Tactical Breach Wizards

It's fun! It's good! Jen and Banks are cute together!

Well-written, incredibly funny, and some really tight and fun gameplay that's also respectful of your time. Things move quickly, and it's easy to start over, try a different tactic, or just brute force and come back to later. Thoroughly enjoyed my time in this world, and I hope there's some additional story or something else down the line to flesh out this very fun world that the devs have built!

Good writing. Unique gameplay. It's very puzzle-solving. The characters are great. Upgrades are crazy-awesome. The optional objectives can be fun, but it feels okay to skip them as you can come back later. (or not)

And there's some hints on the most obtuse late-game story missions. I *did* forget about that one ability.

Just fantastic all around.

such an amazing game, the art and the writing are both phenomenal, gameplay is fun and challenging and lets you experiment as much as you want. 10/10 Steve is the best traffic warlock

Really loved this game from start to finish, really got connected to the characters and invested in the story in a way that made me wanna see it through. Well written, funny dialogue at times, interesting story.
Was fun too, expected something like XCOM but was surprised when it was more focused in room-to-room gameplay but I shoulda expected it since it's kinda in the name. I like the different abilities, and the synergies I found between doing things with certain characters in a certain order, feels really rewarding.

Kinda wish there was more story to play even though the story is concluded but goes to show how much I enjoyed it. Currently playing through the dream sequences and replaying story where I didn't complete all challenges

Game's flush with cringey Marvel-tier humor and almost nothing else with the dialogue (seriously, why does everyone ever have to make a bunch of stupid quips and one-liners?), but conceptually the lore & world is really fresh & neat. Plays more like a puzzle than a tactical strat game, but still a good one.

Edit: Ugh and the anxiety dreams...this entire game reads like an angsty teenager's therapy confession.

Edit 2: Good god, and the "centrist dads" comments. Game's great, but whoever wrote this should absolutely never find work again.

Edit 3: Ugh...did two writers/teams handle this? It's back-and-forth. The overall writing & feel of the game are so damn cringey and adolescent, but then I see stuff like Zan's history (avoiding spoilers here, but if you're far enough you know what I'm talking about) or Rion's "origin story", and I'm just like...damn, that's good.

Story-Rich Tactical Strategy Game

Graphics/Performance

It should run well on just about any computer made after 2018. The graphics aren't super impressive but goes for a more cartoony effect.

Gameplay

The turn-based tactical strategy in this game is amazing. It lets you rewind actions taken during your turn, so you can experiment to your heart's content. Each member of your team serves a different purpose and has abilities that reflect that. They also gain new abilities at a perfect pace to keep things fresh throughout the campaign. I also like the mini-game of connecting different notes with strings on the map. It really helps keep the story from getting too complicated and serves as a reminder of what the team is working toward.

Sound

The soundtrack is okay; there are some memorable tracks, but mostly it's serviceable. The drum roll after completing a room makes the results screen a treat to see.

Final Thoughts

If you're looking for an awesome tactical turn-based strategy game that has a surprisingly heartfelt story, memorable characters, and doesn't overstay its welcome, look no further.

2 thumbs up from a pointy hat wizard.

A really fun and challenging game, which grows in depth and excitement as you progress through a really well paced story. I especially enjoyed the banter between characters during both missions and down time, and made me really invest in them for their personalities, not just abilities during missions. Highly recommended!

Honestly, Suspicious Developments never miss. Tactical Breach Wizards has great, replayable gameplay paired with incredible writing that manages to simultaneously be funny and tackle serious topics with surprising depth. I really struggle with finishing games but this one has kept me interested from start to finish.

Also worth pointing out that this game respects the player's time to a ridiculous degree. Difficulty is widely customisable in fun ways, you can skip cutscenes or everything but cutscenes, rewind mistakes, jump around the campaign, make your own story recaps or choose to experience a ton of (both gameplay and story) content that's entirely optional. I don't think I've seen this done so well anywhere else.

Generally just a really well made game, go play it.

Holy shit dude, this game fucks. I don't even like turn based tactics games but the charm + the way the characters mechanics combine + defenestration make this one of my favorite games.

Fantastic, can't recommend it enough. Fun gameplay, engaging characters and story, good writing.

Come for the game-play, stay for the hilarious writing.

