Tactile Wars brings the colourful ink battles of Splatoon to the real-time strategy genre
Soft-launched in New Zealand
Ankama has soft-launched cutesy gesture-based strategy game Tactile Wars in the New Zealand App Store and select regions on Google Play.
It brings all of the colour of Splatoon to touchscreens. That's on account of these wars being fought with paint rather than bullets.
OK, yeah, it's not quite squid ink, but there are paint guns and paint rollers in action here, similar to the different load-outs in Splatoon.
Plus, the idea is to eliminate the colour of your enemies. You have to hold on to territory against enemy turrets, tanks, and troops, overpowering them with your own colour of paint.
Of course, this being a game in a completely different genre, the similarities pretty much end there.
As in Tactile Wars you need to focus on drawing shapes on the screen with your finger to change the formation of your squad according to how the enemy attacks you.
You can also build a base camp to unlock new technologies, hire legendary mercenaries, and upgrade troops.
All of this is necessary if you want to ascend the leaderboards. But you could secure your place a little more by allying with players with the same colour paint as you too.
Currently, Tactile Wars is available to download for free in the New Zealand App Store as well as on Google Play. We'll let you know when it launches worldwide.
