Into the Breach
The remnants of human civilization are threatened by gigantic creatures breeding beneath the earth. You must control powerful mechs from the future to hold off this alien threat. Each attempt to save the world…
Into the Breach is an indie developed by Subset Games, released 27 February 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Android, Google Stadia and iOS. The main story takes about 11.5 hrs to finish.
What Into the Breach is
Into the Breach is an indie game developed by Subset Games and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, Google Stadia, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Custom Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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. A version for iOS and Android mobile devices was published by Netflix in July 2022.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 70 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Into the Breach holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 282 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.7+ GHz or better, 1 GB RAM and Must support OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Intel HD 3000 or better.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Into the Breach launched on 27 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sea of Thieves, Shadow of the Colossus and Shadow of the Colossus (2018). It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sea of Thieves, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Into the Breach yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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