If you are tempted to get this because you thought 'Oh, it's like X-COM but with wizards' like I did, you won't be disappointed. There is flexibility with how you build the wizards you recruit, a huge variety of ways you can solve a lot of the puzzles, the narrative is compelling, the characters are fun to get to know and the dialogue is supremely witty. I was very, very happy with this game experience, especially after the DEVs made it easier to select your missions without losing progress. Will definitely keep my eye out for anything else they do.

this game is fun as hell also funny as hell.
honestly though this game is great, it has interesting combat mechanics that are unique, characters are fun. just a well rounded fun experience.

This game makes it feel so good to throw people out of windows that I might have developed a kink for it.

I will not be stopping.

Suspicious developments DOES NOT MISS.

No filler, 100% killer. A snappy, cerebral tactics game that is a total joy to play from start to finish. Add in the goofy / radical wizard theme, and that would be enough to make this an easy recommendation.

But that's not all. The writing is funny (and not just funny; really, really funny). The characters are layered and interesting. The setting is cool, and the plot has some really neat twists and turns!

It kind of pisses me off how good this is. Its the kind of game you wish you had come up with yourself; the kind of game that makes you wonder why so many "bigger" games don't try this hard.

10/10. Stellar.

The writing in this game is unbelievably good and this game is 100% completely worth the price just for the writing alone. The gameplay is pretty great too though. Very similar to Into the Breech but you can rewind as much as you want on a given turn so you're more free to treat it like a puzzle game and play around with different strategies and test out ideas.

This game is probably one of my favourite games from last year that I finally got around to play. Not only is the gamplay incredibly fun and rewarding, it also rewards thinking outside the box. On that note the gameplay itself is less Strategy game and more of a Puzzle game where unlike Xcom you don´t rely on chance to hit or win a fight but more on how to efficently defeat the enemies in each room. For that matter there are also a lot of optional challenges in each room which when completed gives points to spend to unlock skins. This means if you want to unlock all the skins and give yourself more of a challenge you can but you don´t have to. Apart from the Deluxe Edition Skins everything else is unlockable from these challenges and it doesn´t feel like these were cut out to sell die Deluxe Edition. There plenty enough skins to unlock even without just by playing the game. All this ist just optional though, for people that want to just play the game without worrying it is perfectly possible. On a side note the gameplay enables fun and also really silly solutions for the rooms, theres rarely just one solution and thats it, you can usually just mess around and try out different thing because the game lets you rewind everything you do in the turn. So all in all gamplaywise the games great and it is very fun to just mess around to find the solutions. Then theres also the story, which without spoiling too much revolves around a colourful group of weirdos trying to stop a world war which is as silly as it sounds. The thing is though I really like the characters in this game everyone is so funny and sometines very aware of the inherent sillines. All the characters in the main party are very unique and funny in their own way and it is just a genuine blast to see them all interact with each other. The most important thing though for me with the game was that it was game that was supposed to be funny and it was which is great. So to shorten the previous paragraph the games story is very well written as are the characters. All of this leads me to conclude that this game is not only a great game but also that this game has become one of my favourite games to play and I would highly recommend you check it out.

On my first day of playing this game I binged 14 hours and blew off several commitments. An excellent game.

tl;dr: 10/10 - awesome gameplay, interesting story line, great characters, very nice twists in all of these aspects. A bit easy even on Hard, but not any less enjoyable because of that. It's one of the reason I play video games. Play it.

Long version:

Was looking for a game to scratch my tactical itch, but didn't expect to find one with a great story line and lovable characters.

At first I thought the humor was too much in-your-face and missed the mark for me, but then I found myself chuckle and before too long, I realized there's much more to the story and the characters, and so many things that sound weird or like a joke at first actually have some meaning to it. I loved the unexpected twists.

The gameplay is awesome. So many ways to puzzle your way to the end, and such interesting ways in which its turned on its head every now and then, so you have to use what you've learned in different ways. The learnable skills pretty much all felt meaningful, and I often couldn't quite decide which one to acquire because many sounded interesting.

If I had to name one downside, it's the difficulty, though. I take a long time to solve the rooms, but tend to plan it thoroughly and switched to Hard early on. Still didn't break a sweat. There's many ways to customize the difficulty though, and crank it up even further than I did. But I didn't feel like doing that either, and the game was still a lot of fun the way I played it.

This game has been made with love. Polished gameplay, intersting characters and an amazing world building.

