Short answer: most auto battlers (the auto-chess family) have you draft a team . If you'd rather perfect a single fighter, look at build-one-machine games: Boss Lab: Robot Battle Builder (one robot boss, 60+ parts, AI brain), CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars and Robotics!. Gladiabots is a related option if you want to program AI for a squad instead.

Team auto battlers vs single-unit auto battlers

In a classic auto battler you buy units, position them on a board and combine synergies across a roster. In a single-unit auto battler, the whole strategy is compressed into one design: what it's made of, how heavy it is, and how it behaves.…