Posted on: June 27, 2020

maths4ever

Spiele: 180 Rezensionen: 2

Good but I won't be replaying it

Into the Breach is often described as being in-between chess and tactics games. Being more familiar with the former, I enjoyed this somewhat. The added certainty created by ItB's telegraphed attacks allows for an enjoyable puzzle-solving mentality. Moving enemies around to miss their targets or hit each other is an unexpected, yet enjoyable mechanic. When combined with the numerous goals to aim for, Into the Breach elegantly captures one of the key joys of chess - 'When you see a good move, look for a better one'. My biggest gripe with the game is that it is too easy. ItB's ensures that you are never truly overwhelmed: there's some way out of any predicament with no (or few) losses. This design philosophy makes sense if you only play to get the best outcome in the current turn but fell apart when I played more strategically. Even the modicum of strategy I used (playing for initiative, controlling the centre, restricting the Vek's movement), lead me to a victory on my first playthrough on Hard (second overall), never having less than 4 power until the final island. Ultimately, Into the Breach's amalgamation of genre leaves it without a compelling hook. Not intricate enough to be a compelling puzzler, but too solvable and forgiving for me to want to improve at it.

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Posted on: March 3, 2018

GstKat

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Spiele: 91 Rezensionen: 2

Unbalanced randomness ruins the fun

I'm not a big fan of this kind of games but decided to have a look at it considered the good reviews. When I started playing I fell in love with the mechanics and variety of weapons, fell into the "one more fight" feeling. It's not an easy one, you have to carefully plan every move and use your equipment in the best way. This is a lesson you learn immediately after you face the "Game over" screen unexpectedly early. That's ok. The idea is simple: you have a map where to deploy your squad, few buildings to protect and several enemies trying to destroy them. Buildings are of paramount importance and provide grid energy, when this gets to 0 it's game over. In the beginning, it feels like you are playing some kind of puzzle game that has a perfect solution, and it's really rewarding to finish a fight without losing any building. Later on in the game, you sadly realize that the randomness used to spawn enemies makes some fight unbalanced, without a real solution. It feels really unfair and frustrating to see that you can't do ANYTHING to save one or more buildings. Losing them is a big problem in this game that's why you can't afford such an unevenly balanced system. If your bad luck gets you a couple of unbalanced fights in a row, you are done and have to start over. I'm quite disappointed after all, I finished the game and I had some fun but also got frustrated many times for this reason. It's a pity, it could have been a masterpiece if the developers put more efforts in balancing the fights. I'm not saying it should be easier but there should be at least one possible solution, the kind of "if you really do the right moves you will save the planet" thing.

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Posted on: July 31, 2022

Pomme_de_Pain

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Spiele: 322 Rezensionen: 107

Chess 2.0 with fun and big robots

A strategy game that may not look like much from the outside, but once you start playing reveals all its qualities. The core gameplay is about preveting monster (the veks) to detroy cities. If they detroy to much you loose. To defend yourself from the veks, like in pacific rim, you will have at your disposal squads of three mech each one with specifics abilities. From one squad to another the gameplay will be totaly different. All the challenge in the game isn't to finish the game but to complete success and acheivement specific to each squads in order to unlock more squads and gameplay style. There are four island plus one final. After completing an island you can spend upgrade for your mechs (only for the mission), but you must be careful because those are expensive and you can rarely upgrade more than one skill at a time. The game is fun, with engaging music and a simple artisitic direction which favors readability. After some difficult start and failures, you are going to understand and uses the mechanics (puns intended) and subtility of the gameplay at your advantage. After winning once, thrilled by the success all you want to do is to restart another game, try new strategy, new squad, new abilities and before you know it you spend 40 hours in the game. I'm not into strategy game nor very good at it, but readability and design is great enough for a newbie like me to play, enjoy, and win with a little bit of perseverance. I recommand it if you like or want to explore turn based strategy game.

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Posted on: March 9, 2019

KingDeDeDe_8400

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Im a Oldschool Gamer since ever

Highly recomend These Turn Based Strategy Game, it is easy to understand but hard to master. You can Play without any stress. I Love These Game because it is completly seperated game. Cool Story and you can re game it everytime . every new game is different. Sorry my Bad english. This is a game who run even on slow PCs , ive testet on a Core M3 ith 4GB Ram and it run perfect.

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Posted on: July 19, 2022

charliep0ps

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Spiele: 6 Rezensionen: 1

A Gem

I never got to like FTL much, though it was definitely a great game. I gave this game a try and it become my favorite turn based strategy game of 2018 and probably of all the last 5 years. Simple graphics but amazing gameplay. Oh, and the music is just so gooood, I love this game.

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