Pixel Frontier: Tactics

Pixel Frontier: Tactics is a turn-based strategy game in which your Heroes roll dice each turn and spend the results to use abilities. Instead of action points or cooldowns, you plan around each Hero’s dice, abilities and equipment, preparing your team at base before sending it into dangerous missions across the Frontier.

Heroes and abilities

You can recruit Heroes from 36 unique classes. Knights specialize in defence with heavy armour and martial training, while Alchemists brew powerful potions that can cause explosive accidents if they lose control of their experiments.

Each class has access to 13 or more abilities, with distinct dice costs, effects and strategies; there are over 450 abilities in total. Heroes begin with a few basic abilities and unlock more as they level up. You can also upgrade their abilities, changing their effects and costs, and improve their dice to suit their new abilities. Finding effective combinations of dice, abilities and Heroes is central to winning battles.

Base and missions

Gameplay alternates between the base and missions. Between missions, you recruit Heroes, level them up after successful missions, equip loot, buy equipment and upgrade facilities. You then choose missions based on your team’s progress and capabilities. As your Heroes gain levels, they must take on increasingly difficult missions.

Missions are fast, high-stakes encounters. Heroes may survive one or two defeats in combat, but death is a constant danger in the Frontier. The game initially follows a roguelike-like structure, with each group of Heroes pushing as far as it can before defeat. Experience, upgrades and equipment help you take on the Frontier’s greatest challenges, while stronger combinations of Heroes, abilities and gear let you meet its dangers more effectively.

The Frontier

Six distinct areas pose different challenges. Necromancers in the Crypt of the Undying summon undead creatures against the living, while a dark presence has corrupted the Skittering Webwood, turning its plants and animals against farmers and travellers. Beneath the Icthyd Coast, something is rising to claim dominion over the land.

The game also features 30 unique bosses, each with three levels. To defeat them, you must adapt to their dangerous abilities and develop specialized approaches.

Game length and pace

You can choose Short, Long or Full game lengths. Combat speed is customizable, so you can set the pace of your missions.