Pit People (v7e)

A shattered, candy-colored apocalypse becomes the stage for a surprisingly demanding tactical adventure full of aliens, vampires, robots, and heroes with exceptionally bad luck. Pit People combines The Behemoth’s hand-drawn cartoon style and irreverent humor with a grid-based strategy system where every move can decide a battle. Its story follows a mismatched band of fighters crossing a bizarre world after a giant space bear catastrophe, meeting increasingly strange allies and enemies along the way. The tone stays goofy and absurd, but the combat asks players to think several turns ahead.

Battles play out on hexagonal arenas, with your squad moving one unit at a time while opponents react according to their own turn order and abilities. Positioning is everything: melee fighters need to close distance, ranged characters require clean lines of attack, shields protect fragile teammates, and specialized units can heal, poison, knock back, or disrupt enemy formations. Between missions, you travel across an overworld, take on story chapters and side quests, recruit creatures from many species, and equip an enormous range of weapons, armor, helmets, and accessories. Squad composition has real weight, especially as enemies gain nastier traits, and the campaign supports cooperative play for players who want to coordinate tactics with a friend.

What separates Pit People from more serious tactical games is its commitment to ridiculous presentation without reducing the strategic depth. Every unit has a distinct visual silhouette and battlefield role, while the huge pool of loot and recruits encourages experimentation long after the central story picks up speed. The game shares some of the approachable personality of Castle Crashers, another Behemoth favorite, but its closest mechanical relatives are turn-based squad games such as Final Fantasy Tactics or Into the Breach, filtered through chaotic cartoon comedy. It suits newcomers who enjoy forgiving, readable tactics as well as veterans looking for a lighter, more eccentric strategy campaign with plenty of customization.