T&T is a rouge-like (with some unlockables achieved almost immediately) auto-battler. The crux of the game-play at higher-levels revolves around the object and timing of resource-spending, namely Stars and Gold. Stars are used to roll (randomly) for which monsters may be up for purchase, and then are used to purchase said monsters. Gold is used to purchase equipment for your monsters and other meta-items.

Each monster has two or three traits. The goal then becomes to construct a team of monsters who complete sets of these traits, with each set requiring 2 or 3 monsters of that group (a second level of the trait may be attained at 4 or 5 monsters). As you progress through the game's three acts, there are also a moderate amount of diverse events along the way. These provide a satisfactory level of strategic input from the player, beyond just roster-building.

Two life-points are lost when you lose a fight, and one is gained when you win (typically capping at four hearts max). So you need not win every fight to win a run.

At lower challenge levels, simply collecting a team with a sufficient number of traits will lead you to victory. At level 15 (the highest level), I have personally found that some traits are not so good, and that a handful are clearly better. This limited my gameplay a bit, but the diversity presented by the 9 characters to play kept the game fresh.

On the whole T&T is very-well done and is a worthy entry into the strategic auto-battler scene. It probably doesn't have the replay-ability of other rouge-likes (e.g. StS, MT, or Balatro), but there is a good amount of fun strategic stuff to discover here. If you like rouge-likes and auto-battlers, this is pretty easy to recommend, especially on sale.

Overall: 8.0/10

I was thinking about launching this again because the gameplay is alright, but my next thought was "I don't want to look at those INSANELY UGLY characters again". Seriously, the character art is so repulsive that I recognized it was stopping me from launching the game so obviously I need to leave a review to highlight that I don't even want to play the game because the art detracts from the experience to the point that I'd rather do something else.

I think this game is a lot of fun. Just a pve auto battler with options to go for items, passives, or more merging as you go on. Usually once I win I just stop most games I play but I'll play this one again.

Kind of like TFT but not on a timer.