Into the Breach

Into the Breach is best suited to solo players who enjoy turning visible enemy plans into precise tactical decisions. Randomly generated missions give each attempt a different shape, while full controller support makes the mech-focused turns easy to approach from a controller. At ≈ $3.14 from Kinguin, weigh the purchase against how much solo strategy you expect to play and whether the available language fits you. The Steam rating of 94% from 19,121 reviews adds useful context without replacing personal taste. Steam’s price is $5.24; this offer is ≈ $2.10 lower on the same comparison basis.

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94%Steam Reviews19.1K reviews90Metacritic/10088OpenCritic/100

Released: Feb 27, 2018

Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Indie · Pixel Graphics · Turn-Based Tactics

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01About Into the Breach

Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy game where you command futuristic mechs against giant Vek. Enemy attacks are telegraphed, making every turn a compact tactical puzzle about positioning, protection, and counterattacks. Each attempt creates a new challenge, and defeat lets you send help through time to save another timeline. The Steam PC version supports single-player play and full controller support. The evidenced interfaces include English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese; English full audio is listed. The Steam rating is 94% from 19,121 reviews.

Credits

Composer

Ben Prunty

Developer

Subset Games

Publisher

Subset Games

Steam player reviews

94%positiveVery Positive19,121 Steam reviews

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Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes
English	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	Yes	Yes
Italian	Yes	Yes	Yes
German	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spanish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	Yes	Yes
Russian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Arabic	Yes	Yes	Yes
Korean	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spanish-Latin America	Yes	Yes	Yes
Swedish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Thai	Yes	Yes	Yes
Turkish	Yes	Yes	Yes

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19

02Before you buy

Play modes

The Steam PC version is a single-player strategy game with full controller support.

Language and audio

English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese interface support is evidenced; English full audio is listed.

03Frequently asked questions

How does combat work?

Enemy attacks are shown before each turn, letting you plan a counter.

What happens after defeat?

Each attempt creates a new challenge; after defeat, you can send help through time to another timeline.

What is the main objective?

You defend cities from the Vek while civilian buildings power your mechs.

6.7

Overall Score

External ratings94%Steam Reviews19.1K reviews90Metacritic/10088OpenCritic/100

Graphics

6.8

Audio

Gameplay

9.5

Story

4.6

Content

8.5

“Decision-dense tactical encounters and half-roguelike progression fuel immense replay value across clearly differentiated mech squad compositions.”

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Our Verdict

What makes Into the Breach most valuable is not that it has a lot of systems, but that it compresses a small set of rules into an extremely high density. Every turn feels like a problem you have to hand in on the spot: get it wrong and it hurts, but once you figure it out, it feels incredibly satisfying. Designs like this rarely coast by on luck, so the more you play, the more you want to calculate, and the more you calculate, the harder it is to stop. It also has clear limits. The story is not very present, the audio is unremarkable, and the visuals do not rely on flashy techniques. But these shortcomings do not drag down the core experience, because its real framework is so solid. As long as you are willing to accept its “short sessions, high pressure, low margin for error” temperament, it is very easy to get absorbed. Is it worth spending 20 to 40 hours on? Yes. Because this is not the kind of game that wears you down by padding out its length; instead, every run pushes you to improve. If you like tactical planning and breaking down situations with limited resources, its sense of reward is very direct. If you care more about story presentation and audiovisual polish, you may find it almost too plain. But for strategy fans, that plainness is precisely the sharp shell. Simple. Full of flavor.

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Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

02/27/2018

FTL was so amazing that initially, I was disappointed that this game was nothing like it. That mild resentment quickly went away after I actually spent some time playing. This game falls somewhere between chess and Advance Wars. You have complete knowledge of enemy movements and capabilities, and your job is to counter it before it happens. Unlike FTL, very little is left up to pure chance. The game is incredibly well thought-out. Lots of nuance to the art and sound cues. The music is also very atmospheric and fitting. The achievements are fun and reasonable, and there's lots to unlock and discover. The game continually forces you to make interesting choices and tradeoffs. And it has all the love put into it that FTL had. I can't recommend this game enough.Show moreShow less

187.7 hours at review496 people found this helpful

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Not recommendedSteam player

03/02/2018

I have played the game for ~5 hours, and reached the end a few times on normal. I wanted to love it, but I just don't. Apparently a lot of people do, but I wanted to give my opinions of the game, as it clearly wasn't a game for me. Pros: -Great core gameplay -Solid challenge, that is hard, but fair Cons: -Minimal improvement over the course of the run. In FTL (and roguelikes in general) you get substantially stronger during the run. In into the breach I felt like I could have almost as easily beaten the final level with base stats as with what I have had in the actual runs. -Upgrades are uninteresting, and the currency mechanic as well. Not once have I felt like "Oh yeah, this I want to buy" at the end of an island. -The unlock system is tedious. It takes so long for me to unlock new squads I just don't want to do it. -Replay value is pretty low. This is related to the minimal improvements that happen during the run: all of the runs with the same squad just feel identical, and there is not much variety in how I played a certain squad. -No story or anything else to keep you involved. -The choice of how many islands you want to complete makes very little sense. There is no reward to be had by doing extra islands, and the final level scales, so it feels completely pointless. Coupled with the low scaling during a run, there is no feel of "Oh yteah I want to pwn enemies with this build a bit more". Overall the game is just a thinly packaged random puzzle generator. As such it can be great for some people, but I do not think I will continue playing the game myself.Show moreShow less

