Order Automatica tier lists

These lists are launch-week rankings for a game that shipped on 4 September 2026 with a 20-unit player roster, 17 enemy units, 19 items, 24 Indulgences, 18 cell effects, and 9 Curses. Steam reviews are still a small sample. Treat S-tier as “this kept winning in demo and launch footage,” not as a six-month meta.

Open the specific list you need:

• Unit tier list for portraits you actually drop on the 3x3.
• Item tier list for books, mushrooms, Poison, Taunt, and True Cell.
• Indulgences and Curses for the persistent layer that sits above the shop.
• Enemy tier list for the 17 opposing portraits you cannot draft.

How we rank

A unit is high if it either (a) wins fights when placed correctly or (b) prints Essence / items that win later fights. Pig is not a combat god. Pig is S-adjacent because “when unit levels up, gain extra Essence” buys the rest of the board. Madame is high because Upon Death firing two adjacent abilities is a combo piece. Featureless-style tanks are high in Initiate and drop when Adept enemies ignore raw defense.

Items are ranked by how often they steal a candle on their own. Poison is a scalpel. A random +1 column book is a staple. Rotten-egg Curses that fill slots are not items you draft; they are taxes.

We do not invent a 20th portrait name the Codex has not shown. If a unit is still a silhouette in your Codex, it is unranked until you unlock it. The in-game Codex under the title screen is the complete collection.

Using a tier list without bricking the shop

Buy the unit the shop actually offered if it fills cell 1. An A-tier tank in the row is better than an S-tier Madame you do not own yet. Merge copies of a B-tier body you already committed to rather than pivoting every Draw Again. The shop, Distill, and merge guide is the companion page for that discipline.

Placement still beats tier. Imp in a corner is a different card from Imp in cell 5. Read grid and positioning before you argue with a list.

When these lists will move

Launch patches will shuffle numbers. Demo comments already called Zombie and Manifester-plus-Disposable too strong in older builds. If a 1.00 hotfix lands, we will note it in launch notes and updates. Until then, rank with the 1.00.04-era screenshots: 20 portraits in the Units tab, Pig selected, 105/105 Codex completion possible for the full set of systems.

If you want a finished sentence instead of a ranking, skip to synergy builds. If you want the teaching loop, go back to Getting Started.