Into the Breach

i was not prepared for how stressful this game would be like sometimes id stare at a turn for 20 minutes wondering what to do as if actual civilian lives are at stake

Excellent game for someone with a busy schedule. Mech teams have very straightforward mechanics that you can learn in a single mission, but can master and refine over the course of many campaigns. I've put a lot more time in this game than most of the AAA titles I own.

Tons of fun, great gameplay dynamics. Perfect for casual player that like turnbased strategy pixel art.

This little tactical puzzle solver is great fun. The art style and music suck you in and the gameplay loop is enjoyable and challenging. If you like playing to unlock stuff to play again but different, this is definitely your jam.
Plus look at the little bots, they're so fucking cute <3

Perfect mix of FTL, Starship Troopers/Ender's Game, and Battletech

In order to defeat the bug, we must first understand the bug.

its very fun and low price and fun and also low price and fun

I bought this game because i wanted something like Final Fantasy Tactics on the GBA.
And boy, i'm not disappointed!
Got hooked from the start, replays are fun with the squads you can unlock.
Buy it if you like strategy games.

Challenging turned based game with a rogue-lite twist. When you fail to protect the energy grid of an island (measured by building damage of every mission) you take one of your pilots back in time to start again, and take advantage of their levelled up battle experience in the next squad.

Complete achievements for each squad to unlock coins and get new mechs (this is not DLC the coins are built into the game).

Extremely well made tactical combat sim, intense and addictive.

This game is not Front Mission
The only similarity is just this game has mecha, and that's it
In fact, I believe the dev hates Front Mission
They made this game so hard so you can just say Front Mission was easy
I'm not even joking: You can't restart the level, you can only restart the game
10/10 this is Darksouls difficulty made into a turn based game

Into The Breach, nah I play Into The Peak. Really fun strategy game made by the FTL people. Honestly the most fun I've ever had. I have 140 hours in a different computer save so I can proudly say it's PEAK.

Into the Breach is a procedurally-generated puzzle game masquerading as a TRPG rogue-like.

Every turn weaves a new problem for you to solve through clever use of enemy AI and unit spawns. Each of the mechs available to the player has a unique and clearly defined role that encourages the use of a wide breadth of tactics.

If you're looking for a tactical RPG experience similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem, you will be disappointed by what Into the Breach offers. If you instead go in expecting a tactical puzzle, you'll find a shocking amount of elegance and depth that I've not seen elsewhere in the genre.

This game has a few chess adjacent ideas, and can be a fun puzzle, and or give you unsolveable roguelite feelings, i won the game the first time on easy.

a great couch game. full of strategy while staying super engaging throughout a run.

Very Fun tactical rogue like with lots of replay ability.

The item descriptions are terrible, though. Some items require a resource to power up after you purchase them, but the cost isn't mentioned in the store.

4/5 Stars

A masterclass of rogue like action, crushing difficulty, and a story that makes you question how much of yourself you would sacrifice to save everything.

"Into the Breach" is an amazing almost chess-like sci-fi puzzle game from the makers of the incredible "FTL: Faster Than Light" game. The premise of the game is awesome with an almost endless replay value. You start out as a mech pilot from an alternate timeline that has been sent to a timeline similar to yours that is in peril from the Vek aliens. You command a squad of three mechs, each with unique, upgradable, and swappable fighting technology. Your job is to protect the human structures on the grid from the Vek in 5 turns. Each mech is allowed one move and one attack before the enemy gets a turn. But wait! There can also be environmental effects and the Vek call in reinforcements each turn. If you survive, you work your way across the map of each island (four in total) before trying to beat the final mission where you have to survive 10 rounds before a cataclysmic bomb is deployed destroying the Vek.

If you fail, you get to choose one of your pilots and they will "rift walk" to the next timeline and try again while this timeline is destroyed and overran by the Vek. Even the classic "game over, try again" weaves a cool sci-fi tale of traveling through the rift to the next timeline.

I've so far beaten this game on Easy mode after hours of play and found that there are more mech squads you can unlock as you earn coins to purchase them.

If you like puzzle games, chess, strategy, and sci-fi, you'll be a fan of this one!

a great low spec replayable RTS as short or as long as you need a game to be

Very few games have pulled me back to play them after I've ragequit, this one is one of them and I'm glad I went back and gave it another chance.
Many different options of difficulty for any player to enjoy, the ones that want to have a fun time like me and the ones that want to challenge themselves, a very clever setting for a roguelike, likeable characters and amazing strategy gameplay.
I was happily surprised to see they had added new pilots and squads that I had never seen before, I played the game before they added them and they're great as they completely change the way you approach beating all the islands.
Totally recommend it for players who like strategy and roguelike games.

