Together in Battle

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 :)

Started playing this using the GOG version; liked it so much, I purchased the Steam version....'dev' support & all. I can't recommend this game enough for those that enjoy this genre of pc gaming. The more I play it the more I like it; (to include a good friend of mine's opinion, as well). The, thought out, tactical decisions need to be 'spot on'...or else. Being able create one's party members & then, even, entering them into the Multiplayer Arena mode is a nice bonus that so many games in this genre fail to implement. Btw, The Campaign Editor/Creator is an amazing/powerful; tool that folks who like to do such things will be, more, than appreciative of all the options available; to include randomly generating a map to play on...sizes of which, can be huge. The, stunning, fact that one can purchase a pc game that offers this much play/replay/enjoyment for the, current, asking price is, nothing short of, amazing...imho.

Well 40 hours in with 2 separate save files attempted both have hit a point they are locked up and i cant play either anymore. BY this i mean the cutscene starts on one at beginning of a battle for one of the people to explain the way to beat the fight but doesnt say anything and theres no button to escape or anythig its just alt f4. other one has same kind of bug in middle of battle so until these kind of game breaking bugs are fixed i cant recommend the game. It is a shame the bugs are so bad as the game is truly fun till it hits a breaking point. can only hope these get fixed The developer personally reached out enquiring about the bug and then fixed the bug i encountered so i have changed my review to positive. Love to see a developer so invested in his product and can tell it is really a labour of love for them. Thank you my friend. As for the game play well its a genre that has really became popular in the last few years and there is a glut of these type of games out there. There is so many terrible ones pushed out for fast money and not cared about by the developer. Most of these genre basically run the same way having their own small details differing the games apart so …

Fun TRPG

Another great game. It doesn't add too much more mechanically to Telepath Tactics, but the different game formula still keeps it fresh, and the ability to mix and match classes through class change adds fun character building elements. I found the personality sets of the pre-genned characters enjoyable and charming. The main story had me second guessing my suspicions at multiple points, and delivered a satisfying conclusion. Good game, looking forward to the next project in this world.

Does not respect the player's time. Menus, cut-scenes, and combat events all have aggravatingly slow fade transitions, only some of which can be skipped with mouse clicks (even then, no one wants to constantly click ♥♥♥♥!). This is especially noticeable during combat, where the computer takes several seconds per enemy unit action to do... who knows what. The game isn't nearly complex enough to need that much time to "think" on a modern system. The Gold Box games from the 90s offered faster combat. As far as the tactical combat system, the game is decent. Lacking diagonal movement and attacks is a huge negative. But the speed at which everything works—in and out of combat—is just abhorrent. 10 hours into the main campaign and difficultly has also started to spike;[strike] it seems like it scales with the highest level unit, which is pretty dumb for a game that encourages you to have a large roster[/strike]. Maybe I could play my way around it, but given the pacing issues, I no longer care to try. (EDIT : The dev has justifiably corrected me that difficulty actually scales with in-game day. However, having difficulty advance independent of character growth in a game with limited res…