Flawed Tactics

Flawed Tactics is a PvP auto-battler with both asynchronous and live play. You choose minions and spells, recruit and evolve your team, then place it on a hex grid and watch it fight. A live market adjusts the prices of minions and spells according to what players across the server are buying: popular choices become more expensive, while ignored options become cheaper.

Build your roster

Before the first round, choose a pool of 8 minions and a pool of 8 spells. Random offers during the buy phase come from your minion pool rather than a shared pool. Your spells can strengthen your minions, curse enemies or create relics that reshape your strategy.

Each round, you spend gold to recruit minions and gems to cast spells. Combine identical minions to evolve them into more powerful forms, build synergies that help your team scale over time, and use spells to improve that scaling or survive the round. Then arrange your team on the hex grid and plan for what comes next.

Spells and relics

Spells can make minions vampiric or give them haste, turn an enemy into a pacifist, or steal an enemy minion. They are central to strategy and survival. Spells can also create relics, which provide permanent benefits for the rest of the game. Some add a minion slot, change how your entire roster fights or offer late-game scaling that requires you to survive the early rounds.

A shifting market

Prices change in real time based on what all players on the server buy. When a build becomes popular, its components cost more; when options are overlooked, their prices fall. As the market shifts, you may need to adapt your next build and look for choices that are undervalued at that moment.

PvP modes

In Async PvP, you can take your time browsing the market, casting spells and arranging your team without a turn timer. You face ghost teams based on real players who played the same round, then continue when you are ready.

In Live PvP, you play in real time while your opponent watches your formation. They can see each spell you cast and each minion you position, so you can counter their choices or be countered. You can queue for Live PvP while playing Async PvP; after the live game ends, you can return to your asynchronous game where you left off.