If you're thinking this game might be for you, it's probably for you. Very intriguing tactical and positioning combat and gameplay, incredibly silly character banter that politely fades away just as the drama gets more intense (then pops back up just in time to hit that perfect comedy relief), and characters and plot that make you want to see the story through to the end. Then a post-game that's great for returning and grinding out completion on!

Buy it. It's good

If the trailer doesn't sell you on it, I don't know what to tell you. The gameplay is X-com with no RNG and infinite rewinds, so there's no crossing your fingers hoping something works; what you see is what you get. The story is excellent, and the writing is absolutely sublime. I was satisfied when the campaign ended, like I just finished a perfect meal... but I want more. I want more of this game and I want more games like this.

En 2013, j'avais adoré Gunpoint du même développeur. En 2017, j'avais trouvé que le feeling de Heat Signature (toujours de la même équipe) était très bon sans réussir à rentrer dans un genre moins fait pour moi (sorte de Hotline Miami revisité en rogue-like spatial). Quand on met les trois à la suite, une chose est sûre, les dévs ont un kink un peu particulier autour de la défenestration. Et c'est contagieux puisque c'était déjà le cas dans leurs deux précédents jeux, il savent rendre ça hyper satisfaisant de faire passer des méchants par la fenêtre !
Tactical Breach Wizards est donc cette fois un tactical orienté puzzle puisqu'on peut rembobiner toutes nos actions pour recommencer jusqu'à obtenir un résultat qui nous satisfasse. En ce sens, et je l'ai lu ailleurs, on pourrait le comparer à Into The Breach même si le feeling est tout à fait différent et les deux jeux pas si semblables. Néanmoins, Into The Breach étant le dernier tactical que j'ai aimé (et n'étant pas particulièrement fan du genre autrement), j'imagine que TBW plaira peut-être plus aux amateurs de puzzles et peut-être moins au fans hardcore de tacticals.
C'est aussi bien plus narratif qu'Into The Breach et j'ai pris plaisir à suivre l'histoire et ses personnages tous très attachants. L'Univers "magiciens du futur" est très chouette et assez inédit je crois. Ça permet d'offrir à chaque personnage des capacités qui changent de ce qu'on a l'habitude de voir. C'est très bien écrit, sérieux et drôle à la fois. Bref, c'est un coup de cœur et je suivrai attentivement les annonces lorsqu'ils prépareront un nouveau jeu !

Tactical Breach Wizards is a turn based puzzle game where an ex-military wizard and a private detective wizard must team up to stop a group of terrorist wizards from starting World War 5.

Gameplay

• This review is going to sound negative, so the first thing I wanted to say is that this isn’t a bad game, its just not as good as I hoped it would be. I was expecting a tactical combat game similar to Xcom or Banner Saga, but actually Tactical Breach Wizards is more of a puzzle game whose puzzles involve turn based combat, if that makes sense. The most accurate comparison I can think of is Into The Breach, which I did enjoy, and I do also like puzzle games, but somehow TBW just felt a bit disappointing for me.

• A large part of the combat system is designed around getting instant kills for knocking guys out of windows, or back into walls/objects to deal collision damage. One of your allies can place an instant death portal on almost any wall, that you can knock an enemy into. But you’ll encounter more powerful enemies which have knockback resistance, and some missions put the biggest threats in the middle of a room, several tiles away from a window, which makes those instant kills harder to set up.

• Another complication is that the starting characters’ attacks are quite weak, relative to the number of enemies in each mission, and the size of their health bars. Eventually you’ll recruit two more characters who actually have good damage dealing abilities, but they still need to be upgraded first, so it wasn’t until the game’s final chapter that I really felt in control.

• Another reason this feels like a puzzle game is because the order that you do things is very important, especially when you need to deal with enemies who can perform counter attacks on your turn, or change which of your characters they’re planning to attack based on who is closest to them. Fortunately, because one of your characters can see the future, the player has complete freedom to rewind/undo moves during your turn if you make a mistake.

• Also, the player doesn’t choose which characters to take into each mission. Your lineup is always decided by the story*, so each mission is less about “what tactics do I want to use?” and more like “what tactics does the level designer want me to use?”. (*You can replay already completed missions later, with different lineups).

• I’m not complaining about the game being too hard. I was never stuck on any mission for too long. It just often felt messy and inefficient, more annoying than fun.

