Tactical Breach Wizards has a Beta with improvements for Gamepad and Steam Deck verification

Highly rated by players, Tactical Breach Wizards from Suspicious Developments is about to get even better for Gamepad and Steam Deck players with a Beta available for testing.

What is it? Tactical Breach Wizards is a turn-based tactics game in which you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar, as they unravel a modern conspiracy plot and/or find the most stylish way to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window. This is from the same developer of Heat Signature and Gunpoint.

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As for the new Beta, the developer said in an announcement: "If you have a Steam Deck, or if you just play on gamepad, we'd love to have you try the update we're preparing for next week! It's already been approved for Steam Deck Verified status by Valve, but we also wanna get you guys to try it out before we call it done."

Valve have bumped it up to Deck Verified based on their own testing, but nice to see a developer not entirely relying on that and actually getting some public feedback too. What the Beta includes:

Improved targeting controls on gamepad

For abilities that target enemies directly, like most of your standard attacks, you can now cycle through the possible targets with the shoulder buttons on gamepad, rather than needing to use the cursor.

Redesigned ability buttons and team panels for text clarity

We now have an optional Large UI mode, enabled by default on Steam Deck. It changes how we show you the name of the ability you're selecting, and what it costs to use, so that this info can be in nice big clear text. You can still switch back to the old UI, even on Steam Deck.

Bigger text

All text that was near or below the minimum guidelines for Steam Deck is now significantly bigger in Large UI mode. We also tightened up the team portraits area and objectives panel so that these don't sprawl out and take up too much of the screen at the larger text size.

D-pad menu navigation

In every context where it makes sense, you can use the d-pad to navigate menus nicely now.