Gem Wizards Tactics (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Gem Wizards Tactics

Gem Wizards Tactics is a turn-based strategy game with randomly generated maps and weird asymmetrical factions. Designed around endless single player play, Gem Wizards Tactics has three factions each with…

70 16 February 2021

What Gem Wizards Tactics is

Gem Wizards Tactics is a card & board game game developed by Keith Burgun Games and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In many ways, Gem Wizards Tactics will feel familiar to fans of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem or X-Com. But unlike these games, the maps are entirely randomly generated, and enemy units are spawning randomly as well. This means that the challenges are much more emergent and surprising—and so your strategies will have to be as well. In this original turn based tactical war game, you take your army through a series of battles in which you’ve gotta capture the flags before taking too many losses! Level up your troops, rescue new recruits, and liberate your people!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Gem Wizards Tactics holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Gem Wizards Tactics launched on 16 February 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero and The Medium. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero, The Medium.

Official trailer