The Best Mobile Games for Super Auto Pets Fans Who Want More

Super Auto Pets shipped in 2022 and quietly became one of the cleanest expressions of the auto-battler genre. You draft pets, assign them positions, give them items, and then watch them fight. Your decisions happen between rounds, not during them. The result is a game about preparation, positioning, and synergy reading — not reflexes.

The mobile version exists, but Super Auto Pets is primarily a PC game. Players who want that strategic depth in a more mobile-native experience have to look elsewhere. Here's where to look.

What makes Super Auto Pets work

Before getting to recommendations, it helps to identify what actually makes the game good: permanent decisions (your team composition carries into the fight), position dependency (where your pets stand affects outcomes), synergy layers (items and pet abilities interact in non-obvious ways), and the absence of active gameplay during combat (you commit to your choices and watch).

Games that replicate all four of these are rare. Most auto-battlers get two or three right.

Shiba Story Go

Not a pure auto-battler, but relevant. Shiba Story Go is a roguelike idle RPG where you assemble expertise classes and gear sets before combat, then let the fight play out. The pre-combat decision layer — which expertise combination, which gear priority, which build route through a run — is where the game lives.

Super Auto Pets players who like the "solve the puzzle before the fight" structure will find familiar territory here. The roguelite loop means runs feel distinct, and the expertise system has enough depth that the decisions don't flatten out.

Teamfight Tactics

The most feature-complete auto-battler on mobile. TFT has a large active player base, constant updates tied to League of Legends seasons, and a competitive ladder for players who want to measure their decisions against other people's.

The complexity ceiling is higher than Super Auto Pets. That's either a feature or a problem depending on what you want from the genre.

AFK Arena

The idle RPG overlap with auto-battlers is real: both genres are about team composition and preparation rather than active play. AFK Arena delivers the hero collection and positioning elements of auto-battlers in an idle format. It's not a direct translation, but the strategic muscle you use in Super Auto Pets is the same one you use in AFK Arena.

Squad Busters

Supercell's take on the real-time auto-battler. Squad Busters is more chaotic than Super Auto Pets and less focused on preparation, but it captures the same "build a team, watch it fight" satisfaction in a faster loop. Good for mobile sessions where you want something complete in under five minutes.

Auto Chess

The original auto-battler, available on mobile. Auto Chess is slower and more complex than Super Auto Pets, closer to TFT in depth. If your preference is maximum strategic surface area, this is where to go. If you want something lighter, it'll feel dense.

The through-line

Super Auto Pets works because it respects the player's decisions. Every round you're making choices that have consequences — position your honey badger wrong and you lose a fight you should have won. The games worth playing next are the ones with the same design philosophy: your preparation determines your outcome, and the game gives you enough information to prepare well.

The auto-battler genre is small but honest. The recommendations here hold up.