Behold Battle

It's Mage and Monsters but you don't actually get to play. You just watch instead. An utter downgrade. This should be a bonus mode in Mage and monsters not a standalone title.

Not for me.

DO you want to gamble on the outcome of a auto battler?

Best game to play at the gym between sets

You have to be extremely lucky to win the hardest difficulty (predict 20 rounds in a row). Even by running the same unit compositions on a different PC, the outcome is not the same most of the time, so for most rounds it just becomes guesswork, even if you understand the unit counters.

Behold Battle is a compact, cleverly designed auto-battler developed and published by Lasse Zacho Malver that embraces simplicity as its defining strength. Instead of competing with large-scale strategy games or complex auto-battlers packed with dense systems, it distills the genre down to its most observational core. The game is less about issuing commands and more about understanding outcomes, encouraging players to read situations, recognize patterns, and make educated predictions about how different forces will clash once combat begins. From the outset, it positions itself as a relaxed, almost playful experience that values curiosity and experimentation over mastery and optimization. The central gameplay loop is refreshingly straightforward. Players are shown two opposing armies composed of various fantasy units and must decide which side will win before the battle automatically plays out. Once the fight starts, there is no further player input; the satisfaction comes from watching the encounter unfold and seeing whether your prediction was correct. This design shifts the usual focus of strategy games away from execution and toward analysis, rewarding players who pay attention…