$14.99 – Windows | Mac | Linux Steam | GOG.com
Telepath Tactics is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the steampunk universe of Telepath RPG. It features gorgeous pixel art, destructible battlefields, environmental hazards you can shove enemies into, the ability to build bridges and barricades, and a ruleset that adopts best practices from such classic series as Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea.
Play through a Fire Emblem style single player campaign, play matches in 2-to-6 player local multiplayer, or use a robust map editor to build your own battles and campaigns.
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Setting
Telepath Tactics takes place in an unusual fantasy-steampunk universe. Magic doesn’t exist: instead, there is psionics and steam-powered technology reliant on a volatile, crystalline substance called vibra. Cavaliers don’t ride horses: they ride giant, armored praying mantises. There are no elves, no dwarves, no goblins, no dragons: it’s just humans and a few other, entirely original sentient races (such as the shadowlings, creatures that quite literally feed on human suffering).
Story
It was deep winter when young Emma and Sabrina Strider fled slavery in the mines of Kovit. Exhausted and on the verge of starvation, they were found and taken in by a tribe of Lissit, reptilian warriors, who raised the sisters as their own.
Now Emma trains tirelessly, bent on revenge and the prospect of rescuing their ailing father from bondage. But the years are never kind to a miner, and time grows desperately short. The sisters will need all of their wits–and the help of some unlikely allies–if they are to succeed…
Features:
Play through a story-driven single player campaign with dozens of unique characters in a tale of love, death, and intrigue!
Build an army from among 23 different classes! Learn more than 110 distinct attacks as you level up your units, then promote them to powerful prestige classes!
Destroy walls, freeze water, build bridges and lay explosives, changing the face of the battlefield to your advantage!
Capture the high ground to get damage and range bonuses for your ranged attacks!
Shove enemies off of cliffs!
Fling enemies into environmental hazards like traps, water, and lava!
Employ more than 110 different skills and attacks to defeat your enemies, with nasty effects like mind control, blindness, and burning!
Confront aggressive enemy AI that reacts to your moves, grabs items, breaks down your barricades, doggedly pursues your most vulnerable characters, and shoves you into the lava every chance it gets!
Deal with merchants to keep your army well-supplied; make hard choices about your priorities both on and off the battlefield as you march against the slavers who imprisoned your family.
Undertake missions in both hand-crafted scenarios and procedurally generated dungeons and forests!
Tired of single player? Play 2-6 player hotseat multiplayer matches with randomized item drops, multiple play modes, and support for team matches!
Employ the easy-to-use Telepath Tactics map editor to create your own scenarios; easily mod in new characters, items, attacks, tilesets, destructible objects, and even brand-new single player campaigns!
Download other peoples’ campaigns, drop them in the User Campaigns folder, and voila: you now have brand-new campaigns available to play!
Get the game!
Windows | Mac | Linux Steam | GOG.com
…or try the demo first!
“the combat and encounters of Telepath Tactics are every bit as good and as strategic as any Fire Emblem or Disgaea title…95.8 / 100.”
–ModVive
“I played the battles like fantastical chess, agonising about every move and every decision, hitting End Turn with that sweet mix of excitement about what I’d achieved and terror about what would happen due to my oversights or recklessness. It’s good stuff, and tight despite having so very many moving parts.”
–RockPaperShotgun
“Telepath Tactics knows what made Fire Emblem great. It’s the best deconstruction and reconstruction of that formula. The brilliant writing, music, and design are some of the sharpest fine-tuning in tactical RPG history — indie or otherwise.”
–Plus 10 Damage
“Instead of dragons and elves, the game features a tropical lizard race (the Lissit), the ghostlike Shadowlings and the winged, imp-like Spriggats. Add to that the presence of mechanized steampunk golems, knights riding upon the backs of giant insects, and a spell system that’s based on psychic powers instead of Merlin-style magic, and you realize you’re a long way from the usual Tolkien retreads…4 / 5.”
–IndieGameReviewer
“A lot of work has been put into making Telepath Tactics a subtle and nuanced tactical role-playing game, and players will need to keep track of a number of factors during play. Beneath its easy-going exterior lies a tricky and rather impressive turn-based RPG, and one that fans of the genre will no doubt appreciate.”
–GameRant
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