The two man team behind Auto Immune play a game together, and show you just a taste of whats possible in this synergy-rich, physic-y Autobattler/Tower Defender.

A virus is attacking your cells, and its up to you to defend them! Buy and combine cells to assemble your immune response. Discover powerful synergies to overcome a constantly evolving enemy in this physics-based auto battler. Can you achieve IMMUNITY?

As foreshadowed in the roadmap, the next demo drop is here as a part of Steam Next Fest! This latest demo is current available ONLY on Steam, for the duration of the festival.


https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/sale/nextfest is a online festival for upcoming game demos. This is the biggest event we've been a part of so far, and is a major milestone in the development of any indie game.

• The Electricity mechanic, and 5 new cells to go with it. There is also a new Tag Sprayer cell and more.
  
• MAJOR quality of life improvement. Including a total rewrite of almost all the cell descriptions.
  
• 12 rounds! And a slower difficulty curve, so you have more time to cook up interesting builds.
  
• Numerous small balance changes and bugfixes all over the place.
  
• Large amount of new graphics, including new colors for nearly everything, new cell art, new blood cell art, and new UI.
  
• New professional sound effects.

This demo is more user friendly than previous ones, so now is a good time to show the game to your friends, your favorite streamers and youtubers, etc.


Our plan from here is to build out the multiplayer in one more (smaller scale) demo, then from there its on the release. Almost there.


Its available right now on our store page. And as always leave us any feedback either in Steam Community (there is a new demo feedback sub forum) or on Discord.

Have fun!

-Reza

Livestreaming the latest and greatest demo of Auto Immune. This is by far our most polished demo yet, and we're looking forward to your feedback. Come and chat and ask us questions!

The new update is finally up.

This update makes a bunch of graphical changes to the game. Gameplay wise, the biggest changes is the removal of the colors mechanic, and the introduction of "M-Cells" to replace it. We've also replaced the Swapper cell with a bond cell version of the same idea and removed the Interest Cell and Shrapnel Cell from the game, for now. Here's the list of changes:

• Immune cells generally increased in size. More variation in size as well.
  
• Movement of blood cells. You can now move your blood cell clump around your placeable area. Viruses will target it no matter where it is.
  
• Colors mechanic replaced. Cells and viruses no longer have colors, and immune cells no longer magnetically attract viruses. (We have magnet and M-cells to replace this, see below).
  
• M-Cells introduced. M-Cells are a new category of cells that encompass walls, bonds, wildcard cells, and generally cells that mostly just sit there in combat.
  
• All cells that reacted with "matching colors" in the past now react to M-cells instead. This includes
  
  1. Resonant Wall
     
  2. Resonant Cannon
     
  3. Resonant Buffer
     
  4. Resonance Amplifier
• Magnet Cells introduced.
  
• Magnet buffer replaced with Magnet Cell. Magnet Cell attracts all viruses up to a larger range than the old colors attraction.
  
• Kinetic Magnet Buffer's attraction affect now affects all viruses.
  
• Removed a couple other cells:
  1. Shrapnel Cell
     
  2. Swapper Cell
     
  3. Interest Cell
• Added two new cells:
  1. Swapper Bond cells: Attach to one nearby immune cell. At the start of your next shop round, swap health with the nearest attached cell.
     
  2. Proximity Buffer: When you place this, give the nearest M-Cell +3 health.
• Bombs and mortars have been slightly debuffed.
  
• A number of graphical and color changes.
  
• Some minor UI improvement and fixing of bugs related to placement

Along with this update, I also want to share our Roadmap to the early access release of Auto Immune.

From this point, there are basically 2 milestones left to our Early Access release on Steam.

1. First week of Febuary 2024: Steam Next Fest demo. This will be the last single player demo of the game, and the beginning of our big marketing push leading up to release.
   
   
2. March 2024. Limited multiplayer demo. We will be testing out our multiplayer in the discord. This is mostly for technical testing purposes and will not be released to Steam.
   
   
3. April 2024. Early Access launch on Steam. The big difference between the launch version of the game and the Next Fest demo will be the inclusion of multiplayer. Our exact design of multiplayer games is still somewhat in flux, but basically there will be:
   
   • Unranked Multiplayer with your Steam friends (games hosted by clients, no matchmaking or dedicated servers)
     
   • Ranked Asynchronous Multiplayer - You'll compete for rank against past runs of other players.

We have ambitions for more multiplayer options in the future, but we're choosing to do this async multiplayer as our main mode for now because launching a small indie game that depends on having a high concurrent player count is extremely risky. It would take us too long to be sure we could do it well on a technical level, and more importantly, no matter how good our implementation is, we'd risk the game's future on having enough concurrent players at launch. Most indie games that try to do things this way fail, so we are taking a safer, more gradual route. Anyway, more details to come about this in the future.

Enjoy the new demo and let us know your feedback here in the Steam forums or on our Discord!

This new single player demo will include:

- 43 Immune Cells
- 5 Levels of progression per game
- 9 Virus types
- New "Reward" Immune Cells, special game shaping units you can get by making triples of regular cells
- A different strategic journey with every game

Have Fun!
- Mark and Reza

This new single player demo will include:

43 Immune Cells
5 Levels of progression per game
9 Virus types
New "Reward" Immune Cells, special game shaping units you can get by making triples of regular cells
A different strategic journey with every game

The demo will be available on the Auto Immune Steam page starting Monday, August 28th, at 10am PDT, and running until September 4th.

Strategy Fest will feature lots of other exciting upcoming indie strategy games featured as well.

Also an older web demo of the game is available right now on the Auto Immune discord. This is the best place to discuss the game and give us feedback, report issues, or make feature suggestions. We read every comment.

Click here for Discord Invite.[discord.com]
Hope you enjoy the game!

-Reza from the Auto Immune dev team

This demo is single player version of the game, playable in a desktop browser (preferably Chrome). Join the discord to find the link to the demo, as well as discussions and bug reports.

Early feedback and bug reports are extremely helpful to us, and play a big part in shaping the final game, so please feel welcome to join the discussion!

Join the Discord server here:
https://discord.gg/c8VQY4NbEq[/url] Check out the announcements channel or demo-updates for the link to the game. If you have already played the previous less stable demo, today we have updated it with a number of improvements, bug fixes, and a major graphical redesign!
Check out the announcements channel or demo-updates for the link to the game.

If you have already played the previous less stable demo, today we have updated it with a number of improvements, bug fixes, and a major graphical redesign!