- February 6, 2026
- Headless
Underboard
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About Underboard
Underboard is a single player tactical role playing game. It was developed by Headless and was released on February 6, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.
Find all the Cameos! About the GameTactical team-building roguelike auto-battler with active and passive playstyles. Draft a team, level them up, equip loot, and stack Traits to maximize your synergies. Fight through randomized maps, using your spells and Masteries to support and refine your builds. Explore multiple Zones to conquer challenging bosses and help your team escape the Underboard. …









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Reviews
- Deep and engaging roguelike auto-battler with strong strategic planning, positioning, and team synergy elements.
- Wide variety of builds, characters, items, and spells allowing great replayability and player agency in crafting viable squads.
- Highly praised art style and soundtrack, combining charming visuals with dynamic and memorable music.
- Game suffers from heavy RNG influence that can frustrate players, especially in late stages and boss fights, sometimes making runs feel unwinnable.
- The game's difficulty curve is uneven with sudden spikes and some bosses feeling overtuned or unfair without prior information.
- Excessive and complex text/tooltips hinder readability and new player onboarding; complicated mechanics and unclear ability descriptions can be overwhelming.
gameplay
33 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay blends roguelike and auto-battler mechanics into an addictive and challenging loop of drafting, upgrading, and strategy, with a satisfying risk-reward system. However, complexity from numerous mechanics, unclear keyword explanations, and punishing boss mechanics—especially without prior knowledge—can create confusion and frustration. Despite these issues, the core gameplay shows strong potential and enjoyment once players grasp the systems and adapt their approach.
“Its blend of auto-battler mechanics, roguelike structure, and layered progression systems creates a satisfying loop of drafting, upgrading, and conquering increasingly difficult zones.”
“The escalating difficulty curve encourages players to refine their understanding of mechanics and adapt their approach with each attempt.”
“The game has nice mechanics that allow different playthroughs and replay like having different teams, items, spells between other mechanics, the music is very cool, and the design of the monsters and players are great as well. The game runs very well with no glitches or bugs, showing the developers' dedication. The game is easy to understand and hard to complete, which is hard to balance, but they did it well. I definitely recommend this game.”
“The later bosses have punishing mechanics but you go in blind so you can't work around them.”
“Quite a few of the characters are basically useless and at least some of those are useless because the entire mechanic they're built around is useless.”
“Even if we are given advance notice in which traits you need to max out to keep the boss from getting these abilities, it's just an incredibly stupid mechanic that restricts what we can actually do in the game.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
Underboard is a tactical role playing game. Common tags for Underboard include turn-based, indie, roguelite, dungeon crawler, resource management and others.
Underboard is available on PC and Windows.
Underboard was released on February 6, 2026.
Underboard was developed by Headless.
Underboard has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Underboard for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.
Underboard is a single player game.
Similar games include The Last Flame, He is Coming, The Last Spell, Astronarch, Hadean Tactics and others.










