Persona 5 Tactica PS5 Game

The Phantom Thieves get pulled into a set of Kingdoms built out of one man's cognition and ruled by Legionnaire tyrants. This is a grid based tactics game, not a turn based dungeon crawler, and it is a genuinely different skill set from the mainline games.

Cover and positioning

Three characters per battle on a grid. Objects give cover that reduces or fully blocks damage. Knock an enemy out of cover, or hit an elemental weakness, and it goes down and hands you a 1 More extra turn.

Triple Threat

Line your three allies up so the downed enemies sit inside the triangle they form, then trigger an area wide All Out Attack. Melee attacks physically shove enemies around the grid, guns hit at range and can line up multiple targets, so movement and shoving are half the puzzle.

Progression

Personas return as equippable Sub Personas fused in the Velvet Room, alongside per character skill trees and side Quests with bonus objectives. New allies: Erina, who leads the Rebel Corps, and Toshiro Kasukabe.

Key details

• Platform: PlayStation 5 disc
• Genre: Tactical RPG, turn based strategy
• Players: 1
• Developer: Atlus, P Studio. Publisher: SEGA
• DualSense vibration supported. 15 accessibility options
• Rating: PEGI 12, ESRB Teen

Worth knowing: Repaint Your Heart, the chapter with Goro Akechi and Kasumi Yoshizawa, is paid DLC and is not on the standard disc. Digital Deluxe extras are also separate.

In the box: One PS5 game disc in retail case.