Turnbound is a lovely plinky mixture of autobattler and inventory Tetris, where play order is decided by a cat's bum

Early entree physique retired now

Out contiguous successful aboriginal access, Turnbound is simply a tile and turn-based autobattler astir mythical heroes trapped successful a haunted boardgame, wherever the starting subordinate is chosen by flipping a coin bearing a representation of a cat’s anus. It’s saying a batch for Turnbound’s mellow, fairytale ambience and rich, rosy tile designs that I see the cat’s anus a affirmative – a interaction of whimsy, alternatively than just, well, that feeling you get erstwhile you’ve been flashbanged by a representation of a cat’s anus. Rare so are the videogames that incorporate a cat’s anus, and rarer inactive are the videogames successful which the cat’s anus isn’t grounds for a refund.

Look, unopen up astir the cat’s anus already. You’re obsessed with the cat’s anus. There’s truthful overmuch much to Turnbound than this. To commencement afresh: the communicative is that you’ve been trapped successful a haunted boardgame. To get out, you indispensable take a leader – the existent choices are Robin Hood, Sun Wukong the Monkey King, and Lewis Caroll’s Alice - and situation them with tiles that execute attacks, confer protection, oregon synergise with different tiles. Then you autobattle different players and heroes implicit 10 rounds. The twist is that some/all of these opposing boards are the enactment of different players, snuck into your crippled via Ye Olde Asynchronous Online (or a physique code, if you prefer).

Between rounds, there’s a store surface wherever you tin bargain caller tiles, level them up, and unlock squares connected your board. At fixed points successful each run, you’ll get opportunities to upgrade your leader and equip trinkets, which gives the proceedings immoderate further structure. The Steam leafage summarises it arsenic Backpack Battles meets Hearthstone Battlegrounds meets the age-old signifier of ‘inventory Tetris’. I deliberation that’s a just breakdown, aft fractional an hr with the aboriginal entree version.

During battles, tiles onslaught oregon activate according to placement and what they’re adjacent to. There are ‘taunt’ tiles to sorb the enemy’s champion tricks, accessory tiles that confer presumption effects, reactive tiles that heal oregon make coins erstwhile they’re meddled with, and overmuch other besides. Heroes person antithetic capacities. To springiness a hasty summary, Sun Wukong is bully astatine concatenation attacks, Alice puts radical to slumber portion buffing herself done funny and curioser means, and Robin Hood is simply a counterpuncher.

It’s excessively aboriginal for maine to earnestly gauge the tactical depth, here, but it feels similar this could person legs. In the abbreviated term, what elevates Turnbound is the presentation. True, the creation is broadly the benignant of medium-spice anime-fantasy malarkey you’ve encountered successful immoderate fig of mobile phantasy games, but it doesn’t privation for charisma. Run the cursor implicit tiles successful the store surface and they tinkle lovingly. Spare tiles heap up successful a container that is taxable to real-time physics. And yes, determination is the coin with the cat’s anus. Again, the cat’s anus is simply a plus. I was going to accidental I’m giving it a thumbs-up, but no, that would beryllium bad.

The afloat crippled volition connection “more characters, much skins, and hundreds much Items and Abilities”. Developers 1TK aren’t committing to a 1.0 motorboat date, but are giving a unsmooth timeline of “4-6 months”. Read much connected Steam.