• Most missions have optional objectives which reward the player with confidence points, which can be used to unlock cosmetic outfits. I did some of them, but I didn’t stress about others. For example, if an objective was “finish in 4 turns” and I finished in 5, I didn’t spend ages trying to do it quicker, I just took the win and moved on.

• Another important mechanic is that most missions will have a limited number of enemy reinforcements entering the map from doors, which can be sealed to prevent them from spawning. I think my feelings about the combat system are most accurately summed up when I say that the best way to deal with enemies is to not fight them at all.

Story

• This is the best part of the game. Very well written, with several interesting characters, and amusing dialogue playing off some interesting ideas. Like a Pyromancer who can’t kill anybody because his flames are only hot enough to cause mild irritation. Or a Necromedic who can only heal people if they’re already dead.

Technical

• It took me 14 hours to complete the story.

• I didn’t encounter any problems with framerate, bugs, or crashes.

Recommendation

I have mixed feelings about Tactical Breach Wizards, and honestly I still don’t understand why I don’t like it as much as everyone else seems to. I think the most important thing is just to understand what kind of game this is before you play it.

The strongest points are the writing and the gameplay. The characters interaction is often hilarious while tackling a crisis and facing tough situations. And the gameplay is a breath of fresh air in both its innovation and the freedom to try and find the best possible outcomes in every encounter. I was expecting to be able to assemble my own crew like in x-com, but it is not exactly like that game. you have a set team you work with (at least up until the point of the game I am at). But I can already recommend it. Very entertaining while making you think at the same time. Thanks for the game and for not holding the player's hand, unlike some so called AAA titles!

Easily one of the best turn-based strategy games I have ever played. I enjoyed every second of playing through this game. It has a very solid combat system that rewards experimentation and clever solutions and doesn't shoehorn you into using super optimal strategies-- If I wanted to resolve a puzzle by bashing into an enemy repeatedly with Dall, I could.

More than this, and rather unexpectedly, was the story behind the game. The world-building is solid and very interesting, a creative gumbo of different aesthetics. The way that the contemporary styles meshed with the more traditional fantasy stuff was a ton of fun to figure out. I love Zan's three-shot assault staff, Rion's sleek mafia druid aesthetic, Dall's entire riot priest attire. It was all very fun and creative and something which I would come back to repeatedly. This aesthetic should become more popular and I would love to play more games in this universe-- In fact, I think I might start working on putting together something for a TTRPG campaign set in this world because I enjoyed the world building *that much*.

A world is nothing without its characters, though. This game did not fail to deliver. From Jen to Rion, every playable character is an absolute joy to meet. As we go through the game, we watch them evolve and change. I remain a big fan of Zan and Banks. Zan's journey is one that I found rather unexpected, given the nature of its beginning. I thought Zan was going to be a little generic-- But as we find out more about him and what he did, I realized that this was a very unique take on the type of character that someone like Zan tends to be. While he might be garbed in the usual trappings of a tragic hero-- Unfairly discharged for making a terrible choice and burdened with the knowledge of an oncoming catastrophe, Zan is far from your usual trope-ridden pastiche and represents a character which I found to be an extremely refreshing breath of fresh air. I can say the same for everyone here, frankly. Jen and Dessa are hilarious and both lovable in different ways. Dall feels a little exposition-heavy at times, but I seriously love her commitment to her cause and her general attitude, plus she's a kickass rebel. Rion is the one that we spend the least time with and, even then, I think the decision to have him go back and forth with Dessa was a good one, given that Dessa is probably one of the most likable characters in the game. Introducing a new character and making him cozy up to our proverbial protagonists proverbial partner was a stroke of genius that I seriously appreciated.

I could probably sing this game's praises for a while. But I wont expound upon this. I love this game, you'll probably find you love it too. Extremely refreshing game, I hope to see more of this world and more from these folks in general!

This is a very clever little tactics game, though it ends up playing a bit more like a puzzle game in a sense. Most of your characters' abilities do not deal direct damage to your enemies. Instead the gameplay emphasizes positioning, both of your guys and the enemies. Most of your abilities will be focused on pushing the enemies around in some fashion, into walls, into each other, into environmental objects, out of windows or eldritch portals, that sort of thing. Everyone's abilities synergize together to create a lot of fun interactions, and the game is consistently feeding you new enemies or objects or mechanics to maintain your interest, it's very well paced in this regard. I also found each character's kit to be really inventive and outside the box for the genre. Your "medic", for instance, cannot heal people directly, but can kill and revive them, or just revive them if they're already dead. You can revive enemies too, in a confused state. This is just one example, but there are countless more, and it shows how creative and thoughtful the game's design is.

