Puzzle Tactics
Robert Alvarez · 2017 · Turn-Based Tactics, Minimalist, Tactical, Puzzle, Turn-Based Strategy
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 33
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About Puzzle Tactics
✦ AI summary
Lead your blue squad through tactical grid-based battles, commanding warriors, archers, mages, and more to defeat the red team before your forces fall. Master each unit's unique abilities—from the mage's wall-piercing fireballs to the necromancer's skeleton summons—as difficulty ramps up across increasingly challenging levels.
Puzzle Tactics is a turn-based and grid-based tactics game played in various small levels. You play as the blue team with the goal of defeating the red team's units before losing your own. Later levels are more difficult and introduce more unit types in battle. The game is controlled using the mouse.
Units
Units
- Warrior: a powerful melee unit who can also hit multiple targets
- Archer: can shoot at targets 4-6 tiles away but only in 4 directions
- Mage: can attack with a fireball that hits multiple targets and ignores walls
- Defender: has the most health and can shield itself and allies to reduce damage
- Necromancer: summons skeletons to deal and take extra damage
- Skeleton: somewhat like a warrior, but weaker and with only a basic attack
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Puzzle Tactics is a 2D minimalist hybrid of a block placement/pathing puzzle game and a turn based tactical combat game... which is not nearly as cool as it sounds. To take a turn based tactical combat game and relegate it to the level of an Adobe Flash Sokoban ripoff takes extreme levels of dumbing down... to put it another way, this isn't making puzzle games better, it's making turn based tactical combat games worse. Each puzzle level gives you a select number of units and you need to kill off the enemy units by making the right moves. To ensure this acts more as a puzzle game, RNG isn't a factor... again, a great example of why this game concept just doesn't work. Because, you know, you could be playing a turn based combat game like the Banner Saga or something. Or this. Decisions, decisions. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. …3 found this helpful
Fun and basic Get on sale Nice and short Would be nice to see this become a gradually more advanced series Support indie games xox
Very cool take on a turn based strategy game! There are some cool features and different mechanics and the difficulty isn't out of control which requires perfect movement. Overall great grab for the price. 9/10
Great game for a buck. This game captured my undivided attention for 2 hours. It was rather easy (mainly due to dumb AI), and the UI was a little clunky .... but hey, it's only a dollar!
Little turn based tactical puzzle game. Definitely worth picking up if you like the genre. Will occupy you for over an hr easily.
Great simple game, wish it was longer but for the price its a bargain.
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