Together in Battle

I'm a huge fan of Telepath Tactics and how it made such good tactical options relating to using and changing the environment. Together in Battle is much along the same lines with a more interesting story and overall feel. As such it has plenty of potential to far surpass its older brother. It's been a hard decision to post a negative on this but, at the current time, I cant recommend a purchase due to having encountered several bugs and crashes that need to be ironed out. On the other hand, I'm certain these problems will be dealt with in time and TIB remains enjoyable aside from these annoyances that can result in you having wasted a heck of a lot of time replaying fights borked by anomalies. So I would have preferred to have been able to make a neutral review, am erring on the side of NOT YET, with the aside that it will be worth plenty more than its cost after some corrections. Obviously with progress on this front I will reverse the down-vote.

i wanted to like this game because the actual battles are pretty fun and great strategy gameplay, but man....the UI is a terror. Comparing equipment, knowing weapon durability, equipping units, comparing units is not always easy to figure out and makes the whole management part of the game feel annoying at times. In addition to that, for some reason i ran into a billion bugs when using a controller/steam deck where couldn't select things, couldn't go back on selections, etc. But never had issues when using KB/M on actual PC. Not sure why that was the case, but I really wanted to have this game when traveling but couldn't do it. Real shame because I really enjoyed the combat when the game was working.

It's a good game, but it really should have the difficult tag as far as TRPGs go. Don't go in expecting a cozy romp. It's a victim of being overtuned and overly punishing if you ever deviate from a single strategy. Every fight essentially boils down to hiding in a corner, and passing turn until everything comes to you. If you dare to ever move out of that position, you will wind up with units being 1-shot or tossed into a pit for instant death, and that's in a game tuned around a chance of perma death or losing valuable time on the default difficulty. The default difficulty will kick you in the balls over and over, and if you like that in your TRPG, this will fulfill that need.

Okay first the few things that annoy me. Shove -- I hate this mechanic. I hated it in FFT and I hate it here. Its annoying. How does some lightly armored swordsman shove my fully armoured spear man anywhere. You characters all seem to lack Mass except when they are crashing in to each other. How do they even get close enough to body check my spear man, when they charge in and don't use their sword, but get even closer to push the character. Sorry but the their should be a counter shove or something. When its not your turn and your click to hopefully speed things up you get this "Buzz" it gets annoying... really really really really annoying. I don't need a buzz to tell me my clicking is not doing anything, cause THAT IS WHY I"M CLICKING!!!!. If I wear out my mouse with useless clicking that should be entirely up to me. Now with those two gripes out the way. I was really looking and waiting for another tactical battle and this is definitely starting to scratch the it. It SO far seems balanced. By balanced I mean... Your swordsman and the enemy swordsman at the same level, his about the same level of damage. So when forced are equal, if you don't want to run into attrition and loose half your army every battle, you got to think, and plan, pull the enemy formation apart, etc. And you going to get hurt if you screw up. Perhaps their will be more "Elites" thrown in later, with more characters than can 1 hit your weak characters and will force me to endlessly restart battles, but well enjoying the balance for now. I would really like more control over my recruits. Yeah, keep their personality randomized. So their is acutally interesting to see the character dialogue between them. I do like the personalities, and I have enjoyed a bit of the banter. I really do dislike having the Commander this nameless, faceless, dismbodied persona. That reppresents you, but at the same time her is already a character that you have no control over. For someone who is ordering people to kill and possible go to their deaths, he should be able to pick up his own bloody sword. (Or her sword) If he dies, yeah it should be game over. But that is part of a strategy game. It would be real nice to create charactrers (which I do enjoy the character creator) and simply be able to randomize the personalities.

Great tactical combat and resource management game. Pretty good balance among classes and skills. Can be played with autosave(roguelike) or manual saves. Enough variety in classes, events, and endings to allow for multiple base game playthroughs, not to mention workshop support and custom characters/difficulties. Active dev who is still improving the game after release.

Very fun TRPG with interesting class builds with fun multiclass functionality, challenging battles and replayability. Clearly the devs are passionate about their work and the quality and thought behind the game shows. The devs have also been open enough to release their campaign maker along with the game (and a modable version of the main game!), so more content will hopefully be on the horizon. A thumbs up from me, but I do echo some of the less positive feedback about design choices. Namely, the limit to actions per day makes you choose what you want to do carefully, e.g. Arena vs shopping + training. While I understand the devs wanting to add risk vs reward to party management, a lot of the more interesting aspects of the game e.g. your unit/multiclass build, equipment set-up etc cost you time to set up at the expense of adventuring/battling, so you end up having to sacrifice some fun content for the sake of challenge. While the overall party mgmt difficulty can be tweaked downward, this doesn't affect your "timeslots" per day so you still have to make sacrifices here. Some tweaks I'd recommend would be for e.g. to make you choose between the shop, recruiter, or trainer per day and still allow you to go to the arena or investigate later on. This keeps the sacrificial element while still allowing you to do fun content. Or alternatively if the engine allows, have a third timeslot be toggleable in the difficulty settings. These are just mild annoyances however, and to me the game is still an overall excellent strategic TRPG. I'll be keeping a close eye on the dev team for updates here as well as to other games they make in the future.

I cannot recommend this game at this time due to the awkward interface, balance issues, and frequent crashes. It is rare that I can get through a single battle without having menu issues or the game becoming unresponsive and requiring a restart. I am optimistic that these issues will be overcome and will revise this review when they are. For now, it will be put aside.

A fantastic concept for arena management with rewarding combat. It's presentation has indie charm, and it's mechanics are ambitious. The game is severely lacking in UI design and polish, even for a small indie game. It's graphical assets are an uneven mishmash that makes the game look cheap and unfinished. Try the demo first, and see for yourself.

Great colloseum strategy game! Tactics are thankfully more complex than just placement and damage; there is buffs/debuffs, control, several classes with different upgrades, and more. Storyline is light and not too difficult, but good enough to enjoy. Random events make each playthrough different. Your fighters interact with each other and develop relationships. Best of all; the game had a passionate developer! There are some bugs in the game, but if you post about them the developer contacts you and takes it serious. I love seeing people enjoy their own work :)

面白いです。 SRPGが好きな人にはおすすめ。 ただ戦闘テンポはちょっと遅めで1日の食料とかキャラの体調と給料、士気ゲージに気を配らなきゃならないので結構大変。 現在日本語非対応ですがUnity製のゲームなのでXUnity Auto Translatorでリアルタイムの翻訳可能です(詳しくは検索で) タイトル画面でカスタムキャラクターでキャラ作成も可能。 個人的にちょっと思ったのは、カスタムキャラクターでカスタムポートレートも使用可能だったらいいのになー…と思います。