The difficulty settings have a number of options you can tailor to your whims, and each mission has some optional, character specific side objectives, like making sure nobody takes damage, or blocking a certain number of reinforcements, meant to serve as additional optional difficulty and reward. Trying to fulfill all of these can make missions more difficult, but it can also guide you towards solutions you may have not come up with otherwise, and provides points you can spend on new outfits(the most important part of the game it goes without saying).

The story is meant to be humorous, though it knows when to take itself seriously when the moment calls for it. Some of the humor lands, some doesn't, this is entirely to personal taste. I thought some of the dialogue started to veer a bit too much into the "Marvel Quip" formula, but it never gets anywhere near as bad as like, Forspoken if you want a comparison. I'm willing to overlook it honestly, because everything else is really good. The character writing, worldbuilding, and overarching plot are all fantastic. I found some of the moments in the story to be genuinely poignant, which is shocking coming from a game where one of your recurring antagonists is a loser traffic cop.

Really give this one a look if you're a fan of this type of game, it's well worth the money.

I personally found it boring. The gameplay gets stale pretty fast and there's very few options for upgrades. The bonuses award cosmetics so unless you're big on skins, there's not much else to them. There's also no other weapons aside from your starting ones, the unlocks you get further on are mostly utility. It's not a bad game by any means, but to me, it just felt like a drag to get through. I also expected much more magic variety for a game that has the word 'Wizards' in the title. I think the price is good for what you're getting, but It just didn't really scratch the turn-based itch for me.

Absolutely phenomenal! Definitly a must play for strategy lovers. Game play was wonderful, yet somehow the writing was even better. I cannot recommend this game highly enough.

This game was a top notch play. The art style and music are all way more than I expected, but then there is the great dialogue and a fun story, and a totally unique twist to a fantasy world. That's all just the icing on top of what is a really fun engine of 'puzzle combat'. I don't think I have gotten, or wanted to get, 100% achievements on any game in my stupidly large Steam library; but I was obsessed with getting every last achievement and character 'point' in this game. The puzzle play is that good, and the character abilities are diverse enough that you can solve the puzzles any number of ways. The progression throws new enemies and allies at you all the way to the end, making none of it feel repetitive. A+ game and I look forward to more from this developer!

Good and genuinely funny writing. The game has a cord board thingy where you have to connect plot points with red string to make sure you understand everything, makes the story very easy to follow and I love it. Gameplay is similar to Xcom or Into the Breach, fun and challenging at times. Well paced progress. Overall very solid game

I can't say enough about how good this game is.

[X] Great gameplay
[X] Funny dialogue
[X] Endearing characters
[X] Surprisingly rich narrative

Absolutely no bullshit, fluff, or filler. Honestly why are you still reading this review just buy the game!

Having played Gunpoint and Heat Signature, I went into Tactical Breach Wizards expecting a very solid & fun tactical experience, and I was not disappointed at all. The gameplay is absolutely top-notch! The turn-based combat is superb, with a plethora of creative solutions thanks to awesome abilities, weapons, and gadgets. The level and mission design is also spot on, offering just the right amount of challenge and variety.

However, I have to say that the writing fell flat for me. Tom Francis' quirky style, which I've enjoyed in his previous works, didn't quite land this time around. Sometimes, I felt like the game was trying too hard to be funny or edgy, veering into reddit-tier territory at times even... Yeah, sure, I did get a few chuckles here & there but... I dunno... I just never felt the humuour was forced or awkward in Gunpoint or Heat Signature like it was here.

Despite that, I still had an absolute blast playing Tactical Breach Wizards. It's a fresh, superb take on turn based combat with so many fun possibilities, offering great replay value too. Highly recommended.

Great game! Just the right hardness with a gripping plot and punny dialogue! Great replayability with hundreds of ways to end it, be it a 3 bolt burst, broom breach, or my personal favourite, DEFENESTRATING everybody and everything. Get if it you like Xcom, Into The Breach, messed up wizards, warped humor, pointy hats, bad jokes, broomsticks, sick spells, or -- heck, just get it.

Extremely fun game with an interesting world and lots of humour.

Great story, great puzzles, great game.

