Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift, a turn-based strategy about a squad of soldiers on an extraterrestrial planet, will debut on Steam on April 15th, 2021.
Players can expect a 30-hour long single-player storyline and 24 maps for online and local multiplayer. The 41 campaign missions are strongly influenced by sci-fi cult classics from the 80s with over-the-top explosions and memorable one-liners. Multiplayer skirmishes resemble a mixture of Worms, Valkyria Chronicles, and X-COM. In both game modes, players are confronted with challenging opponents, powered by Grail – an AI technology developed by QED Games.
In Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift military squads fight against each other and the planet’s dangerous fauna. What sets the QED games’ title apart from other turn-based strategies is that units move on a gridless map. Teleportation is an important aspect of both the story and the gameplay. It adds new tactical options – transporting troops around the battlefield, moving fired rounds, or thrown grenades. Teleports can be used as cover, which is another element in Tactical Troops’ combat system.
