armor he can give to each ally per effect trigger

• Changed Golem effect from +2/4/6 armor to +4/8/12 armor. With armor now reducing faster we felt that the Golem should get more of it. This should make him stronger in early to mid-game, but of course he doesn't scale well as the effect is only triggered once at the start of the battle.,

• Changed Trooper effect from +2/3/4 armor to +2/4/6 armor. Similar reasoning as with the Golem.

General

• New short interactive tutorial

• Added a native Linux build

• Added Spanish localization

• Deck "cards" now have a questionmark icon on which you can hover to show the heroes in that deck

• Improved summoning behaviour when multiple heroes are spawned (important for Slime and Warlord)

• Added pillows to the bench to make it more comfortable

• Implemented "loop breaking" for "X gained" triggers -> Effects with a trigger like "Health/Buff/Thorns gained" can now be only triggered once by the same hero per effect chain

• Changed sell values, they're now based on Rarity and Level:

  Level 1

  Level 2

  Level 3

  Common

  0

  1

  2

  Uncommon

  1

  2

  3

  Rare

  1

  3

  5

  Epic

  2

  4

  6

  Legendary

  2

  5

  8

• Selling a hero will now also trigger "Coins gained"

• Armor is now reduced by half of the incoming damage instead of always by 1

  • You have 5 Armor and get 4 damage -> 1 damage coming through and Armor is reduced by 2

  • You have 18 Armor and get 25 damage -> 7 damage coming through and Armor is reduced by 12

• Fixed Thorns damage not reducing Armor

• Fixed Thorns damage using pre-reduced Armor, when two heroes fight directly against each other, and therefore doing less damage

• Fixed that a freeze check was triggered when you lost Freeze stacks (via Cleanse for example)

• Added more XP level up rewards

  • Uncommon "Give +1 XP to a hero with rarity Common or less"

  • Rare "Give +1 XP to a hero with rarity Uncommon or less"

  • Epic "Give +1 XP to a hero with rarity Rare or less"

  • Legendary "Give +1 XP to a hero with rarity Epic or less"

  • There is currently no Level Up Reward to give XP to a Legendary hero

• Added free reroll level up rewards

  • Common "Gain 2 free rerolls"

  • Uncommon "Gain 4 free rerolls"

• Reduced volume of sound when winning a run

• Fixed some fullscreen related issues on multi monitor setups and when trying to take screenshots of the game while in fullscreen

• Fixed various visual bugs with incorrect displayed stats on newly summoned heroes in battle

• "Mumpitz" opponent teams, the fallback opponents you get when you couldn't get matched to a player, are stronger and more similar to real player builds now

• Fixed an issue where you're didn't get any experience points when losing a run

• Fixed controller input on player rewards popup

• Fixed current value display of King

• Fixed edge case where Mercenary could give too many Poison/Freeze stacks

• Fixed endless loop/crash in certain cases with more than one Jester

• Fixed unintentionally unbenching a character

• Fixed character tooltip when hovering a benched character

• Fixed a minor issue in the Italian translation

• Fixed tooltip hovering in deck creation menu when using a controller

Gamescom is over and we survived! It was our first Gamescom and honestly it was quite overwhelming at the beginning. But we also a had a lot of fun and met tons of cool people!

We're super proud that we could present our game there and hundreds of players played and wishlisted Tiny Auto Knights in front of us. We gathered a lot of feedback on the game and and could meet other devs and some of our own personal heroes! Even the Minister of Digital Affairs of Bavaria, Dr. Fabian Mehring, played some Tiny Auto Knights and promptly got his first win!

A shoutout to Malterus and Ripperchieff, two of the earliest content creators for Tiny Auto Knights! They came to visit our booth and to talk with us about the game. We also met the guys from GaHa Games, another German indie studio, whose YouTube devlogs we love to watch in our lunch break. It was quite a fanboy moment for us! And of course there were also Niklas and Leon from Bonjwa (a big German streaming channel). We were super happy to meet them and talk about Tiny Auto Knights!

Just before Gamescom we also got our "wishlist ranking" which means we will be in the "Popular upcoming" category before launch, which will give us a massive boost in visibility! Over 6.500 people already wishlisted the game and I think that's also because so many of you gave us early feedback and helped us to make the game as good as it is right now!

Now we're back home and working with charged batteries on the full release so that you all can play it soon™.

Cheers, Laurin

Hey folks,

we just released the biggest update to the demo ever!

The initial release of the demo exceeded our expectations by far and we were super happy to see how many people played the game and enjoyed it. But through your direct feedback and while watching various videos and streams of the demo, we also saw some stuff that needs improvement. And that's what this update is about!

Patchnotes

• Reworked and rebalanced over 30 heroes to create more variety in strong builds

• Added weekly decks which gives you a curated deck every week and you will only face opponents with the same weekly deck

• Added health kit which restores your lifes in round 3 so that the randomness of the first 2 rounds doesn't hurt your endgame

• Enabled opponent preview also in ranked games

• Added a list showing new player rewards which were unlocked when returning to main menu

• Various quality of life improvements and fixes

Hi,

we want to share a quick update on Steam Deck support:

We don't own a Steam Deck ourselves, but from the feedback we got from the community we can say that Tiny Auto Knights runs without any problems on the Steam Deck.

• Full controller support

• Supported resolution 1280x720 (which means small black bars on top and bottom)

• No reported issues with online multiplayer or save games

Hey folks,

we just added localization for the following languages:

• French

• Italian

• Turkish

• Russian

• Traditional Chinese

We also added some small improvements to the UI and made sure that the texts are pretty in every language. Plus, there are some small quality of life features and fixes to the game.

Hope you will enjoy it!

We're already working on a bigger update gameplay update which will adjust many characters to enable even more synergies. Stay tuned!

• Adjusted spawn chances in shop, making the progress to higher tiers slower. This will give you much more possibility to completely level up your lower tier heroes as they will appear for more rounds. You will also get less legendary heroes in the late game.
• Added an option to limit the FPS. This helps to save processing power and energy on high refresh monitors.

Some numbers

Content creators

Maxim

shurkou

Malterus and Ripperchieff

LFG Con 2025

What's next?

• Adjusted mouse offset when dragging heroes
• Fixed Frost Empress
• Fixed Jester when copying effects with charges
• Fixed some typos
• Adjusted some UI layouts

• Ranked Mode
• 10 more heroes
• Much more polishing all around
• Lot's of bugfixes
• Translations to Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese
• And more!

• Added 14 new characters
• Added new stack Thorns: When the character gets attacked, deal the amount of stacks as damage to the attacker and reduce the stack by 1
• Updated Freeze stack: Freezing is now chance based, every stack gives the character a 10% chance of getting frozen for a round
• Rebalanced characters and changed some character effects
• Fixed a crash in battle
• Fixed crash when using the "Randomize" button in the deck menu
• Fixed slot count bug when killing and spawning characters in the shop
• Fixed bug with wrong health/attack shown after leveling up characters sometime
• Fixed idle animation for Toad Lvl 2
• Fixed Necromancer summoning a new Skeleton when a Skeleton died; this lead to infinite Skeletons until the Necromancer died
• A lot of smaller bug fixes
• Added many smaller quality of life improvements