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- Coming soon
- Scheduled release
- 30 October 2026
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- 30 October 2026
Steam release scheduled · App 5304530
AUTOMATE DEATH
- Single-player
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Workshop
- Custom Volume Controls
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- Playable without Timed Input
- Stereo Sound
- Steam Cloud
Player tracking—Begins when the game launches
Release date30 October 2026Scheduled by Steam
Store statusComing soonSteam store listing
Steam rating—0 reviews
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Game information
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- App ID
- 5304530
- App type
- Game
- Developer
- DEMOCRACY MANIFEST ↗
- Publisher
- DEMOCRACY MANIFEST ↗
- Supported systems
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Release date
- 30 October 2026
- Last player update
- Awaiting first sample
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System requirements
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Windows
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10, 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560, 2 GB VRAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes
- Vulkan-compatible graphics drivers required
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 11, 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-12400 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GTX 1650 / AMD RX 570, 4 GB VRAM
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes
- Vulkan-compatible graphics drivers required
macOS
Minimum
- OS
- macOS 13 Ventura
- Processor
- Apple M1
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Apple M1 integrated graphics
Recommended
- OS
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Processor
- Apple M2 or better
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Apple M2 integrated graphics or better
Linux
Minimum
- OS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560, 2 GB VRAM
- Additional Notes
- Vulkan-compatible graphics drivers required
Recommended
- OS
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-12400 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GTX 1650 / AMD RX 570, 4 GB VRAM
- Additional Notes
- Vulkan-compatible graphics drivers required
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About this game
Description
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THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF DEATH FALLS UPON YOUR SHOULDERS
AUTOMATE DEATH in this ever-expanding tower defense, with meta-progression, unique map layouts, dozens of weapon systems, military assets, and dozens of breeds of goblin. Each goblin is physically simulated : they can bump, shove, push each other out of the way. The green bastards come in the tens of thousands. None of them get through.
GIVE THEM LEAD
It starts with one M2 machine gun. Place it, sweep its firing arc across the road, and let it work. Your guns fire on their own. You plan the killing field, watch it run, and decide what gets built next.
GIVE THEM EVEN MORE LEAD
Every kill earns XP. Spend it on more guns, bigger guns and stranger guns: twenty deployable systems, from miniguns and grenade launchers to howitzers, HIMARS, Patriot batteries, C-RAM, loitering drones, railguns, minefields and patrolling Abrams tanks.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
When the guns aren't enough, look up. Call in Hellfire volleys, an AC-130 gunship, A-10 strafing runs, B-52 carpet bombing, napalm and Tomahawk cruise missiles. When all else fails, there is always the ICBM. You pick the target.
RESEARCH MORE WAYS TO DELIVER HIGH VELOCITY ROUNDS
A permanent research tree of more than 400 upgrades. Unlock new weapons, then make every one of them hit harder, reach further and chew through heavier armor. Nothing resets. Every battle, won or lost, makes the next one worse for the goblins.
MASTERY
Game-altering behavior is unlocked through mastering weapon systems and assets in the research tree.
MASSIVE SCALE
Goblins... endless goblins... Hundreds of thousands of goblins seamlessly rendered and simulated every frame.
LEVEL EDITOR FOR CUSTOM MAPS
Paint the roads, place the entrances and exits, set the waves, and test it instantly with your own arsenal. Build the chokepoint you've always wanted, then find out how many goblins it takes to break it.
STEAM WORKSHOP INTEGRATION
Share your created maps. Play others' maps. The amount of potential is limitless.
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Downloadable content
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Demos
1 available
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Achievements
0 achievements
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Patches
5 tracked updates
October 22 patch notes
AUTOMATE DEATH demo: update The demo now starts on Mac On some Macs the demo wouldn't open at all ("The game couldn't start a process"). macOS now accepts it, and it runs on Apple Silicon Macs as well as Intel ones. If Steam's services can't be loaded, the game now carries on without them instead of failing to start. Fixed: bullets disappearing after a Retry With Graphics set to High, rounds, tracers, flames, explosions and the colour grading could vanish after you pressed Retry, or started the next battle straight from the results screen. Your guns were still hitting; you just couldn't see it. Fixed. New research: Firing Arcs A new choice off Fire Control, available after you've cleared 3 maps. Pick one side: Tight Arcs: 14% narrower firing arcs per rank. The same fire is packed into a tighter cone, down to about 3.5° for an M2 aimed at full reach. Wide Arcs: 14% wider firing arcs pe...
