Name: Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
Brand: Fanatical
Price: 0.79 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes is currently 92% off on Fanatical — down to $0.79 from $9.99.

At 92% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes reaches on Fanatical — near its typical floor.

That works out to $9.20 off the Fanatical list price of $9.99.

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About this game

Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes is a turn-based tactical RPG that spends most of its energy poking fun at the genre it belongs to. Instead of chosen ones and noble knights, you get a ragtag crew of anti-heroes press-ganged into saving a kingdom because the actual heroes are all dead. It wears its Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem influences openly, then undercuts them at every turn with jokes aimed at Oblivion, Gothic, and Lord of the Rings. If you’ve ever wanted a strategy RPG that treats its own premise as a punchline, this is built for exactly that mood.

How it plays

The backbone is familiar grid-based tactical combat: you position a party across a battlefield, take turns, and use terrain and positioning to grind down enemies, including the kind of oversized, overdesigned boss monsters that classic SRPGs love to throw at you. Around those battles sits a more traditional RPG structure of quests, loot, trading, and leveling up a growing roster of oddball party members, each with their own personality and combat role. The story is told through dialogue-heavy scenes and multiple-choice conversations that lean on old-school adventure game logic rather than straightforward exposition, so a good chunk of the experience is reading and choosing your way through jokes and side interactions between fights. It’s less about deep tactical systems and more about the rhythm of fight, recruit, banter, repeat.

Who it’s for

This one’s for people who grew up on tactics RPGs and can laugh at the genre’s tropes rather than get precious about them. If you enjoy a big cast of exaggerated characters, don’t mind a lot of reading, and appreciate humor that’s more juvenile-satirical than clever-subtle, you’ll probably have a good time. It’s less suited to players who want tight, balanced tactical combat as the main draw, since the comedy and story clearly come first here. If you’re looking for something visually polished or narratively serious, this isn’t it, and it’s fair to go in expecting a scrappy indie production rather than a AAA-level SRPG.

Is it worth it?

For fans of tactical RPGs who want something goofier and more irreverent than the genre’s usual fare, this delivers a decent amount of content between the combat and the dialogue-driven downtime. It’s not the kind of game that needs to be played at launch-window prices in your head, since the humor and party-building hooks don’t really age or lose relevance. It’s the sort of older indie title that makes the most sense picked up on a sale rather than at full price, especially if you’re just curious about the premise and not already sold on the tactics genre. Go in for the jokes and the party of misfits, not for cutting-edge combat design, and it’s a reasonable way to spend some hours.