Gem Wizards Tactics

Tactical freedom during combat like rarely seen before: Manipulating procedural map terrains, using unit synergies and other bumps and bounces is fun and rewarding. Cherry on top: The unusual Factions and units are a breath of fresh air.

A charming, light-hearted tactics game with a ridiculous amount of complexity in how units interact. The tutorial and first campaign starts you off with the basics, but nearly every match you're learning new and interesting ways to combine your units powers and positioning. It can be a little frustrating if you're not able to capture the flags as quickly as possible, with the game dragging on but you're in a losing position. Overall though, a refreshingly fun and deep tactics game.

This game has a ton of depth, and the audio/visuals are very charming. Highly recommended, the combos that come out are really cool

This is the best Tactics game I've ever played. If you enjoy tactics games you owe it to yourself to give this one a try. If you enjoy the idea of a tactics games but found all the ones you've tried before lacking this is the one you've been looking for. On the surface it's just an ordinary tile based tactics game but it's the details where this shine. All the units are really well designed unique and all come with 1-3 interesting abilities. The factions are all just really coherent and all the units within just have so many interesting synergies with each other. The gameplay also isn't just repetitive hitting the same enemies with the same attacks over and over again. You actually gotta use the abilities wisely and take all the different environmental effects into consideration which makes it so that even after 174 hours I can't fall into a routine at the higher difficulties and have to keep using that noggin. It also offers a variety of gamemodes: There is a story campaign, a sort of smaller scale XCOM style campaign and my personal favorite, the ability to just play a quick scenario at one of 20 different difficulty levels.

I did not play a lot, but I can see I'll play more than Wargroove because games are much faster: around 15~20min which is perfect for me. There is nice humor, each unit is pretty fun to play. I would say it's in a nice spot between Wargroove and Into the Breach (♥♥♥).

Fight factions in brutal turn-based battles and capture flags to defeat them. This challenging strategy game has beautiful visuals and offers endless replay value due to the randomly generated maps! https://youtu.be/VTvSa4TPdM8

absolutely terrible mess of pixels

(Ignore the playtime, I played this a while on the switch beforehand) It's rare when a solid tactics game gets paired with such a vibrant, bubbly aesthetic. As someone who is a big fan of both, this is an easy recommend from me. The only other game to capture both for me was Outwitters a decade ago. But unlike Outwitters (which was an excellent game in its own right), the faction variety here is *huge*, and they play completely differently from each other. There's lots of strategic depth here, with a variety of placement- and terrain-manipulating moves available for each squad. The only real downside is the AI, which is only capable of getting more difficult through brute force (i.e., a bigger horde of enemies) rather than better strategy. A bit of a shame, but understandable given how complicated the game is strategically. Overall, it's been a great time. Came for the adorable aesthetic, stayed for the ITB-esque SRPG gameplay and strategic depth/variety.

An outstanding tactical game with emergent gameplay and fresh new ideas. Cannot recommend enough. Buy this!

not heroes 3.