Forsworn is a turn-based tactics roguelite about stacking synergies until they break the game. You command a party of heroes, forge combinations between them and level them up across runs, fighting gods either solo or in online co-op, where the store page notes that defeat is just another beginning.

Steam 250 week chart: #11, up 5 places, score 7.65 from 171 reviews, released 10 September 2026. Chart position via Steam 250 week top 50.

Key features

Meta-progression that survives the loss

Heroes level across runs rather than resetting with them. That changes what a failed run is worth: in a roguelite where only knowledge carries over, a bad run is a tax, and in one where the party carries over, a bad run is still deposit on the next attempt. It is the single biggest reason tactics roguelites retain players past the first wall.

Co-op in a turn-based structure

Online co-op is rare in turn-based tactics because turns serialise badly: one player thinking stops the other playing. Splitting a party between two people turns that dead time into discussion, which is why the format works better with a fixed roster than with a shared unit pool.

Synergies designed to be abused

The pitch is explicitly about stacking effects until a party can kill gods. Tactics games that balance against the player’s best build tend to feel airless; ones that let a combination run away produce the screenshots that sell the game.

The honest caveat

Forsworn’s language support lists full audio across twelve languages, but the review base is still small at 171 reviews, so the long-run balance picture is not settled yet. The $12.79 price is a 20% discount at the time of writing.

Where to find it

Forsworn is on Steam at $12.79 from developer and publisher Resummon Studios. Steam store page.