6.7 hours at review1,616 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

03/01/2018

FOR THE DEV to read I'm not a native english speaking, I understand all the text , but the text are too fast to read them all, I love the little detail into the dialogue and story. It will be great if we have a option to slow down the text or keep it on screen longer. This game is enjoyable and challenging so all good.Show moreShow less

50 hours at review373 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

06/25/2019

I've held off on a review because I'm still confused as to why I didn't like this game. I like the genre, I like FTL, it should have been right up my alley. But I think I have a good idea now. Basically, the game is unforgiving in the wrong way where you basically cannot let the enemy hit the structures at all or you lose/come close to losing, and its a roguelike so after getting hit two or three times you consider restarting your whole campaign. Thus this game lacks the ebb and flow of normal battle in tactical turn-based games. You either play near-perfect or you lose. And all hits carry over into the next level, it's not like you start with fresh energy and whatnot every fight. Overall it's a very crowded genre and Into the Breach just fell short. X-Com and others just blow this game away. That said, plenty of people like it. I wanted it to be for me and am very surprised it wasn't, but it is what it is.Show moreShow less

5.2 hours at review965 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

02/28/2018

While FTL used the mechanic of 'knowledge is power' in that you learn to game the system to get RNG on your side, Into the Breach is much more a match of chess. It's a different thing, and very fun in its own right. This game plays wonderfully, and is very addicting. Do I personally like it more than FTL? Not really, and that's fine and shouldn't turn anybody off. Ultimately, I think the core gameplay of FTL was super fresh, while Into the Breach uses a much older and more established mechanic. Again, that's okay because they do it masterfully. With Into the Breach, you are your own worst enemy. It's a game of patience, in my experience. If you are willing to sit and thoughtfully work out several solutions and choose the best one - you will do fine on any difficulty. Unfortunately patience is not my strong suite. The bottom line is that this is an excercise in solving puzzles. Again, the mechanics in this game have been implemented in various ways elsewhere - but the take home message is that they are done masterfully here, which gets it a well-earned thumbs up in my book. The artwork is nice, although sometimes it has a mobile feel. The controls are near perfect when using a keyboard alongside the mouse. My only dissapointment is the music. It's certainly good, and certainly passable - but FTL just set a standard so high for my tastes that I can't help but want more of that. I have very fond memories of playing FTL with headphones and just loving that high energy space music. So good. Pros: +Masterfully done strategy game where you can only have yourself to blame when things go wrong +Nice artwork and decent music (not FTL level in my opinion, but still good) +Tight game mechanics and addicting gameplay +Lots of replay value and well worth the asking price Cons: -You need to be super patient to have success; not necessarily a bad thing, but it needs mentioning, and has apparently caused a rift in peoples perception of the difficulty spectrum -There is less risk/reward tradeoffs here than in FTL; again not necessarily a bad thing (nobody said there would be this, anyway), but I miss that a bit -Music didn't live up to my hype; maybe it will grow on me -Lacks something in the RNG or risk/reward department Bottom line - this is a must-own. Wonderfully done.Show moreShow less

13.7 hours at review306 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

02/28/2018

This is the first game that made me wish Steam had a "meh" score for reviews. tl;dr: Excellent game mechanics and polish are wasted on a game that's FAR too easy. The climax is tremendously unsatisfying. I got nearly a perfect score on my very first runthrough of the game, and I'm not exactly a tactical genius. The basic tools you're given are incredibly powerful ('push' mechanics are insanely valuable) and the game is so forgiving of mistakes that I didn't feel genuinely challenged the entire time. Coming from the FTL pedigree, I expected a game that would require mastery in order to succeed, but what I got was a game that can be bumbled through to completion on your first attempt. Don't get me wrong - the game is extremely polished and FUN, but when I finished the final mission all I could say was "....that's it?" Where's the big, challenging final boss? Where's the climax? All you do at the end of the game is defend a bomb until it blows up (from basically the same set of enemies you've encountered all game,) and then when it explodes, your mechs just... disappear to go help "other timelines." The story has no resolution, you don't actually feel like you've made any kind of real difference. Instant kills are too easy to achieve - pushing any non-flying enemy into water deletes them instantly, and multiple missions give you control of extremely overpowered superweapons that just obliterate large sections of the map for free, every turn. The enemy reinforcement mechanic is problematic, too - it's easy to block enemies from spawning, so if you can get an advantage in numbers in the first few turns you can basically auto-win the subsequent turns, leisurely picking off single enemies as they spawn. I finished multiple missions with zero enemies alive going into the final turn, and I'd just pass without even moving a mech. Look, I'm not asking for FTL here. That game was rightly criticized for being heavy-handed with RNG and having a final boss that blatantly cheats. But Into the Breach swings the pendulum WAY too far in the other direction for my tastes. Other steam reviews have called this "easy to learn, hard to master". Maybe that's true, but since the game never actually demands mastery from the player and provides no suitable avenue to challenge a 'master,' I wonder why anybody would even bother. Just pay a little bit of attention and you'll win with ease, which I find extremely damaging to my long-term enjoyment of a game. UPDATE: Just completed hard mode with a set of unlocked mechs. I can now confidently say that this game does not offer the kind of difficulty or longevity I was hoping for. I'll probably play more of it - it's a very fun casual strategy game, so if that's what you're looking for, by all means pick this up. If you're looking for an experience like FTL with tons of content that will eat dozens of hours of your time while you slowly master the game, this isn't it.Show moreShow less

29.5 hours at review209 people found this helpful

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