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Into the Breach
Developer Subset Games
Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by indie studio Subset Games, consisting of Jay Ma and Matthew Davis. Into the Breach is their second game, following FTL: Faster Than Light. It features writing by Chris Avellone and music composed by Ben Prunty. It was released for Microsoft Windows in February 2018, for macOS and Nintendo Switch in August 2018, and for Linux in April 2020. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
333 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
87
LovedLoved
197 positive · 29 negative
95% range 82–91%
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| Steam reviews | 197 | 29 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
21,165 of 22,475 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 333 · most liked firstJust FYI: While the launch discount is over, you can still get Demonschool for a discount if you already own Into the Breach, Look Outside, Birdcage, Kingdoms of the Dump, VA-11 Hall-A, or World of Horror, from our bundles page. store.steampowered.com/bundlelist/1...
unlabelledView post →I just described Tactical Breach Wizards to my wife as "imagine if XCOM and Into the Breach had a baby, and @ryannorth.ca did the writing" and if that doesn't sell you on the game, sucks to be you I guess
unlabelledView post →SPINDLEJACK is my attempt at a kind of “Into the Breach” inspired courier game, where you navigate hauler-crowded intersections where the traffic is an opportunity and a hazard simultaneously!
unlabelledView post →WEEK 1 games: 🦴 Dig Dig Dino! A game about digging... for dinosaurs bones and other treasure! 🔘 Fulcrum Defender, a quick action game from the makers of FTL: Faster Than Light and Into the Breach. See you on the scoreboards! play.date/s2
unlabelledView post →Happy Caturday y’all! 💜 Hope everyone has a great day, I will be continuing with Tactical Breach Wizards maybe even wrapping it up! This game is awesome, anyone who loves tactics games like Into The Breach must play this. It’s genuinely hilarious too! Peaches staring into the soul of my Chai 😂
unlabelledView post →So, what's Demonschool? I would describe it as a Persona-inspired turn-based tactics game where combat is more about positioning and using your teammates' skills in tandem to deal with demons, but the combat plays out more like a puzzle in the vein of Into The Breach or Tactical Breach Wizards.
unlabelledView post →It's a chill day for me so it's time for another AMA! Ask Me Anything about - Subnautica 2's soundtrack - game music - working as an indie - making electronic music - FTL - Into the Breach - my cats - my very odd career path - anything else you can think of
unlabelledView post →New tactical RPG horror-comedy game is pretty fun so far! Think "Into the Breach" meets "Persona"... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA47...
unlabelledView post →Lol, so, today is the day I finally downloaded my official game of all time (Into the Breach) on my new-ish PC laptop and yup
unlabelledView post →This time around fun to notice how much influence Into The Breach took from this game, esp party and map sizes and how that emphasizes clever unit combos
unlabelledView post →Playdate's second season includes brand-new game from FTL and Into the Breach studio www.eurogamer.net/playdates-se...
unlabelledView post →This game is basically like Into the Breach, Disgaea, and Persona got put in a blender, and all probably not in the way you're expecting. If that sounds rad, maybe take a look.
unlabelledView post →i see Demonschool reviews dropping so I think I can say my thoughts: this is the next Into The Breach, and is as fun and generous as a Yakuza game. it's so good, man. i want to hang out with these characters forever
unlabelledView post →I picked up Tactical Breach Wizard and so far the game is a lot of fun, the writing itself is super entertaining. Very much reminds me of Into the Breach.
unlabelledView post →Everyone who's played FTL and Into the Breach has nothing but good memories. But on the surface, Fulcrum Defender is a very different design. It's an arcade game, and it's as twitchy as they come. Our review: bit.ly/4mFlMrv
unlabelledView post →man i thought i would be a huge fan of this game, but i was wrong. it looks like a tactics game with mechs, which is right up my alley, but it plays like a puzzle game with chess-like sacrifices. key decisions are like this: do you want to kill this enemy to preserve the grid (essentially health), or ignore/push him so you can try to complete the objective? you won't know if you succeeded for another 2-3 turns because the gamble is dependent on how many and which RNG enemies spawned. my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This minimalistic tactical puzzler is all killer, no filler. It kicks butt where most modern roguelikes suck it. •Doesn't waste your time with a circular story and stingy currencies like Hades. •Doesn't leave you at the mercy of RNG like Slay The Spire. •Doesn't require long play sessions like Vampire Survivors. •Doesn't need a god mode to stay engaging; instead, the difficulty scales gradually and organically. •Doesn't need flashy graphics or animations to be fun like, say, a Crypt…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The closest a game has ever come to being "perfect." Recommended (10/10) Into the Breach is what happens when you strip every ounce of "fluff" away from the strategy genre until only the pure, diamond-hard mechanics remain. It’s a game of 8x8 grids and 5-turn battles where every single click feels like a life-or-death decision. The Genius of the Design: Perfect Information: Unlike almost every other tactics game, there is zero RNG in the combat. You know exactly where the enemies will move…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a new Subset Games (Into the Breach) joint and a game from @dom2d.bsky.social + @fayer.dev dropped today as part of the start of Playdate Season 2 check it out if you got a playdate + be on the ride for 5 more weeks of mysterious games
unlabelledView post →I'm making a tactics game inspired by Pokémon and Into the Breach! Push, reflect, predict and chain your attacks, solo or online. An early version is free on itch (in browser!). Let me know if you try it out 😁 Play: matt-davis.itch.io/monstrata Full video: youtu.be/ECyPNIcZg6g #gamedev #pokemon
unlabelledView post →My game is obviously inspired by: 🧩 Baba is You 🧠 Into the Breach ✨ Monument Valley Wishlist now on Steam! 👀 #indiedev | #gamedev | #screenshotsaturday | #gamemaker
unlabelledView post →Into the Breach is a turn based roguelike where you try to defeat bugs with your mech units. It's deep, lots of thinking to do, many mechs, items and enemy bugs. What I can't enjoy about it is the difficulty. I might need to get good, but when even normal difficulty annihilates me at every turn, I have to put a game down. If you like roguelikes and difficult games, try it on a sale. It is a game made with love and competency, but not my type of game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tactical Breach Wizards feels like the apotheosis of Tom Francis's systems driven game design, like a more thoughtful version of Heat Signature. It's a successor to Into the Breach. I have a couple of quibbles with the writing in it, but otherwise aces. Great game to kick off the year with.
