Araf: The In Between
Araf: The In Between is a tactical auto-battler where historical and mythical heroes clash between life and death. Build your deck, forge Class and Affinity synergies, place Seals, unlock Reinforcements, and adapt as Fallen heroes leave your shop pool—unless a Summon Rune brings them back.
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Araf: The In Between is a tactical auto-battler where historical and mythical heroes clash between life and death. Build your deck, forge Class and Affinity synergies, place Seals, unlock Reinforcements, and adapt as Fallen heroes leave your shop pool—unless a Summon Rune brings them back.
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About This Game
About This Game
Enter Araf, the realm between life and death.
Heroes who left their mark on history, legend, and myth awaken in Araf, where they must fight for a chance to return to the world of the living.
Araf: The In Between is a tactical auto-battler built around deck building, team synergies, battlefield positioning, and strategic choices that evolve throughout each match.
Build your deck, combine Classes and Affinities, prepare your formation, place powerful Seals on the battlefield, choose Runes as the match progresses, and complete quests to unlock Reinforcements that can reshape your strategy.
Once combat begins, your heroes fight automatically — but victory depends on how you build, position, adapt, and develop your strategy from round to round.
Build Your Deck
Your army begins with the deck you create.
Choose the heroes you want available during the match and build around different Classes and Affinities. Rather than drawing from every hero in the game, your deck defines the hero pool available to your strategy.
Adapt your composition as the match progresses, strengthen key synergies, and decide which heroes deserve a place on the battlefield.
Combine Classes and Affinities
Every hero belongs to a Class and an Affinity.
Combining heroes with matching traits activates powerful synergies that can change how your army performs. Build around a focused strategy or combine different traits to respond to the challenges ahead.
Your strongest team is not always made of the strongest individual heroes — synergy matters.
The Fallen
Losing a hero can change more than a single battle.
When a hero becomes Fallen, they are removed from your available shop pool and can no longer appear in future shop rolls. Losing an important hero can break a key Class or Affinity synergy and force you to rethink your strategy for the rest of the match.
Fallen heroes are not necessarily gone forever.
Certain Runes, such as Summon, allow you to call a Fallen hero back. Once summoned, that hero becomes available again and returns to the shop pool.
Every loss matters. A fallen hero does not simply disappear from the battlefield — they can also disappear from your future options.
Shape Your Strategy with Runes
As the match progresses, you will be offered Runes from a larger pool of possibilities.
Choose the Runes that best support your current strategy, strengthen your existing synergies, recover from devastating losses, or take your army in a completely different direction.
The choices available can vary from match to match, forcing you to adapt rather than rely on the same build every time.
Control the Battlefield with Seals
Before the match begins, choose the Seals you want to bring into battle.
Seals can be placed directly onto battlefield cells, turning parts of the board into tactical tools. Depending on the Seal, a cell can become a trap, trigger an effect, empower an ally, punish an enemy, or create new opportunities during combat.
Positioning is no longer only about where your heroes stand. The battlefield itself becomes part of your strategy.
Complete Quests and Unlock Reinforcements
Before the match, choose the Reinforcements you want to bring with you.
During the match, complete quests to unlock them and expand the options available to your army.
Unlocked Reinforcements can provide new tactical abilities and contribute an additional +1 to their associated Class, opening new ways to activate or strengthen Class synergies that may otherwise be difficult to reach.
Choosing the right Reinforcements can therefore be just as important as choosing the heroes in your deck.
Prepare, Adapt, and Evolve
At the beginning of a match, you choose the tools that will shape your strategy:
Your Heroes and Deck
Your Seals
Your Reinforcements
But your strategy does not end there.
During the match, available heroes, fallen units, Rune choices, quests, enemy formations, Reinforcements, and battlefield conditions can force you to change your plan.
Reposition your frontline, protect important units, develop new synergies, complete quests, recover key Fallen heroes when the opportunity arises, and use Seals to create an advantage where you need it most.
When combat begins, your army takes over. Between battles, you decide what it becomes.
Play Solo or Battle Online
Fight through solo battles or challenge other players in online PvP.
Experiment with different decks, Classes, Affinities, Runes, Seals, and Reinforcement combinations to discover new strategies and refine the way you play.
Features
Tactical auto-battler combat
Deck-based hero pool
Class and Affinity synergy system
Fallen system where lost heroes are removed from the shop pool
Summon Runes that can bring Fallen heroes back
Rune choices that shape your strategy throughout the match
Battlefield positioning and formation strategy
Seals that add traps, spells, and tactical effects to battlefield cells
Quest-based Reinforcement system
Reinforcements with unique tactical effects
Reinforcements that contribute +1 to Class synergies
Pre-match Deck, Seal, and Reinforcement selection
Solo battles and online PvP
Historical, legendary, and mythical hero-inspired characters
Dark fantasy world set between life and death
Araf features fantasy characters inspired by historical, legendary, and mythical figures. The game is a fictional dark fantasy interpretation and is not intended to be a historically accurate representation.
In Araf, victory is built round by round — through the deck you create, the heroes you preserve, the losses you recover from, the synergies you develop, the battlefield you shape, and the choices you make along the way.
