Beasts of Shanhai - Free browser auto-battler built on Chinese mythology
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A free auto-battler in the browser. Draft a team from 43 beasts of the Shan Hai Jing, play the five elements against each other and clear ten trials, plus a new daily trial. Every beast has a bestiary page quoting the original text. No sign-up.
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Hi Product Hunt! I made Beasts of Shanhai because I grew up with the Shan Hai Jing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese book of strange beasts, and almost none of them show up in games outside China.
It's a short auto-battler: you buy beasts in a shop, place them on a five-slot board, and each fight resolves on its own. The five elements decide who beats whom. A run is ten trials, and there's a new daily trial every day.
Each beast in the game links to a bestiary page with the original classical Chinese line it comes from and an English translation, so if a monster catches your eye you can read where it came from.
It runs in any browser, free, no account. I'd love to hear which beast you'd want added next.