Introducing Midnight Rogues, a Roguelike Auto-Battler With A Twist

Midnight Rogues is the debut game from Aduran Studio: a roguelike auto-battler about building the sequence that fights for you.

Buy items, arrange them across your board, study the effects, experiment with item placement, and decide what activates first. When combat begins, a timer moves through your board and triggers each item in order; each slot is one second, and bigger items stay activated longer. Placement matters: moving the same items into a different slot can change an entire fight.

For example, you might place Critical Momentum before your weapons, which, for each second the timer is on it, gives a 10% critical chance to all of your items, and it is a big item, which means it gets activated three times!

Then if you're lucky, you can buy the Rewind item, which sends the timer back through those effects and activate the one more time. The fun is in finding interactions like this and turning a collection of ordinary items into a powerful combination.

The game follows three young couriers who gain superpowers after a laboratory explosion. Blamed for the disaster, they join a mysterious wizard in a fight against corrupted superheroes. When they die, his time loop takes them back to the start of the war with superheroes.

Midnight Rogues grew from Thirty Again, the prototype we made in 96 hours for GMTK Game Jam 2026. The prototype ranked #18 in Enjoyment, and the response encouraged us to expand the idea into our first commercial game.

Midnight Rogues is coming to PC via Steam. The free public demo arrives September 30, 2026.