Captain – assemble your crew, load out your ship, and prepare to engage in intense turn-based battles while navigating through the galaxy. Acquire more powerful tools of the trade over multiple runs as you manage relationships across the many factions of Breachway – from the Militarist Solarii to the technologically inclined Numen, there are many friends and foes to be found among the stars as you shoot, sneak, and smuggle across the galaxy.
Choose from a multitude of ship chassis and then kit your selection out with a variety of weapon systems, defensive upgrades, and internal modules. Find unique synergies between your options as each choice comes with an associated set of cards for your deck, with additional cards and upgrades unlocked at your discretion after each victorious encounter – will you dodge dangerous regions, or face them head-on in the hopes of acquiring powerful new options for the journey ahead?
Gather crew to operate your equipment, managing their morale and taking advantage of their unique skills and the benefits they provide your outfit, as well as their relationships with the factions you might encounter. But be warned, crew members have their own personalities and allegiances to remain mindful of.
Seek out upgrades and new crew members as you traverse the galaxy – unexpected equipment combinations will provide powerful card synergies, each with their own risks and rewards.
Explore diverse tactical options as you engage in turn-based card battles where resource management, strategic foresight, and adaptive thinking will determine the victor.
Your sensors will pick up on enemy activity, letting you know what to expect when they strike. Calculate cooldown times and strategize around enemy equipment that poses the greatest threat to you in upcoming turns. Will you prioritize disabling specific equipment with focused fire, or will you instead rely on using defensive countermeasures to stand your ground as you burn past enemy shields and punch through their hulls? Not all equipment is created equal, and your options are determined by the unique capabilities of your loadout, and the resulting cards at hand.
The right order of operations can be the difference between a powerful alpha strike that obliterates a weaker ship, or an impenetrable defensive stack that buys you more time to chip away at a tough adversary. Hack enemy equipment, overheat their ships, overwhelm their point defense systems, and devise unique combinations with which to dominate space warfare.
Seek out the mysterious Signal as you carve your own unique path through the tense narrative encounters of Breachway. If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again – each run improves your odds of success with better knowledge and tools, while the varied events will send you down unexpected journeys full of twists and turns keeping each run fresh.
Engage with pirates and converse with members of four unique factions that might help or hinder you in various ways. Grapple with morally gray decisions as you come across people spread throughout the systems, coloring how the world looks at you and your crew.
The right faction relationships, properly managed, can unlock access to extremely powerful arsenals, but your ties with each of the factions will determine how your story unfolds – will you be swayed by the genetically enhanced Starkin and their desire for unity by any means necessary, or does the independence of the Free Roamers call to you instead?
Breachway puts you in charge of a rag-tag crew piloting a lone warship on a grand adventure – strategize and synergize your way on each run through the galaxy.
Posted on: May 1, 2025
Early Access review
Hajil
Verified ownerGames: 147 Reviews: 1
Fun but alpha is too short
Wish I dived deeper into the reviews. Long story short the game is very fun but at the moment it's limited to only two systems, meaning you can beat it in a couple of hours if you're good/lucky or 6-7 hours if you're not. Wait for more content. Once the content is there it should be a very nice, very fun deckbuilding game.
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Posted on: October 18, 2024
Early Access review
P-J-S
Verified ownerGames: 46 Reviews: 4
challengic but unballanced
Either I'm not sharp enough or there's a huge luck element involved. It's very hard to have a sustained, longer campaign
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Posted on: October 4, 2025
Early Access review
ClassicGamesRGreat
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 2
Excellent Game, Needs Saves
I hate (HATE) games where you play cards with action points etc. This one is great! Managing the resources, crew skills, and tactics against enemies with highly varying loadouts is super fun. My gripe (and maybe I just dont know how to do this yes) is there's no saving progress except for major events. You can play for 2 hours and lose everything and no way to go back. Feature? Maybe.. frustrating when youre tired and you play one wrong card against a boss. Very, Very frustrating and takes away from the enjoyment.
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Posted on: November 12, 2024
Early Access review
nomorename
Verified ownerGames: 86 Reviews: 34
Good start but lots of issues
It's a neat take on the roguelike FTL/STS. However, there are a number of balance and feature issues that keep it from being great. Map/fuel is confusing to navigate/understand. NOTE YOU DO NOT USE FUEL TO GO DOWN BLUE PATHS. However, the fact that you can backtrack from side paths isn't really told. I'd suggest to allow full teleport to already visited nodes and make the blue paths bolder and clearer. The fuel icon when you hover over a side node is also very missable. Cooldown pile needs to be made more clear. This is a crucial difference in how it's played compared to other deckbuilders but it barely got any attention in the tutorial. Keep clicking on the deck piles while you play a few turns and some cards like Autoshield become way less random. The way different factions/reputation works is interesting but very limited chances to change it. Mostly dumb ways to make people hate you for very little gain. You shouldn't discover/reveal node info for nodes you can't get to anymore. FTL made it so quests always appeared after the node you found it and it allows full backtracking. Very limited deckbuilding. Mostly HAVE to skip and limited replacement possibilities. I know it's due to the cooldown mechanics, but means you likely built your deck by the end of the first map and unlikely change it until you get a new module or keep skipping cards til you get that one card you need. I know high level/difficulty deckbuilders also have this issue, but this is enforced on all play styles. Unbalanced weapons/ships. Some I beat the 2nd boss first try, some not even close to winning. Swapping reactor power (ALL POWER TO SHIELDS) should probably have more things to do. It may seem very critical but actually very situational and I've forgot to use it on more than one occasion. Might allow res to be swapped before you play any cards? Or make capacity expansion cheaper/allow overloading it?
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Posted on: January 5, 2025
Early Access review
angeloCiRE
Verified ownerGames: 478 Reviews: 8
Good roguelike, FTL-like
Nice roguelike in the vein of FTL. Choose a ship, venture across a series of procgen systems. This game is significantly less complex than FTL, with no crew management, boarding, etc. It's really focused more on the weapon upgrading and card-based ship combat. If you like space games, roguelikes, and turn-based combat, give this a try!
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