Shuffle Tactics

CGMagazineLane Martin

8/10

Shuffle Tactics takes the structure of Slay the Spire and layers in interesting tactical combat in the best way imaginable.

Try Hard GuidesErik Hodges

7/10

Shuffle Tactics looks incredible, but the nuance of its game design falls a bit short with an uneven difficulty curve, bugs, and less-than-meaningful progression. While still worth giving a try if you find the game interesting, it feels as though it could have really benefited from a playtesting period and may be more worth your time after some post-launch support from the devs.

GameGrinDylan Pamintuan

6.5/10

Shuffle Tactics is a good tactical roguelike that offers plenty of reasons to think ahead to combat The Glimmer. It needs refinement in places, but updates have done a lot to improve the game since its initial release.

Gamer Social ClubStephanie "Candyxbomb" Richards

6.5/10

Perhaps with a little bit of tweaking, Shuffle Tactics will begin a new trend or find some great footing. For now, it’s just a bit too much to be enjoyed by many. It will find an audience, but it may be quite niche. A bit more polish and maybe removal of some of the too much content and this might be a great way to bridge these genres together.

RPGFanDom Kim

55/100

Yet for all that content, the foundation Shuffle Tactics ultimately rests on is shaky. The isometric grid muddies the waters instead of providing meaningful depth, the companion and charm systems feel several iterations short of being finished, and the core deck mechanics lack the consistency and design work that make its inspirations so enduring. Shuffle Tactics is brimming with things to unlock but starved for meaningful ways to enjoy them, leaving it less a cohesive “greatest hits album” of roguelite elements and more of a confused compilation of good ideas played out of tune.

Final WeaponJordan Brown

Shuffle Tactics fails its art style and interesting game mechanics with an unpolished UI and a multitude of bugs. There is an interesting game to be found here, but asking players to trudge through the horrible camera, visual and mechanical bugs, and poor UI decisions to get to it is inexcusable. Hopefully, after a few patches and a camera overhaul, Shuffle Tactics will be worth the time and effort, but as it stands now, there are too many other strong roguelike/deckbuilders on the market tha...

MonsterVineBranford Hubbard

Shuffle Tactics is first and foremost a roguelike. While there are many aspects and implications from Rogue, the game that spawned that genre, above all, is an unrelenting difficulty. No matter how much you know, how many times you’ve played, or how close you’ve gotten to the end before, you can just as easily be destroyed by an unlucky “dice” roll as a new player playing the first time. Unfortunately, Shuffle Tactics has far too much Random Number Generation (RNG) to be enjoyable. Th...