Automated battles

Video game concept

Battles run automatically without player's intervention.

46
games
21
platforms

Alternate name: Automatic combat

This makes strategy games purely strategic, leaving out any and all possibility for tactics.

Usually simple number crunching rather than any "simulated" battle with AI.

Common in browser-based strategy wargames.

Popular tags

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Parent group

Automation

Games by year

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The first Automated battles video game was released in 1972.

Microprose, Positech Games and tinyBuildGames published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 8
Linux 8
Mac OS X 3
MS-DOS 3
Mac OS Classic 3
Amiga 2
Amiga AGA 2
Win3.1 2
SNES 2
PS 2
Flash 1
Apple II E 1
Atari ST 1
N64 1
Neo Geo Pocket Color 1
Saturn 1
N-Gage 1
Internet Only 1
DEC PDP-1 1
Dragon32 1
PS2 1