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Tower Tactics II Enters Steam Early Access with 190+ Cards and Custom Maps
Developer asraworks and publisher Assemble Entertainment have released their strategy sequel Tower Tactics II into Steam Early Access. Launched on October 8, 2026, the game combines roguelike deckbuilding with tower defense, challenging players to survive relentless enemy waves by building increasingly powerful decks and discovering new combinations.
Get Your Tactics Towering
The Sal’koth are back, and the universe is their target. Guided by Kaya, a new generation of tactical heroes must grow stronger, master new powers and fight through increasingly dangerous encounters. Complete quests, uncover the truth and stop the Sal’koth before they plunge the universe into darkness.
Players use their collected cards to build and upgrade defenses, attack enemies, manipulate the battlefield and create powerful combinations.
Key Features
Experiment with 190+ cards, 150 trinkets and five playable characters, alongside new enemies, decks, maps, tiles and game modes.
Shape each run with custom starting cards and trinkets, then grow stronger through the revamped Sanctuary.
Use Hero Cards, card items, status effects and powerful combinations to counter new enemy abilities.
Play with full controller support and Steam Deck compatibility.
Build maps, share them through Steam Workshop and take on challenges created by other players.
Where to Play
Tower Tactics II is available in Early Access on Steam for PC. This is the Early Access release, with development continuing beyond launch.
About the Teams
Assemble Entertainment is an independent German publisher whose catalog includes Sticky Business, Roadwarden and the Endzone franchise. asraworks is the solo development studio behind the Tower Tactics series, combining deckbuilding, roguelike progression and tower defense.
Elemental Exiles is an RPG deckbuilding roguelike where you play as one of 12 heroes, each with their own personal quest, starting location, and initial cards. Overcome challenging battles and adapt to unexpected narrative encounters as you grow your deck and explore the world.
Unique Characters and Personal Quests
Play as one of 12 unique characters scattered across the map, each with a diverse deck of abilities at their disposal. Guide them carefully across the world to advance their personal quests and help them achieve glory—or at least closure. Four characters are unlocked from the start, but there are eight more hidden in the world for you to find, each with their own unique story to play through. Start your journey with one of these characters:
A naïve Elven warrior still determined to protect the village that exiled them...
An old Dwarven researcher searching for a very specific piece of hidden knowledge...
A bitter bounty hunter determined to track down her treacherous former partners...
An abandoned young water mage searching for the master who betrayed her...
Expansive World Exploration
With each step your character takes, uncover more of the world around you. Watch the vibrant landscape reveal itself as you journey forth, filling in an expansive map that persists across playthroughs. This allows you to revisit your favorite places, address unfinished business with new tactics, or forge a new path entirely.
Strategic Deckbuilding and Elemental Synergies
When you choose to play a particular card can be just as important as which card you play. Cards in Elemental Exiles have additional effects that only trigger when certain conditions are met—such as being the first card played on your turn, or being played immediately after another card of a specific element. Whether or not you manage to trigger these extra conditional effects can be the difference between victory and defeat, so be sure to keep possible synergies in mind when choosing new cards for your deck.
Most cards are attuned to one of three elements—Fire, Water, or Nature. Each of these has a corresponding strength and weakness. For example, Fire actions are strong against Nature and weak against Water. Naturally, certain enemies and bosses also favor a particular element. So while your Fire deck might crush a group of tree spirits while traveling through a forest, it’s going to struggle against a horde of angry water elementals you encounter while walking along the coast. Will you try to specialize in one element to increase synergy? Or will you favor a more balanced approach to reduce your potential weaknesses?
Additional Features
12 Unlockable Characters: Each character starts in a different location on the world map and has their own personal quest and starting deck of cards.
A Huge World to Explore: The map has over 200 unique locations. While most encounters will change between playthroughs, knowledge of traversable routes and certain key boss locations will be preserved.
Challenging Tactical Battles: Take on over 300 unique battle scenarios, each with its own combination of enemies and tactics to overcome.
Intriguing Narrative Events: Make your choices carefully as some encounters can have significant consequences on your deck—both positive and negative.
Blessings and Curses: An event might reward you with a blessing that reduces the cost of certain types of cards for several battles—or punish you with a curse that does the opposite.
Inventory Items: Up to 4 potions or bombs can be stored in your inventory and used at any time in a battle to help give you an edge just when you need it.
Relax and Stock Up at Inns: There are 14 unique inns hidden throughout the world, allowing you to spend your hard-earned gold on new cards, items, and blessings.
Dynamic Deck Building: Each battle fought or event overcome might give you a chance to add a new card to your ever-changing deck.
Card Durability: Your cards wear down with each use before being permanently lost, so you’ll have to constantly update your deck and adapt your tactics to survive.
Embark on your adventure in Elemental Exiles and see if you have what it takes to guide your hero to glory!
