Developer posts and news about this game.
Version 3.0 rebuilds the gauntlet around one choice you make at the start of every run, and gives the whole game a new look. Skill Trees Choose from 6 classes to master during your run Owl: the shade - summon powerful ghosts, upgrade your King's area of effect, mind control enemi
Hexweaver Family Changes (adds 2 units, 6 total): Herculean (formerly Hemlock → Herald): pieces that attack it cannot make a capture Herald (new): May swap itself with another unit in the surrounding 5x5 area Heritor (new): Choose to summon 2 mid level units to open squares that
Hey all, I've been heads down on some redesign work for this. I'm leaning towards a more story-driven campaign with more meaningful and themed mechanics incorporated, instead of a run-based format. This was my main idea when I first imagined the project, and I wanted to throw it
Melee Game Mode Draft from a random pool of spell (curated selections for competitive play) Earn an ELO - vs engine only right now Dashboard "Melee" tile Replays All matches now save under "Replays" tile Gauntlet Players now earn a score during a Gauntlet run Captures and effecti
New Spells and Pieces: Incursion : cast this spell to split the timeline in two. You choose a move on both timelines, and your opponent responds to each. Then you choose which timeline to play on, and they converge back into one, and play continues. The Hexweaver Family has been
The web app tactorius.com now has a free version of the Hexweaver Mode. This is partial content for those looking to get a better idea of what the real game is like. Free Steam Demo is coming soon.
Hexweaver mode Default quickplay mode with realistic tactical opportunities (3 tramples, 2 dyads, 1 dark semblance) Update engine levels 8 levels, better variance between easy to hard Lets you choose your level before entering the gauntlet, shows difficulty details Skill tree, po
Encounters give a fairer chance in the early stages of a run, now starting with 0 spells for each encounter in the first tower, then increasing from there. More game modes added - scrapped skirmish mode had profiles. This adds a few of the possible matchups
v2.0.0 WARNING - if you are mid run on the Gauntlet, this update resets it to the new structure Skill Tree Update - removes 6 choices of trees to a fresh, hex-lattice structure - Skills or pieces are all derived from the same consistent pool - randomized via a seed - Stick to a s
- styling updates - condensed to two fonts: 8 bit for ui, readable for explicit explanations - font sizes bigger