Tales & Tactics

Tales & Tactics

Skip · Roguelike · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $17.99.

Length
5h
Value
$3.60/hr
Reviews
78% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
70% ($5.39)
Deepest seasonal cut
80% ($3.59)
Last discount ended
5 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
26.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.60
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$17.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
78%
2,260 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1000-Series or higher (4GB+ VRAM), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Roguelike Squad-based Autobattler in a Tabletop RPG setting. Draft your army, carefully equip and position your units, make important choices, and meet a colorful cast of characters as you make ready for the Grand Tournament.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.60/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length5 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds13 of 643 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.79. That was May 2026. 29 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Flame ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($9.99, scores 11).

Of the 643 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 179 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 26, 5.3 times as much.

The drop-off

69% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

(Spiel im Angebot für unter 2€) Mischung aus Autochess, teamfight tactics, the bazaar. Ein anpassbarer vielseitiger Autobattler!
ZorckRecommendedafter 4.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I have played TFT before in master tier so I have some experience in the genre. This game is nice, you have a shop, 5 slot, refresh with 1 gold, combine 3 hero to upgrade, synergy your team to hit trait BP. In 1 sentence, this is TFT but PVE. I beat the highest difficulty which I think is understandable if someone going to said it was unfun for spamming 1 comp to win. But that's one of the fun, you get something...
SwiftkeyXRecommendedafter 44hAug 2026Read on Steam
Well to start, I don't see a demo available so that feels bad. Shame on the devs for that I got the game on a 90% sale, so this was an easy buy and recommend at $2. The game does what it says it does and what you'd expect from this type of game. I won campaign mode on my very first attempt, so the game is definitely beginner friendly. Some of the skill animations were absolutely great. Most of the main character...
sir_walksalotNot recommendedafter 7.2h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Tales & Tactics scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1652250/tales-tactics
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTable 9 Studio
PublisherYogscast Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2024
Achievements120