unlabelledView post →Thanks for hosting #TurnbasedThursday ! My game Save the Forest is a tactics game in the vein of Into the Breach. I'm running a playtest on Steam until Christmas so if you're a tactics fan and would like influence the game's development please join the gang! store.steampowered.com/app/3832200/...
unlabelledView post →I've been working on a dieselpunk roguelike game that's essentially Darkest Dungeon meets Into the Breach. Here are some mockups from development. There's a long road ahead before they're fully actualized.
unlabelledView post →It's pretty much like chess if chess was a completely different game than it is
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vid game rec: - "open world" - mech - not super mechs shooting each other - modify, discover, salvage - indie! - not Into the Breach (not so much into missions, as explore)
unlabelledView post →I'm back at the airport with some time to kill so Ask Me Anything about - game music - indie games - making music with computers - FTL - Into the Breach - Subnautica - working as an indie - cool jackets - my weird obsession with Benihana - or whatever else you can think of.
unlabelledView post →Into the Breach is what happens when XCOM finally sobers up. No 95% misses, no excuses, every single mistake is entirely yours. It’s chess with mechs and earthquakes: small maps, big consequences. Brutal, fair, and smarter than it has any right to be. You don’t play to win, you play to fail perfectly. And start the next run.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its like chess. but with cool ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ robots but also it makes you feel like an idiot
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My ideal tactics game, or very near to it. I have played a lot of XCOM (2012). One of my biggest gripes with that game is my same gripe with Civ games and Total War games: The campaigns are very long. What this means is that you can play for 15 hours, survey your surroundings, and realize you've done everything wrong in a big way, and want to start over from scratch. Worse, even if you've laid your foundation well on a macro-scale, tactical blunders can amount to enormous setbacks (Oh no, my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look, I can stop playing ‘Into the Breach’ any time I want, okay? Really, I can. Don’t give me that look. What about having fifteen hours invested into the game over the course of three days? I don’t see the relevance. Now, if you’ll excuse me. I have some bugs to smash!
unlabelledView post →Time to start talking about my game! Fight off an alien invasion, turn based strategy, rogue-lite. Similar to XCOM and Into The Breach. Follow or ask for more details. Haven’t picked a name yet 👽🛸
unlabelledView post →My playtime speaks for itself (actually, I've played even more than that since I also have a mobile version through Netflix). Man, I love Subset Games. This is such a gem! One of the best progression and gradual difficulty increases that I have seen: the more mech squads you unlock, the more ways to look at the the game you learn. At first, you focus on just killing the vek (the game's enemies). Then you learn that sometimes moving them can be as effective. Then you learn blocking vek spawns,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m not a video game expert, I just like them. Here are some of my favorite games A Short Hike (you are a bird person and you have to take a short hike) Into the Breach (tactics game where you control some robots to battle aliens) Stardew Valley (hardcore gamers, only)
unlabelledView post →Into the Breach looks like a tactical strategy game, but it plays like a rigid puzzle system where the board state often matters more than your decisions. You command a squad of Mechs on an isometric grid, fighting the Vek - an insectoid species threatening humanity. Each Mech has different movement ranges and abilities, and a turn typically consists of moving, attacking, or repairing. Positioning is the core mechanic: you can push or pull enemies, block their spawns by standing on emerging…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For #screenshotsaturday here's one of the first boss fights from Save the Forest, my in-development roguelite tactics game. If you like srpgs and/or tactics games like Into The Breach, check it out! Wishlist Save the forest here: store.steampowered.com/app/3832200/... #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
unlabelledView post →My last 10 game of the years 2014 Hearthstone 2015 Her Story 2016 Titanfall 2 2017 Breathe of the Wild 2018 Into the Breach 2019 Outer Wilds 2020 Crusader Kings 3 2021 Inscryption 2022 Elden Ring 2023 Armored Core 6 2024 Balatro
unlabelledView post →One of, if not the single, best games I've ever played. It has great replay value, obviously, and is great for playing in short bursts and when you want to play just a couple minutes or not have to remember the story up to this point. A very tight and focused experience that I would say is a masterclass in this type of game. Just a top tier game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game challenge time - choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. Day 20: Into the Breach (bonus: flash games from my childhood, from websites like Miniclip, can’t remember specifics tho) #GameChallenge #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieDev
unlabelledView post →Into the Breach mentionned!!! I was addicted to this game and the update last year
unlabelledView post →Small thread to talk about what Order Automatica actually is 👽 TL;DR: Super Auto Pets, The Ninth Gate, Into the Breach, Broughlikes, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, Inscryption It's a strategy game where you put your guys on a 3x3 grid, styled up as the long forgotten ritual of a secret society.
