California, November 10, 2026 — Nevergreen Games today released Pack Tactics 1.0 worldwide on the App Store and Google Play. Pack Tactics is a free-to-play auto battler card game in which the player's deck is an ecosystem: draft animals, build a pack, and send it against packs that real players built. Combat resolves automatically against snapshots of other players' packs, no lobby and no waiting — and unlike most games in the genre, the consequences do not reset between fights. Cards evolve or die for the whole run.
Pack Tactics has been in a regional soft launch since February 2026, balanced against real players throughout. A premium PC version arrives on Steam in spring 2027 at $4.99, with a playable demo at Steam Next Fest (February 22 – March 1, 2027). The Steam version is the same cross-platform game with the two mobile add-ons — the Wasteland card set and the 2× reward multiplier — included, with no ads and nothing else to buy.
"An auto battler where a lost fight costs you nothing but the fight is a very forgiving genre," said Rath Ahnert, co-founder of Nevergreen Games. "We took the safety net away. If something eats your best animal, it's gone for the run. That was the scary design decision, and it's the thing people stayed for."
Key features
- Draft with real opportunity cost every round: one rare, two silvers, or a horde of bronze
- Fully automatic combat, readable at a glance, in rounds short enough for a bus stop
- Asynchronous PvP against packs real players actually built
- Permanent evolution and permanent death across a whole run
- Cross-platform between mobile and PC; free-to-play on phones, $4.99 premium on Steam
Availability: Free on iOS and Android from November 10, 2026. Steam (Windows, with Steam Deck support planned), spring 2027, $4.99; wishlist at https://store.steampowered.com/app/3784830/Pack_Tactics/
Assets: Trailer https://youtu.be/rfL52cO2goc · Press kit https://impress.games/press-kit/nevergreen-games-llc/pack-tactics
About Nevergreen Games: Nevergreen Games LLC is a two-person independent studio in California founded by Rath Ahnert and Ryan Chenier, making mobile games, board games and experimental projects. Pack Tactics is the studio's first PC release. Some in-game art and audio in Pack Tactics was produced with generative-AI tools.
Press contact: Rath Ahnert — rath.ahnert@nevergreengames.com