Into the Breach

Into the Breach is listed at $14.99 on Steam.

Into the Breach is at full price right now. We track it so you will see the moment a genuine discount lands.

The lowest we have tracked is $2.99, so this is not quite the floor.

Released about 8 years ago, it discounts regularly — patience is rewarded.

Genre: Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy · Developer: Subset Games · Release: Feb 27, 2018.

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How it plays

Into the Breach is a tight, puzzle-brained turn-based tactics game from the team behind FTL, and its whole appeal rests on one idea: you always know what’s coming. Every Vek attack is telegraphed a turn ahead, so losing a fight isn’t about bad luck, it’s about failing to read the board correctly. You pilot a squad of mechs on small grid maps, and your job usually isn’t to kill the bugs outright, it’s to shove them into each other, into lava, into their own buddies’ attacks, or just off the tile they were about to wreck. Civilian buildings double as your power source, so every turn is a trade-off between playing it safe and protecting the people you’re actually there to save. Runs are randomly generated and unforgiving, but when you lose, you get to send a pilot back through time into a fresh timeline, carrying forward a little bit of what you learned. It’s less a campaign you push through and more a series of short, brutal puzzles you keep re-solving until the pieces click.

Who it’s for

This one’s for people who like their strategy games lean and cerebral, the kind of player who’d rather stare at a board for two minutes than click through six menus. If you enjoyed the tension of FTL, or you like chess-adjacent positioning games where every move is visible before you commit, this will click fast. It also plays great in short bursts, so it suits anyone who wants a meaty strategy fix without blocking off a whole evening. On the flip side, if you want big loot systems, sprawling narrative, or fast reflex-based action, look elsewhere. Players who get frustrated by permadeath and starting over will bounce off the roguelike structure here too, since setbacks are a built-in part of how the game teaches you.

Is it worth it?

For the type of player described above, this is the kind of game that earns its keep well past a first run. The map size is small and the ruleset is simple to explain, but the amount of tactical depth that comes out of it is the whole draw, and squads with different mechs and weapons give you real reasons to start over and approach the same puzzle differently. It’s not a game you finish once and shelve, it’s one you return to for quick sessions when you want your brain lightly wrung out. If it shows up during a sale, it’s an easy pickup for anyone who likes turn-based strategy, and honestly it’s a fair buy at full price too given how much replay value is packed into such a compact package.

Quick facts

Genre: Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy. Developer and publisher: Subset Games. Platform: PC (Steam). Released: February 27, 2018.