Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy game developed by Subset Games, the makers of FTL. You control powerful mechs from the future to defend the world from an alien insect invasion. With challenging tactical combat, random squads to unlock, and short, focused campaigns, Into the Breach offers a lot of replayability and strategic depth in a compact package.
Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Subset Games in 2018. As the leader of an elite mech squad, the player must defend the planet from the Vek - gigantic alien insects that burst out of the ground and wreak havoc on the world's cities and landscapes.
Gameplay consists of tactical combat across small-scale, procedurally generated battlefields. The player has a team of three distinct mechs to control, each with its own specialized abilities and attacks. On each turn, the player sees which enemies are going to attack next, and must use their mechs to disrupt the Vek's plans while protecting vital objectives like power plants and civilian buildings.
While simple to learn, Into the Breach provides extreme depth from the complexity that arises when combining different mech abilities and weapons. With randomized combat scenarios, unlockable squad combinations, and dynamic achievement-based objectives, the game offers enormous replay value despite each full playthrough only lasting one to two hours.
With its refined turn-based tactics evoking genre classics like Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem, compelling roguelike elements, and colorful 16-bit graphics, Into the Breach has received extremely positive reviews as a must-play for strategy fans.