5 reviews
Tastee Lethal Tactics
Strategy has a new name and it’s damn Tastee. Recruit a team of volatile mercs and execute dramatic gunfights on a mission to take down the Cartel in this simultaneous turn-based tactics caper. Precision planning meets epic action. Regular community tournaments with prizes!
Details
- Released
- May 9, 2016
- Developer
- Skybox Labs
- Genres
- Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Tactical · Indie
- Publisher
- Skybox Labs
- Platforms
- PC
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Tastee Lethal Tactics Reviews
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It’s fair to say that TASTEE is probably one of the most tactically fulfilling games on the market at the moment, but it’s also incredibly good fun and is not as complicated as it might at first seem. It’s a challenge to really get into the deeper tactics and it’s another game at which you will, probably, fail at time and time again before everything begins to click. But its a rewarding test of your abilities and, with the play-by-email multiplayer, you’ll never be waiting too long to put those abilities to good use time and again. And you don’t have to ruin your mum’s table display in order t...
A turn-based tactical effort that manages to deftly marry cheeky style with small scale strategy, TASTEE Lethal Tactics might not be the most groundbreaking effort around but its charm and accessibility make for a compellingly fun prospect.
TASTEE scratches a tactical itch in a Dark Souls-difficult, but ultimately rewarding way. The asymmetric multiplayer is unique in the genre, offering a new way to play. If you are a fan of deep strategy, ignore the goofy name and check out TASTEE: Lethal Tactics.
TASTEE: Lethal Tactics is an uncompromising game to get into, never once changing gears from its difficult plateau. It’s firm but mostly fair, where your failures are usually based around that one lapse into laziness. But when you play back your success, and see this 20-minute incremental strategy turn into 40 seconds of ferocious B-movie action, it’s a violent ballet that even John Woo would be proud of. And it’s also why you might just keep coming back to TASTEE, despite tearing your hair out in the process.
What Tastee needs though is a better interface, and while the current one is clean and slick, it makes mercenaries in close proximity hard to give orders to. Most often you misclick soldiers and removing orders can be nuisance. It’s a minor gripe compared when compared to the tutorial which only gives the bare bone basics to get you started with the game. Then again, there’s probably more fun stumbling around and finding your way by yourself.