Pixel Muster: Draft a Crew of Fables

Yes. Pixel Muster is a free auto battler in your browser, with no download and no account. Signing in is optional and only adds the online leaderboards, daily quests and cosmetic skins, and keeps a game in progress with your account.

Yes. Open the page once while you are online and your browser keeps the game. After that every game plays with no connection at all: the seven rival storytellers live inside the game, not on a server. A game in progress is saved at every step on your device.

A strategy game where you build a team and the fights play themselves. Between fights you buy units, place them and level up; during a fight the units choose their own targets and use their abilities when their mana is full. The skill is in what you buy, what you keep and where you put it.

Yes, it's the same genre: you draft units from a shared pool, combine three copies into a stronger one, build alliances and watch the fights play out automatically against seven rivals. Pixel Muster is an original game with its own storybook heroes, alliances and items, made by NoInternet Arcade and not affiliated with Drodo Studio (Auto Chess) or Valve (Dota Underlords). It plays free in the browser, on phones and offline.

Buy three copies of the same unit and they merge at once into a 2-star unit with double HP and damage and a stronger ability. Three 2-star copies make a 3-star unit with four times the HP and damage. All eight players buy from one shared pool, so a unit your rivals collect shows up less for you.

Every unit has three tags, such as Beast, Child, Witch or Princess. Enough different units with the same tag on your page switch on its alliance: core tags at 3, 6 and 9 units, mid tags at 2, 4 and 6, elite tags at 2 and 4. Each of the nine tier 5 units is the Ace of one tag, with an extra power while that alliance is on.

You get 5 gold a round (less in the first rounds), 1 more for a win, 1 interest for every 10 gold you keep (up to 5) and streak gold for three or more wins or losses in a row. A reroll of the stall costs 2 gold, 4 XP cost 5 gold, and your level is the number of units you may put on your page.

Yes. The stall deals the next round's cards as the fight starts, so you can study them while your figures fight, and nothing rerolls when the fight ends. Tap SHOP (Q on a keyboard) during the fight to buy units to your bench, reroll, lock the stall, buy XP or sell bench units. The fight itself never changes: units you buy join your page in the next prep, and three copies with one on the page merge then.

Rounds 1, 2, 3, 10, 15 and every fifth round after that are fought against creatures of the fairy-tale forest: hedgehogs and wolf cubs first, later bridge trolls, nightmare bears, stone giants, the Great Dragon and the Leshy. Win one and you pick an item from three; lose and you still get one at random.

A Standard game lasts about 35 to 45 rounds, 20 to 25 minutes with fights at double speed. A Compact game takes about 30 rounds, and Knockout ends by round 30 at the latest. Fights can run at x1, x2 or x4, or be skipped. The game saves at every step: pause, go back to the menu or close the tab and CONTINUE right where you were, in the same mode.

MODES in the title menu has four: Standard (the full game), Compact (lost fights hurt twice as much, so games are shorter), Knockout (6 hearts, 5 on Hardcore, a starting team you pick, a free level and an item every 2 rounds, 7 gold a round, a richer shop, no wild rounds, about 15 rounds) and the Daily Muster (the same game for everyone each day). Pick one to read its rules and the board it ranks on before you start.

One game a day that starts the same for every player (the same rivals and the same first shop), with Standard rules and Normal rivals. Your first Daily game of the day is your ranked try on the Daily Muster leaderboard; you can pause and continue it, and any game after it is practice. A new Daily opens at 00:00 UTC, and the MODES menu shows whether your try is used and when the next one opens.

A game scores 1,000 points for first place, 700 for second, then 500, 350, 250, 150, 80 and 30, plus 10 for every round you played, plus 5 for every HP (in Knockout, every heart) the winner has left. Each mode has its own Pixel Muster leaderboard that keeps your best game, and Standard, Compact and Knockout each have a Hardcore board too. The boards marked "old rules" keep the scores from before the October 2026 rebalance.

Tap the game to play full screen; it works upright and sideways, each with its own layout. Tap a card to buy, drag a unit to move it (a tap shows its card), and hold a finger on anything for its info card. To sell, tap a unit and then SELL.

OPTIONS > DIFFICULTY: HARDCORE. Every rival plays at its best, the prep has a 30 second timer, there is no free reroll after a loss, defeats cost 25% more HP and the wild rounds are 15% tougher; in Knockout you start with 5 hearts instead of 6. Hardcore games have their own leaderboards (Standard, Compact and Knockout); the Daily Muster always plays against Normal rivals.