Vigilantes

Vigilantes is a combat-focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in Reiker, a declining city gripped by crime. You lead a squad of vigilantes against the criminal underworld, gathering intelligence through surveillance and interrogation, improving your team and base, and taking on gangs that react to your actions.

Story and setting

The game follows a group of vigilantes waging war against overwhelming criminal forces in a rainy, neon-lit city. Its hard-boiled story includes psychotic mob hitmen, Molotov-wielding doomsday cultists and paramilitary survivalist snipers. Dialogue choices and skill checks can give you advantages in combat, and you can help citizens in need.

Tactical combat

Combat is built around squad-level, turn-based encounters. You can use lethal and non-lethal attacks, cover, attacks of opportunity, aimed and special attacks, and powerful activated abilities based on perks.

Build your team

The UPLIFT character system has 6 stats and 9 skills, with a variety of viable builds. You can further customise your characters with over 60 perks.

Investigate the gangs

Surveillance can reveal how far a gang reaches in a district and how much wealth it makes from its operations. To dismantle a gang, you must locate and eliminate its boss and destroy its facilities, working your way up the hierarchy with your skills and equipment. You can interrogate defeated enemies, using tools such as truth serum to break them and gather information.

Gangs that respond

Gangs carry out criminal operations and spend their proceeds on recruitment, equipment, training and facilities that provide buffs. Once a gang takes notice of you, it may send deadly lieutenants to ambush and track you. Enemies can also flee; if they escape, they become more powerful and you may face them again later.

Base and crafting

You can build and upgrade 5 base facilities: a gym, library, firing range, surgery and workshop. These provide bonuses and access to advanced crafting options. Crafting lets you upgrade weapons from 9 distinct classes and make special items, including hot-loaded ammunition, armour and medical supplies.