Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown
May 22, 2025
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is the first-ever turn-based TMNT video game. Inspired by the classic cartoon, you&s;ll experience a bold new approach to the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Splinter and Shredder are dead, and as the Turtles approach adulthood, they&s;re not just growing up... they&s;re …
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"With some unpleasant difficulty spikes and staid visuals, TMNT: Tactical Takedown won&s;t be for everyone. But for those willing to overlook its idiosyncrasies, Tactical Takedown offers a compelling, yet brief, strategic challenge."
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70.0
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85.0
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65.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a superb strategy game thanks to its uniqueness and rewarding sense of challenge. 🍕"
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70.0
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85.0
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65.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown accomplishes its purpose with flying colors, delivering a fun title that will definitely please fans of strategy games and players looking for a new Turtles adventure on Switch."
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50.0
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80.0
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40.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown really nails the pacing within the tactics genre, prioritizing a more aggressive combat style that feels like a dance when you’re able to quickly execute strategies and leverage each hero’s strengths. On the other …"
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65.0
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75.0
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65.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a bit lacking in terms of difficulty and enemy variety, and the story doesn&s;t feel too creative. That said, the abilities of each Ninja Turtle reflect their personalities well and allows for some …"
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85.0
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88.0
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82.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is the second TMNT game I’ve played and reviewed in recent years, with great humor, music, and gameplay. I did find some occasional lag, which I think is because the game is unclear in …"
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60.0
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80.0
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70.0
"Strange Scaffold have done it again and has made another wonderful romp that is well worth your time, this time adapting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles name and world. Dispel any doubt: the indie studio&s;s writing chops and style transfer …"
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40.0
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70.0
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50.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a fun, if barebones, tactics game reminiscent of the arcade classics that define this series."
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75.0
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85.0
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80.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is an exciting take on the turn-based genre, aiming for quick and hard-hitting combat rather than the familiar and more methodical approach."
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58.0
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48.0
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"Overall happy to see TMNT cross yet another genre, but Tactical Takedown just barely makes a good grade. It’s not bad but it does nothing for the genre to make me want more of it. I can, for sure, recommend …"
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"The first problem with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is that our fast paced heroes doesn’t feel right working within a restrained grid. It feels off and unnatural having fast paced ninjas move at a slow pace. The game …"
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70.0
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80.0
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"But when your biggest complaint about a game is that it left you wanting more, you know it’s something special. Like this year’s Expedition 33, Tactical Takedown overcomes the most common complaints about turn-based games to deliver a strategically action-packed …"
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50.0
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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown pays homage to the early cartoon origins of the four brothers and crafts a mediocre game around them. The fast pace of the story and lack of thematic depth are disappointing, and a few …"
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68.0
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72.0
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"Fast-paced strategy makes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown’s turn-based action feel as active as an arcade brawler. Each level offers a jolt of arcade excitement that gives each turtle their chance to shine rather than treating them as interchangeable …"
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65.0
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70.0
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"TMNT: Tactically Takedown is a delightfully challenging game, once you get settled and accustomed to the pace."
Read original review"The combination of turn-based strategy and beat-&s;em-up gameplay felt like a bit of a square peg, round hole situation, but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown melds the two to deliver one of the freshest takes on TMNT that I&s;ve …"
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85.0
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92.0
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78.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a new turn-based take on the iconic franchise from Strange Scaffold."
Read original review"A surprisingly strategy-oriented outing for the heroes in a half-shell, Tactical Takedown can be challenging, but feels great when you’re in the zone"
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92.0
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88.0
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87.0
"Short, sweet, and smart, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown took me by surprise. It’s not just about how much I enjoyed it, but how intelligently Strange Scaffold came up with a gimmick that sounds bizarre on paper, but absolutely …"
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70.0
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75.0
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60.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is still good enough for both crowds to buy and play. Think of this game as not the pizza that the Turtles enjoy, but the side dish. Something tasty that gamers will enjoy, but …"
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70.0
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78.0
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"I never could have seen this coming, but it makes sense that such a talented indie studio would make an awesome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. Fun and challenging battles combine perfectly with a unique tabletop-like art style and an …"
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60.0
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70.0
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70.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown shows that even when (Strange Scaffold) are working with a more known quantity, they’re still adept at finding an approach that no one has ever taken before – and at making that work."
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75.0
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85.0
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80.0
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a short but very sweet turn-based tactics experience that makes the most of its iconic license."
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90.0
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78.0
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"I REALLY enjoyed this game. It looks and sounds fantastic. The combat is well-balanced (though possibly not taxing enough) I didn’t want to stop playing once I’d started (it has a ‘one more level’ appeal). It made me feel like …"
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70.0
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"TMNT: Tactical Takedown is full of great ideas that, while only half-realized at times, make for an undeniably fun tactics experience for gamers of all levels. As the first tactics game for both the Turtles and Strange Scaffold, there is …"
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""The streets have traffic, but also friendly hot dog vendors who throw delicious, healing sausage treats.""
Read original review"The turtle boys don&s;t cut &s;em no slack in a short but sweet tactics game that feels like the foundation for something much bigger."
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30.0
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68.0
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72.0
"TMNT: Tactical Takedown is a decent time if you love the turtles and aren’t expecting a revolutionary tactics game. It has heart, humor, and enough ninja action to keep fans entertained, truly my only issue is the writing in some …"
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