Metal Slug Tactics has been
announced and released for mobile platforms in Japan. The title departs from the franchise's well-established genre of run-and-gun and comes as turn-based tactics, just like Advance Wars.
The player battles troops who have been cloned from the Morden's army by the Martians in a previous mobile Metal Slug game, the Mars Panic. The new game boasts 90 different types of units and possibility of over a thousand different operational deployments.