Gem Wizards Tactics

When I bought this game at first, a recent updated made the game unplayable. I reported them on the community forum and the dev fixed everything within a single day. The game is incredibly clever and dynamic. Your individual units have fairly simple abilities, e.g. "charges forwards two tiles and pushes anyone in the way" but those abilities can combo to create an incredible number of options on a given turn. There's a lot of depth here and a wild creative energy to the mechanical design.

I had a lot of fun playing Gem Wizards Tactics; however, this game still needs some additional content. *Previously, I cam across some problems that are now resolved. So, there is not much more to say until I play some more and see if I can rise to the challenge. - Do I recommend this game: If you are looking for a final product (one that is out of development) this might not be for you. But if a story mode (fairly short but refine story), short campaign (9 stages of combat), and AI combat (fight AI at a selected rank) is all or more than enough for you, then go for it. It plays well and has interesting strategy tile-play. With all that said, I’m still a little bit on the fence (if I were to recommend this game to a friend) this is a lovely, quirky game that has interesting tile mechanics which give rise to interesting synergies, but you can only interact with others and the game separately at the moment. I will certainly continue to play and enjoy as more content is added; no complaints to date. [edit: (*)Removed the problems that I cam across as they are now patched-out of the game, as well, changes to the review]

Now this is a turn based tactics game that will really have you thinking. One wrong turn and it could all be over. But all is not lost as the beautiful graphics will keep you playing again & again.

great game

Exceedingly good and long-lasting gameplay value for those with limited time--each match lasts anywhere from 20-30 minutes at most. The player factions are varied and fairly balanced from my limited exposure of each. Gameplay is simple at first glance, but the synergies among units adds deep, tactical and surprising complexity to the Advanced Wars-like formula. About the only thing that would add value to an already enjoyable game would be at least two or three more player factions, but the developer has already hinted that this is a possibility. Could we get a robot faction please? There is something of a story mode in this game, with the world's lore established early on during the tutorial and progressively emerging through story tidbits gained through the collection of "Omni Gems", which serve to fuel player units' special abilities as all as add to the game's backstory compendium. For those who simply wish to play without much storytelling in the way, something of a custom mode exists in Mission Mode whereby a play may customize the difficulty of a match, select their faction as well as terrain and how unrelenting the A.I.-controlled enemy faction becomes in seeing to your defeat. Overall the difficulty curve in this game is quite forgiving. At higher difficulty levels, however, the game scales quite generously for those inclined to a challenge and could be made exponentially more difficult given the player's ability to choose how often enemy reinforcements spawn into the game to hunt them down. Conclusion? A great game for thinking players with limited time to play games.

VERY good game along the lines of Into the Breach

Suddenly the newest update disables recruiting units. That knight was 100% recruited and then after the mission he's gone. What the ♥♥♥♥.