GREAT game.

A very impressively designed game. A lot of thought clearly went into balancing combat via enemy AI and player weapons/tools. This game nails the balance between simplicity and strategy. The different unlockable squads challenge the player to think in alternative ways which keeps the game replayable and fresh. Only thing lacking from Subset Games is a narrative or story with their games.
Can't wait to see what they come up with next.

10/10

Very fun turn based strategy game with a relatively small defined map but different combinations of units to keep it interesting

The unlock progress through completing specific tasks killed any desire to keep playing. Just winning the quickest did not typically progress any unlocks. After being force to do silly tasks to get more stars to unlock new mech groups the enjoyment of the game plummeted.

This game is awesome just like their other game I play, FTL. I've beat this one a couple times, each playthrough takes ~4 hours if you complete all the islands. There is a ton of replayability with different mech squads, making each play fresh and requiring new strategies

No matter how many times I play, I have never once had the same problem thrown at me. Every turn is unique, every dilemma a tangled puzzle to unravel, and when you finally find that perfect avenue to victory, the dopamine flows. And your solution to each problem is never the same either. It's amazing how complex and layered the strategy can be in this little 8x8 game of giant robot chess.

One of the greatest games ever made. Best tactics game, great roguelike. Dont feel pressure to play on the harder modes, find the difficulty that works for you and enjoy all of the great content.

It's a nice and fast paced roguelike tactical RPG. Next to no story dialogue in between shorter skirmishes. I like how many different abilities there are for different mech classes. The aspect of picking different pilots that have a static ability as well as random ones each run along with picking the 3 mechs you will have to deploy for all skirmishes each run adds for A LOT of variety each play though!

Overview:

Why I recommend it?

Having played Into the Breach for over 50 hours, unlocking all squads, beating the game on Normal and Hard multiple times, I think I can finally weigh in my thoughts on this game. Into the Breach is an excellent game that is so close being a perfect game, but it falls short on just a few things. I will touch up on them after highlighting all of the good things about this game.

The gameplay, artstyle, and mech designs in this game amazed me. I LOVE the way this game looks and plays, and I especially love the squads. If you think you'll like something like this, definitely get it because Into the Breach is amazing at what it does. Balance-wise, the developers did a great job with this game compared to FTL, so I have to commend them for that. It's overwhelming at first but intuitive level solutions become clear with more experience. I can't really say much more about the good parts of the game because as a game, it's VERY good.

Now for the bad...

This game's lore/story is pretty upsetting. The time travel shenanigans feel pointless to the story and the ending doesn't give you much of a sense of satisfaction once you beat the game. In fact, even the final mission is pretty underwhelming. There is no big bad superboss like in FTL, and that disappointed me greatly. The final level is in all honestly pretty easy if you have a decent squad. FTL's story was simple, but a complete story. Into the Breach, on the otherhand, has some really cool beats for a nice story that could have a climactic ending, but we never get that. Who is the commander we play as? What happened to planet Earth? Who are the pilots? Where did the mechs come from? None of these questions are answered and I think it holds the game back from what could have been a very powerful story with a satisfying, definite conclusion. I know it wasn't this game's goal, and that's fine, but I still felt like it detracted from my experience of the game.

The mech balance is pretty terrible. Rift Walkers, Hazardous Mechs, and Secret Squad are a complete joke. I won't comment on Heat Sinkers beacuse I hear they're a great squad if you put the time in to learn them. I will throw a less popular opinion and say that I felt like Frozen Titans was pretty terrible, too. Meanwhile, Bombermechs and Mist Eaters are extremely overpowered and I found myself winning on Hard mode with them with absolutely no difficulty. Come on, Subset... This is the same problem FTL had. I get that this is an Advanced Edition problem but this exists in the main game, too. Mech squads either range from amazing to terrible and I wish there was a little more balance here. Rift Walkers are also really boring and there's almost no reason to play them once you've unlocked something else, unless you're like me and pick Zenith Guard and Hazardous Mechs for your next two squads... lol.

Finally, the music. Ben Prunty did a great job on this soundtrack, and I've always been a huge fan of his, but... The uniqueness isn't there. Sure, the music SOUNDS original, but the individual tracks are all very samey in their choice of instruments, structure, and song progressions. More could have been done to improve the soundtracks like use different synthesizers, pianos, etc. for each island. It's not a big deal and the music is great, but it all kind of bleeds into itself.

