Everyone plots at once in this simultaneous tactics RPG
Yokozuna Games wants six players plotting spells and swings at the same time, then watching it all land together, no turn order in sight.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The screenshots for Tactful Tactics are full of coloured arcs, the kind of thing you'd expect from a missile command screen rather than a tactics RPG, and once you clock what they represent the whole pitch clicks into place. Pink, green and yellow lines loop across the isometric grid connecting units to their targets, and the developer's own pitch explains why: every player plans their move at the same time, sees what their teammates intend to do, and then everyone's actions fire together. No queue. No waiting for your turn while someone else agonises over a heal. The arcs in the stills loo...