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EffigyStudio presents

Shift HeroesAuto Battler

An idle auto battler that lives in a tiny window on your desktop. Your heroes fight, loot and evolve — even while you live your life. Conquer the Solar System, one world at a time.

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Free to PlaySteamWindowsComing Soon
Travel inward
Ten worlds. One journey — from Earth to the Sun.
Hover a world →
It lives on your desktop

A game that fights while you live

Shift Heroes runs in a small, always-on-top window beside your work, your classes or your second monitor. Shrink it to a quiet strip — or open it up when it's time to optimize.

Full command, whenever you want

Open side panels for Shop, Heroes, Growth, Equip, Missions and Dungeons. Perfect your squad and formation, then shrink it back down.

Test enemies, used only for this web preview — they do not look like this in the game.

How it plays

Real battles, not spreadsheets

Hold the wall. Watch it happen.

Monsters pour in from three sides while your tanks hold the wall, your snipers pick their targets and your healers keep the line alive. Positioning matters, formations matter — and it's genuinely fun to watch.

Three-flank hordes — the pressure comes from everywhere at once.
Roles that matter — tanks, snipers, healers, summoners, each pulling its weight.
Elements & colossal bosses that demand real gear and team decisions.

Evolve your squad

Seven classes that transform into entirely new heroes, each with its own skills and role. Choose a branch and reshape your whole strategy: raise turret engineers, undead juggernauts, storm mages.

Turret Engineer

Deploys stationary firepower that never breaks formation.

Undead Juggernaut

Raises a companion that evolves from skeleton to dracolich.

Storm Mage

Chains elemental damage and control across the whole field.

The starting seven

Portraits, names and roles come straight from the build — this is the squad you start with.

Systems with teeth

There's always something to grow

Equipment with sockets and tiers, a rune constellation, training, pets, timed horde dungeons, titles to earn and a roster to perfect. Every minute makes your squad stronger.

Gear tiers C → SSS · fixed stats, no random rerolls. What you see is what it is.
Rune Constellation
Training
Pets
Timed Horde Dungeons
Fusion
Blessings
Awaken & Protectors
Titles & Ranks
Codex
Events
Challenges
The campaign

Conquer the Solar System

Fight your way from Earth to the Sun across 1,000 stages. Every world changes the rules with new elements and colossal bosses — and your progress never stops, whether you're at the keyboard or away.

10Worlds
1,000Stages
Fights while away
Straight answers

Questions people actually ask

Is it really free?

Yes — Free to Play on Steam, no purchase required to play.

Do I have to sit and watch it?

No. It's built to run in a small always-on-top window next to whatever else you're doing — progress keeps happening either way.

What platforms?

Windows at launch, on Steam.

Does it need an internet connection?

Yes — progress is validated server-side, so it's online-required.

Controller support?

Not at launch — keyboard and mouse only.

When does it come out?

No date yet. Wishlist on Steam and watch the Discord — you'll hear it there first.

The last world

Reach the Sun

Wishlist now and take your heroes with you — be there on day one.

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