That's all I can say about Into the Breach. The gameplay is amazing, there are just a few aesthetic/thematic parts that I think could have been done better. The final fight is really underwhelming and short, and it feels like it almost doesn't matter how far you get since you just fight basic Vek for the whole game. A few squads should have been tweaked to keep up with Advanced Edition. Bombermechs and Mist Eaters can take care of things like moths just fine, but Rift Walkers are completely hopeless against AE content.

The game left me wanting more, and not in a good way this time. I really wish Subset would create a more expanded game similar to this or FTL, with an actual story and lengthier gameplay.

playing this game, modded or not goes so fucking hard that godzilla had to make a game that ripped off the core gameplay. this shit fucks unequivocally hard

Fun and quick grid strategy game. The way the turns are handled makes each turn into a puzzle to find the most optimal option available. Each run feels a bit different, giving a good reason to come back for more beyond the achievements. Fans of mecha and kaiju will most likely enjoy the aesthetic. Fans of grid based tactics games will feel right at home.

Intense. Every action should be thought out. Basically every round is a puzzle that you can spend minutes to solve. Kinda reminds chess in this regard.

One of the best rogue-lites i have ever played, this game at first glance is pretty simple but the overall depth with a combination of pushing enemies around and having to consider what sacrifices you are wiling to make to accomplish the mission. I finally managed to finish a run on unfair difficulty and i do have to say it is pretty fair but it just doesn't give a fuck to giving you any peace, so please if you are on the edge of getting this game... get it, it's a experience you can't get anywhere else

Simple, solid game design that provides interesting puzzle-like complexity as it progresses. I'm still coming back to it years later!

The game is not much on graphics, but the game play is superb. Hence the great rating among players. There is more to the game than the initial view. Stay with it and find how rich it is! I'd love to see a remake in the future with an update to the graphics. But the game is fine just the way it is.

Single most elegant game I've ever played. Why 'elegant'? Because it does so much with so little.

Quick, easy, fun and incredibly replayable. 10/10

With several upgrades, has the potential to become just below a top tier game. Why just below? Because while the core mechanics of the game are fun and unique, in its core, it feels like playing chess against bots and in the beginning you don't really get the feeling of battling because you need to think slowly as if you're solving a puzzle. But after getting used to the mechanics (after about 10 hours of gameplay) the game starts to feel really fun and replayable. Right now, I'd say its a solid game with just enough content, but I feel like more content such as more disoverable secrets, more islands could increase the quality of the game by about 3%, which might seem like little but is a lot. Then again, you could just mod the game so not the biggest problem. Max play time is for vanilla, I think 100 hours.

Fun tactical rogue like game. There is a lot of possible build.
Some fight are realy hard depending on the weapons you have.
Mech synergies are interesting to try out.

Fantastic game, has options for brutal difficulty without being insurmountable at any point, with endless possibilities for strategies and tactics

Both Into the Breach and FTL are great games, simple yet hard, have depth in it and decent replayability. Best wishes to devs!

Turn-based RPG with grid movement and the same difficulty as FTL. Definately enjoying the time travelling storyline.

One of the best turn-based strategies. Definitely challenging though, you shouldn't buy it if you're looking for some chilling game

Probably the best indie game I've played in a while.

It's an excellent combination of a rogue alike and turn based strategy, with a satisfying action to the moves. If you like taking Attacks of Opportunity in Dungeons and Dragons, this will be your game.

Great tactical turn-based game. Lots of replayability, and very challenging if you want it to be.

Beautiful, simple looking but deep and fully thought strategy game. Excellent.

I love this game so much! It is the turn based game that I measure all other turn based games by. I'ts simple, easy to learn, and yet endlessly challenging. I want another game from Subset.

Isn't it great when you go into a game with extremely high expectations and it's even better than you thought it could be? A more worthy follow up to FTL could neither be imagined nor hoped for. A deep and fun strategy game with the perfect amount of story and writing to get you through. PLAY IT!

Great game to have to the side of work. Bite sized strategy that waits for you to think. Enough variety for a large amount of playthroughs.

It's like chess but with lasers, robots and time travel.
Also great music and sprite work too.

Incredible. How these dudes followed up after FTL with a completely different turn based concept is amazing. 10/10. I hope they make another game.