PAX West 2025 Spotlight: Table Tactics

Imagine your kitchen table reborn as a battlefield: where miniature figurines don’t fade with hit points, they topple with physical impact. That’s Table Tactics, a turn‑based strategy game from Unbound Creations that replaces HP bars with marble and arrow‑powered physics, as you aim, push, and trap your foes off the board. At PAX West 2025, we had a chat with founder and creative director Jakub Kasztalski to get under the hood of how the team turned tabletop dioramas into tactical simulations. Whether you're arranging archers who shoot to knock over statues, scouting chaos with catapults flinging marbles, or unleashing explosive mage blasts with area knock‑down effects, this game thrives in emergent physics. Add in local multiplayer modes for four‑player chaos and a campaign that rewards both precision and experimentation, and you get something refreshingly tactile in a genre often dominated by numbers. As a PAX Rising selection, Table Tactics is already a standout - and our video interview below dives into what makes it one of the most physically expressive strategy games on the horizon.