Into the Breach

What a terrific little game: a roguelite turn based strategy game where nearly every turn is a dense little tactical puzzle to tease apart. I've sunk hours into it already, and will sink many more. I'm already hoping there will be an expansion or sequel.

Excellent TBS game. Will have you up until the wee hours of the morning telling yourself "I should really go to sleep...after one more level."

You can see that a lot of thought went into the different terrain types, mechs, monsters, abilities, weapons, etc... It's a very elegant little title that will most likely keep you busy for many hours. A ton of replayability, a great atmosphere, the aesthetics known from FTL turned up a notch. If you like punching monsters in the face, solving complex (but very gratifying) tactical puzzles in turn-based combat, and learning as you win or lose, this is definitely the game for you.

In short: The best version of chess I've played in a long time. Addictive, fun and surprisingly complex once it gets going In long: It's a turn-based rogue-lite. You control 3 mechs with various abilities (these are some form of damage, push and status effect) and have to execute your turn in such a way that the enemy deals minimum damage to your buildings (too much of that and you lose) while you kill as many of them as possible and try to somehow fulfill extra objectives also .You can see what your opponents will do on their turn (giant insects to fit the kaiju theme) and can plan accordingly. Sounds simple right? Especially since the whole things happens on an 8X8 grid. But turn can get very very complicated as you try to fulfill your objectives (that's how you get payed) while not dying or losing mechs. And here is where the chess comparison comes in. You have full information - all you need to do is use it to the max. It's a very simple and fun tactical challenge and the mech variants as well as the equipment that can be acquired adds enough complexity to keep me coming back again and again.

...but unfortunately most of the game mechanics (other than combat) have been cut.