Dark Pact

I’m not a fan of the AI-generated assets. Combined with store-bought art packs, the visuals end up looking bland and mismatched. The UI is basic, but functional. Music, sound effects, story, and dialogue are all barebones (likely AI-made as well) with the ending feeling abrupt and anti-climactic. Overall, it all feels a bit awkward. This has all the elements of a very amateur and unpolished indie game. So why the positive review? Simple. I love turn-based, grid-based tactics games (although this is mostly a puzzle game). Unfortunately, it’s a niche genre that doesn’t get nearly enough titles. Because you see, the gameplay here is surprisingly decent. You control four fixed heroes who each unlock four push/damage skills, clearly inspired by Into the Breach. While this game is galaxies away to matching ITB’s polish, it still scratches the itch well enough of figuring out how to push allies out of harms way, move enemies to hit one another, set-up combos, you know the drill. I’ve beaten the standard difficulty and am even considering a second run on the harder settings. So yes, I’m a bit morally conflicted about recommending what feels like a mostly AI-generated game... but the …

Cute but pretty short.

Challenging, player friendly and fun! The fairly open tactical nature of the levels allows for different strategies and unit synergies offer loads of options. The access to unlimited rewinds (per action or per turn) greatly helps exploring obscure combos. Enemy telegraphed actions for their turn are well designed and greatly help make informed decisions. Each unit has its own skill set that expands as you unfold the light story, there's no xp or level up system here. I had a lot of fun on normal difficulty (eventhough i'm not smart enough to beat the Final Boss).

Finished in about 4 hours with a friend. Felt like there was room for more (chars or abilities, and stages), but we had fun! Not bad for five bucks. Watching a minotaur get bounced into hitting his goblin buddy, then immediately shot in the ass by another ally goblin was peak comedy.

Very fun turn based puzzle game with a simple objective of making sure all allied units survive for 5 turns. Played through on very hard, so I had a lot of resets on the latter half of the game. Absolutely love the rewind button too since it can make you experiment with some strategies. Definitely give the demo a try and see if it's up your alley.

Refunded because I was stuck at a tutorial mission, but the issue was so glaringly obvious that I assume the issue was with my machine. Otherwise the game looks and feels amazing!