Wintermoor Tactics Club
By Michael Lafferty,
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Delightful strategic story with charming visuals.
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What’s It About?
WINTERMOOR TACTICS CLUB is a turn-based strategy/role-playing game with an unusual setting. See, Wintermoor Academy isn't your typical school. Sure, there are clubs and different kinds of students, but this is a very eclectic school. When the principal decides to hold a snowball-fight tournament to crown the Ultimate Club, the members of the Tactics Club suspect there's something else underlying this seemingly nefarious tournment. The only question is where they can survive in the fights against other clubs to discover what is really going on. Wintermoor Tactics Club features seven characters that can become part of the combat team, and 40 battles that can be fought, with the opportunity to level up characters and gain new skills.
Is It Any Good?
In this strategy game, charm is in overdrive while the combat elements are a mix of the familiar as well as customizable elements. Wintermoor Tactics Club plays out like a mystery-adventure novel, with characters that pack wonderful, fully fleshed out backstories. For tabletop fans, there are some plots that have Dungeon and Dragons elements (although in this game, it's called C&C for Curses and Catacombs) In fact, Alicia, the main character, is a wizard in her club at school, and describes the fights happening between clubs from her perspective. Players will also run into eclectic characters and a fair amount of combat, which is turn-based but can be very forgiving, which makes the strategy and role-playing an ideal intro into these genres for younger players.
The game offers a wonderful mix of combat and story, balancing the two evenly while keeping you interested in playing additional chapters. The school itself is also packed full of diverse characters, including some bullies, but also some memorable characters. Plus, with seven characters that can join the combat group, and the ability to customize their skill sets to create a nice variety of combat styles, Wintermoor Tactics Club offers something for everyone. The gameplay is also rounded out by the inviting graphics and sound, which helps to draw you into each fight. While the story may be a touch predictable at times, Wintermoor has more than enough twists to smooth those pitfalls out delightfully. Overall, Wintermoor Tactics Club is a very well done game that should appeal to a broad base of gamers.
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Game Details
- Platform: Windows
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Available online?: Available online
- Publisher: Versus Evil
- Release date: May 5, 2020
- Genre: Strategy
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy , Friendship , High School
- ESRB rating: E for Mild Language
- Last updated: May 14, 2020
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