Cascade Tactics

Cascade Tactics is a tactical RPG where you hire a squad, choose classes, upgrade equipment and take on missions. You customize and develop your characters, using interactive abilities and class combinations to shape how they fight. Battles can also be set to auto-battle, letting the AI handle them.

Game modes

The game has three modes:

• Epic Mode: a story-focused mode.
• Roguelite Mode: a competitive mode.
• Survival Mode: a more challenging story mode.

Interactive battles

Many actions take time to execute, giving opponents a chance to react. You can interrupt an action by damaging its caster, move, push or teleport units into or out of danger, protect a target with another action, or use Silencer’s Redirect to change the caster’s target. Status effects are linked, or channeled, and damaging the caster can stop them.

Classes and synergies

Cascade Tactics has over 25 classes and a dual-class system that lets you combine their abilities. For example, a Commander can issue commands to other units, while a Ninja can attack twice with a weapon; together, these classes let you command other units to attack twice. A Sentinel can guard tiles with a weapon, and a Pyromancer can damage an area with Flames; combining them lets you guard locations with Flames, which casts when an enemy steps onto a tile. An Archer can add any magical ability to a weapon attack, while an Ice Mage can cast Ice spells; together, they can freeze a target with a weapon.

Missions and progression

Missions vary in their objectives and battlefield events. Some offer bonuses to pick up on the field, while others grant bonuses for defeating a unit. Enemies may arrive after a battle begins, and some missions feature powerful bosses with special abilities. You may also fight alongside an AI-controlled faction or hero.

After completing the story mode, you can unlock special mission sequences and replay the story at a higher difficulty. A dice minigame lets you buy, equip and roll dice to earn rewards.