Draw your formations and fight in real time
Toy Tactics is a physics-based real-time tactics game where you command armies of minifig-inspired units. The core trick is the drawing system: you can freeze the game at any point and sketch a formation directly onto the battlefield. Simple orders like charge or encircle work, and you can set up more involved shapes such as pincer or wedge formations. You can split your army into battalions and give each one its own formation, so the battlefield becomes a canvas you keep redrawing as the fight moves.
Everything plays out with simulated physics. Units collide for real, castle walls crumble, structures get destroyed, and helmets go rolling when a fight gets messy. On top of your standard units you have a spell and relic system. Defeating enemies charges your power, which you can spend on things like summoning reinforcement catapults, building medical tents to heal allies, or dropping flaming meteors on the enemy. A skill tree lets you unlock the spells you favor, so different runs can lean in different directions.
Playing together with your group
Toy Tactics supports online co-op and online PvP. In Co-op mode you team up with another player against AI, where you need to survive, coordinate, and produce units together. Strategic skill and fast decisions matter here, since you are sharing the field and the pressure. In 1v1 you face another player directly: each side builds an army, picks relics and spells, and plans tactics to come out ahead. The game describes this as a hardcore strategy experience aimed at commanders who already know their way around a tactics game.
What to know before starting
There are five campaigns, one for each of the five armies, each ending in boss fights. Alongside the campaigns you have four other modes: Puzzle, Mercenary, Sandbox, and Multiplayer. The unit roster covers a lot of ground, from raptor-riding skeletons and stealthy samurai to Roman legions, plus necromancers and skeletal dinosaurs. Settings range from the pirate island of Tortuga in the Caribbean to the mountains of feudal Japan, so expect varied terrain rather than one repeated battlefield. The game runs in 3D with a colorful, comedic tone, and the physics system means fights can turn chaotic fast.