A wonderful tactics game that makes you feel really smart when you figure out its puzzles. The coolest thing about it is that most of your abilities do not do direct damage, forcing you to think very laterally when presented with a combat challenge.

The story and the world are pretty cool, if somewhat short. That doesn't mean the game is short, it took me around 18 hours to get to the end without rushing and trying to pick up as many bonus objectives I could, and I'm still a long way from done - I missed a bunch of bonuses and there are entire new sections of optional levels I haven't even touched yet. Plus it has workshop support for extra levels if you're so inclined.

The characters are all pretty wacky and interesting (except one who is just a 'straight man') and their dialogues are almost always fun to listen to, the script for the game could easily have been a movie and it would have been enjoyable to watch.

About the only negative I could even think of is that I want more of the game, I would have loved if the story was double the size, provided it stayed as interesting as it was throughout.

Heavily recommend to any fan of the turn-based tactics genre.

This is more like a puzzle game than an actual tactical game. But it can be pretty challenging when you try to achieve some extra stylish results.

But most of all, this game is well written and really funny, it had been quite some time since a game managed to make me laugh.

An excellent hybrid strategy/puzzle game in the vein of Into the Breach, but with extra layers of narrative, deep and relatable characters, and hilarious writing. You can ignore the optional objectives if you prefer to concentrate on strategy over puzzles, but they help you learn the fun combos you can setup using various abilities. That interaction between abilities is what really sets this game apart. The design is extremely tight and the difficulty progression felt very well thought out. It's hard not to love a game where knocking enemies out of windows is a major mechanic.

Incredible game that manages to have lots of great and original gameplay mechanics while also having an interesting storyline with well-crafted dialogues

excellent game.

The tactical shooter element is really well executed and it's very rewarding trying out different approaches to find something that works.

The game also has a brilliant cast of characters, with a story which is both full of humour, and also really engaging.

Feels more like a puzzle game than a tactics game. Chaining combos and figuring out the optimal way to clear a room while hitting all the bonus targets can be a real thrill.
The story and humour is fun, it keeps the set pieces all tied together and provides a bunch of colourful characters.

Plenty of content too, a lot of missions, customisable difficulty, side-missions, optional challenges for cosmetics, steam support. Well worth the money.

Overall, very enjoyable. Light-toned, though not really quite laugh out loud funny (but also with some serious stuff and overall handled well). I found the characters all engaging, the plot interesting and well-handled and the style of humour enjoyable. (Some have commented it is a bit quippy, but... I am afraid I am one of those terrible people that actually likes quippy and still quite enjoys the MCU...)

The game play is turn-based, but with the ability to look ahead to see the outcome of you actions and rewind your turn to try a different approach. This very definitely elevates the game, being clever and novel). This is definitely more a puzzle-'em up than an X-Com alike; but frankly, having a few more deterministic games is a very good thing when all too often of these days, difficulty is set by out-sourcing to the Random Number Generator.

This particular approach meant that I actually used all the abilities I had; sometimes, even in TBS games, I find abilities that I just never remember to use, and probably wouldn't have here without such a deliberate play style and going back to try things a different way,

Each level usually has some optional goals, which gives you Confidence points where you spend to unlock different outfits. Despite not really someone for whom cosmetics matter, I nevertheless aimed for the goals anyway; playing on normal difficulty, they were fairly achievable for the most part. I found more than once there was a quicker way to finish the level, but aiming for the optional goals adds a level of extra planning. (Fortunately, on the harder levels, you can just miss them entirely). Also, aside from the other difficulty levels, the devs were generous enough to include a "skip level" button, if you got really stuck. (I used it myself only once, and only on one of the replayable optional levels.) You can also re-play the levels later with your extra perks and even change the characters.

The game play was definitely at its best when it was being a puzzle, less so when relatively few random elements got in the way. Given there were relatively few of those (i.e., the in movement of reinforcements and when the area mines were laid), I found when they did interrupt, they were more jarring.

(For instance, on the penultimate level, I was really put out because the random enemy that showed up dropped a grenade right on top of the militia I'd carefully been saving, when I had no way I could have done anything about it so I missed one of the optional goals.

I completed the main campaign and the optional levels in about 32 hours, which is a pretty decent time for a game of this size and scope (and a bit more than I was expecting, honestly). While there is the ability to replay the missions, I think I have had about enough by that point, so it was a good length.

