If your TTRPG group has ever wanted to channel Denji from Chainsaw Man around a battle grid, Night Shift: Devil Division might be what you are looking for. This standalone tactical RPG, powered by MCDM's Draw Steel engine, drops players into a version of 1990s Tokyo where the post-bubble economic collapse did not just destroy livelihoods, it spawned literal devils born from human fear. You play as members of an elite response unit deployed to hunt them down. It launches on BackerKit on 5 May.
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Start organising for freeDraw Steel, the tactical TTRPG from Matt Colville's MCDM Productions, is built around fast grid-based combat where players chain abilities into combos, trade blows in a fluid back-and-forth tempo, and work as a team to pull off big signature moves. Night Shift is one of the first standalone games published under the Draw Steel Creator License, and it leans hard into the anime aesthetic that system was practically built for. You do not need a copy of Draw Steel to play.
The game comes from Slightly Reckless Games and offers five operative classes. Contractors are bound by devil pacts, channelling borrowed power with strings attached. Exokinetics project supernatural force outward through blood arts and shikigami summoning. Three more classes round out the squad.
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Set up your group for freeCombat runs on two resource systems. Momentum is earned through the pressure of a fight and spent on powerful techniques. Adrenaline is a shared squad pool that fuels clutch saves and last-second reversals when the mission goes sideways.
The starter set includes pre-generated characters, tactical maps, tokens, dice, and a self-contained campaign called The Shinjuku Operation, scaling from Level 0 to 3. If anime-flavoured tactical combat sounds like your group's thing, get the squad together and keep an eye on this one.
Sources: BackerKit | Wargamer | In Game News
