Together in Battle – SinisterDesign.net

Together in Battle is a strategy RPG and team management game with vibrant procedurally generated characters and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep turn-based tactical battles; watch your characters grow together!

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You’ve arrived in the island kingdom of Dese with a secret mission to enter the gladiatorial games and find loyal fighters under the guise of competing. Hunted by an imperial praetor, you must maintain a low profile even as you find yourself drawn into intrigues that will decide the fate of Dese itself.

Recruit and manage charming characters with their own personalities, hobbies, and life stories. Stay stocked on food, maintain enough money to make payroll, and ensure that your characters practice regularly to continue improving. But beware: they have feelings! Allow their friends to fall in battle, and they may become depressed. Fail to address their needs, and you’ll risk resentment and desertion. Keep them happy, however, and they will grow close to one another, form fond memories, give each other nicknames–even share their special combat skills! With skill and patience, you will emerge victorious…together in battle.

“It makes for a very compelling, one-more-battle type of feeling that I haven’t gotten from a strategy RPG in a good long while.”
Titanium Legman

“The myriad of different ways the game allows you to interact with and manipulate the terrain is absolutely brilliant. It adds a layer of depth to the genre that is absolutely mind-blowing.”
Adam the Fanatic

“[W]hile we already know the tactical layer is solid titanium, it’s the building on character growth and interplay that produces wildly differing experiences from player to player, play through to play through.”
PressPlayGaming

“Obviously you’ll know how characters in Fire Emblem can have relationships. But what if they also had arguments, or got ill, or had a personal crisis?…That’s the premise of Together In Battle by Sinister Design. It is, of course, also a roguelite, so naturally it’s all procedurally generated, meaning that the soapy circumstances will apparently play out differently each time.” —Kotaku Australia

Key Features

An evolution of the lauded Telepath Tactics combat engine!

With a deterministic core that never wastes your time, Together in Battle rewards creativity and good positioning, not just lucky die rolls. Combat in Together in Battle features dizzying tactical depth:

Elevation: claim the high ground to boost your effectiveness and hinder the enemy’s!
Knockbacks galore: shove and throw enemies into water, lava, and chasms; off of cliffs; or into each other!
Backstabbing: strike from behind to avoid counterattacks and score a huge damage bonus!
Destructible environments: bust down doors, blow up walls, hack through bushes, chop through barricades! If you can see it, you can smash it.
Defensive terrain: take up position in tall grass to gain a defense boost–or hack it down to deny that same advantage to the enemy.
Create new structures on the battlefield: build your own bridges and barricades; freeze water to form ice bridges; place explosives to detonate at an opportune moment; set traps for enemies to wander into (or just shove them in yourself).
Extreme turn flexibility: move a character, move a second character, then return to finish the first character’s turn. An unlimited undo stack lets you redo it all if you don’t like where everyone ended up!
Clever AI: face enemies that use the terrain to their advantage, take advantage of weak positioning, cut through barriers, and compete with you for item pickups.

Tons of content!

You won’t see everything Together in Battle has to offer in a single playthrough–or two. Every game offers a new experience. TiB includes:

24 base classes with branching promotions for a total of 72 distinct character classes;
More than 175 skills;
6 playable species;
Dozens and dozens of random events and side quests that can play out in multiple different ways;
A near-limitless variety of unique, procedurally generated characters;
A custom character creator you can use to create your own original characters, who will sometimes show up in recruitment for you to hire;
Hundreds of thousands of possible procedurally generated weapons and pieces of armor, including unique and personal weapons;
A trainer you can use to shore up your characters’ stats or even multi-class them;
A jobs board with randomized jobs you can hire characters out for to earn money;
A brilliant blend of procedurally generated arena battles and hand-designed side quest and plot battles!

Deep procedurally generated characters!

Every character you recruit has distinct traits, personal histories, beliefs, hobbies, and secrets. These differences matter: a jokester may do funny impressions to boost morale; a hunter may boost your stocks with wild game; a baker may use food to produce cookies and cakes you can eat or sell; a gambler may visit bars around town and win money for you. Dancers are nimble; sailors are good swimmers.

Some characters are prone to depression; some, to self-doubt. Some self-soothe with long walks or prayer; others undertake long-term projects like growing vegetables, forging weapons, or writing novels. Learn what makes each character tick as they grow and form powerful bonds of friendship!