Tactical Mind
Drageus Games S.A. · 2018 · Strategy, Indie, Board Game, Logic
PC
6 user reviews67% · 6
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About Tactical Mind
Are you ready to show off your Tactical Mind?
Immerse yourself in the best strategy gameplay since Chess! Spawn your pawns wisely, level them up and destroy the opponent's Crystal! Play a progression-based Single Player campaign, or duke it out with a friend on one of the fourteen local Multiplayer maps. Become a Master of Pawns with your Tactical Mind.
Game features:
Immerse yourself in the best strategy gameplay since Chess! Spawn your pawns wisely, level them up and destroy the opponent's Crystal! Play a progression-based Single Player campaign, or duke it out with a friend on one of the fourteen local Multiplayer maps. Become a Master of Pawns with your Tactical Mind.
Game features:
- Created for Chess, Checkers and board game lovers
- Completely unique gameplay mechanics that dare you to adapt on the fly
- Advanced tactical challenges that demand flexibility
- Gather energy, spawn and upgrade Pawns
- Attack and disable opponent’s Pawns
- Engage your intellect
- 28 progression-based Single Player levels
- 14 local Multiplayer maps for 2 players
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Tactical Mind is a challenging turn-based strategy game with simple rules that rewards careful thinking, appealing to fans of chess-like puzzles, though players are divided on its execution. The main criticisms center on convoluted mechanics despite the tutorial, minimalist graphics that don't impress, and high difficulty that can feel frustrating, particularly in single-player mode. It offers better value as a cheap multiplayer experience than as a solo game, with moderate replayability once you grasp the strategic depth.
Pretty tough but fun tactical boardgame-like game. Wasn't sure how I would enjoy it at first and of course I lost a couple of times before I won the first level, just getting used to the moves, but it's actually pretty fun. Nice and clean visually, music okay too. Not a bad choice if you like chess and similar-type board games.9 found this helpful
Tactical Mind is a minimalist looking turn based strategy game for the Nintendo Switch (but somehow found it's way to Steam). There's actually a welcome depth to the game but it's convoluted even with a helpful tutorial... definitely aimed at the wrong crowd on the Switch, and with such poor/phoned in minimalist graphics it didn't win any fans on Steam either. Gameplay consists of moving your "pawns" on the puzzle grid to capture energy and defeat the enemy, but unlike Chess, each piece has a number of different capabilities apart from just moving (they can create other pawns and all kinds of things). I can see what the developer was trying to do but it's overall a misfire, and I'll pin the failure down to a simply lacklustre technical implementation. 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. The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "ar…3 found this helpful
It's certainly worth attention. The rules are simple. The interface is fine for the purpose. You have to figure out how to win. This far I could not find a way to beat normal AI on the 2nd level. Not for the lack of trying. (EDIT: no longer the case, turns out I overlooked that the 5 piece does not get tired after action... changes everything strategy-wise.) So the challenge value is pretty high.2 found this helpful
i have no sanity left 10/101 found this helpful
I have like 10 hours on switch in this game and bought it again since it was for sale for just 0,59€, really worth for that price if you have someone to play it with. It's a simple concept that doesn't have much replayability after a few games but really cheap, so probably it could be fun for the first few hours (again, if you have someone to play it with, alone is pretty boring)
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