Into the Breach

GameSpotEdmond Tran

10/10

Into the Breach's Advanced Edition update adds even more of what makes the base game so remarkable, creating an even better experience.

WCCFtechRosh Kelly

9.5/10

I want to make this review short because I need to go back playing Into The Breach. FTL was one of the most moreish games I ever had the (mis)fortune to stumble across, and accounts for dozens of afternoons, evenings and nights spent idly jumping between the stars and desperately trying to find a fire beam. Into The Breach has somehow perfected that formula that I didn’t realize wasn’t perfectible in the first place.

TheSixthAxisJason Coles

9/10

Into The Breach is a fantastic example of how you can play around with an established genre. Taking turn-based strategy and letting you see what is about to happen changes everything about what would normally play out. The feeling of intellectual superiority you feel when you outsmart the aliens is incredible and will keep you playing through every loss you will experience. Best of all the bite-size maps fit onto the Switch so perfectly that the idea of playing it on a PC is absurd. This is a game made for a handheld, and damn is it good.

Nintendo World ReportJordan Rudek

9/10

The story reveals that the titular breaches of the game are portals that allow pilots to travel back to the past, and this time travel neatly explains the randomization of the game. Each time you fail, you hop into a breach and return to a time before the Vek have completely destroyed the world. There are over 50 achievements to work towards, 12 pilots to recover, and 7 mech squads to purchase, and it will take dozens of hours to accomplish these feats. After that, because of the random nature of the game, you can still customize your own set of mechs, play through ever-changing maps, and set…

GameSpaceWilliam Murphy

8.5/10

It’s $15 on Steam right now, and hopefully will find its way to consoles in the near future. It doesn’t take overly long to beat once you get the hang of how the combat works, but the replay value is generally very high. In the future, hopefully, Subset Games will add more maps, more creatures, mechs, and the like to keep the game feeling fresh for months to come. Even without that, Into the Breach is something every strategy fan should try.

Worth PlayingPhillip Moyer

8.2/10

Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy game where you control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat, and each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge.

VGChartzVGChartz Staff

8/10

Big brains in a small package. A towering robot looks over the crumbled skyscrapers of a once grand metropolis.

DestructoidPatrick Hancock

8/10

Into the Breach is a mechanically perfect game that is surrounded by mediocre design decisions. I absolutely adore the tactics-style gameplay and how simplistically the game can convey so much information. But with the only run variance being the three pilotable mechs and the potential upgrades, things just start to feel “same-y” after not too long. For those, like myself, who can easily fall in love with intelligently designed mechanics, there is a lot to love about Into the Breach, but it’s not as well-rounded as it could be.

The Punished BacklogDylan Byrne

7.5/10

In our Into the Breach review, learn whether this turn-based strategy game is worth the price of admission.

ShackNewsBrittany Vincent

7/10

For the asking price ($14.99), Into the Breach is a pretty good buy if you're into strategy games. However, I don't think it'll convert anyone into falling in love with the genre. The gameplay is tight, but not sophisticated enough to warrant more than a few playthroughs. Once you've unlocked most or all of the squads and tried out the different mechs, it loses its appeal and doesn't retain that "surviving against all odds" feel that FTL has. With that said, I enjoyed my time with the game well enough -- just don't expect to be converted if you're not already into these types of adventures.

Sirus GamingKatherine Baskerville

6.6/10

You better have to choose if it’s worth spending your spare cash, because it might not be the game for you and it might be for others.

Checkpoint GamingElliot Attard

Unscored

Occasionally a game comes along that imbues a genre with new life. A game that reimagines the standard and repurposes it in a simple yet elegant way. Into the Breach is most certainly one of these games. Releasing at the end of February by developer Subset Games, Into the Breach is a turn based strategy game that brings its own unique spin to the genre. Known for previously releasing a highly acclaimed game by the name of FTL, Subset Games had a lot of work to do to impress their fans and by ...