- September 16, 2026
- CodeRed
Tinker Shot
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About Tinker Shot
Tinker Shot is a single player tactical role playing game with fantasy, medieval and historical themes. It was developed by CodeRed and was released on September 16, 2026. It received very positive reviews from players.
Tinker Shot is a turn-based skill-crafting roguelike where every fight becomes a little experiment in chaos. Explore a mysterious world filled with strange creatures and clever encounters, and take them down using skills you build entirely from scratch. Build Wildly Broken SkillsCraft new abilities by mixing parts, effects, and upgrades to create wild combos, from surprisingly effective to deli…
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Reviews
- Innovative ability-building system encourages creative experimentation and leads to unique and powerful combat strategies.
- Engaging mix of turn-based strategy, roguelike progression, deckbuilding, and physics-based gameplay that rewards planning and improvisation.
- Accessible and fun for fans of similar games like Angry Birds, Slay the Spire, and Crush the Castle, with well-paced difficulty and replayability.
- Some balance issues with enemy health and damage making early combat feel frustrating, and certain cards or relics being less useful or unclear in effect.
- Physics unpredictability can occasionally disrupt careful tactics, and some gameplay mechanics like certain elemental buffs or poison cards feel underdeveloped.
- Interface and Steam Deck support are functional but not fully optimized, causing minor accessibility issues and UI text size problems.
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7 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay is praised for its strategic and experimental nature, offering satisfying mechanics despite basic pixel-art visuals. It appeals more to players interested in mechanical experimentation than narrative depth, with simple, accessible mechanics and engaging card combo experimentation. However, some elements, like poison cards, feel unbalanced or poorly adapted from other games.
“The pixel-art presentation suits the game's playful experimental nature without distracting from its mechanics.”
“Visuals are very basic, but they don't get in the way of the satisfying strategic gameplay.”
“First 30 minutes are pretty solid and even though it's a mix of different game genres, the mechanics are simple and easy to get into and experimenting with different card combos makes the combat feel strategic and engaging.”
“Poison cards are mostly useless because they are copied from Slay the Spire without proper adjustment for enemy numbers and the gameplay differences in this game compared to a turn-based card battler.”
“The game is primarily suited to players interested in mechanical experimentation rather than those searching for a heavily narrative-driven RPG.”
“First 30 minutes are pretty solid, but although it mixes different game genres, the mechanics are simple and easy to get into; however, experimenting with different card combos is repetitive and doesn't fully engage the combat strategically.”
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Tinker Shot is a tactical role playing game with fantasy, medieval and historical themes. Common tags for Tinker Shot include turn-based, indie, roguelite, pixel graphics, deckbuilding and others.
Tinker Shot is available on PC and Windows.
Tinker Shot was released on September 16, 2026.
Tinker Shot was developed by CodeRed.
Tinker Shot has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Tinker Shot for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.
Tinker Shot is a single player game.
Similar games include Arcane Board, Rabbit Samurai, Table of Fates, Sojourn Saga, Dungeon Ruins and others.