Elementactics

Elementactics is currently in early public development.

Elementactics is a roguelike isometric strategy game where the player guides a small party through a dangerous castle, choosing paths across an overworld map and surviving turn-based tactical battles. The goal is to navigate deeper into the castle, grow stronger through ability upgrades and elemental fusions, and defeat the boss waiting at the end.

Build 2 expands on the first public build with added background music, sound effects, updated sprites, and the first version of the fire element mechanic.

This version is still mainly focused on testing the core combat loop, including movement, turn-based battles, abilities, enemies, basic progression, and early elemental ability changes.

New in Build 2:

- Added background music

- Added sound effects for attacks, abilities, hits, healing, and UI feedback

- Added updated / improved sprites

- Added the first fire element ability fusion mechanics

- Added new fire-based ability variants

- Continued balancing and polish for combat flow

Future builds will continue expanding the elemental upgrade system, allowing characters to fuse elements with their abilities and change how they fight over a run.

Elementactics is still a prototype, so feedback is very welcome. Comments about combat feel, ability clarity, enemy difficulty, UI readability, bugs, sound balance, music volume, and the fire element system would be especially helpful.

Credits / Asset Notice:

Elementactics is an early development build and currently uses some purchased and free third-party assets as temporary art, music, and sound effects.

Character sprites are from Tiny RPG Character Asset Pack by Zerie.

Mage sprites are from Tiny Tactics - Battle Kit I by Gabriel “tiopalada” Lima, which is marked as Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal / CC0.

Damage number / font sprites are from Chunky Pixel Font by Goldstarknight.

Isometric block / tile assets are from Big Pixel Isometric Block Pack by Ajay Karat / Devil's Work.shop.

All sound effects are from Minifantasy - True Heroes III SFX by Leohpaz.

Background music includes tracks from Free Golden Era JRPG Vol.1 by MakeGameMusic:

- 001 Fight Theme

- 001 Overworld

- 001 Game Over

Background music also includes tracks from Legendary JRPG Battle Music Pack by YouFulca:

- Battle-Conflict

- Battle-Vampire

- 8bit-Battle01

These assets may be edited, replaced, or expanded on in future builds.

Thanks for checking out this early version — feedback is very welcome in the comments.

Build 2. 09/05/2026

Build 3. To have Water elemental abilities added