unlabelledView post →This game is like a backscratcher; it scratches that itch in ways inexplicable. I've been playing this game on and off, and having now completed all achievements, I feel qualified to post a review. The basic premise of the game is as follows. Using your three mechs, protect the buildings on the map from the enemies' attacks. You can do this by simply killing the enemy units, manipulating their positions, and/or changing the direction of their attacks. The vast array of team compositions the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Still hungry after seeing this week’s host? Come check out Dark Pact, a challenging tactical puzzle game inspired by Into the Breach with online co-op. Try the demo with a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/2498740/...
unlabelledView post →Into the Breach is one of those games that immediately feels carefully designed. Everything about it, from the tight mechanics to the clean presentation, gives the sense that very little is wasted. It is a polished and consistently engaging roguelike that offers a surprising amount of flexibility in how you approach each run. One of its strongest aspects is the sheer variety in playstyles. The game allows you to assemble a squad of three mechs with very few restrictions, which opens up a lot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have you folks ever played a game called “Into the Breach,” it’s kind of good
unlabelledView post →So @ramiismail.com's Australia Did It demo is SO very my jam! What a cool mashup of Into the Breach tactics, tower defense, a bit of Vampire Survivors, maybe some auto-chess? Blasted through the demo, very excited to see the full game when its out!
unlabelledView post →Just a brilliant game. Up there with the likes of Slay the Spire and Hades for me as Rogue-like masterpieces. Each turn plays out like its own micro-puzzle to be solved. It's astounding how simple the "rules" of the game are while still offering so much depth. I can spend 5 minutes planning out a single turn and still be unsure if I've done it in the optimal way. Be warned: this game is challenging. You should absolutely start off on the easy difficulty and work your way up. I have only…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the best tactics game I've played. I keep coming back to see if there's an update or a sequel.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Both this game and chess take place on an 8 x 8 grid. Both this game and chess encourage a sort of indifference towards individual pieces as the player pursues a singular goal. Both this game and chess have been called masterpieces but thats only true of one. Yeah, that' right. Eat ♥♥♥♥ chess.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Into the Breach is a game with mechs in it
unlabelledView post →Today's Lospec #pixel_dailies prompt was *nerd* with a fun wide-open palette -- lospec.com/palette-list... -- so I decided to do a tiny 8-bit mock-up inspired by Into the Breach, the game I am most *tremendously* a nerd for, with well, well over 3,300 hours in that game (and very much counting).
unlabelledView post →Easily replayable and fun to pickup and play even if you only have a couple minutes to spare. It can be unforgiving but easily addictive, very good game to run on the deck and the controls work well with gamepad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, FTL I just can't with because if I get anywhere in a run at all and it starts becoming fun? That's when it suddenly goes "time for the rebel flagship battle" and I get crushed. Into the Breach, alternatively, is a game I can heartily recommend. Teases my brain AND respects my time.
unlabelledView post →Oh I’m sure. But I think if they just sold it as its own and game just like procedurally generated stuff kinda like Into the Breach or something, hell if they sold it on iPhones, I’d play the shit out it. It’d prob be my go to time wasting game.
unlabelledView post →Despite being played on small, grid-based maps, the game makes you feel part of something much bigger than it first appears. There are no flashy effects or visuals, but it leaves a lot to your imagination, letting you fill in the gaps yourself. You can see the future, but it’s up to you how you respond and shape each loop toward the best possible outcome. With multiple strategies and high replayability, you can spend 5 hours finishing it or 95h mastering every mech.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Into The Breach.... perfect game
unlabelledView post →expanded my brain. sometimes u cant do something "perfectly", and thats totally ok. invaluable lesson to get from a video game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Going through old folders and had a find... a Robot Chess proto! This is the direct parent of at least two other game designs. Never published, was inspired by Into the Breach.
unlabelledView post →Lovely I have many more hours than this, have platinum'ed the game at least twice. You can play in short, engaging sessions. As it is turn based, you can play while talking, or listening to a video The combat is very grid and position based, and fully predictable, which is also lovely!
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