So, in conclusion, a very nice little game that absolutely has earned its accolades. I would certainly be interested in an eventual sequel (et al) or more from that world. But as a complete package, it can stand proud as it is.

I saw this game first when i was getting NPCs Tokens for a DND game. And it IMMEDIATELY caught my attention with its cool artstyle. So i wishlist it, and buy it when a sale comes around. To simplify it. HOLY SHIT THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST STORY RICH GAMES EVER, AND IT HAS FUN AND ENGAGING COMBAT??
So to the amazing team at Suspicious Developments, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for an amazing experience that i will NEVER forget.

Fantastic tactical RPG / puzzle game with consistently funny dialogue and interesting challenges. 10/10, wouldn't change a single thing about it.

I picked this up because I was amused by the idea of a SWAT team clearing rooms except they're all wizards using magic, and existing reviews praised the writing. The game was actually even better than I expected.

I played this for ~32 hours, but I got all achievements so the main story length is a little bit shorter. The characters feel nicely balanced, a lot of the spells are really fun make you feel powerful, and there are so many different interesting ways to combine them that you can think up all sorts of clever solutions to each problem.

I like puzzles a lot, so I made sure I always did every confidence goal as I went along, but for a more casual experience you can just not bother to do that, or turn down the difficulty, or skip difficult missions (or entire dream sequences which explore the characters if you want a shorter game).

The humour and tone were great and the dialogue never failed to make me laugh.

Literally wouldn't change a single thing about this game, I loved it. You should play it.

After the trailer, I came in expecting a fun little puzzle/tactics hybrid about silly wizards. Never could I have known that underneath that veneer I'll find some of the best writing, characterization, and world-building I have ever seen throughout all the types of media.

The sheer volume of emotion this game manages to convey is incredible, without a single line of voiced dialogue nonetheless. All done through the use of speech box sizes, text speed and pauses, and the incredible writing quality. It's hilarious when it wants to be, and yet so poignant when it needs to be. Without a hint of irony I can say that Dall's explanation of The Voice shook me to my core and has permanently affected my life.

This game perfectly represents our current zeitgeist - the stubborn defiance against odds stacked so much in favour of the inevitable collapse. And the source for this defiance is the levity we find in the utmost hilarity of it all. I think it makes perfect sense to "hide" the real genius of this beneath the mask of a quirky little game, because not only does it help support the themes, but also hits ever so deeper when it's unexpected.

Playing Tactical Breach Wizards was one of the best experiences of my entire life, and it set a shining example of game design and writing for me going forward, something to strive to match.

Absolutely a banger game, great storytelling, great characters, very smart level design with objectives that nudge you towards fun strategies to experiment and try. 2024 was absolutely packed with top tier games and Tactical Breach Wizards is definitely one of the highlights. Well done to the whole team, Tactical Breach Wizards is a product of love and passion, and you can definitely see it, whether it's through the quippy and delightful dialogue among the characters, the fun and easily missed descriptions of abilities or enemies, or even the way you can theorycraft a solution, and somehow make it work.

For any completionists out there, please try not to pressure yourself in getting everything cleared out immediately and try to enjoy going through each level, like the devs urge you, the Confidence Goals as well as the "Clean", "Efficient", "Quick" tags are there if you are finding the game too easy.

Overall, amazing experience, if I had to score this, I would definitely give it a 10/10.

Great game, going for all the optional objectives with the maximum custom difficulty is really fun. Story's easy to follow and fun to read for an idiot like me as well.

It's like Shadowrun Returns, but leaner, wittier and funnier. The game fully leans into the absurdity of its setting, and presents a cast of hilarious trash-talking misfits in a larger-than-life political thriller. The gameplay is less about dealing damage, and more about strategic positioning and moving your allies and foes around. It's almost puzzle-like (but not as unforgiving as Into the Breach), with every skill playing its role, and characters beautifully working in synergy. Writing, gameplay, art -- every part of this game is nothing but fun. Highly recommended!

Incredible game. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes a challenge and a puzzle, and that's just the core gameplay. The deep interactions between the characters and the gravity of their goals make you legitimately want to push their stories forward and see them grow and succeed. Just amazing writing.

Also, the world is deep. Tons of thought was put into imagining this place, and I guarantee the writers threw away 90% of a great world just to bring us the really cool slice of it that we see. I'd love to see another game in this world, even if it was another genre or different characters.