Gem Wizards Tactics
Keith Burgun Games · 2021 · Tactical, Hex Grid, Singleplayer, Turn-Based Tactics, Roguelite
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 50
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About Gem Wizards Tactics
The Business Demons have risen from beneath, and they're here to frack, drill, pillage and burn everything in sight! Follow the tale of young Derby Pocket, a Business Demon Intern, who discovers the dark secrets of the OMNIGEM!
Don't let the cute art fool you: this is a deep, complex tactics game that'll provide a wicked challenge for years to come!
Gem Wizards Tactics is a deep, dynamic turn-based strategy game with five complex, super-asymmetrical factions! Designed around endless single player play, Gem Wizards Tactics' factions each have their own unique units and abilities which you can use to create super-combos! You can also pick up units from other factions and combine them into your army to create totally unheard of, weird new strategies! Design your OWN weird tactics - stuff the designer never even dreamed of!
In many ways, Gem Wizards Tactics will feel familiar to fans of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem or X-Com. However, the challenges you'll face here are much less puzzle-like, and a lot more emergent and surprising—so your strategies will have to be as well. In this original turn based tactical war game, you take your army through a series of battles in which you’ve gotta capture the flags before taking too many losses!
Take tight, puzzle-like tactics in the vein of Into the Breach and 868-HACK, add a big Fire Emblem-style overall package, and wrap the whole thing up in a nintendolicious candyflake aesthetic, and you have the new @keithburgun game, and it's great. - Frank Lantz, Director of the NYU Game Center
Gem Wizards Tactics is a whimsical and approachable turn-based tactical game, much like Into the Breach; 3 asymmetric factions, procedurally-generated maps and enemies, excellent synergies. Super fun.” - Designer Plays on Steam
For the most part, every unit is extraordinary, which provides an excellent amount of depth when it comes to strategizing. - Turn Based Lovers
FEATURES
I also care deeply about what my players want to see in the game, so if you have any thoughts or ideas, please come chat with me on the discord about what you'd like to see in the future of Gem Wizards Tactics!
The Gem Wizards Universe also has partying undead skeletons, stuffed animal bunnies, huge bug people, and a bunch more, so look forward to new factions being introduced in free future updates! Coming to Steam for Windows. Later on, will be coming to more platforms as well.
Gem Wizards Tactics has won "Best Game Design" from the Unfold Games Awards!
From the designer of 100 Rogues, and Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure.
Don't let the cute art fool you: this is a deep, complex tactics game that'll provide a wicked challenge for years to come!
Gem Wizards Tactics is a deep, dynamic turn-based strategy game with five complex, super-asymmetrical factions! Designed around endless single player play, Gem Wizards Tactics' factions each have their own unique units and abilities which you can use to create super-combos! You can also pick up units from other factions and combine them into your army to create totally unheard of, weird new strategies! Design your OWN weird tactics - stuff the designer never even dreamed of!
A new kind of single-player wargame
In many ways, Gem Wizards Tactics will feel familiar to fans of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem or X-Com. However, the challenges you'll face here are much less puzzle-like, and a lot more emergent and surprising—so your strategies will have to be as well. In this original turn based tactical war game, you take your army through a series of battles in which you’ve gotta capture the flags before taking too many losses!
Take tight, puzzle-like tactics in the vein of Into the Breach and 868-HACK, add a big Fire Emblem-style overall package, and wrap the whole thing up in a nintendolicious candyflake aesthetic, and you have the new @keithburgun game, and it's great. - Frank Lantz, Director of the NYU Game Center
Gem Wizards Tactics is a whimsical and approachable turn-based tactical game, much like Into the Breach; 3 asymmetric factions, procedurally-generated maps and enemies, excellent synergies. Super fun.” - Designer Plays on Steam
For the most part, every unit is extraordinary, which provides an excellent amount of depth when it comes to strategizing. - Turn Based Lovers
FEATURES
- Wild powers with fun and surprising side-effects! Drill for oil, which is slippery and lights on fire! Spray water around until you create new rivers! Freeze those rivers over with ice magic! Push people over the frozen ice floe, sliding uncontrollably into that hole you drilled! It's like a wild Rube Goldberg Machine of tactics!
- Includes randomly generated maps! The map geometry, enemy squads you're facing off, and Unit Rescue rewards are different every time you play!
- Four distinct factions with LOTS of asymmetry: the classic royal high fantasy knights of the Azure Order; the resource-exploiting, terrain-burning Business Demons, or the nature and weather-controlling Potatoes: each have their own unique playstyles and abilities. Better yet, there's cross-pollination between the factions, so maybe you can find some neat combo for your Azure Knights sliding over a bunch of freshly fracked oil slicks! Or, choose the Neverending Party, a raucous group of high-energy, hard-rockin' Skeletons!
- Twenty-six unique unit types, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and unique special abilities! (More being added all the time in free DLC!)
- FIVE game modes: Tutorial, Story Mode, Campaign Mode, Ranked Mode and Custom Games.
- A fully functional MAP EDITOR!
- Controller support!
- Colorful pixel art and an original melodic soundtrack.
- Lots of developer support in the form of new patches, balance changes and MORE: More factions, more game modes, more platform support - you name it! You may know about another game of mine: Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure. It originally launched on Android back in 2014, and we just put out another patch in Jan of 2021. The point is: I commit to my games pretty hard, and this game will get tons of awesome support in the future!
I also care deeply about what my players want to see in the game, so if you have any thoughts or ideas, please come chat with me on the discord about what you'd like to see in the future of Gem Wizards Tactics!
The Gem Wizards Universe also has partying undead skeletons, stuffed animal bunnies, huge bug people, and a bunch more, so look forward to new factions being introduced in free future updates! Coming to Steam for Windows. Later on, will be coming to more platforms as well.
Gem Wizards Tactics has won "Best Game Design" from the Unfold Games Awards!
From the designer of 100 Rogues, and Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
absolutely terrible mess of pixels2 found this helpful
Game Wizard Tactics is an okay turn-based tactics title. There's some fun to be had with the combat due to fun synergies and environmental interaction. The factions are pretty different and have interesting units and abilities. The main issue is that the game is very one-note: there's basically one map layout, one map goal, and so it's very similar fights over and over. Beyond that, for every good feature there's one that feels half-baked. The combat AI is mediocre at best - the difficulty comes from the sheer numbers of enemies on each map. Leveling your team feels like it does too little, the permanent upgrades are very few, and the interface is not great either. You unlock factions, but also get access to every faction's units in every shop and rescued unit, so it doesn't matter much which faction you pick. Things just don't click together in terms of game design the way that some of the best titles in this space have. If the team re-thinks some of the weaker points for their next game, a future title could be a classic. There is potential here, but it's not entirely realized.1 found this helpful
It deserves a passing grade but its so repetitive at times. even with a map editor and procedural generation the missions are basically the same...
Wait for a sale. "Into The Breach" if it were far more ambitious but still it is an overall worse game. Did not go far enough to give a game like this a fair thumbs down though I don't expect it gets better. It generally gives you what is advertised and what you expect but none of it was fun to me. Didn't crash or have any issues launching the game or jumping into the action. Also comes with replay value but that would only matter if your first playthrough was fun.
https://youtu.be/KTzy_uu6FdU Weirdness and complexity go hand in hand for this hex based tactics game. It'll take some time to learn the unique units but the quality makes it worth it.
Good game, I wish it got more love from the greater gaming community
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