
Blending deep board game strategy with auto-battling mastery, and designed by Richard Garfield (creator of Magic: The Gathering), lead your Squads over an ever-changing dieselpunk battlefield where no two games are ever the same. Think ahead, adapt fast, outwit your opponent and claim victory.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Sep 4 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Vanguard Exiles is a competitive auto-battler card game designed by Richard Garfield (legendary game designer of Magic: The Gathering), bringing his signature philosophy of strategic depth, meaningful choices, and emergent gameplay into a fast-paced digital battleground.
In your role as General, every match challenges you to outthink and outmanoeuvre your opponents whilst unpredictable zones reshape the battlefield, driving ongoing tactical adaptation.
Unlike traditional auto-battlers, Vanguard Exiles emphasizes player agency where victory is determined by how well you:
Discover card synergies/interactions within each unique Squad
Evaluate card selection and deployment each round
Unleash your Vanguard's potential through your choices
Manage and leverage Zone effects in an evolving battlefield
Anticipate your opponent’s strategies
Re-evaluate your tactics throughout the game
Your decisions matter, rewarding long-term planning and Squad mastery.
The battlefield is in a state of flux, as emerging zones introduce game-changing modifiers and obstacles. Players must continuously adapt their strategy as the environment evolves, a hallmark of Richard Garfield games. No two matches are the same; each game unfolds its own unique challenges that shape every strategic decision.
Head-to-head PvP matches
Strategy-driven outcomes
High replay value through Faction and Unit variety
Designed for players who enjoy thinking several moves ahead
The world has fallen. In the wake of a global cataclysm, survival has reshaped everything, including allegiances. Old enmities have faded, replaced by alliances forged out of necessity. Technology and magic now coexist in a dieselpunk landscape where domination is the only path forward.
Across this shattered world, survivors band together into Squads, aiming to reclaim lost territory and carve out a future from the ruins. For this, it’s more than a matter of strength. A General is needed to lead their Squad, with the instincts and foresight to outthink every rival who stands in their way.
That General is you.
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This game is awesome, but it's going to need another year to fully cook (Dec 2026). Hopefully it will be fully playable within 6 months (May 2026) and then the rest will be squashing bugs, perfecting, balancing, QOL and figuring out the first season rewards, online (PvP) play, and game modes. Understand that this is an auto-battler and ALL auto-battlers are RNG heavy. This game is extremely deep strategically despite the RNG factor. If RNG is something that turns you off, you probably shouldn't be looking at auto-battlers.
the late game in the is some of the best mind games iv played, i feel like the rooms that give extra gold are almost to good, and Nail on Nail battles need to have an tie brake system or something. but i feel real good about this game! thanks Prof for telling me about it :D
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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the game is OK-ish as it is now. The base mechanics are fun. But oh my ... there is so much rng here. Be prepared to quit a run after 5 minutes in a dozen times before you'll see playable game. You are put up against a much stronger opponent that can only be beat by winning a coin toss 5 times in a row. They'll need to address this for sure before release. Some additional feedback: There is cool down timer of a couple of hours when you want to change an army. This makes no sense in the single player mode and should be reconsidered, imho. Animations that introduce new parts to the battlefield take a bit too long. The first time it's cool to see what comes up, but after a couple of times you can just as well skip them. The clarity/readability of the game state (numbers, unit models) is not great either. Some examples: Important information gets lost during unit deployment, the units cover the stats of a tile You can't find back a particular unit in a stack Environmental effects are busy and cover stats, making it hard too read Clearly an early access game, good for a couple of hours of fun, will be back for the full release.
Sophisticated is a great word to describe this game. As a big fan of autobattlers, I was stoked to see such a cool spin on the genre. But where as with many of these games I sort of just put my stuff down and part I am put against someone who doesn’t have a busted build, this one is a lot more focused on mind games and building around the strengths of you and your opponent. The PvP is live, so each combat phase could lead you to discover a new path to victory, and with an every changing map, those brief moments of defeat can turn into absolutely overwhelming victory in just a few turns. New units getting added frequently, new modes as well, so there’s always a reason to come back. While I don’t have as much time in this game as some of the die hards, I can confidently recommend this to fans of strategy and skill.
Too much RNG to be fun. More gambling with wasted purpose than any real fun.
If you love auto-battlers and deep strategy, this game is for you! There are still a lot of things missing from the game right now since it’s still in an early stage, but the gameplay is simply amazing!!! As someone who has tried every auto-battler on the market, this is definitely my favorite one at the moment! I watched YouTube videos of the game, and they really didn’t do it justice. Those videos were from older versions, before they added the tutorial and the reroll option. The reroll option is limited, though, which actually makes deciding when to use it an important strategic choice! For fans of the genre, I highly recommend it! I really hope they manage to market this game properly, because it could be the next big thing.
Strategically fascinating.
Fantastic premise and a TRUE early access experience. The devs are active in the discord, open about their process, and have made numerous changes already to the game, many based on our experiences as players. The overarching design is from Richard Garfield of RoboRally fame. The developer team trusts his vision and experience, and focuses on making this game something we can all play and enjoy for some time. Personally I love the broad range of units, their distinctly unique styles and names, and most of all, it scratches that competitive strategy itch, with no need to master APM or other twitch mechanics. I spent hours in the demo, but the early access has more than double the units and zones in it. And more are on the way. Now if they would just nerf the pesky Mole units, I would be content...
Such a cool game, really loving the factions and cant wait to see the game get expanded. Watching these simulations unfold is so cool, feels real strategical as well.
Lorsque Richard Garfield nous pond un nouveau jeu, mes antennes se mettent en branle. Le mec nous a tout de même créé un des meilleurs jeu au monde, "Magic the Gathering", toute ma jeunesse à faire des parties endiablées chez "chef", en face de "l'œuf cube", Jussieu Paris 5, là où tous les aficionados se donnaient rendez-vous dans les années 90's avec des gros classeurs à la main remplis de cartes. Ce jeu a une alchimie quasi parfaite, le gars a eu une idée de génie. Et donc lorsque le Garfield récidive on ressent un vif intérêt mélé de respect, le mec s'y connait. Alors qu'avons nous là? Tout d'abord certes le jeu est en early Access, il n'est donc pas encore totalement peaufiné, mais voilà, j'en ai parfois un peu marre de l'Early Access qui devient de plus en plus la norme, parce que c'est souvent un peu torchon. Ici pas de règles du jeu ni de tuto, vous aurez une case "Comment jouer" sur la page d'accueil (à 17h00), mais dès que tu cliques dessus tu tombes sur une vidéo en Anglais non sous-titrée et encore moins traduite (vostfr). De plus cette vidéo est vraiment lacunaire, à force de jouer j'ai un peu compris le principe du jeu mais comme dirait l'autre, le diable est dans les détails, et c'est précisément ce qui manque de connaître les détails. Par exemple je prends une zone avec plusieurs unités à moi dedans, cette zone en a 2 autres collées à elle, une disons à droite et une autre à gauche, pourquoi une de mes unités file à gauche et les deux autres à droite? Quelle est la règle? Idem je place mes troupes puis l'adversaire place les siennes après, mais voit il comment j'ai placé mes unités? Si j'ai une unité à distance qui a deux zone avec des ennemis à 1 case de là où je suis, quelle zone va cibler en priorité mon archer? Toutes ces questions n'ont pas trouvé de réponses, du coup mes parties ont moins de saveur. Comme il y a une démo je ne vais pas me lancer dans une présentation du jeu, le jeu pourrait vraiment être intéressant une fois fini, à suivre de près, je repasserai vous en parler.
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