Titanium Court Faerie politics, one match at a time

Every fight is a match-3 board that doubles as a battlefield. Swapping tiles reshapes the ground itself, so the trick is making the terrain fall in your favor instead of the enemy's. On top of that sits tower defense: you place defenses, then watch how your rearranged board holds up against what comes. You also draft upgrades between runs, so each attempt plays out differently, and losing does not punish you hard, which keeps a failed run light instead of punishing. It is turn-based and tactical, a puzzle first and a fight second.

You arrive at a faerie court mid-crisis, and everyone needs a favor. The residents want help finding their missing queen. The queen wants help finding her missing keys. The audience wants help finding the Point, and the game is cheerful about not explaining what that means. The writing carries all of it: witty, thick with jokes, and oddly sincere underneath. You play to find out what happens, and the game has opinions about you looking.

As you play, you unlock jobs with names like Warlord, Arsonist, Celebrity and Insurance Fraudster, each one changing how a run feels. There is a shortcut system for later runs, and musical interludes you can listen to instead of fighting certain bosses, which is a legitimate strategy and also about pacific salmon, at least once. There is a fully interactive shower, for certain definitions of both words. The art is hand-drawn and colorful, the music hypnotic, and the whole thing leans into its own strangeness rather than apologizing for it.