Rock, Paper, Shotgun

It’s been a long time since we turned the flame-lidded Eye Of Shotgun towards Telepath Tactics, but the advent of a fresh alpha demo seems like a good time to do that (thanks Blue!) “TT”, as we call it in our games journo dialect, is a sort of Fire Emblem type turn-based tactics thing, and although development seemed slow last year, it’s coming along a treat. You could perhaps take a look. You know, if you’re not too busy.

Developer update video can be found below, if you’d like to see what changes have been made.
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Sinister Design’s latest Telepath RPG had enjoyable turn-based combat but at the beginning of the game, the player’s party are so underpowered that their options are few. Stab, shoot, move. It doesn’t lead to the richest of tactical experiences and even though the discovery of more abilities opened the game up later on, the intricacy of the combat didn’t shine through ’til later. Enter Telepath Tactics, which drops the story, keeps the Middle Eastern steampunk setting and concentrates on combat and combat alone. Mainly multiplayer but with AI to fight against should you wish (I wish). Hopefully it will be ready later this year and there’s a very early video below.

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