Read full update on Steam ↗October 21 patch notes
New scoringRuns are now scored out of 1,000,000 points:Clear: 400,000. Any clear outranks any loss.Protection: up to 200,000. You lose points as your base takes damage.Speed: up to 200,000 for clearing the field quickly after the last hostile arrives. It halves at 10 seconds.Assets: up to 200,000. Each asset deployed after the first costs 10,000, so fewer, stronger guns pay.Abilities: each use costs 100 points per second of its cooldown, but never touches the Clear points.A loss scores up to 300,000 for the share of the assault destroyed.When scores are equal, the faster clear ranks first. For losses, the longer stand ranks first.RankingsThe leaderboards have restarted under the new scoring. Your scores from the old boards are kept as First Muster: you can still view them, but they don't take new runs.A new Rankings option on the title screen and pause menu opens the board for your cu...
Read full update on Steam ↗October 12 patch notes
Patch Notes Map Editor OverhaulThe map editor has been rebuilt from the ground up. A new layoutA tidier screen with much more room for your map: one row of buttons along the top, your tools down the left, and map settings down the right.See your map exactly as it will look in battle, or press V for the blueprint view. DrawingPaint Road, Ground (where you can place guns), Water or Gates with keys 1–4.New ways to draw: square brush, round brush, line, rectangle, ellipse, fill, and a path pen for drawing roads.Change the brush size with \ and ].Entrances and exitsWherever a road meets the edge of the map, point at it with the Gates tool and click to add an entrance or an exit.Drag a gate along the edge to move it, or right-click it to remove it.Drag from an entrance onto an exit to choose where that entrance's enemies head. Getting your map readyA checklist shows what your map still need...
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo update - 10 October minor patch notes
Weapon EffectsAdded ammunition-specific spent casings that eject, tumble, bounce, settle, and fade.Added muzzle smoke, hot-barrel wisps, rocket backblast, vehicle exhaust, and support-aircraft gun smoke.These are visual improvements only. Weapon damage, firing rates, and balance are unchanged.Bug ReportingAdded Report a bug to the Escape menu and Settings.Reports include useful game-state, hardware, settings, and performance diagnostics to help investigate problems.Menus & VersionsAdded date-based version numbers using UTC, with a sequence number for releases packaged on the same day.Versions appear on menus and other non-battle screens, without cluttering the battlefield.Removed the routine “Active: Vulkan | Forward+” text from Settings. Restart and fallback notices remain. (It was just useless noise.)Crash DiagnosticsImproved unexpected-shutdown reports with the previous session’s b...
Read full update on Steam ↗Rolling bug fixes being deployed
Hey everyone. Over the next 12 hours there will be many small, targeted updates aimed at addressing the various issues that have been identified and reported, examples including crashing, freezing, unintuitive UI experiences, and so on. These patches will be small (around 10mb each). I invite you to share you experiences in this thread or on Discord. Be brutally honest and clear. I want to make a great game, so your feedback is essential. The demo is the perfect cornerstone for yourselves and us to come together and improve upon, from what I've heard and see in the Steam data, is a solid and enjoyable game (though flawed, of course!).I'd also like to hear your thoughts on the following features:Save slotsCampaign stats, all viewable in one screen (would work with save slots if they are implemented too)More demo maps (maybe? ːhappymeatː)Thanks everyone!P.S. The Discord is located at ht...
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- SteamRelease
Release scheduled on Steam
Steam currently lists 30 Oct 2026 as the release date.
- SteamPatch
October 22 patch notes ↗
AUTOMATE DEATH demo: update The demo now starts on Mac On some Macs the demo wouldn't open at all ("The game couldn't start a process"). macOS now accepts it, and it runs on Apple Silicon Macs as well as Intel ones. I…
- SteamPatch
October 21 patch notes ↗
New scoringRuns are now scored out of 1,000,000 points:Clear: 400,000. Any clear outranks any loss.Protection: up to 200,000. You lose points as your base takes damage.Speed: up to 200,000 for clearing the field quick…
- SteamPatch
October 12 patch notes ↗
Patch Notes Map Editor OverhaulThe map editor has been rebuilt from the ground up. A new layoutA tidier screen with much more room for your map: one row of buttons along the top, your tools down the left, and map sett…
- SteamPatch
Demo update - 10 October minor patch notes ↗
Weapon EffectsAdded ammunition-specific spent casings that eject, tumble, bounce, settle, and fade.Added muzzle smoke, hot-barrel wisps, rocket backblast, vehicle exhaust, and support-aircraft gun smoke.These are visu…
- SteamPatch
Rolling bug fixes being deployed ↗
Hey everyone. Over the next 12 hours there will be many small, targeted updates aimed at addressing the various issues that have been identified and reported, examples including crashing, freezing, unintuitive UI expe…